hello Alex, this is awesome indeed, very interesting !
-- Thom -- Thomas Riboulet On Wednesday, June 22, 2011 at 12:29 AM, Alex Hillman wrote: > In the Spring of 2010, I started in on a project that I hoped was going to be > the coworking book that the world needed > (http://dangerouslyawesome.com/2010/03/sxsw-launch-chapter-excerpt-the-coworking-book/). > A few months later, I stopped - discontent with where I’d started, and > unconfident that I knew what book about coworking the world needed. > > The original idea was a curated shared narrative that would help people > create successful coworking communities. I’m still in love with that idea, > I’m just not sure that I know enough alone to start that curated narrative. > > This past week I spent a bunch of time writing a new talk titled “Doing it in > Public”, about the value of taking ideas that are incomplete and, in spite of > your fears and insecurities, executing them in public - either the the end of > learning new perspectives, finding collaborators, or simply finding out that > you’re not alone. > > I realized that perhaps that was my path to finding the coworking book that > the world needed. > > So I am taking the beginnings of the book that I’m not pleased or proud of, > and am sharing them with the hopes that the world will help tell me what book > they’d like me to write. Even more, I’m sharing them in a publicly editable > document. Editable by anybody, even if you’re anonymous. Add things delete > things, comment as much as you’d like. Reply to others’ comments. Point me in > a new direction. > > Google Docs keeps revision history so if nothing else, we can always look > through the revisions. I can also scrap the whole thing and start over. > > I hope you’re join me in doing it in public. Let’s see what happens. > > http://bit.ly/coworkingbook-in-public > > -Alex > /ah > indyhall.org (http://indyhall.org) > coworking in philadelphia > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > (mailto:[email protected]). > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > (mailto:[email protected]). > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. -- 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.
