What do you think of the world's largest open office?
On the one hand, it can be distracting. However, the book 'Deep Work' by Cal Newport, which I've been reading these days, has changed my mind a bit (and given me even more inspiration for my 'WeConnect' startup, which I plan to create in the near future).
An example of this was Mark Zuckerberg. His goal was to build the largest open office in the world. According to my fact-checking, Mark Zuckerberg still does not have a separate room and works with all his employees in one giant open space. The main purpose of such a design of buildings came from the "theory of random creativity".
This can be seen most clearly from MIT's Building 20. It was very old, with thin walls and a roof that went from the ceiling to the ceiling. It was hot in the summer and freezing in the winter. But despite this, it was allowed to be used as an open workspace. Research scientists from Cambridge, nuclear physicists, linguists, and representatives of various faculties, from electronics, could create there, meet and work with representatives of different fields. They even worked in this large empty room next to unusual tenants, such as a piano repair service. Since the building was quite cheap, anyone who wanted could rent the building and use it in parts. This building has been around for years and has been the source of many accidental inventions. Even Jerrold Zacharias, who appeared in the New Yorker magazine, started his first atomic clock there, and even removed two floors of Building 20 to use in the construction of his first invention. Today, the building is remembered as MIT’s Building 20: The Magical Incubator 1943 – 1998. A truly place of accidental creativity…
Btw, my (irrelevant to this topic) personal opinion is that the book called “Artificial Intelligence A Modern Approach’ 4th edition by Stuart Russel and Peter Norvig is a magical book. It answers to all ‘whys’ to the building blocks of today’s AI / ML building up the foundation back from centuries of research and development. Mention of potential use cases in the (near) future just speaks how powerful the technology can be.
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