Category: EventsCategory: Events

All our events next week are FREE AND OPEN TO EVERYONE!

◾ CO-WORK ESCAPE POD
Make a podcast, tune your guitars, clean your desktop, finish your taxes – together!
Talk about what you’re working on (or not), camera on or off, stay for the whole thing or not – this is our chill (free) corner on the internet.
Tuesday, March 31 from 12:00-2:00 PM EST: https://luma.com/y2n7ghry

◾ LIVE WITH MAX PETE VIA SUBTACK

“The tech dream is a nightmare… more people I talk to that are in this industry want to leave and do something else—like work at the coffee shop, work at Trader Joe’s—but don’t know how to do that or feel like they can’t.”

That’s a quote from our chat in August 2025, so make sure you tune in LIVE and see how much more disillusioned we are seven months later.
Wednesday, April 1 at 10am EST

◾ ESCAPE POD #113 W/ CECILIE MARIA NIELSEN AND NIKKI LERNER
​Both Cecilie Maria Nielsen and Nikki Lerner are deeply musical people who started their own choirs, and that act of gathering voices is what brings them together as our next special guests!
Thursday, April 2 from 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST: https://luma.com/tadh4hgz

◾ CO-WORK ESCAPE POD
Update your Notion setup, back up your photos, fix your website – come hang out!
Tuesday, March 24 from 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST: https://luma.com/ypw1g1z7 

◾ FOCUS ESCAPE POD: 
BUILD AND HOST YOUR OWN LINK-IN-BIO PAGE IN 90 MINUTES
Wednesday, March 25 from 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM EST
Register here: https://luma.com/dheuyuxa

◾ ESCAPE POD #112 – Back to our normal time!
The prompt? “​Save money on gas, buy books!” What?!
Thursday, March 26 from 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST: (Members only, start your first month here)

TOMORROW!
◾ MINI ESCAPE POD Q&A #32
Got two spots open – come ask me about websites, sales pages, building an email list!
Friday, March 13 from 9:00 AM – 9:45 AM EST: (Members only, start your first month here)

NEXT WEEK!
◾ CO-WORK ESCAPE POD
Work on taxes, your website, your scales, your paintings, your opera, your ballet.
Tuesday, March 17 from 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST: https://luma.com/74xh39db

◾ SUBSTACK LIVE WITH MAX PETE

“The tech dream is a nightmare… more people I talk to that are in this industry want to leave and do something else—like work at the coffee shop, work at Trader Joe’s—but don’t know how to do that or feel like they can’t.”

That’s from my talk with Max Pete last year – tune in next week!
Wednesday, March 18 from 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST (just be on Substack)

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I just make these up as I go along, flowing from one idea to the next (need to do another “get our photos off the cloud” meet up again).

I’ve definitely been influenced by reading Cory Doctorow’s book ‘Enshittification,’ about getting away from the megacorp tech companies, and this Focus Escape Pod is a proper step in that direction.

On Wednesday, March 25 I’ll be hosting a 90 minute Zoom call, and there will be a “cohort” on the Discourse platform (not Discord), too.

It’s not like I’m the super best instructor guy for this. Sure, I’ve been noodling around on the web since the mid 90s, but there’s people who know more than I do about all this, which is why I’m asking them join us and help folks understand a little bit more about HTML, uploading files, DNS, and all that fun stuff. We’re gonna make the “scary stuff” a lot less scary.

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On Tuesday, March 3rd at 10am EST I’ll be talking with artist, photographer, website builder, fog enjoyer, Noah Kalina on Substack Live.

I believe you can get a reminder if you sign up here, but I still don’t know how anything works on Substack.

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