COVID-19 and the lessons of meaningful engagement and presumed disinterest

Almost exactly one year ago, I packed up all necessary office technology from my office and headed home for an undefined period of fully remote work. This past Friday, I returned to clean out that office (more on that soon) and was taken back by the dystopian feel of it all. It was as if people had disappeared in a blink and everything else was completely undisturbed. My notebooks, post-its, and spreadsheets lay on my desk telling the story of what I was pursuing in March of 2020. Of course, those priorities quickly changed as we…