The Hidden Art of Virtual Coffee Chats and What You Can Learn from Talking to One Stranger Per Month

Tin Mariano
6 min readJan 19, 2022

When I ended up in that line of work, I knew that I had to get over my fear.

Photo by Hoàng Tuấn on Unsplash

“Go out and talk to people,” my mother used to tell me. She was my first teacher on the art of striking conversations with strangers on the streets. From time to time, she engages a total stranger, and that amazes me…

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Tin Mariano

International work experience, the expat life, and everything in between