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THE WE GENERATION

During the Pandemic we all changed. We went through something.

A shared global anxiety.

Sadness. Disconnection. Isolation.

Except for one area.

We all turned on our webcams...

...no not to start OnlyFans accounts...

...well not ONLY to start OnlyFans account...

We went online. Embracing video calling. We started to live our lives through vertical frames and zoom brady bunch grids.

We began to watch each other live. And not in a creepy way.

And we stopped going to the movies.

So our focus changed. We went from craving an escapist movie experience to craving community. Instead of living our lives vicariously through a movie star - we started living through each other.

And we all started seeing how we lived. The unity of the family couch. No one dressing up to impress - everyone dressing down to stay comfortable, secure. In some ways our social masks began to fall as we started using social media more...with filters of course...we were all so beautifully out of focus with amazing lashes.

Our laundry piles were no longer a big shameful secret. We all had them.

So we began to be entertained by each other. Sharing time with each other in a way that we all stopped doing sometime last century. We did zoom comedy - or some of us did zoom comedy - school reunions - family reunions...instead of a text - we facetimed our loved ones. Craving connections.

My daughter would zoom with her friends. They would play online games through Roblox and facetime each other from a parents phone. She spent hours connecting with her friends during the shutdown - and this was after doing school over zoom with her teacher. Her way of connection is now through a lens. She's the filmmaker and star and studio. And it's all happening live!

I love going to the movies. There's nothing like seeing a famous person's pores and giant eyes starring down at you from an enormous silver screen that would make Nicole Kidman blush. Heart break does feel good in a place like this Nicole, and so does the bass hitting you as a superhero blows up the big bad in the 3rd act and either causes a giant laser to shoot into the sky or stops a giant laser in the sky. Either way there will be a giant laser in the sky. There always is a giant laser.

  And that's the problem.

There's a phrase in storytelling and screenwriting - rise and fall. Tension and release.

If you have a movie that is all BAM! BAM! AHHH!!!! for 3 hours, the audience will numb out by the 3rd act. Also true if you have a movie that's just "She died." "When?" "Yesterday, at the hospital, from the disease that caused us to fall in love as we talked slowly over coffee for the last 90 minutes". ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Or my favorite movie - the one where the score has only one note and that note is dystopian sadness where no one is allowed to laugh if they want to still look cool brooding. No jokes! No jokes aloud!

And the same is true for the variety of movies currently in release.

If every movie is a big superhero movie or action film with giant lasers and 2,000+ visual FX artists than you numb out. Every movie kinda hits you the same so why go? What is it about the movie that will make me get to the theatre, really overpay for popcorn and soda, just very a expensive butter vehicle, and spend nearly $80 for my family of 3 to risk getting sick and being disappointed after 3 hours. Oh and let's not forget the nearly 30 minutes of previews that make you sort of forget what movie you were seeing - on second thought that's nice -  kinda makes the movie even fresher for you. You're eyes will light up as you realize, having forgotten, that the movie you are about to see stars Ryan Reynolds. "I had no idea he was in this - what is this movie called again? Oh Deadpool 3! Neat!".

So now, post-pandemic, we're a little pickier when we go to the BAM! BAM! Place with the pricey corn treat. We'd rather scroll through TikToks and Reels and YouTube - watching silly skits, short clips of our favorite comedians, soap cutting videos and pimple popping.

We are the entertainment. Human behavior at it's purest and sometimes - grossest. Straight from the source. Not filtered through a well lit studio set with a million dollar iMax camera but just @theofficialkallmekris for laughs or your friends tiktok where they share their anxieties about entering their 30s deep in debt and alone but ask you to post funny cat memes to cheer them up and you do - because you're that good of a friend damn it. Also you might too need cheering up.

We are the studio.

Right now the OG studios are spending 200 million dollars per movie, with stressful CGI, huge stakes, lots of latex suits and mo-cap characters - when if they just relaxed a little - learned from the audience a bit more - they'd realize that the make believe on that giant screen no longer seems to include - well - us.

