Week in Insights: A Time to Reconnect and Recharge With Friends

Last week, I caught up with an old friend who was in town for a conference. We hadn’t seen each other in person since 2017 and had only exchanged a few emails since then. We spent hours over food and drinks catching up on our jobs, families, mutual friends, the state of the world, and said our goodbyes only when the restaurant staff started closing the place around us.

It got me thinking about how professional conferences offer a chance to reconnect with friends and colleagues, both in your profession and out of it. Conferences sponsored by the Society of ...