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many casual, chance encounters as possible.

At the same time, employees are

encouraged to make their individual offices,

cubicles, desks, and work areas

their own and to decorate them as they

wish. Similarly, at Microsoft, many employees

enjoy their own private offices,

yet they come with sliding doors, movable

walls, and other features that allow

occupants to decide when they

want to collaborate and when they

need private time to think. These kinds

of diverse workspaces benefit introverts

as well as extroverts, the systems

design researcher Matt Davis told me,

because they offer more spaces to retreat

to than traditional open-plan

offices.

I suspect that Wozniak himself would

approve of these developments. Before

he created the Apple PC, Woz designed

calculators at Hewlett-Packard, a job he

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