Shoutout to the coffee shop in Medellin that bans laptops after 11am - best thing for real connections

I walked in at noon last Wednesday and the owner pointed to a sign and said "go talk to someone or leave" so I actually ended up in a 2 hour conversation with a local designer about remote work burnout, has anyone else found a place that forces you to actually be human instead of glued to a screen?

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rileyp491h ago

Small thing though, most of those coffee shops in Medellin actually do the laptop ban later in the afternoon, like 2 or 3pm, not 11am. I've been to a few around Laureles and Estadio that start kicking people off laptops around 1 or 2 when the lunch rush dies down. The one you went to must be a strict outlier with that 11am cutoff, which honestly sounds pretty great for forcing conversations. Glad you got a good talk out of it though, that designer sounds like they had some real stories.

thomas_martinez23m ago

Yeah exactly, an 11am cutoff is pretty wild but honestly sounds like the dream for actually talking to people.