universal basic cafes

Predicting coffee shops and community spaces are going to be a huge 3rd space moving forward.

Two camps:

  1. No-screen/phone cafes - a refuge from AI and tech
  2. Builder cafes - fast internet, real community, upskill camps, micro events worth showing up for (WeWork 2.0)

AI is going to have far more people working hansolo. We need community. The builder cafe doesn’t really exist yet.

Local govs and tourism boards should be funding these. Genuine economic dev hiding in plain sight. The second most obv funding choice is Claude & OpenAI. Maybe subsidized cafes.. enter the UBC (Universal Basic Cafe)!

And 100p writing this from Perfecto Cafe, where the wifi internet can’t keep up with Claude’s agentic demands.