How working remotely helped me better understand the codebase

Last Friday a coworker asked me how was I able to grasp the complexity of our project so quickly, while he’s been struggling with it for months. I never gave it much thought, but it was true. I went from novice to pro faster than any other dev that joined the team. This even went so far that the CEO started calling me ‘star developer’. At first I fought they were all mocking me, but later I came to realize they were honestly impressed by the progress I’ve made.