I don't have superpowers but I might be able to figure out how to dance the Renegade.

And that would feel like a super power to me.

My best advice to the studios as they stare into the fire of Fran Drescher and the “but he's right though”, Adam Conover* - my advice to them is simply this...

Simplify.

Tell smaller stories. And more of them.

Right now my choices at the theatre are: superhero who's funny or superhero who's sad, a great old actor in a movie for one last ride and no really - that's it - that was his last one - he's 81 ya'll, or Tom Cruise not in a jet. Oh and that really exciting, joy filled Christian movie about trafficking children. And then a movie that's not an action film but a thoughtful movie about scientists intent on blowing up the world in a rousing comedy about the Atomic Bomb. There is a Barbie movie - there is that - but even that seems dystopian as Barbie faces the cold harsh reality of mortality and public shaming. (see next blog for that bombshell)

When I was a kid the multiplex was filled with family adventure films, buddy cop movies, silly slapstick comedies, daring dramas shot on an actual location - like if there was a desert they went to the desert not a sound stage. I know! Right!?! Holy crap! And just a wide range of movie genres, star pairings and they all made you feel great. Want old people in a pool with aliens? Here you go! Want a talking hairy Yoda who's cute until he gets hangry? Voiced by Howie Mandell? How about a pet detective who seems really just mentally very very stable? Or if you want a long one you can go see what it's like to be a burn patient in world war II while people do arial tricks with torches in a desert and that guy from Lost washed his long hair a lot and in the end yeah he dies but the Nazis lose!

No dystopia. No depression. You left the theatre feeling like you got shrunk down, rocketed into space, learned karate, had a great adventure while babysitting after you got out of Saturday detention with your enemies who now, somehow, are your best pals as you head off on horseback to survive the old west all while getting back home in time to hear that your parents are divorcing but your dad is now your nanny.

If studios instead of spending 200 cold ones on one movie spent 20 warm and fuzzy ones on 10 movies that made us feel just all the feelings and were written about, well, us... they'd find we'd be more than willing to pay that $20 for exploded corn!

  Us - not some guy who gets bit by a radioactive billionaire - but parents trying to keep their kids safe and happy, young folks trying to find their way in life, best friends who solve crimes...you know....normal stuff!

But about us.

We are the entertainment.

Not the pixels.**

But us, pimples and all.

*No disrespect to Adam Conover. Adam is a kind human being who I greatly admire. He also has really good hair.

 **Pixels is a much underrated comedy - go see it - it stars another Adam but is written by a great guy named Tim who loves movies more than if Spielberg, Lucas, Scorsese and Marshall were spliced into one giant filmmaking mutant director.

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WeWork Is Launching a Grade School for Budding Entrepreneurs

WeWork says its mission is to help people do what they love. Now the office-sharing giant is testing that ethos on a smaller clientele: kindergartners.

The $20 billion startup, built on a vast network of hip co-working spaces where entrepreneurs and freelancers rent desks, is making its move into children’s education, launching a private elementary school for “conscious entrepreneurship” inside a New York City WeWork next fall. A pilot program of seven students, including one of the five young children of WeWork Cos. founders Adam and Rebekah Neumann, is under way.

“In my book, there’s no reason why children in elementary schools can’t be launching their own businesses,” Rebekah Neumann said in an interview. She thinks kids should develop their passions and act on them early, instead of waiting to grow up to be “disruptive,” as the entrepreneurial set puts it.

Adam and Rebekah Neumann

Photographer: Patrick McMullan/Getty Images

The students—this pilot crop is five to eight years old—spend one day at a 60-acre farm and the rest of the week in a classroom near the company’s Manhattan headquarters, where they get lessons in business from both employees and entrepreneur-customers of WeWork. Neumann, who attended the elite New York City prep school Horace Mann and Cornell University, studying Buddhism and business, said she’s “rethinking the whole idea of what an education means” but is “non-compromising” on academic standards. The students will have to meet or exceed all of the state’s benchmarks for subjects such as math and reading.

