{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"David Sax: The Future Is Analog and Why Digital Collaboration Technology Kills Creativity Through Embodied Cognition Loss","description":"David Sax, author of The Future Is Analog and The Revenge of Analog, shares how his first job photocopying newsletters in a windowless room reeking of toner during the summer of Living La Vida Loca revealed something profound about office culture: even the worst environments create friendships, energy, and human relationships that working from home cannot replicate. Drawing from a Microsoft study of 60,000 employees during the pandemic, Sax explains how remote work maintained task completion but siloed communication, preventing the embodied cognition that happens when you bump into colleagues and see project models on desks—passive knowledge transfer impossible to replicate through PDFs and PowerPoints. He argues that Y Combinator consistently found remote teams had higher failure rates because creativity and innovation, the currency of the modern economy, require human connection in shared physical spaces. Sax challenges the wrong conversation about how many days to go into the office, arguing the right conversation is redefining productivity beyond the 19th-century model that equates time with money.","author_name":"Srinivas Rao"}