12:19 PM

The email had been sitting in his inbox since Monday.

Speaker profile — final details needed

He opened it between calls.

Name.

Title.

Company.

Years of experience.

All easy.

There was a box for:

Outside work

He typed:

Travel

Then stopped.

His last holiday had been a conference in Tokyo with two extra nights attached.

Delete.

Cycling

There was a bicycle in the storeroom.

He couldn't remember the last time he had ridden it.

Delete.

Reading

He read constantly.

Reports.

Articles.

Books people told him he should read.

That probably counted.

He left it there for a moment.

Then deleted that too.

At the bottom of the form was another question.

What do you do for fun?

His next meeting started in eleven minutes.

He answered everything else.

Then left the box blank.