[I wrote this post for the Global Coworking Blog and have reposted it here.]
I’ll get to the meat quickly but first you must know, my passion for coworking erupted like many house fires, unexpected in the night.
One early morning between 4:00 AM and 9:00 AM this blinding surge became a blueprint to open a coworking space in downtown Salt Lake City. I don’t know where the idea came from… it was just there. I don’t remember ever hearing the term coworking before, but one thing was clear, it was time to open a coworking office.
To me coworking is truly about, collaboration: a unified, high-impact, high-energy workspace. Not really an office at all.
The passion I feel for the community, this collaboration, is blazing inside me. You’ve surely felt it before working on a choice project. Coworking is a blazing fire.
If you want an office, you can go to one of many virtual suites. You’ll get a posh facade and a killer address for your business card. You’ll pay twice as much as most coworking joints and you’ll get a box office that maybe has a window. This isn’t coworking.
To me coworking is about energy first, it’s about the harmony that happens when two or more like-minded people are in proximity focusing on the same thing. In this case, building something, working –coworking. And now that I think about it, coworking is really a mastermind. The kind that Napoleon Hill swears will change your life.
So I think you can see that coworking is really, not an office. Truly it is more of a mastermind with a footprint.