We’re about to have our first menu testing. We’ve got a great menu designer (in the gastronomic sense, not the graphic sense) whipping up a bunch of sandwiches and a couple of salads for us to taste and critique. Just looking at this receipt makes me hungry. Click on that teensy little receipt over on […]
Entries from July 2008
Yummiest receipt ever
November 29th, 2007 · 2 Comments
Categories: Food & Drink · Progress
Why we cowork — an ongoing saga
November 28th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Funny how extremes often overlap, resulting in a Venn Diagram of irony. Chrissie Hynde and the Pretenders sang, It’s a thin line between love and hate. Now, I’m not going to get that melodramatic (though I do love Chrissie). But it is funny how opposites often are attracted to the same concept.
For instance—there are a […]
Categories: Coworking
Spike Gillespie, come on down!
November 25th, 2007 · No Comments
I’m delighted to introduce Spike Gillespie, LaunchPad’s in-house reporter. She’ll be tracking down coworking news and profiling coworkers all over the city. All over the globe, if things go particularly well.
Gillespie is the author of four books and countless magazine articles. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic Traveler, Smithsonian, […]
Categories: Announcements
Telecommuting officially Good (gas prices still Bad)
November 24th, 2007 · No Comments
The Journal of Applied Psychology has officially sanctioned telecommuting as a Good Thing, and they’ve got 20 years worth of research to back it up.
“Our results show that telecommuting has an overall beneficial effect because the arrangement provides employees with more control over how they do their work,” said lead author Ravi S. Gajendran. “Autonomy […]
Categories: Coworking
The mope factor
November 24th, 2007 · 2 Comments
For me, a big part of creating a coworking space is about Dodging The Mope. I have a really, really nice home office but sometimes I go to a coffee shop just to remind myself I’m not alone.
And sometimes I realize I’ve let a little too much time go by without getting out of the […]
Categories: Coworking
Do you really even want a 4-hour work week?
November 14th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Last Sunday’s New York Times featured a profile of Timothy Ferriss, author of a new, bestselling book, The The 4-Hour work Week: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich. Ferriss is causing a big stir, particularly among the workaholic Silicon Valley set, for suggesting that rather than fantasize about having more time off, […]
Categories: Productivity
Coworking: Like it or not, it’s political
November 5th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Today’s New York Times Magazine’s “The Way We Live Now” column is entitled Home-Office Politics: Why Americans who work for themselves deserve a New Deal. Much of the article validated information quoted in our own business plan: nearly a third of US workers qualify as “independent”, including the self-employed, contractors, part time workers, and temps. […]
Categories: Coworking
