This [redacted] pisses me off, I'm sorry. Jon writes well, but I read the New Yorker article on "Group Think" which he references... in TechCrunch. I'm as shocked as you are. It's speaks well of individual creative process and how brainstorming and really other processes are bull crap. Technically speaking. If you think back, before Agile and other methodologies came along, developers were doing more with less than I'd consider any of us are doing now. For the most part. Pairing works, no doubt but I _hate_ how institutionalized it's become. I'd work at Pivotal if I could, but they pair 100% of the time. I consider myself an introvert, for the most part too. Pairing is painful if it's not organic. The article is inconsiderate article because it's speaks nothing to the fact that our profession was built on the backs of people who are socially awkward and enjoy privacy if not a certain level of autonomy.