Coming out of the Stanford GSB, one of my favorite customs is small group dinners (SGDs). These SGDs were a direct response to counter the many large and impersonal events where hundreds of students mingled and chit-chatted much ado about nothing while vigorously drowning their boredom with cheap beer to pass the time. Although to be far, these larger events were fun in the moment - you laughed over inside jokes, bonded over sinking plastic balls in cups, and generally created loose ties abou...