Office coffee
Writing for BBC Worklife, Bryan Lufkin espouses on Why you’re more creative in coffee shops.
If we’re already working in isolation at home, why do we miss working with our heads similarly down in a public setting? Some of the most successful people in history have done their best work in coffee shops. Pablo Picasso, JK Rowling, Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, Bob Dylan – whether they’re painters, singer-songwriters, philosophers or writers, people across nations and centuries have tapped into their creativity working away at a table in a café. Of course, Covid-19 has put the kibosh on lingering for hours in cozy rooms packed with people sipping lattes.
Bryan Lufkin, Why you’re more creative in coffee shops, BBC Worklife
Why work feels easier in a cafe than at home.
He makes it sound like this is a bad thing. It isn't, at least not for those of us who visit a coffee shop as part of a general excursion, only to have nowhere to sit thanks to the selfish bastards—who, realistically, are unlikely to match the lofty successes of Picasso et al.—prolongedly nursing their lattes over a laptop and free wifi. They might miss working in coffee shops, but I don't miss them.
Good riddance to the coffee shop office. Hopefully, it'll free up space for casual customers, the way it should be. But we didn't really need COVID-19 to reach this utopia; switching off the free wifi would've been quicker and simpler.