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It’s Come To This: Procrastination Nannies Are Now A Thing
By David Zax, Fast Company, April 12, 2017
At a little before 9 a.m. on a Sunday in late March, a small group of people stood sheepishly eyeing each other in a lower Manhattan office building. Their friends, it’s safe to say, were sleeping in, sipping mimosas, and walking their dogs at this hour. Meanwhile, this group of bleary-eyed professionals--most in their twenties and thirties--would be spending the next eight hours hard at work. And they’d each paid $40 to do it.
Today was “Cave Day,” an event series that’s sort of like a pop-up coworking space; rather than sign up for a weeks- or months-long membership, you register for a single day. The price of admission includes two meals, snacks, coffee, and a handful of work-related services doled out by a briskly energetic group of facilitators--whose sole job is (as the program’s website puts it) to help you “GET STUFF DONE” with “NO DISTRACTIONS.”
Getting stuff done with no distractions is a challenge many fail to overcome on their own, especially when it comes to passion projects. There’s no shortage of reasons (or excuses) why--work got really busy, you had to travel for that wedding, your cat got sick, Veep started up again--and before long, you realize you’ve been procrastinating on that one thing you’ve really been meaning to do, whether it’s finally drawing up that business plan or banging out the next chapter of that novel. It’s long put-off solo projects like these that Cave Day’s organizers seem to believe are best tackled together.
“Greetings cave dwellers!” the email confirming my reservation had said. “We’re so excited to cognitively spelunk with you!” The email had also urged me to install the internet-blocking application Freedom (one of the day’s sponsors), and recommended Brain.fm, a service offering “music designed by scientists for focus.” I had followed the email’s instructions to the letter, bringing my water bottle, work materials, and flat shoes.
The lobby elevator doors opened to reveal Molly Sonsteng, one of the day’s organizers, who had a bat-shaped name tag on her black turtleneck and a spelunker’s lamp cheekily strapped to her head. Inviting us to pack into the elevator with her, Sonsteng held out a bowl filled with little strips of white paper and told us to choose one. She asked us to imagine that our strip of paper represented something we didn’t want to bring into the “cave” (which on non–Cave Days is the coworking space ImpactHub), something we feared might stifle the productivity binge that awaited each of us.
“Mine, for example, is Facebook,” said Sonsteng.
“Can it be an emotional thing?” a woman asked.
“It can be anything.”
“Great, okay. I’ll make mine self-doubt,” said the woman.
Upstairs, we were greeted by Jeremy Redleaf, another Cave Day creator, outfitted similarly to Sonsteng. Redleaf gestured to two lit white candles on a blue table. “Step right up, one at a time, drop the paper onto the flame.” And so we did. Goodbye, Facebook. Goodbye, self-doubt.
Next, Redleaf furnished a large lockbox. “Phone check?” One by one, we “cave dwellers” surrendered our iPhones and Androids.
We were officially lashed to the mast of productivity.
A little while later, Redleaf, Sonsteng, and their third collaborator, designer Jake Kahana, convened the entire group of some 40 participants, asking them to go around the circle and share what they’d be working on through the day, and how far along they were. “Molly, short stories, 10%.” “Cesar, blog posts, 15%.” “Lily, wedding planning, 60%.” Then the group broke, a low-tempo remix of “Eye of the Tiger” came over a set of nearby speakers, and everybody made their way to a workstation.
At 9:49, Sonsteng took a microphone and announced: “The first sprint begins in three . . . two . . . one.” Our heads were down. It was time to work.
As Redleaf explained, the idea for Cave Day was borne of desperation. Last November, he turned up in his therapist’s office noting that while he was excited about many creative projects, none of them were “crossing the finish line.” So, countered his therapist, what would it take for him to make real progress on any one of them?
“I think I just need a kind of cave day,” Redleaf blurted out. He needed to turn off his devices, get off the grid--just shut the world out for a full day.
So he did, and it was marvelous. He finally made the progress he craved on a screenplay he was working on. The only problem? “It was lonely, being in this cave by myself,” he recalls. So Redleaf began hosting small gatherings of friends to share in his productivity. They loved it, too. Soon, he looped in Sonsteng and Kahana, theorizing the idea could grow. They hosted a first Cave Day on January 15 this year and called it a success.
