The Origin Story
It wasn't planned. Nobody sent a calendar invite. No one built a Slack channel.
Someone brought pastries. Someone else showed up in a hand-knit toque that could be seen from space.
A bottle of something sparkling materialized next to a can of Celsius, because apparently
we contain multitudes. There was Godiva chocolate. There were mugs that didn't match.
Three men sat around a table in a condo lounge and talked about things that actually matter —
somewhere between "how are you, really?" and "what are we even doing with our lives?"
That was it. That was the whole founding moment.
No manifesto. No mission statement. Just a round table and the radical act of showing up.
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Eat
Someone always brings something. Quality varies. Enthusiasm does not.
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Talk
About work, life, the void, relationships, dreams, and occasionally cryptocurrency. Nobody's perfect.
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Listen
The part most men's groups forget. Turns out just being heard fixes half of everything.
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Wear Questionable Hats
Optional but encouraged. The toque is aspirational, not mandatory.
The Rules
1. Show up. That's it. That's the rule.
2. Bring food or don't. We'll judge you quietly either way.
3. What's said at The Table stays at The Table.
Unless it's genuinely good advice, in which case, share freely.
4. No fixing. Sometimes a man just needs to say a thing
out loud without another man immediately trying to solve it.
5. The toque is earned, not given. We don't actually know
how it's earned yet. We'll figure that out.
