Andrey Butov

Listened to Mike Daisey and Tara Geer describe the MacDowell Colony this morning on Studio 360 …

What a delightful experience it must be — to be able to work in complete silence and solitude during the day, surrounded by nothing but the sounds and sights of a forest, and then to be able to spend your evenings with other artists.

Keep wondering the whole day why there isn’t a small tech business community off in a secluded place somewhere — away from everything — just to work in complete tranquility for a month.

Maybe there is and I just don’t know about it.

I hear Bill Gates goes off on solitary reading/thinking retreats twice a year.

And no, those cesspool community startup hubs are not the same thing.