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> Loneliness is a choice we have made, but I don't think it's a very good one.
It can be a good choice for particular situations (like the author seems to think of), perhaps some situations call for a balance of alone vs. social.
Your original post makes a good case for specific solutions to specific situations (upvoted), but then as usual, the typical root of disagreements are poorly scoped comments.
If people are feeling deeply lonely in their collaborative work, it sounds to me like it's not working for them. Ditto "where someone comes in and clobbers code you've just committed and then there's merge conflicts and wasted effort trying to understand". Unless you're going to ague those things are good, then no, I don't think I'm conflating anything. I'm taking what people are already saying is bad and saying there are solutions for that.
I read that more along the lines that loneliness is a choice we made but the fact that we've chosen isn't good. Not that alternatives to loneliness are better but rather that we shouldn't drive people towards specific styles of creativity through the workflows that the software development industry has developed (eg. Agile, SCRUM, etc.)
It can be a good choice for particular situations (like the author seems to think of), perhaps some situations call for a balance of alone vs. social.
Your original post makes a good case for specific solutions to specific situations (upvoted), but then as usual, the typical root of disagreements are poorly scoped comments.