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Appearing Productive In A Coworking Space

Dominic Medford
3 min readMay 15, 2024

Photo by Shridhar Gupta on Unsplash

I am quite new to the culture of co-working spaces.

They present an intriguing set of human dynamics that heralded back to self-directed study time in my high school library.

What do I mean by that exactly?

Well, I am not sure about your high school experience so I will tell you a little about mine and what it entailed:

  • A large library filled with rows of bookshelves with desk spaces and roundtables for study
  • Study periods would be a part of senior students' timetables
  • During this period we had to report to the library
  • We were told to choose a space and stay there and work because we were being given the “luxury” of having a study period
  • During this time some would be diligently working, others would be sneakily checking their phones and others would be outright talking and disrupting.
  • All while the librarian and an assigned study period teacher would roam the space doing behaviour management and causing a sense of anxiety for potentially being caught out slacking

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Dominic Medford
Dominic Medford

Written by Dominic Medford

Law and Political Sciences student in Australia who dabbles in writing about his thought processes in his spare time with the hope that it can be insightful.

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