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title: "Ambient Intimacy: From picking fleas to eating peas"
date: 2007-06-14T11:25:29Z
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Leisa came up with the term ambient intimacy for [how we use social software in social networking](http://www.disambiguity.com/reboot-90-ambient-intimacy/). Its a snowball rolling downhill. A book deal and a blog renaming are surely a matter of time. She apparently rocked the house at Reboot. As apes we groomed each other – it made us closer. The mundane is powerful, the quotidian defines us. Do I care that you ate peas for dinner? Not really. But if you share a quick recipe I might appreciate it. Does anyone really want to live in a world where all we talk about is work? Where the only language we speak is that of the MBA? Me – I prefer a little monkey business, because play drives productivity. That’s ambient intimacy.

Earlier this week I went for lunch and networking time with [Adrian Trenholm](http://www.trenholm.co.uk/), [Andy Piper](http://andypiper.wordpress.com/), [Andrew Reynolds](http://rooreynolds.com) and [Mark Lloyd](http://marklloyd.typepad.com/). I have a major todo item outstanding, which is to find some new office space. I decided to go for lunch and pool anyway. Within minutes of arriving Mark said I understand you’re looking for office space (I had said so on Twitter I think), and offered me a desk at his place in London Bridge. Outstanding! That’s ambient intimacy. Its not different from getting things done. Its part of getting things done. So here is a picture of me finding a new office, courtesy of [roo](http://www.flickr.com/photos/rooreynolds/).

![pool](http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1296/543041867_c27f4b2140.jpg?v=0)