These meetings keep getting better – Thanks to everyone that showed up yesterday!
Our third Work from Home meeting (a more clever name is coming, promise) was greeted with terrific, clear weather which helped the attendance tremendously – our biggest group yet! The number and quality of conversations was outstanding. It was great to see so many people giving and receiving great ideas, suggestions, and feedback.
Here’s a quick recap from our December 14 meeting:
Over the past few months, I’ve had some stirring to create some sort of community. What I realized, in looking deeper at the word ‘community’, is that I wanted to bring some like-minded folks together from my neighborhood.
The problem? I wasn’t all that involved in my neighborhood. I played soccer during the week and weekend but that wasn’t always in my neighborhood (depending on how you define ‘Upper West Side’).
So, I thought about what it was that I did and the experience I could bring to a community meeting. From that, I started the Upper West Side Work from Home meeting. In a city as big as New York, I thought there might be a handful of folks that shared the same experience / challenges / opportunities I do – working from home and slightly missing some of the commradarie found when working in an office.
Our second work from home meetup kicked off a little late yesterday due to poor weather conditions, but we had a terrific turnout. More great ideas, suggestions, and feedback from the group!
Here’s a quick recap from our November 16 meeting:
You may already know this, but it might have been a long time since you last moved. I can confirm that moving still sucks.
And I don’t mean moving homes, but moving basically anything. It’s an incredible drain on productivity (at least in the short run), not to mention the amazing amount of stress it puts on the mind and body.
It was you who decided to not take responsibility when you were in the wrong, in every sense of the word.
It was you who decided to be selfish and arrogant and irresponsible.
It was you who injured my hand.
It was you who broke my phone.
It was you and your frieds whom, instead of helping me off the ground after your dogs knocked me over, decided to chide me with the words “I told you to watch out”.
It was you…
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