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Living on the west side of LA, this is the quintessential daytime coffee shop crowd around here as I always imagined it. It would be really interesting to see

Living on the west side of LA, this is the quintessential daytime coffee shop crowd around here as I always imagined it. It would be really interesting to see this experiment replicated in other cities like SF and NYC to get a sense for how different the crowds are.

Tarrosion 11y ago
My go-to coffee shop in Cambridge, MA is in the same building as the Broad institute and across the street from MIT. I'd say about half the conversations I overhear are about biology/life sciences and a quarter are math (topology is common, as far as I can tell). Of course the people sending out invoices aren't having conversations! But still, almost surely there'd be a different distribution. More science, less film.
- Finnucane 11y ago
  You might be amused to hear that when the Barismo opens over on Third St., they're planning to have part of the cafe be a 'shared work space'--i.e., they're going to charge you to sit there all day with your laptop. When I lived in Brooklyn, as gentrification rolled down from Park Slope, it became difficult to find a cafe that wasn't overrun by mommy gangs.
  - marklyon 11y ago
    Workshop Cafe does this. It's a great idea. http://www.workshopcafe.com/#!home/mainPage http://www.workshopcafe.com/#!home/mainPage
- csixty4 11y ago
  I didn't know there was a coffee shop there! My wife used to work in the Koch Institute. I could have commuted home with her.
sillypog 11y ago
I don't think the results in SF would be that interesting - everyone is working on their app! I have a metric now for interactions with strangers in San Francisco: Time to App. It's like Time to Crate in games, but here you time how long an otherwise interesting conversation turns to someone talking about their app.
busterarm 11y ago
NYC? Tourists, people looking vaguely-homeless, students and Type-As. And many of us would just look at you with a "wtf are you talking to strangers for?" expression.

Tarrosion 11y ago

My go-to coffee shop in Cambridge, MA is in the same building as the Broad institute and across the street from MIT. I'd say about half the conversations I overhear are about biology/life sciences and a quarter are math (topology is common, as far as I can tell). Of course the people sending out invoices aren't having conversations! But still, almost surely there'd be a different distribution. More science, less film.

Finnucane 11y ago
You might be amused to hear that when the Barismo opens over on Third St., they're planning to have part of the cafe be a 'shared work space'--i.e., they're going to charge you to sit there all day with your laptop. When I lived in Brooklyn, as gentrification rolled down from Park Slope, it became difficult to find a cafe that wasn't overrun by mommy gangs.
- marklyon 11y ago
  Workshop Cafe does this. It's a great idea. http://www.workshopcafe.com/#!home/mainPage http://www.workshopcafe.com/#!home/mainPage
csixty4 11y ago
I didn't know there was a coffee shop there! My wife used to work in the Koch Institute. I could have commuted home with her.

sillypog 11y ago

I don't think the results in SF would be that interesting - everyone is working on their app! I have a metric now for interactions with strangers in San Francisco: Time to App. It's like Time to Crate in games, but here you time how long an otherwise interesting conversation turns to someone talking about their app.

busterarm 11y ago

NYC? Tourists, people looking vaguely-homeless, students and Type-As. And many of us would just look at you with a "wtf are you talking to strangers for?" expression.