Comments on: “Excuse me, can you keep it down?” http://www.ryanholiday.net/excuse-me-can-you-keep-it-down/ Meditations on strategy and life Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:06:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ryan Holiday http://www.ryanholiday.net/excuse-me-can-you-keep-it-down/#comment-8237 Ryan Holiday Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:45:10 +0000 http://dev.ryanholiday.net/excuse-me-can-you-keep-it-down/#comment-8237 Personally, I like to read inside and I think I've been to the college library once in two years. The state of coffee shops across America is horrific. I find that Carl Jr's is more accommodating to those who want quiet than your average Starbucks. Denny's is a great place too. Anyways, I like to write and read away from home. Personally, I like to read inside and I think I’ve been to the college library once in two years. The state of coffee shops across America is horrific. I find that Carl Jr’s is more accommodating to those who want quiet than your average Starbucks. Denny’s is a great place too.

Anyways, I like to write and read away from home.

]]> By: Robert http://www.ryanholiday.net/excuse-me-can-you-keep-it-down/#comment-8236 Robert Wed, 06 Jun 2007 22:16:05 +0000 http://dev.ryanholiday.net/excuse-me-can-you-keep-it-down/#comment-8236 A quick fix solution would be location and timing. With talking you seem to have two extremes ether a quite zone or talk. This tends to be obvious when you go to a library that offers both options, usually the first floor allows people to talk and work on group project. It is like a jungle in there with all different sounds coming from all different directions, while the upper floors where the quite zone exist, you can hear a pin drop. With location I tend to notice a lot of coffee shops with attachment to a book store tend to have a higher quality of customers who tend to be more respectful of others. Timing is also very important, as with the amount of customers in the shop tend to correlate with the loudness. The best place I have found by my location happens to be a small Books & Books store (compared to a Barnes and Nobles) that has coffee shop in the middle of the store. Their book selection is very limited, but they focus on a niche market and are very consumer orientate with their approach. They invite authors frequently and I have seen turn out of 30-50 people depending on the popularity of the author. While we are talking about third place concept, I am curious as to way you find yourself dependent on being inside of a coffee shop? A couple of suggestion would be park, beach, library, and university/college. A quick fix solution would be location and timing. With talking you seem to have two extremes ether a quite zone or talk. This tends to be obvious when you go to a library that offers both options, usually the first floor allows people to talk and work on group project. It is like a jungle in there with all different sounds coming from all different directions, while the upper floors where the quite zone exist, you can hear a pin drop. With location I tend to notice a lot of coffee shops with attachment to a book store tend to have a higher quality of customers who tend to be more respectful of others. Timing is also very important, as with the amount of customers in the shop tend to correlate with the loudness.

The best place I have found by my location happens to be a small Books & Books store (compared to a Barnes and Nobles) that has coffee shop in the middle of the store. Their book selection is very limited, but they focus on a niche market and are very consumer orientate with their approach. They invite authors frequently and I have seen turn out of 30-50 people depending on the popularity of the author.

While we are talking about third place concept, I am curious as to way you find yourself dependent on being inside of a coffee shop? A couple of suggestion would be park, beach, library, and university/college.

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