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Joe Fox: It wasn’t… per­sonal.
Kath­leen Kelly: What is that sup­posed to mean? I am so sick of that. All that means is that it wasn’t per­sonal to you. But it was per­sonal to me. It’s *per­sonal* to a lot of peo­ple. And what’s so wrong with being per­sonal, any­way?
Joe Fox: Uh, noth­ing.
Kath­leen Kelly: What­ever else any­thing is, it ought to begin by being personal.

— scene from You’ve Got Mail.

Some­thing at office yes­ter­day reminded me of this movie. When I saw it for the first time, I paid no atten­tion to the busi­ness and ide­ol­ogy part of the story. Now I do and I find it fascinating.