ok, just finished the book a first time first of all : it's great : well written, easy to read
then, well it's really interesting from my point of view : I'm trying to start a space and I'm going through all those points. for the end of the book I think that what would be nice is that you don't necessarily talk about specifics or not too much. some of them might depend heavily on the country we are building coworking spaces (culture, law ...) but I might be wrong. most of those points also vary from one place to the other what could be good is to have short extracts from this mail group with real life cases or explanations using those stories as examples ? -- Thomas Riboulet On Wednesday, June 22, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Thomas Riboulet wrote: > 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.
