By applause, how many of you, at some time — whether during an elementary school spelling bee, a high school algebra class, some corporate meeting — have had to deal with an annoying smarty pants peer? You know who I’m talking about. These folks really are smart, really do get (almost) all the answers right [...]

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I’ve written frequently about how putting together LaunchPad Coworking is like piecing together a massive puzzle. Sometimes it seems as though the puzzle has 20,000 pieces and they’re all the same shade of blue. And then there are the times when some mystery piece, let’s call it Piece Number 20,001, shows up and we have [...]

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Now that we’re getting closer to opening, I’m starting to get reenergized about the many possibilities for innovation and collaboration at LaunchPad Coworking.
When we first started inventing a coworking space with a distinctly Austin flavor last summer, I had an idea I called the BrainBank. Basically, I envisioned members creating robust profiles, complete with [...]

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As noted, there are plenty of things to consider as we turn LaunchPad Coworking into an Austin reality. We’ve talked about the sound of coworking before — what does and doesn’t work as far as background sounds when working. Some of us prefer pure silence and others are okay with some back and forth chat, [...]

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Coworking or Co-working?
We’ve decided not to hyphenate, despite the fact that my family in Wisconsin thinks that without a hyphen it should read Cow Working. I thought it was a cheesehead thing, until John Berry in Seattle concurred. Paul Novitski chimed in with
Cow-working? That’s tame compared to cow-orking. I don’t even want [...]

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