You can. You can converge easily. That is to say, we set up a video conference, we have an agenda, we have things done and so on. But it’s difficult to brainstorm. Because to brainstorm means to express something creative and novel that requires a mental model of the other side. It requires a theory of mind. But if we’ve not been face to face for a long time, I don’t have a good mental model of you. And so, I can misread your nonverbal cues and so on, which makes brainstorming quite difficult, actually. There’s simply no sufficient amount of bit rates.

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