Cultural shock: the 0–1 dilemma
The cornerstone problem😕 that Coliving Club is solving is something we call the traveler’s 0–1 dilemma.
Here is how it works.
Imagine your a digital nomad roaming around the world living 2–3 months in a different city.✊
Every time you arrive to the new city your local cultural experience level resets to 0. 🙄 As a result you try to adapt by learning the information about your new environment. You 👀 watch, 👉 touch, 🙄 hear, 🤓 analyze and try.
Your primary response is to get back to the comfort zone where your at least level 1.
☝️Now, the type of your accommodation plays an almost deciding role in the quality of the experience that you’re going to obtain within the set amount of ⏱ time.
Let’s go 🚶through couple of existing types of accommodations currently present on the market:
Hotel
You get a 🔑 private room. It’s comfy and secure but your level of community integration is down to 0 😩. And that’s fine, hotels are made for privacy, right?
Plus people don’t really stay for months in the hotels since the circa mid 20th century. 🤠
Hostel
True revolution in the traveling accessibility.✊ Cheap place to stay with bunch of travelers🚶🌍 coming from all over the world. As a Digital Nomad I (Kirill) 😍 fell in love with the Hostels the moment I learned about them.
So, the community level is present.😁 Yet, not focused.😔 True peer2peer collaboration is really productive when the peers share a set of productivity values. 😄 So I couldn’t ever really co-work and collaborate in the Hostels.
The choice of roommates is random in the Hostel scenario.
Airbnb
The rock star solution! Love it. 🤙 Cheaper than hotels and you live in a more private space than in the Hotel. And there is even usually a host to introduce you to the new environment and eliminate some of this Cultural Shock. Or at least it’s advertised as so. The hosts don’t usually have the time to spend with you every day. 😒
And, you can’t really talk with the Host for 2 months straight. Especially if your set of goals and productive values is different.
Coliving
Hostel + Airbnb + like-minded Community. This formula set the foundation for the Coliving idea for us. This and the idea of one membership that could be used to live anywhere in the world.
So, what do I mean by the like-minded Community? Coliving Club, for example, together with Hack’n’Sleep and Startup Launchpad have been focusing only on the digital nomad population: developers, freelancers, startups, tech students.
Thus, the communication on locations was centered around staying productive,😀 sharing industry knowledge and strategic networking.✌️ People were communicating about the new events, startups, latest news and concept, bouncing ideas back and forth day and night. Seamless collaboration. 👋
It looked like a hostel, yet something felt different. If you’d spend at least a day inside you would feel this spirit of innovation in the air.
And this is what we call solving the Cultural Shock problem: connect the wanderers to the right community and guide their adaptation process along the way. ✅
Coliving Club attempts to provide its members the 1–2 experience by accelerating the 0–1 dilemma with the community support and the community leaders running it.
Now to do that right we need a 💯 % focus on community and delegate the business logistics to the professionals — machines.
Hence our vision of Coliving is a fully automated location running the business on the back end so the hosts and the community leaders can focus on the human business — communication, collaboration, innovation.
-K.✌️
