As someone who doesn’t normally caffeinate to start my day, it is funny that the coffee shop has become my new office. In fact I had one day with four meetings in two different coffee shops. Today it was only two meetings in two coffee shops (same chain different suburbs). I learned my lesson from the first time though and switched to decaffeinated beverages. Otherwise I risk appearing as a chipmunk on crack (hello shakes). Apparently, I’m sensitive to caffeine.
Coffee shops are such great places to meet with people without making a production out of it. And you start to run into people you know if you do enough of it. Ad hoc networking at its finest. I wonder what the record is for most coffee shop visits in one day and how many different shops/chains? I think coffee shops must be doing pretty well in this environment because I am not alone in my routine. They are full of folks working on laptops and meeting with people.
I won’t be giving up my home office though, having my dog sleeping under my desk just can’t be beat.