Now, more than two months later, they were hosting their second. And I was staring down a blank sheet of paper, trying to make progress on a play I’d barely been able to make time for in many months. I looked to one side: A woman eagerly scribbled in a notebook. I looked to another: A man tapped away on his laptop. I reached reflexively for my phone--then remembered it wasn’t there. I had coffee, I had snacks, I had community, I had time, I had a pen and a paper and my brain. What excuses did I have?
Over the course of the morning, punctuated by occasional stretching and doodling breaks led by Sonsteng, I found myself steadily plugging away at it--and proceeded to make more progress than I had in months.
For Cesar Kuriyama, the founder of a video app called 1 Second Everyday, Cave Day was an excuse to “work on a couple of blog posts I have been putting off literally for years.” As more of a technical thinker than a literary mind, Kuriyama said he felt Cave Day freed him up to try something new and challenging.
Margo Aaron, a marketer, said the experience helped her get comfortable saying no to social invitations from friends, coworkers, and family. Ever since she’d bought her ticket, Aaron had made it known she wouldn’t be available this Sunday, which she said now felt liberating.
And for Michael Berwin, a freelance designer knocking out some pro bono websites for friends, it was the imposed structure of the day that brought him value. “If I were just told to do 45-minute ‘sprints’ alternating with stretching, I probably wouldn’t do it. But to have them actually instigate it is great.”
At 4 p.m., in a rear break room Sonsteng had littered with Legos and snacks, I dropped in on a 15-minute “design thinking session,” as a bearded man named Carl Collins coached a fashion entrepreneur who was wrestling with her website’s workflow issues. Across the workspace, other participants dropped in on 15-minute mindfulness sessions with another coach.
An hour later, Redleaf’s voice came over the loudspeaker as the theme song from Rocky began to play: “Cave dwellers, you have seen the light at the end of the tunnel.” Once more the cave dwellers coalesced into a giant circle to share their experiences. “I did everything on my to-do list!” exclaimed one woman. The room erupted into applause. Then Redleaf declared Cave Day over, and the group dispersed--looking more exhilarated than exhausted--with many decamping to a nearby bar where Cave Day’s organizers had wangled happy hour specials.
“I feel like I’ve actually earned a happy hour drink,” Kuriyama remarked on his way out. He was trying to figure out why the experience had worked so well for him. He could’ve gone to a café, library, office, but said that something about the combination of features--the structure, the food, the camaraderie, the weird sense of ritual--had made it uniquely valuable.
I heard similar reports from other participants, many of whom said they planned to attend the next event, on May 21, for which the ticket price has risen slightly, to $45.
