Substantive collaboration occurs within a strong shared context

Kyle, Avvai and I have all echoed the sentiment that there is a lot of shared context between us. Partly this is because we’re all highly fluent native English speakers, but more significantly, we’re a trio of nerds. Language nerds, book nerds, computer nerds. These three vocabularies are second nature for each of us, and even where one of has has reached a little further, the others are still so close as to require only the slightest of bridges toward understanding.

This shared context removes the need for almost all the exhaustive contextualising that is needed when collaborating in a more disparate group.