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?

New winner for most pointless notification?

Some fresh learning and efforts on the road to recovery. lnkd.in/eQ7HxNkb AI image, personal post.

Hove beach. Happy place.

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?

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...

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!

Pink Freud: the dark side of your mother.

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!

Go on, have a video of a bullet train arriving.

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!

New up, positive health action we could all take: jamesmayes.substack.com/p/an-accessi...

"Conversation > comprehension > conviction". Opening speaker going hard at shared purpose. #mtpcon

Always wanted a house band for #mtpcon - fabulous to be welcomed in with this clarion call today!

Where the product people at? Are hashtags worth much on BlueSky yet? It's #mtpcon day so perfect day to try!

Latest on the brains journey: open.substack.com/pub/jamesmay...

RIP Roberta Flack 😭

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!

I wrote a new thing, still learning more about food as medicine in the fight against #cancer. open.substack.com/pub/jamesmay...

This remains by far my favourite LinkedIn endorsement!

We made it - the 83rd and final day of January!

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.

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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Quick write up of an anti-cancer snack I started messing with! open.substack.com/pub/jamesmay...

Anyone else hear "Storm Eowyn" and immediately make the jump to playing Riders on the Storm in their head?

Timeline cleanse, have a sleeping pup!

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

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.

Request for Music! I'm a sucker for Vanessa Mae's electro classical strings. What else should I be listening to?

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.

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

Tracy Chapman's Tracy Chapman: name a more powerful album, I'll wait.

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...

Cultural forecast: David Tennant will one day be referred to as a national treasure.