It wasn’t easy to explain, Kuryiama admitted. When he’d told a friend about his plans earlier in the week, he said, “She was like, ‘So you paid . . . to work?’” What else could he say? “I was like, ‘This is true. This is accurate.’” But he’d do it again.
150919 CAVEDU Day 現場有電路板體驗活動
150919 CAVEDU Day 現場有電路板體驗活動
下週六就是 CAVEDU Day囉，針對近來愈來愈多朋友詢問如何自行製作電路板，以便讓專案更小更貼近個人需求（Arduino UNO有時候還是大了點）。因此在 9/19 活動現場我們有舉辦了兩梯 PCB 電路板製作體驗活動，會有專業講師協助您理解原理並操作相關設備，最後可以帶一片小小電路板當作紀念品帶回家喔。
網路報名請點我，並在 “是否要報名現場的PCB電路製作體驗活動” 這個問題勾選”我要參加”就完成報名，期待您大駕光臨。
請提前10分鐘報到，未到者視同棄權。活動開始前10分鐘開放現場報名
第一梯 13:30～14:30 / 第二梯 1500～1600
流程
原理介紹與安全措施 10 min
繪製底圖 10 min
曝光 10 min
顯影 10 min
蝕刻 10 min
相關教學
使用 DesignSpark PCB 自行設計電路板
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150919 CAVEDU Day @華山1914文創園區中四D
150919 CAVEDU Day @華山1914文創園區中四D
2015 下半年的 CAVEDU 發表會，有什麼內容呢？來聽聽看我們這次去東京 Maker Faire 有哪些收穫，以及下半年度的研究與出版計劃，以及許多新課程。現場還有CAVEDU的好朋友們的產品與設備展出，適合親子同遊，期待您闔家光臨！
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主辦單位：CAVEDU教育團隊、翰尼斯企業有限公司
協辦單位：MediaTek Labs、RS Components、Seeed Studio、瞻營全電子股份有限公司、台灣嵌入式暨單晶片系統發展協會、益登科技股份有限公司、ROBOFACTORY、創意應用科技有限公司、利基應用科技股份有限公司、Ark Lab 多旋翼工坊
媒體贊助：《Make》國際中文版、《ROBOCON》國際中文版
地點：華山1914文創園區中四D (米酒作業廠演講廳)，100台北市中正區八德路一段1號
時間：104年9月19日星期六，13:30~16:30
13:…
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2015 暑期實習生計畫 - 歡迎您加入
2015 暑期實習生計畫 – 歡迎您加入
2015 年的 CAVEDU 暑期實習生計畫要開始了，在今年年初招收的實習生已經有作品放在 3/29 CAVEDU Day 與剛結束的 Maker Faire Taipei。從去年開始，我們陸續與 RS Component、TQC+、MediaTek Labs 以及台灣嵌入式暨單晶片系統發展協會有各種合作，換言之，加入 CAVEDU 實習生的話，您就能接觸到這個領域 (包含機電、資訊、maker 與物聯網等等) 的最新資訊與設備喔！
例如今年的DIY segway~
想知道CAVEDU 實習生到底在做什麼嗎？請參考以下連結與影片。
2015 Maker Faire Taipei 展出品項 140827 CAVEDU實習生期末專案報告 2014實習生計畫主頁
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[3/29_C-Day有什麼?]系列之八：CAVEDU 叢書展示
各位好朋友，3/29 希望能與您分享 CAVEDU 在寫書上的小小心得，您可以直接點擊以下圖片來看看CAVEDU 所有出版與翻譯的書籍。
對我們來說，寫書算是一點小小的自我成就，也是對於有興趣投入相關領域的人的回饋。每每在校稿地獄中都會有一種生不如死的感覺，不過當書籍出版之後拿在手上那種真實的重量，卻是讓人感動許久啊~
當天作者/譯者都會在現場(真是厚臉皮啊…)，歡迎大家來看看我們的書喔
另一方面，也要與大家分享 2015 年的出版/翻譯計畫：
出版： 1. [Android手機程式超簡單 App Inventor 入門卷增訂版]（三月） 2. [3D繪圖與電路設計 DesignSpark系列軟體指南] (四月） 3. [LinkIt ONE物聯網實作入門]（五月) 4. [Arduino 習作工坊]（七月) 5. [機器人程式專題特訓班 – LEGO MINDSTORMS…
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2015 CAVEDU實習生計畫 開催！
2015 年的 CAVEDU 實習生計畫要開始了。誠摯歡迎您的加入，也衷心期待您在這邊有扎實的訓練，也能認識更多不同領域卻同樣熱情的朋友們。CAVEDU 2014 的實習生計畫可說是收穫滿滿，變出了好多新東西。最令我們欣慰的是，有許多人想要學些新東西。學生也好，社會人士也好，大家都捲起袖子一起來玩。在 CAVEDU 當實習生有壓力，但更多的是破關後的喜悅！
想知道2014實習生做了些什麼嗎？請參考以下連結。
140827 CAVEDU實習生期末專案報告 / 2014實習生計畫主頁
2015 CAVEDU 實習計畫
時間：2015 年寒假開始至 2015 年結束
對象：對於機器人教學、數位互動設計與簡易電子電路開發有興趣者，其餘學經歷、年齡等皆不限。
我是學生，要如何配合？您可以不用天天出現，但是要跟上進度。重要開會時間或發表日當然要到。
實習內容： 1. …
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[CAVEDU Day 如期舉行] 13:00入場，13:30活動開跑！
各位朋友，您是否也像我們一樣緊張呢？颱風要放假也是放周一，放星期天一點用也沒有啊！更何況周日還是 CAVEDU Day呢。
號外露出，這是一台卡片對打機，我們趕在今天晚上搞定了，明天現場可以玩，歡迎來體驗。明天您一進到 FutureWard 的報到櫃台，就會看到可愛的Raspberry Pi 機器人會和您打招呼喔
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