> In 25 years of professional experience, I have never seen collaboration done by random encounter. This sounds so horrible as to be unbelievable to me. I've

> In 25 years of professional experience, I have never seen collaboration done by random encounter. This sounds so horrible as to be unbelievable to me. I've worked remote since I was 19 years old, managing remote teams and/or entire companies most of that time. I have advocated for remote work since before it was a thing, so I guess I'm a remote work Hipster. That said, some of my largest accomplishments started out via a chance in-person encounter. I can't understand how anyone would see unrealized opportunity in any other way? It'd have been realized if so. Just simple and silly things (e.g. a customer at a random lunch stating they had a trivial to solve hardware issue that saved them millions a year) tend to add up. I understand this definitely depends on your role but I'm absolutely stunned that someone could have 25 years of experience in an office setting and never have had a serendipitous unscripted moment.