teamwork forces a different type of intelligence, more social, somehow broader (since you discuss more point of views) but somehow much less sharp since you rely on others input to converge on a solution..

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@jnpn dining philosophers is what comes to mind! I mean, different angles are very valuable, but pursuing an angle goes stacatto in teams.

@tetrislife there's also a third case where you can assemble a kind of small team where everybody is very high speed and you can keep width and depth

@jnpn I remember management literature warning against high-performance teams because they can't survive periods of lull.

@jnpn sorry, it was more like excerpts in study notes. I remember reading elsewhere about some high-powered Lisp team in Australia doing big things, but don't have a bookmark.

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