Coworkies team just came back from the Polish coworking conference and I thought it would be good to put down some notes in the form of a blog post while things are still fresh in my mind. So here we go…

Coworking Now conference in Gdansk was an interesting experience. I really started the journey there with no expectations and to be honest I really didn't know much about the Polish coworking scene up until that moment. Going there was quite easy, we just had to hop on a train from Berlin, change once and in six hours we…

So, let’s get it clear from the beginning, this is not a how we made it on ProductHunt, or how we failed, or how much visitors and signups we got. It is also not a story about a mysterious investor who waited for us at the Berlin airport as we came back from our #Nordics coworking tour, last night.

This is more of a story about what does participating on ProductHunt meant for us, a small team of 3 that started in January of 2016 to develop a concept of a platform to connect professionals between different coworking spaces, glocally…

Can you imagine the future, what life will be and how it will mold work? I constantly find myself to ride the wave of thought in that direction. We live in a coherent world, and change is persistent, continuous, touching every aspect of our lives.

Work is no stranger to change. From disappearing jobs to new ones, created just in the last few years, we all see how work is being reshaped by new technologies.

What I am mostly interested in, however, is how we do the work, what work we do, and who we do it with. …

“Others inspire us, information feeds us, practice improves our performance, but we need quiet time to figure things out, to emerge with new discoveries, to unearth original answers.” Ester Buchholz

“Startup, startup, startup!”, a friend of mine keeps blurbing to me from time to time when we meet. He is one of the best robotic surgeons at da Vinci Surgical System in Europe. “Everything is startup these days”, he said to me, “this haunts me all the time, the startup hype”.

Most of my friends have normal jobs, most of them are not as young, or as adventurous for that…

Marcel Schobee gave this interview for the Rockajoint.com blog, sharing insight on the challenges and opportunities of working in collaborative creative projects based on his experience working at M-box — a Berlin-based agency for multimedia installations, motion design & animation, in Monkeymen — a collective of motion designers / directors, and collaborating in the Schmiede Hallein, a ten-day multimedia art festival where people get together to share, collaborate and prototype their creative ideas.

For more of Marcel Schobel’s work and collaborations please visit:

Portfolio http://herrschobel.at/
MONKEYMEN http://monkeymen.tv/
M-box http://www.m-box.de/en/
Schmiede Festival http://schmiede.ca/