A NOTE ABOUT COVID-19 PRECAUTIONS

OUTLINED BELOW ARE MEASURES REVIVAL
IS TAKING TO PREVENT THE SPREAD OF COVID-19

We are committed to doing our part; we will continue to say agile and proactive with this
rapidly evolving news. Updates will be posted to this page.

Our goal is to help our members and community feel calm and cared for during this
novel experience.

Below are the precautionary measures put into place on or before May 1.

GOING VIRTUAL TO LIMIT ONSITE HEADCOUNT.
Revival remains open to members via their access cards, but the Front Doors are
closed to limit guest traffic. Members are encouraged to proactively moved to virtual meetings and move event series to a webinar format.

Our Community Management team is working virtually and are on-site for deep cleans as needed; we are readily available to help members via this new format. Tours can also be done virtually or via a call. Tours can also be done in-person however a mask will be required to enter our workspace.

INCREASED CLEANING AND IN-OFFICE CLEANINGS
We have been disinfecting and cleaning the workspace at an increased frequency. This includes disinfecting shared spaces and handles, private offices, and outdoor terrace furniture.

UPDATED MEMBERS ABOUT THE CDC GUIDELINES.
Members received the CDC guidelines about healthy habits. As you know,
these guidelines are as follows:

• Frequently wash hands for 20-seconds using the Wash-Your-Hands best-
  practices.

• Stay home if you feel sick or traveled to areas of concern. Call your doctor to let
  her/him know of symptoms and travel history.

•  Do not shake hands. A wave or smile is just as nice. Use hand sanitizer before
  and after using a shared space or handles/touchscreen.

  • The sanitizer must have 60% alcohol to be effective.

  • Sanitizer is good for quick cleaning, but hand washing is the most effective way to stay healthy.

• Exercise germ-free habits. This means avoid touching your eyes, nose, or mouth with unwashed hands. Cover your cough or sneeze with a tissue or sleeve.

• Do not come to Workville if you or anyone in your household has a fever or flu-like symptoms.

READILY AVAILABLE PURELL DISPENSERS
Purell and hand sanitizer stations have been placed throughout the shared spaces. More stations continue to be added.

As stated, these precautions have helped us to limit headcount onsite. While Revival is still accessible to members via access card; any team coming in is rotating days onsite. Social distancing is being enforced.

We are thankful for the collective effort with our members.
We hope that our guidelines and increased cleanings help our members and
community feel a little calmer and cared for. We will continue to do our part as this novel COVID-19 situation evolves.

What's A HotDesk Anyway?!

REVIVAL COWORKING COMMUNITY

Revival is a collaborative workspace designed for entrepreneurs, creatives + innovators.
We are a members club and coworking space in the heart of Downtown College Park.

What is a Hot Desk?

With hot desking, workers take whatever desk is available, instead of having one assigned space.

Benefits?

One of the biggest is cost. Hot desking helps cut down unnecessary real estate expenses by eliminating the waste of excess space.

It’s useful for organizations where you spend a lot of their time traveling, or spend part of the week working remotely.

Another benefit is that hot desking may let workers be near colleagues they would not see otherwise. This strengthens relationships, promotes better teamwork, and improves inter-departmental rapport.

One Size Doesn’t Fit All

We offer flexible, affordable & welcoming dedicated desk membership in the Tri-cities. The Tri-Cities area in Atlanta, which includes College Park, East Point, and Hapeville, is near the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.

There are never surprises on your bill. Revival is a family run, locally owned company experienced in serving businesses.

Cleaning

Having a mix of different people use the same space leads to a large number of germs everywhere Our check-in system limits the number of people who can be in our coworking space at one time.

We professionally deep clean and sanitize our space at least once per day. You’ll find anti-bacterial wipes stationed within 10ft of you anywhere you are in our shared working space. We ask that each human sanitize their space before and after use.

BYOT (Bring Your Own Technology)

With a gig-speed internet connection Revival has the fastest internet cafe and coworking space in College Park. Feel free to plug in as many devices as you need to keep you going. That means no more lagging Zoom calls.

A Central Printer

But you don’t have to bring your own printer. We’ll make sure you have plenty of paper and enough ink to print what you need, when you need, 24/7. (Restrictions may apply)

The Akrasia Effect: Why We Make Plans but Don't Follow Through

Humans are prolific procrastinators. It’s easy to make plans and throw dates on your calendar, and yet it’s practically inevitable that you’ll let some deadlines fly by with reckless abandon. Our brains simply prefer instant rewards to long-term payoffs. Given this tendency, we often have to resort to crazy strategies to get things done.

This post originally appeared on James Clear’s blog.

