Thanks Susan!
In Part I of Your Story, you say: “I began dreaming of neighborhood-based telecommuting centers as a way to combine the walk to work idea with this new nomadic workforce.” Later you add: “from the beginning [it was] an inspiration within a mindset of sustainability and allowing people the ability to telecommute (read: drive less) but making it more realistic, more efficient, and more comfortable.”
This is beautiful, and could easily have been written by Christopher Alexander in his texts on the Pattern Languages of Work:
#9 Scattered Work
#41 Work Community
#80 Self Governing Workshops and Offices
#82 Office Connections
#146 Flexible Office Space
If you live in Seattle, and you want to have a go at balancing your work and life in a single organic stroke, check out Office Nomads and get started!
The Butcher
Thanks, Butcher!
Awesome connections - it was fun to read all of those tidbits. There is a ton of work/life balance talk going on right now here at ON and elsewhere. We blogged about it a bit, if you want to check that out…http://officenomads.com/blog.