coWORKing Coffee Talk: Nature and Business – April 22nd 2014
It’s Earth Day. What can we learn from this miraculous mother? Billions of years of life on Earth have created an enormous array of elegant solutions to almost all conceivable challenges. Man’s hubris may trick us into thinking we can outsmart nature, but perhaps we’d be better off just learning from it. Take fractals, for […]
coWORKing Coffee Talk: Hands, Scrapbooks, and the Homunculus – April 8th 2014
I have a lot of guilt. My mother is a fabulous recorder of memories. The scrapbooks she created documenting my childhood have become my memories and thus an important part of my sense of self. At this point I can’t tell whether my memories are my own or my mother’s recording. How do you record […]
coWORKing Coffee Talk: To advertise or not to advertise, that is the question. March 31st 2014
If you’re a web-based business, as many at WORK are, one of the very first questions you have to ask yourself is- do I sell ads or do I sell my product? There are a couple of ways to approach this. First off- is your product worth someone’s money? Sounds like a silly question- why […]
coWORKing Coffee Talk: ‘Add to Cart’ – March 11th 2014
So how did all that random stuff you just ordered on the internet end up on your doorstep the next day? I recently listen to a Radiolab podcast that told a story of these fulfillment centers- miracles of modern distribution. Imagine a million square foot/17 football field-sized mega-warehouse containing everything from iPad covers to paper […]
coWORKing Coffee Talk: Recording Your Life – Feb 25th 2014
How did ‘through’ get that silly ‘ough’? Is this what happens when you let thousands of years of design by committee create your language? I think it’s high time we clean up our spelling and get logical. ‘Thru’ works great for me! But would ‘spelling reform’ (as Wikipedia calls it) be worth it at this […]
coWORKing Coffee Talk: Owning Information – Feb 18th 2014
We live in the information age. But how do we value information? It’s more plentiful and accessible than ever. More careers are based on its creation, curation, and distribution. But it’s not tangible, it’s easily reproduced, and most people expect it to be free. So can information truly be owned? Talk on intellectual property – […]
coWORKing Coffee Talk: Being Your Own Brand- Feb 11th 2014
Are you an ‘Epicurean Brand Champion’ or a ‘Media Messagician’? Is your goal to ‘live well, do good, use less’ or ‘build your peace’? We’ve talked before about your story, now we wonder, what’s your brand? How you define yourself says a lot about who you are and who you want to be. WORK attracts […]
coWORKing Coffee Talk: Scapegoat Dot Com- Jan 28th 2014
The writing’s on the wall. It’s plain to see. The company you work for, the project you’re on- it’s doomed to fail. No matter how hard you try, how many hours you put in, it’s just not gonna happen. What to do? Scapegoat dot com to the rescue! Scapegoat, Inc. will send in their finest […]
coWORKing Coffee Talk: The Fall of Technology?- Jan 21st 2014
Google ‘technology’ and you get 4.6 billion results! Try ‘social interaction’ and you get a measly 74 million. But the boots on the ground are telling a different story. Have you been to a good coffee shop lately? What is it that makes a latte whipped up by your local neighborhood barista worth $5 when […]
coWORKing Coffee Talk: How to get to where you are- Jan 14th 2014
What’s your story? How did you end up here, at this moment in time, doing what you’re doing right now? Coffee time turned to story time this week and our interest was piqued as we heard tale after tale. It’s fascinating to look back on your life and imagine the moments that led you down […]