Post: Why I funded the @shoreditchworks Village Hall

Funding the common good… for my own benefit

I funded the Shoreditch Works Village Hall project on Kickstarter for £750. That's a lot of money given that I live in San Francisco. Why?

I believe in the power of geeks and I see the Village Hall as a place for geeks to swarm… and the more swarming geeks, the more cool people I get to interact with.
I make it over to London 4-6 times a year and want to have an excellent place to hang with awesome geeks when I'm in London.
I want to see how the experiment plays out… we're in a time of radical change where there's a rebalancing of how we interact in cyberspace and how we interact in the real world. I think there's more to the real world than hipster coffee shops and I think the Village Hall represents one model of people interacting in new and wonderful ways. I want to see how that plays out.
I'm a general fan of Shoreditch Works. They've attracted some excellent folks to their workspace and having a different take on space will likely attract more and different excellent folks.
The quality of the folks at Shoreditch Works raises the bar for everyone in London and everyone in the geek community… a stronger concentration of excellent will lead to setting the bar higher for everyone.

Those are my reasons. What are yours? And yes, that assumes that where-ever you live, if you read my blog you care about funding the Village Hall.