At the farm, which the Neumanns bought last year, “if they are learning math, they are not just sitting in a classroom learning about numbers. They are also using numbers to run their farm stand, they’re reading about natural cycles of plant life,” she said. “It’s a very hands-on approach to learning.”

WeWork’s education ambitions are the latest offshoot of the rapidly growing company’s “We” brand, which promotes a seamless integration of meaningful work and a purpose-driven existence—make a life, not just a living, the motto goes. Last year, the company unveiled “co-living” residences under WeLive, furnished apartments in buildings with shared amenities, planned events and communal spaces (here’s what that’s like). Last month came Rise by We—a facility that features gym equipment, co-ed saunas and yoga classes that connect “wellness” and spirituality with entrepreneurism—and a coding boot camp. It is a brand, atop a real estate leasing company, that some critics say is overvalued. 

With their foray into schooling, the Neumanns join a growing list of entrepreneurial billionaires trying to reshape American education with their influence and investments. Facebook’s Mark  Zuckerberg, along with other tech entrepreneurs, for example, are investing in public, charter and private schools that use technology to foster personalized education. While there’s broad agreement that the nation’s education system has its failings, the solutions are especially fraught because the beneficiaries, or guinea pigs, are children.

Here and below, renderings of the planned school by the architectural firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG). 

Source: WeWork

The kids have already gotten lessons from the Neumanns’ employees in creating a brand and using effective sales techniques, and from Adam Neumann on supply and demand. Mentorships with WeWork customer-entrepreneurs are available. “Basically, anything they might want to learn, we have people in the field that can teach it,” Rebekah Neumann said. When one of their students, an eight-year-old girl named Nia, made T-shirts to sell at the farm stand the kids run, “we noticed she has a strong aptitude and passion for design,” Neumann said. She is securing an apprenticeship with fashion designers who rent space from WeWork.

The hands-on, project-based learning, encouraging children to ask questions and take ownership of their education, sounds like what “progressive pedagogy has been teaching for 100 years,” said Samuel Abrams, the director of the National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education, at Columbia University’s Teachers College. 

But WeWork’s “very instrumental approach” to learning, “essentially encouraging kids to monetize their ideas, at that age, is damaging,” Abrams said. “You’re sucking the joy out of education at a time when kids should just be thinking about things like how plants grow and why there are so many species.”

Neumann argues it’s conventional education that is “squashing out the entrepreneurial spirit and creativity that’s intrinsic to all young children.” Then, after college, she said, “somehow we’re asking them to be disruptive and recover that spirit.”

The Neumanns, who founded WeWork in 2010 with the chief creative officer, Miguel McKelvey, started out renting sleek office space to nomadic workers and entrepreneurs. There’s beer on tap, micro-roasted coffee, and aphorisms on the walls about working hard. But Adam, WeWork’s CEO, has said he wants the company to be the architect of entire neighborhoods.

A former officer in the Israeli Navy who as a child lived for a time on a kibbutz (McKelvey grew up in a commune), the 38-year-old is after a kind of entrepreneurial utopia, or a “capitalist kibbutz,” in his words. He has even branded his customers—now about 150,000 of them in 52 cities around the globe—the WeGeneration, a collaborative group that “cares about the world, actually wants to do cool things, and loves working,” as he told Fast Company last year. 

Rebekah, a co-founder and the company’s chief brand officer, launched the pilot in September with guidance from a family friend, Lois Weisswasser, a former principal of P.S. 41, one of the city’s top public schools. For now, she has just two full-time teachers, one from the high-performing P.S. 234 and one from P.S. 77, a gifted-and-talented school. The first WeWork school probably will be built inside the headquarters and be accessible through a separate entrance. WeWork has enlisted the innovative Danish architecture firm of Bjarke Ingels, which has designed a building at the World Trade Center campus and a flood prevention plan for New York City.

