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James Mayes

@jamesmayes.bsky.social
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I do stuff with events, community, product. Author: amzn.eu/d/bQGmUNK LI: www.linkedin.com/in/jmayes Last gig: Co-founder & CEO Mind The Product. Next is Rodeo. 🤠

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James Mayes @jamesmayes.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
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!
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James Mayes @jamesmayes.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
This evening's audio flashback is heavy beats and Gregorian Chants.
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James Mayes @jamesmayes.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
New season on House of Windsor looking pretty lively for winter.
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James Mayes @jamesmayes.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Can someone go hug the very thirsty LinkedIn person who came up with this?
Image shows desperate notification from LinkedIn App wanting attention.
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James Mayes @jamesmayes.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
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.
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James Mayes @jamesmayes.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
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.
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James Mayes @jamesmayes.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
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!
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James Mayes @jamesmayes.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Does any other training montage ever come close to Matrix in the Dojo?
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James Mayes @jamesmayes.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
New winner for most pointless notification?
Image shows notification for "Deleted account joined Telegram"
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James Mayes @jamesmayes.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Some fresh learning and efforts on the road to recovery. lnkd.in/eQ7HxNkb AI image, personal post.
Image shows a street sign for the path of most resistance, driving recovery with every step.
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James Mayes @jamesmayes.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Hove beach. Happy place.
Photo shows Hove beach around sundown
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James Mayes @jamesmayes.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
If you're thinking about what lunch or dinner might be, I made you dis!
Image shows salmon & roast veg plate, and a map with a reminder to eat Mediterranean, move more, let's put some of the wellness industry out of business!
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Mike Davidson @mikeindustries.com · 30/06/2025
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.
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James Mayes @jamesmayes.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
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!
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James Mayes @jamesmayes.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
If the Mediterranean diet and a brisk walk had a marketing budget, half the wellness industry would be out of work
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James Mayes @jamesmayes.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Anyone else always say please and thank you to GPT in preparation for when the robot overlords take over?
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James Mayes @jamesmayes.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
New favourite way to sear the fat on chops or steaks. This is genius simple.
Image shows two chops, fat side down being seared. They are leaning against each another to stay upright, and pinned with a simple cocktail stick so they don't need support.
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James Mayes @jamesmayes.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Beef Wellingtonton is just a posh sausage roll, discuss!
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James Mayes @jamesmayes.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
New on the journal, a session I delivered recently on personal resilience. open.substack.com/pub/jamesmay...
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A session on the resilience approaches
A session delivered at ProductTank London May 2025
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James Mayes @jamesmayes.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Has any song been played in more elevators than Girl From Ipanema?!
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James Mayes @jamesmayes.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Nothing to see here, just one of the world's best symphony orchestras smashing out Stravinsky in a well dressed stable!
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James Mayes @jamesmayes.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Pink Freud: the dark side of your mother.
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James Mayes @jamesmayes.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Blistering pace of the bullet train and some fine acid house is a perfect fit! KLF to the max.
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James Mayes @jamesmayes.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
In other news, a surprise explosion of Inbox Zero posts happened!
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James Mayes @jamesmayes.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Go on, have a video of a bullet train arriving.
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James Mayes @jamesmayes.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
My favourite OH in ages happened today: "Do trees get itchy?"
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James Mayes @jamesmayes.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Things I hadn't released before arriving in Japan: coffee culture here is off the charts good!
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James Mayes @jamesmayes.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
New up, positive health action we could all take: jamesmayes.substack.com/p/an-accessi...
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An accessible cancer risk reduction tactic for everyone?
In one of the early posts I wrote, I covered the value of cold showers.
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James Mayes @jamesmayes.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
"Conversation > comprehension > conviction". Opening speaker going hard at shared purpose. #mtpcon
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James Mayes @jamesmayes.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Always wanted a house band for #mtpcon - fabulous to be welcomed in with this clarion call today!
