I think Mike Kessler can actually do this. He’s already overcome the worst barrier to entry we faced when we were exploring a local coworking facility: the tendency to dilute your decisionmaking by being too communitarian. And I have a feeling he might even beat the second-worst barrier to entry: the cost of commercial real estate in downtown Ann Arbor.

Not by having a lower cost. If that were to happen, the local world’s tangible power structure would collapse, and those well-regarded wearers of finely spun black wool coats who hold the city in their black leather gloves would fly into a panic. Heaven forfend anything renting in such a prime abandoned building in the quiet part of Main Street nobody walks down for less than $23/foot. Mike’s overcome the barrier by having a bird in the hand: Ed Shaffran.

So I’m committing to paying my share for six months, for whatever that’s worth. I’ll hold court there during the days, take my business and planning meetings there, use it as a base of operations when I wander Main Street and Liberty and State to other meetings, do my genetic programming and complex systems training sessions there, set it up as a permanent base for our Scanning Bee distributed digitization projects, have after-hours parties and user-group meetings there.

Whatever. I’m in. I like it.