I think that she (not he - worth noting!) pinpoints a lot of elements that are worth taking note of. Over the years I've noticed that members come to coworking spaces not to be sold things, but usually to fulfill more emotional needs. I heard a lot of that frustration in Rebekah's article, and it's worth taking note of instead of simply shrugging off. Because the emotional stuff is complicated and tough to put your finger on sometimes. But paying attention to it is critical to ensuring the sustainability of your coworking community.
Sure, we can shrug and say that she should have kept looking for the right space (and I'd recommend that she keep looking - sounds like she hasn't found the right spot yet). But there are a lot of lessons in there that we can glean as well. She specifically calls out that the space was organized in such a way that it was nearly impossible to build a culture. We should be listening to feedback like that - even in spaces where we feel like we've got the culture "right." I read this article and dove right away into reviewing our systems here at Office Nomads to be sure that we encourage our members to build the culture here as much as they want to. Again, it's easy to shrug off articles like this and point holes in this individual's experience, but look closer and you'll find there is a lot to be learned from her experience. S __ Office Nomads officenomads.com 206-323-6500(o) 206-484-5859(m) On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 1:09 PM, Aaron Cruikshank <aa...@cruikshank.me> wrote: > Sounds to me like this is not the kind of guy who should be in a coworking > space. > I used to get these kinds of guys all the time at the space I used to run > and I would always re-direct them to local tech incubators. Not that > they're any less noisy or chaotic... > It sounds like what he needed was a private office but all he could afford > was hotdesking. > > Aaron Cruikshank > Principal, CRUIKSHANK > phone: 778.908.4560 > e-mail: aa...@cruikshank.me > web: cruikshank.me <http://www.cruikshank.me> > twitter: @cruikshank <https://twitter.com/cruikshank> > book a meeting: doodle.com/cruikshank <http://www.doodle.com/cruikshank> > linkedin: in/cruikshank <http://www.linkedin.com/in/cruikshank> > > > > > > On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Susan Dorsch <su...@officenomads.com> > wrote: > >> Out in the New York Times (h/t to Steve King >> <http://www.twitter.com/smallbizlabs> - I caught the article via his >> Twitter Feed): >> http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/08/why-i-ditched-my-co-working-space/ >> >> There is so much I could say about this article, but I'll just start with >> saying how useful I think this piece is for any owner/cultivator/tummler >> out there. Lots of food for thought in there. >> >> S >> __ >> Office Nomads >> officenomads.com >> 206-323-6500(o) >> 206-484-5859(m) >> >> -- >> 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 coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > 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 coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
