I've worked at places in the past that forced pairing. One monitor and two keyboards style. It was painful; impossible to get into flow state. All of your ment

I've worked at places in the past that forced pairing. One monitor and two keyboards style. It was painful; impossible to get into flow state. All of your mental maps need to be communicated repeatedly to the other person - and it's slow. It's like the difference between L1 cache lookup and sending an email and waiting for a response.