I have worked alone almost exclusively, and the few times I have got to work with a more experienced consultant I learned career changing skills. I’m probably at the halfway mark for my career, but seeing how much easier it is to learn when it isn’t me bymyself wiTh whatever book I think will be helpful has definitely made me realize the opportunity cost of being remote and having no senior or more experienced coworkers. Probably having no more experienced coworkers was a big contributor to going remote, I wasn’t going to miss anything at the office except climbing the ladder to managemenT, which actually would have been sweet cause who wants to be slanging code and minding machines at 50, the people problems are so much more interesting and applicable to everyday life