James Mayes

This evening's audio flashback is heavy beats and Gregorian Chants.

New season on House of Windsor looking pretty lively for winter.

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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.

Simple good hydration, plenty of water before.

Absolutely. Noticeably smoother, felt like it made their job that bit easier and that shows.

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!

Poached egg on avo smash, toast is flax seed & dark rye sourdough.

Then I made me this! Avo smash with Pomegranate Seeds & Zaatar is a banger!

Great contender!

Does any other training montage ever come close to Matrix in the Dojo?

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New winner for most pointless notification?

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Some fresh learning and efforts on the road to recovery.
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AI image, personal post.

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Hove beach. Happy place.

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!

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.

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?

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New favourite way to sear the fat on chops or steaks. This is genius simple.

Beef Wellingtonton is just a posh sausage roll, discuss!

I wasn't to start with but I felt the benefit and they get strangely addictive!

A session on the resilience approaches A session delivered at ProductTank London May 2025

New on the journal, a session I delivered recently on personal resilience. open.substack.com/pub/jamesmay...

Classic for a reason!

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!

Me either till two weeks ago!

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Tokyo Bay edition

Pink Freud: the dark side of your mother.

"We are what we choose not to do" a smarter person than me once said! I sadly forget who.