Source: WeWork

Neumann plans to have about 65 students next fall—with about 10 each in a 3-year-old and a 4-year-old class, and 15 each grouped as kindergarten/first grade, second/third grade, and fourth grade—and then go straight through 12th grade. Her grand vision for the project, which is called (wait for it) WeGrow, is to open schools in WeWorks around the world, move into higher and continuing education, and perhaps expand the business to training other teachers in WeWork’s pedagogy. WeGrow talks about educating people “from birth to death.”

It isn’t clear yet how all this will be funded, though the funds may come directly from the Neumanns. The company is still working on tuition and hopes to make the school “accessible” to a broad swath of parents through a sliding scale based on income, a spokesman said. Private school tuition in New York City can soar past $30,000 a year. WeWork hasn’t decided whether the school should be a nonprofit, either.

Source: WeWork

A certified yoga teacher and former actress, Neumann sometimes teaches a yoga or drama class herself in the pilot program. The kids learn to cook and do mindfulness and meditation exercises.  Neumann sees the job as “raising conscious global citizens” who “understand what their superpowers are … and use these talents and gifts to help each other and help the world.”

And if entrepreneurial parents need to travel for several months? Take the whole family along, Neumann said, looking ahead to her international vision. There, as in New York, the kids will be just a staircase away.

In her own family, she said, “there are no lines” between work and life or home and office. “My kids are in the office. I’m doing what I love, he’s doing what he loves, they are observing that, and they are doing what they love.”

from All Of Beer http://allofbeer.com/wework-is-launching-a-grade-school-for-budding-entrepreneurs/ from All of Beer https://allofbeercom.tumblr.com/post/182120739002

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WeWork Is Launching a Grade School for Budding Entrepreneurs

WeWork says its mission is to help people do what they love. Now the office-sharing giant is testing that ethos on a smaller clientele: kindergartners.

The $20 billion startup, built on a vast network of hip co-working spaces where entrepreneurs and freelancers rent desks, is making its move into children’s education, launching a private elementary school for “conscious entrepreneurship” inside a New York City WeWork next fall. A pilot program of seven students, including one of the five young children of WeWork Cos. founders Adam and Rebekah Neumann, is under way.

“In my book, there’s no reason why children in elementary schools can’t be launching their own businesses,” Rebekah Neumann said in an interview. She thinks kids should develop their passions and act on them early, instead of waiting to grow up to be “disruptive,” as the entrepreneurial set puts it.

Adam and Rebekah Neumann

Photographer: Patrick McMullan/Getty Images

The students—this pilot crop is five to eight years old—spend one day at a 60-acre farm and the rest of the week in a classroom near the company’s Manhattan headquarters, where they get lessons in business from both employees and entrepreneur-customers of WeWork. Neumann, who attended the elite New York City prep school Horace Mann and Cornell University, studying Buddhism and business, said she’s “rethinking the whole idea of what an education means” but is “non-compromising” on academic standards. The students will have to meet or exceed all of the state’s benchmarks for subjects such as math and reading.

At the farm, which the Neumanns bought last year, “if they are learning math, they are not just sitting in a classroom learning about numbers. They are also using numbers to run their farm stand, they’re reading about natural cycles of plant life,” she said. “It’s a very hands-on approach to learning.”

WeWork’s education ambitions are the latest offshoot of the rapidly growing company’s “We” brand, which promotes a seamless integration of meaningful work and a purpose-driven existence—make a life, not just a living, the motto goes. Last year, the company unveiled “co-living” residences under WeLive, furnished apartments in buildings with shared amenities, planned events and communal spaces (here’s what that’s like). Last month came Rise by We—a facility that features gym equipment, co-ed saunas and yoga classes that connect “wellness” and spirituality with entrepreneurism—and a coding boot camp. It is a brand, atop a real estate leasing company, that some critics say is overvalued. 

