This article flies in the face of so much contradictory experience that I'm not sure what to make of it. Here on HN we regularly see articles espousing the conc

This article flies in the face of so much contradictory experience that I'm not sure what to make of it. Here on HN we regularly see articles espousing the concepts of pair programming and code reviews and SCRUMs and other techniques involving groups. In research settings we regularly get together for lab meetings and journal clubs and conferences and discuss ideas, and generate lots of new ideas. Heck, people regularly convene on sites like Stack Overflow, not to just get answers, but to discuss ideas. These are all meetings which are productive and generate ideas, not just the convening of pontificating idiots. There was a TED talk linked here on HN a while back, called "where good ideas come from" [1]. It completely disagrees with this article, but with facts instead of generalizations. [1]: http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_johnson_where_good_ideas_come_from.html http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_johnson_where_good_ideas_com...