James Mayes
@jamesmayes.bsky.social
I do stuff with events, community, product. Author: https://amzn.eu/d/bQGmUNK LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jmayes Last gig: Co-founder & CEO Mind The Product. Next is Rodeo. đź¤
After the previous exit, building again in a related space and raising first money now. Mostly prospective customers who want to help us accelerate. lMK if you need the deck?! Building the antidote to the fake internet real people and genuine stories over bots and Generative slop!
This evening's audio flashback is heavy beats and Gregorian Chants.
New season on House of Windsor looking pretty lively for winter.
Can someone go hug the very thirsty LinkedIn person who came up with this?
PSA for anyone who's ever been on Dexamethasone for any reason, it can cause & accelerate Cataracts, and it would appear most medics never mention this one. Stay on top of eye tests.
Never had such a terrible mobile & internet experience with a change as we have with EE & Plusnet today. Strongly recommend never touching either. The kit, hardware, the approach to the job and the customer service, absolutely horrific on every front.
TIL learned last few months! Whenever you're having blood tests or injections, two things to make it easier: Hydrate a couple hours before, plumps up the vessels. Secondly, no coffee. Caffeine is a vaso constrictor so shrinks those vessels and gives your medic a smaller target!
Does any other training montage ever come close to Matrix in the Dojo?
If you're thinking about what lunch or dinner might be, I made you dis!
Improving health and science outcomes is one of the things I’m most excited about inside of Microsoft AI right now. If you’re a Product Designer in the London area interested in shipping high-craft, society-positive work quickly, hit me up.
Mustafa Suleyman@mustafasuleymanai.bsky.social · last yr.We're taking a big step towards medical superintelligence. AI models have aced multiple choice medical exams – but real patients don’t come with ABC answer options. Now MAI-DxO can solve some of the world’s toughest open-ended cases with higher accuracy and lower costs.
525 days since this surgery for a brain tumour. Today, smashed out some yoga, free weights, cardio, some planning work on the next book & closing in on the final cheques for the Rodeo Seed Round. Message is: you're capable of more than you believe!
If the Mediterranean diet and a brisk walk had a marketing budget, half the wellness industry would be out of work
Anyone else always say please and thank you to GPT in preparation for when the robot overlords take over?
New favourite way to sear the fat on chops or steaks. This is genius simple.
Beef Wellingtonton is just a posh sausage roll, discuss!
New on the journal, a session I delivered recently on personal resilience. open.substack.com/pub/jamesmay...
A session on the resilience approaches
A session delivered at ProductTank London May 2025
open.substack.com
Has any song been played in more elevators than Girl From Ipanema?!
Nothing to see here, just one of the world's best symphony orchestras smashing out Stravinsky in a well dressed stable!
Blistering pace of the bullet train and some fine acid house is a perfect fit! KLF to the max.
In other news, a surprise explosion of Inbox Zero posts happened!
My favourite OH in ages happened today: "Do trees get itchy?"
Things I hadn't released before arriving in Japan: coffee culture here is off the charts good!
"Conversation > comprehension > conviction". Opening speaker going hard at shared purpose. #mtpcon
