Several of those now working at Sreepur came to the charity as children: after college and a period working away, they have returned to help to run the project they grew up in.
Carmack ran the mobile effort for the first few months, through his trademark practice of what Iribe describes as "locking himself in a room" and working away on a problem with single-minded determination.
Off to the side, a photographer was working away, his camera's motor drive making a sound as if crickets were invading the room.
There will also be a recommendation engine working away to suggest magazines to each Flipboard user based on their previous reading.
Whereas academic researchers are used to collaboration, and to sharing resources and insights, Wright is temperamentally more like a lone inventor, working away in secrecy and solitude until he has found the solution.
University might offer the chance to learn about and debate things that other people have accomplished, but a year spent working away from this relative safety net allows students to realise their own ambitions.
"I was staying at a B&B while working away from home.
Equally, if you're going away for a while, or working away from home, is it possible to suspend some of your memberships and pick them up again later when you're more likely to be free to use them?
Last weekend, a regular-looking sports reporter was spotted in the press box at an American football match working away on a typewriter.
Listening to Adams's music, I pictured Stravinsky in a hut at Los Alamos, working away on an intricate problem of seemingly tangential yet ultimately crucial significance.
