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Welcome Le Bureau
June 16, 2008
Each month it seems a new (awesome) coworking space opens somewhere in the world. Just got a not about a new space in London- Le Bureau- which seems to be big, and beautiful, and full of amenities. Check out Le Bureau when you get a chance…And welcome them to the global coworking community!!!
A week from [...]
In Praise of Vacation
June 5, 2008
Just had my first meeting with Bandit in what seems like weeks and wow!, what a difference a good vacation makes! I’ve never seen Bandit (a chartered member of workaholics anonymous) so fricken relaxed. Wired on coffee I just rabbited on like a fool, and he quietly let me carry on while he processed.
He rarely [...]
Coworking and the Fast 50
June 3, 2008
Each year Fast Company magazine solicits nominations for innovative businesses (the Fast 50) that are, in their words, helping to make the world a better place. Their call for nominations from 2007 reads like this:
This year’s focus: Our sixth annual global readers challenge will spotlight businesses that are helping to save the world. We’re looking for [...]
Independence and (In)Security
June 2, 2008
In the larger conversation about coworking, the one word that captures the spirit of the scene is ‘community.’ While this is more so the case in some cases than others, the need for community is central to most coworking spaces and Jelly communities. We all need to get out of our PJs and mingle with other [...]
The Design of Coworking
May 31, 2008
Over the past couple of days I’ve been writing about some of the financial-business constraints that coworking faces as it evolves. I’ve expressed a clear set of opionions on this, and have significantly raised the blood pressure in a few folks out there. As I see it, the process of devising a working coworking model [...]
‘Uprising Inc.’ and Coworking
May 30, 2008
Last night on the Colbert Report, writer David Sirota was on talking about his new book, The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington. I think his notion that there is a widespread uprising, indeed cultural revolution, going on today is spot on. In many aspects of contemporary culture, people are [...]
The Business of Coworking
May 29, 2008
As Bandit and I continue writing up different sections of our book on independent entrepreneurs, coworking and the decentralization of labor generally, a pesky question periodically comes up. What precisely is coworking?
Of course, one can just take the definition from the coworking wiki: “Coworking is cafe-like community/collaboration space for developers, writers and independents.” Clear enough, [...]
The Anthropology of Work
May 27, 2008
Some time ago I posted a piece on The Anthropology of Twitter. I am more and more convinced that the micro-channels of communication that connect so many people in so many directions today will have a profound impact on the course of cultural evolution going forward. For the most part that impact will be positive, I think, but only [...]
The Memes of Entrepreneurship
May 15, 2008
Among many other things, the story of coworking is a story of entrepreneurship. While it may be as much about community and the gathering of urban tribes, there is an awesome amount of entrepreneurship going on too.
This may contribute to what will be a slow and awkward courtship between mainstream corporates and the independents that [...]
Green Rubber
April 25, 2008
I’m stuck on this rubber and road bit This morning I’m reading an article in Austin Monthly magazine called 50 Ways to Reduce Your Eco-Footprint, and I come across #46:
#46-Work From Home: In the piece, it says: “Since 1990, the number of teleworkers in this country has increased from 4 million to almost 20 million…It increases [...]