The recapturing of some of this is one of the best things about my job, not because my job is anything really special in that regard, but because I&#x27;d spent so much time contracting (alone in a room by myself) or in grad school (same.)<p>Having an office, and a culture where people would &#x27;drop by&#x27; sometimes, either for real work reasons, tenuous work reasons, or purely social, has been a godsend.<p>Now I&#x27;m thinking about how to consciously engineer this given our environmental constraints...