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 [...]

In the Flightpath

April 23, 2008

I spent the morning working on the book in one of my favorite spots in all of Austin- Flightpath Coffeehouse.  Unfortunately they don't appear to have a web site, but it's the kind of place that doesn't need it.  Cool people come, work, read, talk, hang out.  No advertising.  Just a cool place to be [...]

Coworking, a Historical Perspective

April 21, 2008

Progress on the book...
Last night, on the Not an MBA Google Group, I started a new thread about a few historical sign posts that point the way to what we call "coworking" today.
For many people, the fact that coworking is happening is enough. When you hear people with traditional jobs wishing they were freelancers—not [...]

Nomads and Power, Part I

April 10, 2008

Nomads and Evolution
Contemporary nomadism, i.e. cyber foraging in new economy 2.0, is not a simple rejection of corporate conformity. Nomadic behaviors, whether in the deserts of SW Africa or in the urban savannah of java programmers and joomla junkies, is as natural as air and water. It is in fact a return to [...]

Work/Life Balance Poll

April 2, 2008

BigCo extolls the value of work/life balance, but most of the time companies simply drain people one-way until their retirement.  More recently, Tim Ferriss has proposed his own version of balance in his awesome book, The 4-Hour Work Week. 
                                                      We Want to Know What You Think About Balance. 
1. Which of the two- work or home [...]

Alone Together at Nutopia

April 1, 2008

In our various conversations here about coworking, collaboration, and community, we would be remiss if we did not reach back into the history of collaborative working arrangements among freelancers and acknowledge some of those early efforts. Dan Pink's seminal piece on Free Agent Nation in Fast Company was published 11 years ago, so the [...]

Frat Boys, Led Zepplin & the Bong

March 31, 2008

Earlier today Polly LaBarre was interviewed on CNN about coworking. Her summary of the movement- and it is a movement- is quite well done. Very much worth a listen if you get a chance.
Almost as interesting as Polly's overview of coworking and Jelly was the passing comment made by the interviewer (don't know [...]

The Work in Coworking

March 29, 2008

Jelly Austin at Cafe Caffeine
At Work
Over the past few months we've written extensively here about the cultural, community and architectural aspects of independent careers and coworking. Not that all who cowork are fully independent, but it is nonetheless a huge part of the scene we are all embracing.
With a few exceptions, where we have [...]

Coworking Is…

March 28, 2008

Catalyst

Coworking as Catalyst

Innovation

Coworking IS Innovation!

Community

Coworkers of the World, Unite!

Balance

Work-Life Balance Redux

Trans-generational

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Tweeter

March 26, 2008

I'm writing the draft of this post on a paper plate. The cat is attacking my feet.
I probably have ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder). So do the 949,623 other people with twitter accounts. I'm not going to get treatment—why kill off a good thing—not that the little magic pills don't clear the mind...
A [...]