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Third places and neighborhood entrepreneurship (2024)

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118 points WasimBhai | 2 comments | 25 Jun 25 12:10 UTC | HN request time: 0.422s | source
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anovikov ◴[25 Jun 25 12:32 UTC] No.44376551[source]▶
I really can't imagine how it could probably ever work. So one goes into Starbucks and start bugging other random people sitting there (with whatever topic, not just pushing their "elevator pitch" onto them)? If that happened people will start avoiding them just like they avoid places frequented by bums or beggars. No one wants that. People won't go where it is possible.
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1. worldsayshi ◴[25 Jun 25 12:59 UTC] No.44376806[source]▶
I think a more likely scenario is that you schedule meetups with people that have similar interests.
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2. ghaff ◴[25 Jun 25 13:06 UTC] No.44376865[source]▶
Yeah. If I'm going to meetup with someone outside of a conference room or whatever (probably associated with some other event), it will probably be a coffeeshop. But I'm not going to be inclined to strike up a bunch of random conversations at one.