SILICON VALLEY AUTHOR PO BRONSON ON 'THE CUBICLE MAN' AND OF COURSE, CUBICLES....more cubicle-mania (see post above for what started this craziness).
In this blogger's search for stories about the current Netscape and Hostway viral campaigns on cubicles I came across this amusing story by Silicon Valley author/pundit Po Bronson on what else --cubicles, of course. It appears to be excerpted from a Wired article/post from January, 1998 and I found it at
By Po BronsonIs The Revolution Over?
Report from Ground Zero: Silicon Valley
............ The real work is done in silence, sitting in cubicles, staring at screens. Everyone is attempting to make things that have not existed before. And though we could argue till dawn about the utility or significance of what they're creating, I believe that to create and risk failing is the essence of feeling alive - that in that moment of creation they shake off their anonymity and feel relevant to the sweep of the world.......... Po Bronson on Silicon Valley
Link to original post:http://www.wired.com/wired/6.01/bronson.html Link to where I found it first online Po Bronson on Silicon Valley at the site of j-bradford-delong.net Brad DeLong's Home Page
PO BRONSON ON THE CUBICLE GUY:(as if the first post was not enough, I then find a link on the same site to an actual story about "a cubicle guy". Here's an excerpt from that tale too:
".....We get talking about how a firm shuts down, and a venture capitalist joins the conversation, and he tells me about the Cubicle Guy.
"Not cubicles," the Cubicle Guy insists, when I sit down in his office. "Panel systems."
The Cubicle Guy traffics in used partitions. He buys them dirt cheap from companies going under or moving and resells them to new companies, or growing ones. He profits from the churn. His business is booming. He wears a beeper because at any time he might be needed somewhere on the Peninsula to make a bid.
"I'm not the only guy reselling panel systems. It's like ambulance chasing; the first lawyer on the scene gets the business. I watch the newspaper for layoffs. I watch stock prices for drops - anyone who might soon downsize. I talk to Realtors." So there is not only one Cubicle Guy in Silicon Valley, there is tooth-and-nail competition among several. That's how evolved it's become........"Po Bronson on Silicon Valley WHO IS THIS GUY (see links below) and portrait from SALON:
To see what Bronson's up to now link to:What Should I Do With My Life? by Po Bronson and for an online chat cached by ABC go to What Should I Do With My Life? by Po Bronson PERFECT FOR THIS HOLIDAY WEEKEND IF YOU ARE SUFFERING FROM CUBICLE-ITIS OR ANY OTHER MALADY.....maybe spring fever?
Po Bronson 1997?
To see a better version of the above thumnail go to: www.ewhite.com/illo/ html/1997/probronson.html
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