I look back at my youth and I wonder about the drawbacks of WFH: I managed to talk exclusively via textual media (IRC, forums) and developed deep lifelong frien

I look back at my youth and I wonder about the drawbacks of WFH: I managed to talk exclusively via textual media (IRC, forums) and developed deep lifelong friendships, carried out group projects successfully, and gained an education more robust than the glorified introductions service many people seem to aim for. I've known some of the people I met for twenty years now, been best man at one's wedding, but others I've never met in person. With that in mind, I wonder why people can't succeed in the same way while WFH, and I conclude it is other people which wreck it. I'm prepping a side project for launch at the moment, and if I ever hire, it will be for a company whose internal communications are all text based. I strongly suspect this will prevent me from ever relying on old world extroverts whose MO amounts to nepotism.