Phones didn’t ruin restaurants. The tip tablet did.
Everyone is arguing about phones at the table. Nobody is arguing about the screen the restaurant hands you, spins around, and makes your whole table watch you use.
Writing on reinvention, building rooms, and the work nobody puts on the website.
Everything I have been thinking about, in chronological order. Some of this first ran on The Vantage Point, where each piece links back to the full version.
The elder in the room
Some people walk into a party hoping to meet as many people as possible. Dawn Mason was looking for two. Watching her work taught me something I did not have words for yet.
What we built at Harbor Steps
Vantage is not a networking group. It is a curated room. That has been the line since the site went up, and Thursday night was the first time that room existed in one place.
Collaboration is the new competition
I spent seven years inside great rooms and watched every one of them compete for the same members without ever connecting to each other. There were two possible answers to that. I picked the one I could not stop thinking about.