The conversations with people who have spent their entire lives in a bubble, with little exposure to the outside world through social media or other channels, and who have been brainwashed by their own government are insufferable.
Spending a month in China and accidentally took a one-month sabbatical from being productive.
Google & social media worked fine with Premium VPN but many APIs, developer tools, and services simply weren't reliable enough to support serious development work.
Met someone so insecure he tried to prove a point by listing how much he spends on everything.. vacations, items, all of it.
Nobody asked.
I started calling him the “price-tag guy” since then.