Not An MBA

It’s a statement about the way we process information that something as simple as a single word can give shape to a loosely coordinated set of characteristics in a population.

The international activity around coworking excites me. I need about three months and plane tickets and I could really get a deep, meaningful handle on the situation. I wonder if there are any takers?

OpenCommune in Bangalore, India is coworking (community), incubator (growth), and business center (infrastructure). Not much information—e-mailing the provided address for more information. Note this bit in a post about OpenCommune titled “OpenCommune: Bringing you coworking“—it’s partly about remedying inefficiencies in the office space market. Clever model.

OpenCommune essentially tries to connect space owners (read: start-ups with more office space than they need) and space users (read: people like you and me), who need and require office space but on a very small level. So you and I get access to brilliant office space at extremely marginal costs.

The piece in The City Desk titled “The New-Economy Day Laborers” is brilliant if fictional. Think confusion over possible interpretations of the phrase “day laborer”…

Matt Johnston is posting about coworking in Belfast in “co-working” and “more on co-working“.

It’s not really international and it’s not coworking, but WTF… Crayon is a virtual company HQ’d in SecondLife… More relevant to ours discussions:

Beyond that, we have built our company around a small core of key individuals and turn to an extensive network of outside specialists, partners and freelancers to bring our work to life. Our philosophy is that we want to work with the best people, regardless of where they’re located, no matter if they’re full time employees, freelancers or other likeminded companies.

We had a lawyer show up at Jelly yesterday. He gets the coworking concept because his practice is part of a network of small practices that work together, literally (technically they are all “of counsel” to each other). He also hangs out in coffee shops a lot. However, things like this still piss me off (credit where credit is due, I’m pretty sure I got the tip from @remarkk). “…geeks or freaks…” I may be both, but thank you and fuck you. I see altogether too much of this…

- Bandit