By the summer of 1830, Victor Hugo was facing an impossible deadline. Twelve months earlier, the famous French author had made an agreement with his publisher that he would write a new book titled, The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Instead of writing the book, Hugo spent the next year pursuing other projects, entertaining guests, and delaying his work on the text. Hugo’s publisher had become frustrated by his repeated procrastination and responded by setting a formidable deadline. The publisher demanded that Hugo finish the book by February of 1831—less than six months away.

Hugo developed a plan to beat his procrastination. He collected all of his clothes, removed them from his chambers, and locked them away. He was left with nothing to wear except a large shawl. Lacking any suitable clothing to go outdoors, Hugo was no longer tempted to leave the house and get distracted. Staying inside and writing was his only option. 

The strategy worked. Hugo remained in his study each day and wrote furiously during the fall and winter of 1830. The Hunchback of Notre Dame was published two weeks early on January 14, 1831.

The Ancient Problem of Akrasia

Human beings have been procrastinating for centuries. Even prolific artists like Victor Hugo are not immune to the distractions of daily life. The problem is so timeless, in fact, that ancient Greek philosophers like Socrates and Aristotle developed a word to describe this type of behavior: Akrasia.

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Akrasia is the state of acting against your better judgment. It is when you do one thing even though you know you should do something else. Loosely translated, you could say that akrasia is procrastination or a lack of self-control. Akrasia is what prevents you from following through on what you set out to do.

Why would Victor Hugo commit to writing a book and then put it off for over a year? Why do we make plans, set deadlines, and commit to goals, but then fail to follow through on them?

Why We Make Plans, But Don’t Take Action

One explanation for why akrasia rules our lives and procrastination pulls us in has to do with a behavioral economics term called “time inconsistency.” Time inconsistency refers to the tendency of the human brain to value immediate rewards more highly than future rewards.

When you make plans for yourself—like setting a goal to lose weight or write a book or learn a language—you are actually making plans for your future self. You are envisioning what you want your life to be like in the future and when you think about the future it is easy for your brain to see the value in taking actions with long-term benefits.

When the time comes to make a decision, however, you are no longer making a choice for your future self. Now you are in the moment and your brain is thinking about the present self. And researchers have discovered that the present self really likes instant gratification, not long-term payoff. This is one reason why you might go to bed feeling motivated to make a change in your life, but when you wake up you find yourself falling into old patterns. Your brain values long-term benefits when they are in the future, but it values immediate gratification when it comes to the present moment.

This is one reason why the ability to delay gratification is such a great predictor of success in life. Understanding how to resist the pull of instant gratification—at least occasionally, if not consistently—can help you bridge the gap between where you are and where you want to be.

The Akrasia Antidote: 3 Ways to Beat Procrastination

Here are three ways to overcome akrasia, beat procrastination, and follow through on what you set out to do.

Strategy 1: Design Your Future Actions

When Victor Hugo locked his clothes away so he could focus on writing, he was creating what psychologists refer to as a “commitment device.” Commitment devices are strategies that help improve your behavior by either increasing the obstacles or costs of bad behaviors or reducing the effort required for good behaviors.

You can curb your future eating habits by purchasing food in individual packages rather than in the bulk size. You can stop wasting time on your phone by deleting games or social media apps. You can reduce the likelihood of mindless channel surfing by hiding your TV in a closet and only taking it out on big game days. You can voluntarily ask to be added to the banned list at casinos and online gambling sites to prevent future gambling sprees. You can build an emergency fund by setting up an automatic transfer of funds to your savings account. These are commitment devices.

The circumstances differ, but the message is the same: commitment devices can help you design your future actions. Find ways to automate your behavior beforehand rather than relying on willpower in the moment. Be the architect of your future actions, not the victim of them. 

Strategy 2: Reduce the Friction of Starting

The guilt and frustration of procrastinating is usually worse than the pain of doing the work. In the words of Eliezer Yudkowsky, “On a moment-to-moment basis, being in the middle of doing the work is usually less painful than being in the middle of procrastinating.”

So why do we still procrastinate? Because it’s not being in the work that is hard, it’sstarting the work. The friction that prevents us from taking action is usually centered around starting the behavior. Once you begin, it’s often less painful to do the work. This is why it is often more important to build the habit of getting started when you’re beginning a new behavior than it is to worry about whether or not you are successful at the new habit.

You have to constantly reduce the size of your habits. Put all of your effort and energy into building a ritual and make it as easy as possible to get started. Don’t worry about the results until you’ve mastered the art of showing up.

Strategy 3: Utilize Implementation Intentions

An implementation intention is when you state your intention to implement a particular behavior at a specific time in the future. For example, “I will exercise for at least 30 minutes on [DATE] in [PLACE] at [TIME].”

There are hundreds of successful studies showing how implementation intentions positively impact everything from exercise habits to flu shots. In the flu shot study, researchers looked at a group of 3,272 employees at a Midwestern company and found that employees who wrote down the specific date and time they planned to get their flu shot were significantly more likely to follow through weeks later. 

