For sure. Definitely not saying the outcome has a direct relation to the size of a space, but I'd tend to think it happens more frequently in bigger communities vs. small ones.
That said - it can certainly happen in any coworking community if the voices of the coworkers aren't being heard, or shared for that matter. On Tuesday, July 30, 2013 5:30:17 PM UTC-7, Alex Hillman wrote: > > There can be a correlation between size and this effect, but I caution you > from mistaking correlation for causation. > > In particular, note this bit from the member's email: > > I went to a couple other coworking spaces just to see if maybe there >> weren’t other options. They called themselves coworking but what they >> really were was co-officing. They were lifeless. Underimagined. Not a shred >> of a sense of a vibe of who they were. >> > > >> I asked a co-founder to tell how they would describe their space as if it >> was a person – Would they be curious? Irreveverant? Respectful? Genuine? >> Playful? Quiet? Conservative? Experimental? He just looked at me funny and >> started telling me on to what kind of wifi connection they had. > > > To me, that's not related to scale. That's simply the lack of > intentionality, purpose and frankly, humanity that worries me about shifts > from coworking as a "movement" to coworking as an "industry". > > I can speak from two perspectives about the size/scale issue: one of > course is Indy Hall, which has grown from 1800 sq ft with 20 members to > ~10,000 sq feet and hundreds of members without sacrificing quality. Not > without challenges, of course, but we've grown stronger by actually dealing > with them. > > The other is from the countless examples of spaces and communities that > I've personally visited and experienced. I've seen success and failure in > every quadrant of the size/quality matrix. > > Size can be a virtue or a vice, depending on how you choose to use it. > > -Alex > > > > > > > -- > > /ah > indyhall.org > coworking in philadelphia > > > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Matt Farley <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> Thanks for sharing Alex. >> >> Do you think occurrences like this happen as bi-product of space size? As >> communities continue to grow and move past self-sustaining and into >> profibility, do they end up sacrificing individual relationships with >> people for the sake of systematizing? Does this happen in smaller >> communities too? >> >> I'm curious. >> >> On Tuesday, July 30, 2013 9:14:40 AM UTC-7, Alex Hillman wrote: >>> >>> As much as I appreciate the connectedness that we have in this >>> community, one thing that I think is horribly missing from the global >>> conversation about coworking is a deeper conversation with the communities >>> of people who aren't owners, operators, and enthusiasts. >>> >>> I've gotten the sense that unless it's for praise, most coworking space >>> members aren't comfortable speaking up as a part of this global community. >>> >>> I think that's a shame. Here's a glimpse of what we might hear if they >>> did: >>> >>> https://medium.com/better-**humans/c9d8c69f4592<https://medium.com/better-humans/c9d8c69f4592> >>> >>> -Alex >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> /ah >>> indyhall.org >>> coworking in philadelphia >>> >> -- >> Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Coworking" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
