"This fall, I hosted a two-day brainstorming session for 30 or so people... and in addition to the usual "sit around a big table and talk to each other" format, we set up an in-room chat channel accessible over the WiFi network... The in-room chat created a two-channel experience -- a live conversation in the room, and an overlapping real-time text conversation."

Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov (1858)

Richar Hamming's three questions for new hires at Bell Labs:

1. "What are you working on?" 2. "What's the most important open problem in your area?" 3. "Why aren't they the same?" (Ouch!)

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