It seems simple to say that scheduling things ahead of time can make a difference, but as I have covered previously, implementation intentions can make you 2x to 3x more likely to perform an action in the future.

Fighting Akrasia

Our brains prefers instant rewards to long-term payoffs. It’s simply a consequence of how our minds work. Given this tendency, we often have to resort to crazy strategies to get things done—like Victor Hugo locking up all of his clothes so he could write a book. But I believe it is worth it to spend time building these commitment devices if your goals are important to you.

Aristotle coined the term enkrateia as the antonym of akrasia. While akrasiarefers to our tendency to fall victim to procrastination, enkrateia means to be “in power over oneself.” Designing your future actions, reducing the friction of starting good behaviors, and using implementation intentions are simple steps that you can take to make it easier to live a life of enkrateia rather than one of akrasia.

Yes, Introverts Love to Co-work

All I need is quiet space and fast internet?’

Orginally From Creative Density in Lone Park, Denver

While giving a tour last week to a quiet guy, he mentioned that he lives in the neighborhood but is interested in getting out of the house.  He was familiar with the coworking concept and had checked out our website, so we began the tour.  I started the tour in the communal side of Creative Density, where music is usually playing and conversations are taking place.  He let me know that he wants to work in a quieter space, I said ‘No Worries” and we headed into the quieter room, the next stop of the tour.  

He was an introvert and didn’t want a lot of activity but he wanted to be around people and get out of the house. I explained to him that we have a variety of awesome coworkers and that many are just like him. They have made Creative Density their happy community, even without talking to someone every 10 minutes.

It’s important to remember that coworking is a spectrum of spaces with different environments, cultures, and people. According to studies, it’s believed that introverts are around 40% of people.  Unfortunately, the image of coworking spaces as wildly active places with constant conversation and ping-pong, can be intimidating & off-putting to these introverts. With about 50 members at Creative Density in Uptown, typically there are around 20 individuals happily coworking here each day.

Introverts may like their quiet time, but they still want to be a part of a community, attend events and meet awesome people.

How introverts cowork:

• Work in quiet rooms for moments of solitude.

• Many coworking spaces have a dedicated room or portioned off area without music and fewer conversations.

• Use Headphones.  

• Headphones do two things 1) Let you listen to some pretty sweet jams 2) Signal to others not to bother you. 

• You don’t have to do everything. 

• Coworking is a community workspace with several events happening each week but it’s not essential to partake in every activity, participating in a few events per month can be rewarding.

• Move Around.

• While you work, move around the spaces in many different hot desking areas. Try out a different spot each week. It’s an easy way to meet new people, but still control your work environment.

Coworking is an open community with introverts, extroverts, and dozens of people that swing between them. Try out different spaces, different rooms, and happy coworking.

The Day I Became A Millionaire

By DHH

https://m.signalvnoise.com/author/dhh/

Founder of Basecamp

I grew up lower-middle class on the outskirts of Copenhagen. Anywhere outside of Scandinavia, the socioeconomic label would probably have been ‘poor’, but Danish safety nets and support systems did their best to suspend the facts and offer better.

Me in the middle in home-made clothing to go with home-made ninja weapons… oh yeah!

But don’t worry: This isn’t a rags-to-riches story. I loathe the I-did-it-all-by-myself heroic myth mongering. I got where I am thanks to government-sponsored maternity leave, child care, health care, education, and even cash assistance. I grew up in housing provided by AAB, a union-founded affordable housing association. And my mother was a damn magician at making impossible ends meet without belaboring her tricks (like biking an extra 15 minutes to find the lowest price on milk).

I took two important lessons away from this upbringing. First, as long as your basic needs are met, the quality of your lived experience is only vaguely related to the trappings of material success. While it wasn’t all roses and butter cookies, I had a great childhood. Second, I wouldn’t learn to appreciate the truth of the first lesson until I saw the other side of the golden fence. More on that in a bit.

Commodore 64: One of the original crazy dreams

I remember playing the “What would you do if you won a million kroner?” game with my brother many times. We could spend eons making fantasy purchases. Comparing and contrasting choices and possibilities. Could you imagine not having to save up a whole year to buy a Commodore 64? Or to fly away on a foreign-country vacation every year? Or to — let’s go crazy here — buy a car for the family? (The sky setting those limits was barely higher than the Eiffel tower).

The underlying premise to these imaginary indulgences was how much better life would be if we were free from the constraints of our humble weekly allowance. Man, everything would just be so great if only I could…

As I grew older, this game was always at the back of my mind. There were always more things I wanted to do than money to buy them. It wasn’t that working towards certain material goals was really a chore or a struggle. My good fortune of being born in Denmark provided for the basics, and selling pirate software CDs through my Elite BBS contacts provided some modest splendor.