With their foray into schooling, the Neumanns join a growing list of entrepreneurial billionaires trying to reshape American education with their influence and investments. Facebook’s Mark  Zuckerberg, along with other tech entrepreneurs, for example, are investing in public, charter and private schools that use technology to foster personalized education. While there’s broad agreement that the nation’s education system has its failings, the solutions are especially fraught because the beneficiaries, or guinea pigs, are children.

Here and below, renderings of the planned school by the architectural firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG). 

Source: WeWork

The kids have already gotten lessons from the Neumanns’ employees in creating a brand and using effective sales techniques, and from Adam Neumann on supply and demand. Mentorships with WeWork customer-entrepreneurs are available. “Basically, anything they might want to learn, we have people in the field that can teach it,” Rebekah Neumann said. When one of their students, an eight-year-old girl named Nia, made T-shirts to sell at the farm stand the kids run, “we noticed she has a strong aptitude and passion for design,” Neumann said. She is securing an apprenticeship with fashion designers who rent space from WeWork.

The hands-on, project-based learning, encouraging children to ask questions and take ownership of their education, sounds like what “progressive pedagogy has been teaching for 100 years,” said Samuel Abrams, the director of the National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education, at Columbia University’s Teachers College. 

But WeWork’s “very instrumental approach” to learning, “essentially encouraging kids to monetize their ideas, at that age, is damaging,” Abrams said. “You’re sucking the joy out of education at a time when kids should just be thinking about things like how plants grow and why there are so many species.”

Neumann argues it’s conventional education that is “squashing out the entrepreneurial spirit and creativity that’s intrinsic to all young children.” Then, after college, she said, “somehow we’re asking them to be disruptive and recover that spirit.”

The Neumanns, who founded WeWork in 2010 with the chief creative officer, Miguel McKelvey, started out renting sleek office space to nomadic workers and entrepreneurs. There’s beer on tap, micro-roasted coffee, and aphorisms on the walls about working hard. But Adam, WeWork’s CEO, has said he wants the company to be the architect of entire neighborhoods.

A former officer in the Israeli Navy who as a child lived for a time on a kibbutz (McKelvey grew up in a commune), the 38-year-old is after a kind of entrepreneurial utopia, or a “capitalist kibbutz,” in his words. He has even branded his customers—now about 150,000 of them in 52 cities around the globe—the WeGeneration, a collaborative group that “cares about the world, actually wants to do cool things, and loves working,” as he told Fast Company last year. 

Rebekah, a co-founder and the company’s chief brand officer, launched the pilot in September with guidance from a family friend, Lois Weisswasser, a former principal of P.S. 41, one of the city’s top public schools. For now, she has just two full-time teachers, one from the high-performing P.S. 234 and one from P.S. 77, a gifted-and-talented school. The first WeWork school probably will be built inside the headquarters and be accessible through a separate entrance. WeWork has enlisted the innovative Danish architecture firm of Bjarke Ingels, which has designed a building at the World Trade Center campus and a flood prevention plan for New York City.

Source: WeWork

Neumann plans to have about 65 students next fall—with about 10 each in a 3-year-old and a 4-year-old class, and 15 each grouped as kindergarten/first grade, second/third grade, and fourth grade—and then go straight through 12th grade. Her grand vision for the project, which is called (wait for it) WeGrow, is to open schools in WeWorks around the world, move into higher and continuing education, and perhaps expand the business to training other teachers in WeWork’s pedagogy. WeGrow talks about educating people “from birth to death.”

It isn’t clear yet how all this will be funded, though the funds may come directly from the Neumanns. The company is still working on tuition and hopes to make the school “accessible” to a broad swath of parents through a sliding scale based on income, a spokesman said. Private school tuition in New York City can soar past $30,000 a year. WeWork hasn’t decided whether the school should be a nonprofit, either.

Source: WeWork

A certified yoga teacher and former actress, Neumann sometimes teaches a yoga or drama class herself in the pilot program. The kids learn to cook and do mindfulness and meditation exercises.  Neumann sees the job as “raising conscious global citizens” who “understand what their superpowers are … and use these talents and gifts to help each other and help the world.”

