Rebelling against my Rebellion

It’s not very fashionable to admit this but I needed a cubicle or I was going to go crazy. I genuinely enjoy working when the negative stuff like fear & mean behavior (mine included) is not part of the deal. Or at least kept to a minimum.

The 1990s were the dot com era & we thought we’d enjoy working from the beach in sandals. Then we liked some parts of that  since we could go home at 4pm on a Friday and work from home around the kids instead of living in the office all weekend, but then  a lot of things suck too.

We have become a society where parents  constantly checking their iphones or blackberries during camping trips  with their kids for fear of losing their jobs.

Being perpetually connected is not as efficient as we thought it’d be.

A side effect of this are the bizarre, very common interdepartmental email wars with  sig lines “written on an iphone” made up mostly of lots of one-liner messages with mysterious triple meanings.

We did change & there’s cool stuff but like even though it’s massively uncool to say this I like dress shirts and work spaces. Especially if they’re not what people expect I’d like.

So here’s my new work space at Plug’n’Play in Sunnyvale, California. The Sunnyvale Skatepark next door had absolutely nothing to do with my decision to apply to be a tenant here. :)