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But there’s always an appetite for more, and a belief that just a little extra was going to be the tipping point for eternal bliss. Dreaming of an Amiga 1200, making it happen, and then thinking that, oh, what I really needed was that Amiga 4000. Somehow the repeated treadmill never seemed to bare its underlying truth, no matter how many times I took it for a run.

Then in 2006, it suddenly happened from one day to the next. Jeff Bezos had taken an interest in Basecamp, and Jason and I each sold him a minority, no-control stake of our share of the company for a few million dollars each (Basecamp had been self-funded and profitable from the start, so didn’t need any capital for the venture). I was a millionaire!

I remember the weeks leading up to that day when the numbers in my checking account suddenly swelled dramatically. They were anxious. I stood at the doorsteps of The Dream. A lifetime of expectations about how totally, utterly awesome it would be to be a millionaire. I’d be able to buy all the computers and cameras I ever wanted and any car I desired!

One of the other underlying pillars of this dream was the concept of Never Having To Work Again. Like somehow an eternity of leisure was going to provide the existential bliss I had been longing for all along. I thought about that a lot. I did all the math: Hey, if I stuff all the money in a prudent mix of stock and bonds, I should be able to live a comfortable, if not extravagant, lifestyle until the end of my days without lifting another finger.

The euphoria I felt when it was finally real lasted the rest of that day. The inner smile remained super wide for at least the rest of the week.

Then a mild crisis of faith ensued. Is this it? Why isn’t the world any different now? *shake, shake* Is this thing even working!?

Now don’t get me wrong, there is an enduring and very real satisfaction and comfort in never having to look at the price of a meal in a restaurant again (even though you still do). It’s just that like a good movie that’s been hyped to the hills, it’s almost impossible not to be let down when you finally see it. Expectations, not outcomes, govern the happiness of your perceived reality.

For the first few months, I barely touched any of the money. Sure, I bought a big screen TV and more DVD boxsets than I could hope to consume, but it wasn’t like I couldn’t have done that anyway. It wasn’t until near the end of that year I finally drew down on the account of cliched purchases: A yellow Lamborghini! While all very nice, very wonderful, it didn’t, as we say, really move the needle of deep satisfaction.

Common fallacy of wealth: “I’ve never seen an unhappy person driving a Lamborghini”

What kept moving the needle, though, was programming Ruby, building Basecamp, writing for Signal v Noise, taking pictures, and enjoying all the same avenues of learning and entertainment my already privileged lifestyle had afforded me for years in advance.

If anything, I began to appreciate even more intently that flow and tranquility were the true sources of happiness for me all along. It was like I had pulled back the curtain on that millionaire’s dream and found, to my surprise, that most of the things on the other side were things I already had. Equal parts shock and awe, but ultimately deeply reassuring.

Chiefly because I couldn’t lose those things. Barring any grand calamity, I could afford to fall off the puffy pink cloud of cash, and I’d land where I started. Back in that small 450 sq feet apartment in Copenhagen. My interests and curiosity intact. My passions as fit as ever. I traveled across a broad swath of the first world spectrum of wealth, and both ends were not only livable, but enjoyable. That was a revelation.

It’s funny, though, because I remember rich people trying to tell me this before I was rich. Not necessarily in person, but through clever or modest-profound quotes and interviews. And I remember always thinking “yeah, that’s easy for you to say now — you got yours”. It’s not lost on me that most people reading this will probably feel the same. It’s just the natural, instinctual reaction.

Primarily because I think it’s scary to think This Is It. This is what I got. Changing the numbers on my bank account or the size of TV or the make of the car in the garage or the zip code isn’t going to complete me. I have to figure that shit out on my own.

Again, I get that even having the pretext to contemplate such disillusion is an incredible privilege, beyond sympathy or even empathy of many in this world. I never went hungry to bed. I never feared getting shot. I never worried whether the end of my future prospects would be as a store clerk working minimum wage. The Danish experience shielded me from all those concerns of basic safety and comfort. So I won’t even pretend to know that struggle.

I can only speak to the experience I did have. The one I do share with millions of people who have the basics taken care of, but who still yearn for the treasure perceived to be behind the curtain. For those who might contemplate giving up all manners of integrity, dignity, or even humanity to pull it back.

We humans acclimate to our surroundings incredibly quickly. The buzz is not going to last. Until you realize the next rung of the ladder isn’t where salvation hides, the siren song will keep playing.

The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive — Coco Chanel

While the quote above rings true, I’d add that the difference between the best things and the second best things is far, far greater than the difference between the second best things and the twentieth best things. It’s not a linear scale.

Once you’ve taken care of the basics, there’s very little in this world for which your life is worth deferring. You’ve likely already found or at least seen the very best things (whether you know it or not). Make them count.

My life’s work is Basecamp. I’ve been at it for more than twelve years. See the latest fruits of that labor in our all-new version 3.

https://basecamp.com/svn

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