I was in a role that did require a lot of talking, in a large health tech company. Oddly enough Covid was a great leveler for the org and I found myself reaching out to people across the world and learning about how Africa leads in certain market areas because of their straight-to-mobile attitude (midwives are fully mobile with cloud connected ultrasound devices in their backpack), I connected with India and that one guy in our team from the US promoted from on a laptop in corner to a full meeting member. Shortly he was showing his home and we hung out after meetings.

For someone expected to create a lot of IP, this was great.

And then management started screaming we should get back the office. Which I did enjoy... For about 1-2 day a week.