Their parent asked if I had any advice for the young'un and I said we had not gotten to know each other very well - so I had no context for giving advice; also I am generally available for meetings and we live in the same city, about 20 minutes away; it's not the days of steamships, now, the world is very small. I sent a Googled poster of Bezos' six meeting rules as advice which I thought might be useful.
I wondered what other advice I might have cooked up, had I attended. Don't repeat your parents' mistakes - see example above. We probably had different family experiences - I think theirs is a small, dinner-oriented family, and the only child seems to have had things prepared for them throughout life. Perhaps a word of warning that hungrier colleagues would not ask before taking from pools of limited opportunity. Do not wait to be asked.
I didn't have much affection for my mother, and would happily hang-up on her babbling mid-sentence from my college room. Hm.
What else could I possibly say? Hm.
