the jumbled compost of paranormal it.” Interestingly, some of the most investigators and knitting circles they popular classes have involved alcohol, call meetup.com, there are few services such as the whiskey-tasting sessions like The Skillery. Usually when people offered by a bartender from Holland want to master a new skill, they enroll at House—a class that I wouldn’t mind a university or for-profit training center, taking and failing, if it meant I got to or they find the YouTube tutorials and repeat it. Intrigued by The attempt to teach themselves in the Skillery’s concept of comfort of their own homes. “Online learning has a place, but an online knowledge there are some things you just can’t bartering system, I learn staring at a screen. The difference sign up to attend one between watching a carpentry tutorial of their free sessions online and actually getting in front of a entitled, didactically, saw are two very different experiences.” “How to Teach A Class Which is why you can learn everything at The Skillery.” Just by showing up from Cloth Diapering 101 from a stay at home mom, to Preservation Matting to the meeting, I’m from Brick Factory Nashville. I ask Matt already learning new if they’ve ever refused to offer a class things. I learn that the based on “hot button” issues—religion, Entrepreneur Center is on the corner of sex, and mind-altering substances. “As long as there is some sort of Broadway and First educational component, we’ll consider Avenue. It seems
an odd place to have a community business space—I hear someone singing a “Hallelujah” cover in the honky-tonk next door. Upon entering, I notice fashionably disheveled twentysomethings with laptops lounging with looks of consternation on their faces. Perhaps they’re writing a business proposal for the next Facebook, or maybe they’re looking at porn and trying to suppress an awkward boner, who knows? The whole place has the vibe of an HR office at a cutting-edge tech startup. Any moment, I expect to walk around a corner and see guys in black turtlenecks doing
“WATCHING A CARPENTRY TUTORIAL ONLINE AND ACTUALLY GETTING IN FRONT OF A SAW ARE TWO VERY DIFFERENT EXPERIENCES.”
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