Lauterborn and Co. are reinventing the so-called Workplace right down to how they communicate with each other. Take for instance, the interoffice memo... Traditionally: White, 8.5" x 11" sheet of copy paper with very official headers, date, Who To, Subject, cc's, To Whom This May Concern... all very official looking.
In The Writer's Workshop "Work Without Walls" environment: Any size birch bark found blowing around in backyard, quickly scrawled header identifying the "document" with date, quick little attention line, heartfelt inspiring message about nothing in particular, sender name.
Benefits of the latter: No killing of trees. Abundant, readily available supply of materials as long as the evolutionary tradition of birch bark shedding itself from its host tree does not suddenly cease. Can be stacked and contained in a little dispenser. Can be used as mulch after reading. Smells nice adding a little woody (I said "a little woody" heh heh) scent to your intimate working space. Takes up less room than traditional copy paper memo. No two birch bark memos are the same with each coming in its own shape and pattern. Fun to look at and imagine you see an animal or a country or other object. In the posted photo, we see a clenched fist with extended index finger pointing down, or a possum with his face pointing right, the dark bit on the right-most end his little nose, or an old-style can opener with the "jaws" facing right.
Traditional memos... They're for paper pushers, bureaucrats and HR managers who have not yet learned the joys of Work Without Walls.
this was a good idea =)
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