Church might be the only room where a toddler, a CEO and a lonely widower all sing the same song a little off-key.

Almost every room you enter sorts people first. School sorts by age, work sorts by rank, and your feed sorts by whatever you already liked, so you can go years without a real conversation with somebody from a different decade of life. A room that holds a toddler, a retiree and someone with a corner office doing the same slightly wrong thing together is genuinely rare. That mixing is the value, not a side effect.

Talk to somebody forty years older or younger than you this week. Ask them a question you actually want answered.