House band opening #mtpcon
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James Mayes @jamesmayes.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Where the product people at? Are hashtags worth much on BlueSky yet? It's #mtpcon day so perfect day to try!
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James Mayes @jamesmayes.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Latest on the brains journey: open.substack.com/pub/jamesmay...
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2025... LET'S FUCKING GO!
Thoughts on the power of Vision and the latest update
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James Mayes @jamesmayes.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
RIP Roberta Flack 😭
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James Mayes @jamesmayes.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
I mean, coffee is alright but have you tried TEA!? End of a week's snowboarding and finally found the loose leaf Ceylon. Restorative! Let's go throw ourselves down again!
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James Mayes @jamesmayes.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
I wrote a new thing, still learning more about food as medicine in the fight against #cancer. open.substack.com/pub/jamesmay...
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Making things more accessible
The value of preparation
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James Mayes @jamesmayes.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
This remains by far my favourite LinkedIn endorsement!
Screenshot shows 26 LinkedIn endorsements for Kicking Ass
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Brian Corcoran @briancorcoran.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
We made it - the 83rd and final day of January!
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James Mayes @jamesmayes.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Breakfast hot take: The entire health & nutrition industry is a multi-billion dollar empire built on making you forget that ‘eat Mediterranean, do cardio’ is basically the whole playbook.
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Mike Butcher @mikebutcher.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
With a convicted felon now in the Whitehouse, and Jan 6 insurrectionists pardoned, can someone please explain to me whether *the rule of law* still applies in the USA?
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James Mayes @jamesmayes.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
🤯
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James Mayes @jamesmayes.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Quick write up of an anti-cancer snack I started messing with! open.substack.com/pub/jamesmay...
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Mixing it up!
An anti cancer snack.
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James Mayes @jamesmayes.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Anyone else hear "Storm Eowyn" and immediately make the jump to playing Riders on the Storm in their head?
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James Mayes @jamesmayes.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Timeline cleanse, have a sleeping pup!
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James Mayes @jamesmayes.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
One year anniversary of my craniotomy yesterday! Wrote some words, a mix of the dietary approaches I'm exploring now and a visualisation exercise I used back then to get me through some tough times. jamesmayes.substack.com/p/welcome-2025
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James Mayes @jamesmayes.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
A year ago today I walked into brain surgery like this to remove a 9cm tumour, right temporal lobe. A year of treatment since & now I'm thriving. An investment raise next for Rodeo & a ski holiday with my loved ones. Always believe.
James walking into neurosurgery, ready to take it on.
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James Mayes @jamesmayes.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Request for Music! I'm a sucker for Vanessa Mae's electro classical strings. What else should I be listening to?
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James Mayes @jamesmayes.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Since today is the anniversary of the eye test that changed my life, I'll use it to remind you to book yours if you haven't recently. If you weren't aware, opticians can spot high cholesterol, diabetes & even brain tumours. Life saving warning system & totally non invasive. Please share.
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randy silver @randysilver.outofowls.com · 10/01/2025
Hey! For the last six(!) years, Lily Smith and I have been talking to amazing people on The Product Experience podcast every. single. week. 🎙️What (or who!) do you want to hear in future episodes? Help us craft podcast episodes that truly matter to you. 👉 forms.gle/vWxXtB1JntvK... #Product
The Product Experience, a Mind the Product podcast, with Lily Smith & Randy Silver - logo and headshots
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James Mayes @jamesmayes.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Tracy Chapman's Tracy Chapman: name a more powerful album, I'll wait.
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EJ @evj.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
This should be a way of life. Not a diet, a lifestyle. @jamesmayes.bsky.social has an incredible substack about his efforts to counter the devastating effects of a brain tumour, and resulting treatments. This one has a great recipe for baking anti cancer bread open.substack.com/pub/jamesmay...
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Anti cancer baking
The healthiest sourdough ever baked? Maybe!
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