http://www.businessbricks.co.uk Thu, 01 Mar 2007 15:07:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Link to “Where the Coffee Shop Meets the Cubicle,” by Kerry Miller in BusinessWeek yesterday. Excerpt: “Over the past few years, co-working facilities—both grassroots, co-op-like versions and for-profit models—have started popping up across the country and the world, from Seattle to Copenhagen. A co-working wiki hosts pages for dozens of ... http://www.businessbricks.co.uk/2007/03/01/coworking-2/ by Tom. http://www.businessbricks.co.uk/2007/02/16/decision/ The secret to making anything doable is to lower your bar. Say it’s done before it’s done. Say it’ll do and take another look in the morning. The following post is throwaway. But it’s done. And, as many editors know, the most appealing quality of a piece of work you’re ... http://www.businessbricks.co.uk/2007/02/13/doable/ Or Matt’s tiny strategy for starting meetups 1. choose somewhere you don’t mind sitting on your own 2. decide at the beginning you don’t even mind if it’s just you by yourself (you can always take a book/ a paper/ some work) 3. have no agenda (then it can emerge and people can ... http://www.businessbricks.co.uk/2007/02/09/meetups/ 1-6 7-16 http://www.businessbricks.co.uk/2007/01/09/how-to-sit/ is a workshop Charlie Davies and Matt Weston are putting on next Tuesday 16 Jan., upstairs at The Farm, Farm Rd., Hove, 7-9pm, £2.↩ More detail: 1. In December, we spent a week trying to write a book, a manual with Think what you would do if only you had the money then figure out how you can ... http://www.businessbricks.co.uk/2007/01/08/twywdioyhtmtfohycdia/ I like short copy. Always have. If you give people less words to play with, they write better. Like a review of 2 Fast 2 Furious: “Two fine performances, both by cars.” Or www.fwfr.com. Or 6 word sci-fi from 33 writers, 5 designers - inspired by that Hemingway once wrote ... http://www.businessbricks.co.uk/2006/10/31/dorothy/ by Phil. http://www.businessbricks.co.uk/2006/10/31/a-beginners-guide-to-freelancing/ Paul Graham lists the 18 mistakes that kill startups. “#1 Single Founder. What’s wrong with having one founder? To start with, it’s a vote of no confidence. It probably means the founder couldn’t talk any of his friends into starting the company with him. That’s pretty alarming, because his friends ... http://www.businessbricks.co.uk/2006/10/19/18-mistakes-that-kill-startups/ Laura Barton made a good pick of Britain’s best 20 independent record shops in yesterday’s Guardian. I’ve shopped at seven out of 20: Rough Trade, Rounder Records, Selectadisc, Ray’s Jazz, Haggle Vinyl, Fopp, and Piccadilly Records. Edit out the descriptive stuff, and there are some really useful how-tos here - ... http://www.businessbricks.co.uk/2006/10/03/record-shop/