While walking to a meeting about a new mobile platform, a fellow pedestrian struck up a conversation with me. I was thinking about the forthcoming interview and the other events of the day, while he wanted to talk about the Orlando shootings.

He immediately noticed that I was half paying attention to him (perhaps half is generous), and called me out as not being from here (I’m not, originally). In Baltimore, he said, people have these random conversations, and engage in them.

I chalked my aloofness up to low caffeine intake and shifted gears to the interview as I turned into the coffee shop. But it soon struck me that this street-level interaction is exactly what my interview subjects are looking to tap into, with a focus specifically on Baltimore culture.

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