[gasda]

It feels like this is more about "how working across timezones fails in practice, for this team".

"From 9-10am, I was often unable to work much because the team was on lunch." I don't understand why the team being at lunch would cause someone to stop working..

[jdlshore]

The context of that section was that he was tired of working in isolation and wanted to pair program with the rest of the team.