I coach teams to perform better, so this topic is a bit of a sore point for me. I think Hamnming was on to something. I've worked in about every possible confi

I coach teams to perform better, so this topic is a bit of a sore point for me. I think Hamnming was on to something. I've worked in about every possible configuration, and I've seen teams work in about every possible configuration. In addition, I've coded in all of these environments. After working from a nice, quiet home office for many years, I'm trying out coworking. When I'm not with clients I drive an hour to an office to work with random people. Why would I do this? Don't I value my time? Sure thing. But I find that the hassle and pain of being interrupted actually helps me to a reset to think about whether what I'm doing or not is important. Without that reset, I'll just grab on to some problem and keep tweaking it. I'm like that -- and I suspect many others are like that too. We desire uninterrupted time because we desire a deep problem to dive down in and forget about everything else. And sure thing, there are problems like that. But 99% of the time problems are not like that, and we hurt ourselves more long-term than we help. All of this is just conjecture, mind you. But this is an area where I see the natural inclinations of technology people diverge for what looks better for the effort as a whole. It's non-intuitive and uncomfortable. But that's the way life is, right? Dang humans.