[dcosson]

> No time to think. I find I solve solutions by thinking about them, and I can imagine mob rule would lend itself to less thinking and more doing (fastest solution that sounds half-right gets done first). Similarly…

I could imagine maybe this one could go either way, depending on the loudest personality type. Every team has a range of skill levels and styles, so there are inevitably people who skew towards more time writing code and less time thinking (as well as the opposite. Some middle ground is probably optimal).

A lot of these people might just never have really thought about and might not know any other way, and if the majority and/or loudest voice of the mob is more conservative about thinking through things before starting to code, it'll rub off on everyone else.

That said I do agree with your sentiment to some extent, I find I personally do better thinking on my own than in a group. Part of it is needing to go off in a ton of different directions and then consolidate the ideas afterwards, and in a group setting there's a pressure to talk through things aloud which dramatically slows this ability to branch out.