On 23/08/2007, at 3:16 AM, Chris Messina wrote: > If anyone does find this thread uninteresting, please say so; > typically I would ask for a topic like this to be moved off list, but > I do think that there are ideas in here that apply to coworking and to > the development and nurturance of our community that should be raised > and discussed now. ... > > Diversity is not something that can be "achieved", much like the > rainmaker who makes rain once as a happenstance and then fails to > invoke the weather again. Diversity is a process and a mindset. It > exists in the negative spaces of social convention. It is something > that makes open communities like ours stronger and better and it > certainly isn't always obvious.
Chris, this is quite possibly one of the most eloquent things I've heard or read this year. I'm smack in the middle of The Audacity of Hope at the moment and boy can Barack Obama string a phrase. You're challenging him with this. I have the benefit of essentially being raised by my Mum - Dad was present but emotionally absent and then sick when I needed him most as a young man. Her influence made me a person who celebrates diversity in whatever flavor it comes and you've really hit the same spot. Well done. Steve -- e [EMAIL PROTECTED] w www.acidlabs.org b www.acidlabs.org/services/blog t +61 410 680722 skype trib22 acidlabs strategies, tools and processes to empower knowledge workers thoughtglue the mental adhesive for creative knowledge workers www.thoughtglue.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
