Building community sounds great on paper, but the reality is brutal:
RSVPS, cancellations, reminders, post event loop, set up/clean up
I am starting a series to highlight the "Hosts" - those who do the unglamorous work so the rest of us can show up. Stay tuned.
Ten years ago, I published Grit.
In those pages, I wrote down everything I'd discovered about world-class achievers, and how passion and perseverance set them apart.
Since then, I've been studying the situations that make that kind of achievement possible.
The thesis of this book is, simply, that your situation shapes you, but you have the power to shape it first.
Pre-order SITUATED and get a personalized bookplate signed by me: https://t.co/nHP6Pz02qG
The demand for real connection hasn't vanished. What's vanishing is the supply of people willing to burn 9 hours of logistics for one dinner.
Mayz is eliminating the operational tax on gathering: https://t.co/AXIVdbXDI9
#letsmayz#humanconnection#futureofconnection#belonging
A new week is a chance to make room for what really matters. 🤍
Put the phone down. Pull up a chair. Start a conversation.
Because sometimes, the most meaningful moments happen when we simply show up for each other.
🌐 https://t.co/kLfnbPTJ1q
#Mayz#MayzLife#RealConnections
"'100% of this text is AI' is the new Scarlet Letter of dunking on people and posts."
"I hate to give the French credit for anything, but the 1960s semantic thinkers who created 'French Theory' really cooked when they anticipated Pangram and AI authorship 80 years ago."
"There are certain tells that you can spot where, it's like, 'This is a coherent sentence, but there's no way a human wrote this.'"
"To bastardize Voltaire, if a wise and brilliant author doesn't exist, the LLM has to invent one."
"People want authorship. They want authorship because it is meaning, because the indexing and relation and handling of ideas is itself the meaning of the idea."
Alex Danco on Pangram, authorship, & French Theory: https://t.co/oMOBEOO0Wg
What if a dinner could be the start of something bigger?
Mayz is about bringing people together around a table, sharing good food, and making
real connections.
👉 Join Mayz through the link in bio.
#Mayz#RealConnections#DinnerTogether#MeaningfulConnections
We’re all looking for the same thing: a place to belong.
A shared table. Real conversations. New people who might just become lifelong friends.
Mayz brings people together around food, because sometimes the best connections
One table. Real people. Lasting bonds. ❤️
We are building the category-defining #trust graph for offline community, moving beyond a booking tool to become the essential infrastructure for human belonging in the age of AI.
#letsmayz#aitrust#belonging#humanconnection
A lot of founders I talk to are worried about what will happen with AI. So am I frankly. But they're actually better off than anyone else. If the world is going to get turned upside down, the safest place to be is in a small, fast-moving company that can easily change direction.
Early pilots are testing how non-technical groups build #trust in #AI during collective decisions.
Result: Social context and peer validation matter far more than model precision.
#AIadoption#AIethics
Got VS Code up. As a creative who used to delegate building, manifesting ideas in real time is pure magic, and dangerously addictive.
Building at the speed of thought is a superpower. But I caught myself talking to machines more than people in my life. I need to pull back!
Proximity isn’t connection. Followers aren’t friends.
The next scarce resource is a real table with real people.
That’s what we’re building at #LetsMayz#trust#humanconnection
Connection runs on cost. #AI made messages free, so reach stopped meaning anything. When online presence is cheap, showing up is everything.
That’s @LetsMayz. We use AI not as a substitute for #humanconnection, but as infrastructure that enables real-world #trust and #belonging
Connection isn't a matching problem. It's a hosting problem. Matching apps give you endless choices with zero depth. Hosting creates community.
#MAYZ handles the heavy lifting so you can focus on #humanconnection#letsmayz#trust#futureofsocial
The "Screenager" is dead.
We assumed Gen Z wanted Discord servers and asynchronous voice notes. We thought they’d view a dinner table with strangers as an "extreme sport."
We were wrong!
They want the messy, beautiful friction of a shared table like it’s 1995!
When we were testing #Mayz through our early pilots, our internal strategy was pristine, logical, and thoroughly wrong.
#humanconnection#trust#belonging
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