And if entrepreneurial parents need to travel for several months? Take the whole family along, Neumann said, looking ahead to her international vision. There, as in New York, the kids will be just a staircase away.

In her own family, she said, “there are no lines” between work and life or home and office. “My kids are in the office. I’m doing what I love, he’s doing what he loves, they are observing that, and they are doing what they love.”

Source: http://allofbeer.com/wework-is-launching-a-grade-school-for-budding-entrepreneurs/

from All of Beer https://allofbeer.wordpress.com/2019/01/18/wework-is-launching-a-grade-school-for-budding-entrepreneurs/

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WeWork Is Launching a Grade School for Budding Entrepreneurs

WeWork says its mission is to help people do what they love. Now the office-sharing giant is testing that ethos on a smaller clientele: kindergartners.

The $20 billion startup, built on a vast network of hip co-working spaces where entrepreneurs and freelancers rent desks, is making its move into children’s education, launching a private elementary school for “conscious entrepreneurship” inside a New York City WeWork next fall. A pilot program of seven students, including one of the five young children of WeWork Cos. founders Adam and Rebekah Neumann, is under way.

“In my book, there’s no reason why children in elementary schools can’t be launching their own businesses,” Rebekah Neumann said in an interview. She thinks kids should develop their passions and act on them early, instead of waiting to grow up to be “disruptive,” as the entrepreneurial set puts it.

Adam and Rebekah Neumann

Photographer: Patrick McMullan/Getty Images

The students—this pilot crop is five to eight years old—spend one day at a 60-acre farm and the rest of the week in a classroom near the company’s Manhattan headquarters, where they get lessons in business from both employees and entrepreneur-customers of WeWork. Neumann, who attended the elite New York City prep school Horace Mann and Cornell University, studying Buddhism and business, said she’s “rethinking the whole idea of what an education means” but is “non-compromising” on academic standards. The students will have to meet or exceed all of the state’s benchmarks for subjects such as math and reading.

At the farm, which the Neumanns bought last year, “if they are learning math, they are not just sitting in a classroom learning about numbers. They are also using numbers to run their farm stand, they’re reading about natural cycles of plant life,” she said. “It’s a very hands-on approach to learning.”

WeWork’s education ambitions are the latest offshoot of the rapidly growing company’s “We” brand, which promotes a seamless integration of meaningful work and a purpose-driven existence—make a life, not just a living, the motto goes. Last year, the company unveiled “co-living” residences under WeLive, furnished apartments in buildings with shared amenities, planned events and communal spaces (here’s what that’s like). Last month came Rise by We—a facility that features gym equipment, co-ed saunas and yoga classes that connect “wellness” and spirituality with entrepreneurism—and a coding boot camp. It is a brand, atop a real estate leasing company, that some critics say is overvalued. 

With their foray into schooling, the Neumanns join a growing list of entrepreneurial billionaires trying to reshape American education with their influence and investments. Facebook’s Mark  Zuckerberg, along with other tech entrepreneurs, for example, are investing in public, charter and private schools that use technology to foster personalized education. While there’s broad agreement that the nation’s education system has its failings, the solutions are especially fraught because the beneficiaries, or guinea pigs, are children.

Here and below, renderings of the planned school by the architectural firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG). 

Source: WeWork

The kids have already gotten lessons from the Neumanns’ employees in creating a brand and using effective sales techniques, and from Adam Neumann on supply and demand. Mentorships with WeWork customer-entrepreneurs are available. “Basically, anything they might want to learn, we have people in the field that can teach it,” Rebekah Neumann said. When one of their students, an eight-year-old girl named Nia, made T-shirts to sell at the farm stand the kids run, “we noticed she has a strong aptitude and passion for design,” Neumann said. She is securing an apprenticeship with fashion designers who rent space from WeWork.

The hands-on, project-based learning, encouraging children to ask questions and take ownership of their education, sounds like what “progressive pedagogy has been teaching for 100 years,” said Samuel Abrams, the director of the National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education, at Columbia University’s Teachers College. 

