Free Post apple Droning on about Apple's new campus It’s been over a decade since I worked as a property and architecture journalist — but I’m still fascinated by the new Apple campus: It’s not so much
Free Post offices Open Plan Offices: only a manager could love them Why really bad decisions get made about open plan offices It’s because the people making the decision don’t have to use the space: Let’s start with the
Free Post creativity Escaping the tyranny of the team Team work can be creative and fulfilling. But some tasks are better done alone. Can we design offices to allow that?
Free Post flexible working Home or Office: pick your discipline Working from home, versus corporate office life: Discipline. Everyone talks about how much discipline you need to work at home. But how much discipline does it take to go to the same strange city office every day, for all the hours of daylight? To
Free Post Brilliant Noise Working alone, together Writing is, essentially, a lonely business. It’s just you, a keyboard and as much focus as you can bring to a task. I’m in the midst of a long piece of writing now, for a Brilliant Noise project. This is exactly the
Free Post Automattic Le Web: Automattic and the virtual workplace The Ignite talk at Le Web I’m most interest in: Sara Rosso from Automattic No-one is inspired by a cubicle-filled office. But we’re locked into thinking about productivity as something that happens in an office. But what should that be? Some people
Free Post digital journalism My Morning Workspace For those of you who think that life as a digital journalism evangelist is all tech and no paper, here’s my morning workspace from earlier today: [ Originally uploaded by Adam Tinworth. I’ve found myself unexpectedly in Rugby for work-related reasons, and am now in the office in the pic above. Blogging may be light or non-existent today.
Free Post blogging Where do you write? Practical Blogging talks about the coffee shop as an ideal place to write, based on an article in USA Today. This is a familiar idea. In fact, it’s been something of an obsession for me since I ran an article in Estates Gazette
Free Post workplaces Slice of Life So, yes, I’ve been busy. I’ve been running Mum to the hospital for tests, clearing my desk in preparation for a short break, which I should be on by now and trying to do basic things like, say, get a haircut. And
Free Post coffee shops The Coffee Shop Office This is a great story: Wired News: Monster Fueled by Caffeine: SAN FRANCISCO — Delicious Monster is the Mac software company behind the hit Delicious Library, a program for cataloging collections of books, movies and games. The software is selling like hot cakes and has
