What a year. Like 1929, 1941, and 2000, this was one that will take up extra space in the history books of the future.

So what did we learn? I polled a few people and here were some responses.

1. I used to proclaim, “If there was just one more hour in every day, I’d finally be able to write a book.” Well, we all cut an hour of commuting out of our lives every day, along with about 3 hours of meetings. And I did not finish that book.
2. There is such a thing as “too much screen time.”
3. Some people we work with have WAY nicer houses than we could have imagined. And some people don’t.
4. There are a lot more incredibly gullible, stupid, and obstinate Americans than I would have thought.
5. The shift schedules for John, Alice, Margarite, Jane, and the other checkout clerks at my neighborhood grocery store.
6. For the last four years, we may not have actually had anyone running the country on a daily basis.
7. Many, many, many jokes and gags from movies made in the 1980’s and 1990’s that seemed hilarious at the time… did not age well into the 2020’s.
8. The single greatest thing you could have done with your stimulus check in March would have been to stick it in the stock market and spend it now.
9. There are still people who believe in the Bill of Rights. As in, my right to not wear a mask is more important than your right to not get sick from me not wearing a mask.
10. Cats religiously follow their own daily schedule in the house, and we were completely unaware of it when we went to the office.
11. The taste of a Starbucks cold brew from the $5 bottle that can be bought at the grocery store and lasts more than a week, is exactly the same as the taste of the cold brew we spent $5 a day on from the store by our office.
12. We own way too many clothes.
13. In retrospect, having to wait an extra 10 minutes to order food at a cool restaurant because the place was too busy and understaffed… really wasn’t that big of a deal.
14. Whether we like our neighbors or not.
15. “Urban hiking” is a real thing.
16. You really can fool some of the people all of the time.

I’m sure there are more lessons that we learned. Add yours below!