But WeWork’s “very instrumental approach” to learning, “essentially encouraging kids to monetize their ideas, at that age, is damaging,” Abrams said. “You’re sucking the joy out of education at a time when kids should just be thinking about things like how plants grow and why there are so many species.”

Neumann argues it’s conventional education that is “squashing out the entrepreneurial spirit and creativity that’s intrinsic to all young children.” Then, after college, she said, “somehow we’re asking them to be disruptive and recover that spirit.”

The Neumanns, who founded WeWork in 2010 with the chief creative officer, Miguel McKelvey, started out renting sleek office space to nomadic workers and entrepreneurs. There’s beer on tap, micro-roasted coffee, and aphorisms on the walls about working hard. But Adam, WeWork’s CEO, has said he wants the company to be the architect of entire neighborhoods.

A former officer in the Israeli Navy who as a child lived for a time on a kibbutz (McKelvey grew up in a commune), the 38-year-old is after a kind of entrepreneurial utopia, or a “capitalist kibbutz,” in his words. He has even branded his customers—now about 150,000 of them in 52 cities around the globe—the WeGeneration, a collaborative group that “cares about the world, actually wants to do cool things, and loves working,” as he told Fast Company last year. 

Rebekah, a co-founder and the company’s chief brand officer, launched the pilot in September with guidance from a family friend, Lois Weisswasser, a former principal of P.S. 41, one of the city’s top public schools. For now, she has just two full-time teachers, one from the high-performing P.S. 234 and one from P.S. 77, a gifted-and-talented school. The first WeWork school probably will be built inside the headquarters and be accessible through a separate entrance. WeWork has enlisted the innovative Danish architecture firm of Bjarke Ingels, which has designed a building at the World Trade Center campus and a flood prevention plan for New York City.

Source: WeWork

Neumann plans to have about 65 students next fall—with about 10 each in a 3-year-old and a 4-year-old class, and 15 each grouped as kindergarten/first grade, second/third grade, and fourth grade—and then go straight through 12th grade. Her grand vision for the project, which is called (wait for it) WeGrow, is to open schools in WeWorks around the world, move into higher and continuing education, and perhaps expand the business to training other teachers in WeWork’s pedagogy. WeGrow talks about educating people “from birth to death.”

It isn’t clear yet how all this will be funded, though the funds may come directly from the Neumanns. The company is still working on tuition and hopes to make the school “accessible” to a broad swath of parents through a sliding scale based on income, a spokesman said. Private school tuition in New York City can soar past $30,000 a year. WeWork hasn’t decided whether the school should be a nonprofit, either.

Source: WeWork

A certified yoga teacher and former actress, Neumann sometimes teaches a yoga or drama class herself in the pilot program. The kids learn to cook and do mindfulness and meditation exercises.  Neumann sees the job as “raising conscious global citizens” who “understand what their superpowers are … and use these talents and gifts to help each other and help the world.”

And if entrepreneurial parents need to travel for several months? Take the whole family along, Neumann said, looking ahead to her international vision. There, as in New York, the kids will be just a staircase away.

In her own family, she said, “there are no lines” between work and life or home and office. “My kids are in the office. I’m doing what I love, he’s doing what he loves, they are observing that, and they are doing what they love.”

from All Of Beer http://allofbeer.com/wework-is-launching-a-grade-school-for-budding-entrepreneurs/

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A fan with a terminal illness got a chance to meet Block B, where they gave them all matching bracelets. All members wore the bracelets during the filming of their last episode of 5MBC.

Ukwon, after reading a book where one of the central characters was a man in a homosexual relationship, said that the book taught him that there was no difference between human beings.

A fan tweeted Zico, saying that he’d lost his ticket to a concert Jiho was preforming at and wanted to know if he could do anything to help. Zico replied saying that he’d talk to the ticket box about it and see if he could get him another one. He’s done this twice now. 

Taeil not only remembers the names and faces of his fansite directors, he’ll hold conversations with them during fansigns, and will share candy/snacks and small toys with them that he’d received from other fans. 

