Tag Archive | "coworking"
L’accompagnement
What's important is the ability to gather with others and the possibility to be accompanied in your work. To be able to ask questions and bounce around ideas. I've been thinking for some time that public-access venues and coworking spaces are connected. This is why. They provide access to helpful people — librarians, dinamizador@s, infomediaries, the-guy-sitting-across-the-table-from-you.
Continue reading...The Community Manifesto
Thursday, January 22, 2009
I just posted the first draft of the Station C Community Manifesto to our blog. Would love your feedback. Here’s the meat of it: Station C is a space that fosters community, collaboration, innovation. People come here to work and connect. We are a hub for creators and innovators: entrepreneurs, geeks, artists, social activists. Station [...]
Continue reading...Admitting confusion is not bad for business
Thursday, January 22, 2009
I have such a backlog of great posts for you — not being able to write them is killing me. The reason I have no time to write? Too much work. Plus I’m pushing Artefatica forward, which is a big job in and of itself. And to think I nearly pulled down my last post [...]
Continue reading...In the news: Station C, me & Open Salad
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Isabelle Laporte, a freelance journalist, came to interview us at Sation C. Her story, published in La Presse, focuses on the emerging co-working phenomenon. But the thing I’m most happy about is her mention of Open Salad, which I learned about from my friends at the Centre for Social Innovation and have since championed at [...]
Continue reading...Audio 
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Nathan Englander reads Isaac Bashevis Singer’s “Disguised” for The New Yorker’s monthly reading and conversation with Deborah Treisman. Englander’s voice couldn’t be more perfect.
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Early in his career, professor Mark Rowlands had two loves: philosophy and Brenin, a wolf he was forced to bring along to his lectures. Through their relationship, Rowlands started examining his work and life. Listen on CBC’s Ideas, via EarIdeas.
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Every month, The New Yorker’s fiction editor, Deborah Treisman, hosts a reading and conversation with a well-known writer. August 2009 featured Joshua Ferris reading George Saunders’s “Adams.” The rhythm is magnificent.
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