On conversations
Couldn’t agree with this more:
“Conversations are often the most productive aspects of my life–I think best when bouncing ideas around with other people, and it’s in such situations where I synthesize disparate notions and (occasionally) create something new. Such mental activity never happens alone–I rarely have the attention span to think through a problem in solitude.” (from peterme.com)
This is a problem at work at the moment, as everyone is stretched to max and doubling-up on tasks (or the thinking part of them) is not encouraged at all. Fffeh.