Essays
Frontier Airlines failed me. Here’s what I learned about business:
In a money-based society, business is who we are. It’s how we show up in the world. It’s the local gift shop where you buy a card to tell someone you love them. It’s the hair stylist who becomes a trusted confidant over the years. It’s the person who builds a website so your passion project can fly. It’s how we shelter ourselves, how we eat, and how we try to have a little fun along the way.
Read MoreSacred Spacemaking: Celebrating 9 Years of Yoga on Union
In the yoga world, we often feel pressure to have some ohm-shanti samadhi experience every time we practice. At Yoga on Union, I felt the space to work through my condition: grumpy, happy, sad, angry… whatever it might be.
Read MoreWhy we need less personal space: A look at the proximity principle
If proximity helps us form relationships, what happens when we have too much personal space? Are we in the United States too far removed from each other?
Read MoreWhy we’re doing away with “FOMO” marketing
We’re fed up with the FOMO, a nasty social media side effect that leads to dissatisfaction and unhappiness. Here’s how we are going to change our marketing strategy…
Read MoreWhy collaboration is really really hard (and you should still do it)
True collaboration requires us to spend time listening– both to ideas we love, and to a bunch of annoying, useless, disagreeable, and otherwise unappealing garbage. And yet the results will make it all worthwhile.
Read MoreSeizing New Bedford’s Moment
In the 19th century, it was whaling. In the 20th, textiles and manufacturing sustained New Bedford. And perhaps now, in the 21st century, the city has found another industry to…
Read MoreWhat makes a community thrive?
What makes a community thrive? Like most of you, I’ve been involved in lots of communities. Some make you feel a sense of belonging and connection and purpose– all the good things. Others can be well-intentioned, full of good people, and just… blah.
Read MoreWho handles HR issues at a coworking space?
As more and more companies employ a remote workforce and outsource their office management to coworking spaces, where does the HR responsibility fall? The lines get blurry pretty fast.
Read MoreNew Bedford / Fall River: It’s Complicated
Back in November, I took the SRTA 10 bus from downtown New Bedford to Fall River. Sometimes I just do these kind of things. I was prepared for the journey:…
Read MoreHow coworking can make you a better person
In an increasingly polarized world, listening to people we don’t agree with is perhaps the most important thing we can do. Respecting people we don’t agree with is crucial. Actually liking people we disagree with? Revolutionary. We get to practice all this, and more, in our coworking community.
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