This reminds me of the following: I was brainstorming about startup ideas with a very good friend of mine a while back. Somehow I noticed that while we were making progress it was a lot slower than I was used to compared if I do it alone. And my communication with him is very good (when we play hints we sometimes need 2 words when we&#x27;re on the same team), so it was kind of strange to experience this. The next day I decided to think about startup ideas alone and I thought up a lot more. I also felt that the quality of ideas were a bit higher.<p>For me, when I think about it, it has something to do with the sub-conscious perspective that I take. Perhaps I tend to have a bit more of a tunnel vision when I am with people. Maybe more people have this when they are in the presence of other people. I don&#x27;t know if this is because of the presence of other people or perhaps communication goes inherently slower with someone else than with myself (bottleneck: speed of sounds vs. speed of neurons).<p>It makes me curious about searching for papers about the presence of other people. I only know about Milgram&#x27;s experiments on this.