The Slow Burn of Mentorship in the All Remote World

The serendipity that you described just cannot happen online. It has to be planned, it has to be scheduled. You don't get to walk in on a meeting or over here a phone call. The company I work for now, the CEO, Bob Moore did this cool thing. Every day in the morning he always holds a half hour for anyone in the local tech community,. And that is the way he stays engaged in the local environment and local companies. He can mentor someone or give them feedback on a pitch.