Dr. Cal Newport

And that could make all the difference, right?

If you're working on a very hard proof, 20%, 30% boost could be the difference between solving it or not.

Whoever has the marker on the board,

They're the ones talking.

So you go, okay, what about this, you say.

And now you're working, you're writing down equations or drawing your diagram, and everyone is just watching.

And then when they're done, then everyone steps back and looks at it.

Then you can step forward.

Okay, but what if we did this?

and you still work on it.

So when I got built some offices or worked out some offices near my house, like one of the first things we put in there was a whiteboard.

So they could have computer science collaborators come because we can't work on theory otherwise.

Like it is the thing we need is a whiteboard, right?

When I started grad school, they had just built this new $300 million Frank Gehry designed building for the computer science artificial intelligence laboratory and the linguistics, but half of it was computer science.

Kendall Square Stop.

The status center.

Yeah, right down the street from the Kendall Square Stop.

Yeah.

So the sixth floor was where the theoreticians were.

This is where I was.