I’m looking for tech meetups that are for senior developers. Where are thoseeeee???

New week tomorrow. I am rested, I am ready, and I have things to build. Let's go. 🩷

Be the person who reaches out first. Without an agenda. Without keeping score. It changes the quality of every relationship you have.

If you are a community builder who is running on empty right now, I see you. This work asks you to pour constantly. Protecting your own energy is not optional. It is part of the job description. Build that in.

I do not know exactly who I am becoming but I like the direction. That is enough for today.

The muscle of building from nothing does not atrophy. You just keep applying it to bigger things.

If you are in Atlanta, come on a walk with me. I have already asked 200 people and I will keep asking. The answer is always worth hearing.

My fiancé, my cat, my mortgage, my city. That is the whole lineup. I would not change a single piece of it.

Stop measuring what is easy to count. Start paying attention to what your members say when they describe the community to someone who has never heard of it. That language is your strategy. That feeling is your brand.

Going into next week with the venue confirmed, chats on the calendar, and walks on the schedule. The pieces are in motion.

The Network of Atlanta. RenderATL. 9,000 emails. 200 walk invitations. All of it comes from the same origin: I looked around, did not see what I needed, and decided to build it myself.

Everything good I have right now required faith before it had form. I keep that close on Sundays.

I spent this week in one city having more meaningful conversations than most people have in a month of travel. That is what happens when you stop moving long enough to actually be somewhere.

World Cup in Atlanta this summer. I keep asking because I want to see our city show up. Not just talk about it. Actually be there.

I want to be the kind of person people feel safe calling when things are hard. I work on that quietly.

My cat is doing her Sunday reset too. We are synced.

Before the week starts, who do you owe a real conversation to? Not a text. A real one. Make it happen.

The most powerful community moments are almost never the ones you planned. They happen in the hallway, in the group chat after, in the parking lot on the way out. Your job as the builder is to create the conditions. What people do inside them is the actual magic.

Sunday. Slow it all the way down. I earned this one.

Give credit generously and often. You literally cannot run out of it and the return on it is enormous.

The thing that makes The Network of Atlanta different is intention. We did not build a list. We built a room that people want to come back to. That distinction is everything.

Walks I took with near strangers this week turned into real conversations. That keeps happening and I am still not over it.

I hope wherever you are this weekend there is someone who makes you feel completely at ease. That is a specific gift and it matters.

The best decision I ever made was to stop waiting until I felt ready and just start. Still making that decision. Still not regretting it.

If you are building a community and you are exhausted, look at whether you have created enough structure for the community to sustain itself without you. Dependency on the founder is a design flaw, not a loyalty badge.

The venue is locked. The chats are stacked. The walks are scheduled. I do not know what I expected from this week but it exceeded it.

Something I believe deeply: the relationships built around shared work outlast any single job, title, or organization. Invest in the people, not just the project.

Loving people well is a practice. It requires showing up when it is inconvenient and paying attention when it would be easier not to.

The communities with the longest lifespans are not the ones that grew fastest. They are the ones where members trusted each other most. That trust is built through experience, consistency, and time. You cannot shortcut it.

My cat is supervising my weekend from the couch. She has strong opinions about my schedule and I have stopped questioning them.