I feel that distributed teams definetly have many postives, it is just much faster to work in the same building as a person. My startup works via chat room, exc

I feel that distributed teams definetly have many postives, it is just much faster to work in the same building as a person. My startup works via chat room, except for one day a week when we meet in person, and we just get so much more done. The reason face to face is so much better for us is because so much more information is communicated via talking versus typing. Firstly, the speed one talks usually is faster than their typing speed. Second of all, information is contained in things such as tone, expressions, and gestures, none of which have a digital substitute. Furthermore, it seems that face to face contact facilitates far-reaching conversation about strategy and general topics, rather than just the code at hand. Finally, it is much easier to show someone your error message on your screen, or point to the block of code, than to copy and paste or say line numbers. That final qualm is getting better with the advent of screen sharing though.