It became survivable when office stopped hiding inside guilt, charisma, exhaustion, and old admiration.
Old engine note: Engelbart.
Bad office systems simplify life by hiding complexity under a smoother center. Good ones increase the room's ability to carry complexity without surrendering judgment to that center.
House gloss.
This is the office answer.
Station marks depth. Seat marks charge. Level marks ongoing growth. Office marks a currently held public burden inside a bounded chamber geometry. The Spire is not an elected seat.
Those differences keep the house from collapsing all meaning into one ladder.
Final fragment.
The house became survivable the day charge stopped depending on whoever still felt too guilty to leave.