Brian and Izzy October 28, 2009

Brian Russell, the founder of Carrboro Creative Coworking, is passionate about creating communities that support entrepreneurs and independent professionals. As a social entrepreneur he wants the Coworking community to be a vital, integral part of our larger communities.

In past lives Brian sculpted, painted, edited film, shot documentaries, and coded Web pages. In 2006 Brian moved to Chapel Hill, and he started his first coworking business, Carrboro Creative Coworking, in 2008. The up-to-the-minute juicy stuff is at twitter.com/brianr.

Check out my about.me profile!

Site
I purchased the domain name Yesh.com in 1998. Its changed a lot. You can see how its changed over the years using the WaybackMachine from the Internet Archives.

Word
Yesh to me means, affirmative times a billion. I first heard it used by a friend as a term of coolness. (ex. Oh Yesh!) Since then I’ve found out that it means “there is” in Hebrew. I’ve read it used in the phrase “Yesh Yahweh” – (There is God) or “Yesh Gvul” – (There is a limit). Also in another context it can be used like ,Yesh lekha khatul (he has a cat) and Yesh lakh khatul (she has a cat). It’s wonderful to have such a positive word for a personal domain name.

Quotes

No bureaucracy likes an independent newspaperman. – I. F. Stone

There must be renewed recognition that societies are kept stable and healthy by reform, not by thought police; this means there must be free play for so-called subversive ideas – every idea subverts the old to make way for the new. To shut off subversion is to shut off peaceful progress and to invite revolution and war. – I.F. Stone’s Weekly (March 15, 1954)