links for 2010-11-14

“Rather than mere­ly a place to do work, the choice of a like-mind­ed cowork­ing com­mu­ni­ty with the right amount of diver­si­ty and expo­sure to new skills and ideas could be as impor­tant as choos­ing a neigh­bor­hood to live in.” A sol­id overview of the cow­er­ing phe­nom­e­non. Although I love the con­cept, I have rarely seen it work well.

“…when the ecosys­tem stops reward­ing com­plex­i­ty, it is the peo­ple who fig­ure out how to work sim­ply in the present, rather than the peo­ple who mas­tered the com­plex­i­ties of the past, who get to say what hap­pens in the future.” Which is to say: always be aware of your own actions, pre­vent them from becom­ing bureaucratic.