Second Extreme Productivity Seminar

Ever since we launched the Office 2.0 Conference, summer months have been pretty busy for my wife and I. But this year is particularly interesting. Intalio is growing very fast now (the team doubled over the past six months, and is expected to double again over the next six months), the first Monolab|Workspace was setup in a record time, and the 2008 edition of the Office 2.0 Conference is generating a level of interest never seen before. Unfortunately, days only have 24 hours, and it does not look like it’s going to change anytime soon. Only option: do more with less, and this is why we’re continuously working to improve our personal productivity system, adding new tools, and streamlining workflows. If you want to learn more about them, I invite you to join us for the second Extreme Productivity Seminar. [Continue…]

David Allen at the Office 2.0 Conference

Three years ago, I read David Allen’s Getting Things Done seminal book on personal productivity. Finding ways to implement David’s extremely powerful yet deceptively simple workflow quickly became an obsession, and one of the primary motivations for developing the Office 2.0 concept. I later implemented my own version of David’s framework through the Extreme Productivity System, but it’s only when I met David and his team earlier this year that I really understood what the GTD was all about: it’s a way of life that goes beyond productivity, and can have a profound impact on one’s short time with the rest of us. Having made this discovery, all I wanted to do next was to share it with others. Unfortunately, David’s busy agenda and relatively small home office in Ojai, CA would make it difficult for my 3,000 regular readers to benefit from the very same experience. But I have some great news today: you will soon get a chance to meet David Allen in person, for he generously offered to open the upcoming Office 2.0 Conference with me. [Continue…]

Monolab|Design Trunk

Four years ago, I was technically homeless. While working for Intalio, I was traveling so much (about 3 weeks every month) that I decided to leave my apartment, sell most of my belongings, and live in hotels. Whenever I would come back from a trip, I would crash at the Hilton Garden San Mateo during the week, and the W San Francisco on week ends. I did that for about 7 months, then decided that I needed a place to store my most valuable possessions, including some books and CDs. This is when the Monolab|Design Trunk was born. Then, Apple released the first aluminum-made PowerMac, and the project went out of control… [Continue…]

Monolab|Workspace Vancouver

Our Palo Alto building’s final inspection has been scheduled for Tuesday, July 29, after which we will be in a position to formally accept memberships. In the meantime, we received a request for 20 workstations in Vancouver, BC, and are considering moving this location up from Phase II to Phase I (details here). [Continue…]

Where is the Redux Model 1?

Earlier this week, Michael Arrington created quite a flurry of interest by announcing the TechCrunch Web Tablet. Of course, any resemblance with the Redux Model 1 is purely coincidental. Nevertheless, Michael and his team might learn a couple of things from our own experiment, started ten months ago. [Continue…]

Partnership with Polycom

I am pleased to report that Monolab|Workspace just established a partnership with Polycom. Through this partnership, each workspace will be equipped with a fantastic Polycom HDX Media Center video conferencing system. The first system will be installed at the Monolab|Workspace Palo Alto, and should be ready to use at the launch party, to take place on July 14, 2008 (Bastille Day). Polycom will also join the upcoming Office 2.0 Conference as a Gold Sponsor. [Continue…]

Monocle’s Top 25 Liveable Cities

I just arrived in Singapore for a two-day trip in the eponymous city, to be followed by Bangkok, Thailand. The 17 hours United Airlines flight with connection in Narita gave me the opportunity to pour through Monocle’s issue 15, volume 02, and its fantastic list of Top 25 Liveable Cities. Interestingly enough, the Phase I & II development plan for Monolab|Workspace (16 locations) includes 7 of Monocle’s favorite destinations. Phase III & IV will extend the list to 64 locations, and every single one of them is on Monocle’s list (extended with 5 challengers). [Continue…]

Independence Day

On this glorious day, May is regaining her independence (from regular office work) by incorporating Monolab|Workspace, Inc., the company that will develop our workspace concept. We just received some paperwork from our lawyers (Fenwick & West), and are jumping head first into this new venture. Pretty exciting… [Continue…]

Office 2.0 Conference 2008 Registration

The Office 2.0 Conference 2008 is just two months away, and it’s time for us to start working on it again. In pure IT|Redux fashion, the whole event will again be organized in 9 short weeks, with no staff, and in a paperless manner. Granted, we have two editions under our belt, and we pretty much know what works and what does not. So let’s do it again, and learn as much as we can along the way. [Continue…]