I’ve been wanting an office lately. Not something in my house, but one where I flip the Open sign each morning. I wasn’t really certain why I had this feeling of wanting an office, but after reading this quote from an article on Nick Denton in the New Yorker — which by the way is pretty interesting if you’re interested in his blog media empire like me – it’s opened my eyes a bit.

If you run it out of your house, then no one expects anything

Yes I’m taking this out of context, but the quote is pretty telling. My initial thought of working out of my house was to keep costs low and to have a work-life of extreme telecommuting. I’m quickly realizing that working out of the house leads to procrastination and doing things less important (if I even do those).

Most of all I’ve realized that working out of the house puts less pressure on me to succeed. I believe that it can lead to excuses and low expectations, and I don’t want that. I want to aim big. So maybe I need to open an office (co-working?) to put the pressure on, establish some accountability and raise expectations.

An intentional community is a

planned residential community designed to have a much higher degree of teamwork than other communities. The members of an intentional community typically hold a common social, political, religious, or spiritual vision and are often part of the alternative society. They typically also share responsibilities and resources.

Details on this forthcoming…

I’ve found where my New York office will be located (on an “as needed basis”), 30 Water Street (via PSFK and UrbanDaddy). In fact, many of you can probably attest to me pulling out my soapbox to wax on my vision for CurrentBlend, which includes a co-op and co-working space. 30 Water Street comes pretty close to nailing what I’ve been thinking.

The CB space would have a coffee shop and co-working environment with a number of other ideas in the hopper depending on the space. Rather than being just a “personal think tank”, I’m looking for a “collaborative think tank” with people of similar goals pooling resources to accomplish these common goals.

More to come, but I’m looking for cities, buildings, ideas and people who may have an interest, so please contact me to help me get the idea hashed out.

A few of you may know that I’m dipping my toes in the water with creating a company (CurrentBlend). I’ve always had quite a few interests and believe that I can create something successful combining many of those interests. What my plans with CurrentBlend have been to create a quasi-marketing firm focused on getting smaller companies set up digitally to maximize their customer relationships and reach of their product(s). My long-term thought on CurrentBlend also involves co-working space. I’ve had it in my mind for years that owning a coffeeshop is something I’d like to do. With CurrentBlend, I’d envisioned a coffeeshop on the lower level of a two-story building with the CurrentBlend office on the second floor. Somewhere in the building there’d be co-working space for people to share and network to grow their business.

Just so happens Stable Cafe in San Francisco has taken what I’ve been thinking about and put it into practice: creating a cafe and workspace in one.