Before the interview that sparked the Thailand Scandal in 2012, All members individually donated the USD equivalent of $200 to disaster relief in Thailand. They also donated all of the earnings from their Thailand showcase to charities involved in relation to the flood, and with the help of Thai BBC’s, donated books to schools that had been destroyed/damaged in the flood.

Because they weren’t being paid sufficiently for their performances, P.O bought and paid for all of the stage outfits the group wore during Tell Them promotions.

It’s not known if he still does this, but around the time they were promoting Nalina, Kyung donated the USD equivalent of $200 a month to children in Africa.

In 2012, Jaehyo retweeted a fun fact: “ In ancient Rome, a man proven guilty of rape would have his testicles crushed with two stones.” and added onto it: “This should be quickly introduced domestically.”

In July, 2015, All members participated in an anti-bullying campaign headed by the Seoul Police Department, called the Seoul Police x Block B School Peace Project. The song HER was partially rewritten to include lyrics such as ‘Our friend’s pain is our pain, Let’s all talk about our troubles’. They also filmed a new music video, in which the members performed in the hallways of an arts high school and stopped acts of violence.

During Very Good Promotions, All Members participated in a WeGeneration fundraising campaign for a high school student named Jihye. Jihye dreamed of becoming a lawyer, but because of her responsibilities to her ailing grandmother, could not afford even a desk to work on. Block B contributed signed albums in a lottery, the proceeds from which went to Jihye through the fundraiser.

In the Sewol ferry tragedy of 2014, an avid fan of Block B was killed. It is unknown how, but Block B became aware of her passing, Zico, her favorite member, in particular. He went to attend her funeral with a letter to her that he had written himself, and spoke and cried with her parents for over an hour afterwards. He invited her parents to the concert that their daughter had planned on attending, and during said concert, he ‘[...] even called out into the audience saying, ‘Are you watching, Yoo (name ommited)? Are you enjoying the show? I hope this next song will be able to reach out to you…’. The date of the tragedy, 4/16, is something Zico has also referenced multiple times. His solo songs ‘Tough Cookie’ and ‘Well Done’ have both been 4 minutes, 16 seconds long, a direct and personal sign of respect to the date.

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The lesson from non-bids for IWG is WeWork is overvalued

US company is loss-making yet a UK firm that makes profits cannot land a buyer

Maybe IWG, the serviced office company that used to be called Regus, should give its tenants free beer or throw a few cheese-tasting parties. The gimmicky stuff has worked wonders for WeWork. The fashionable US company is supposedly worth $20bn in privately owned form, even though it is loss-making. By contrast, IWG, a quoted UK firm that has been around for 30 years and is substantially larger, makes profits. Yet it cannot land a buyer willing to pay the much smaller sum of £2.8bn-ish.

Related: WeGeneration work, rest and play together in Adam Neumann’s empire

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This isn't just any stage! Senior Olivia Hancock stood before thousands of students on the stage at Allstate Arena today and shared the fundraising efforts of the SHS Free the Children club at the Illinois @wemovement We Day! Repost @onethescientist • • • So proud to have SHS senior Olivia Hancock presenting on stage at WE Day! #wemovement #weday #wedayillinois #wegeneration #studentleader #waytorepresent #freethechildren https://ift.tt/2Kdci4B

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WeGeneration work, rest and play together in Adam Neumann's empire

New York entrepreneur has big plans to turn his office rental business into a provider of homes, leisure and education

Adam Neumann is not satisfied with changing the way 210,000 people work and turning himself into a paper multi-billionaire in the process. Neumann, the 38-year-old co-founder and chief executive of shared office provider WeWork, wants to house, teach, train and party with the “WeGeneration”.

In less than eight years, Neumann, a dyslexic who could not read until he was seven, has turned an idea for a single “eco-friendly co-working space” in Brooklyn into a $20bn (£14bn) company which runs 230 shared office spaces in 71 cities .

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