Breakfast Clubbing #5

Week of May 13th. BK Classic, DTBK and Austin Texas on the docket this week. The faces and conversations the Hamptons and Brooklyn breakfast too. And BC enters the videocene with a new kind of recap.

Ben Dietz

May 13, 2024

No Agenda, no required buy-in, no need to RSVP. And no pitches.

Everyone pays their own way. And anyone can join the group here, too.

Breakfast Club Events this Week:

Breakfast Club Events Upcoming:

Weds, May 22: Philadelphia

Weds, May 22: Easthampton, NY

Fri, May 24: London

Last Week Briefly:

As Mike Wrote about the first Hamptons edition :

Recently I realized that I had, like, 5 friends out here and it really bummed me out.

The only way I made friends living anywhere I went was by hosting events, and I hadn't done that in a long, long time.

Startup Meetups. Steaknight. Silent Disco's.

You name it, that was how I made friends.

I stopped doing that. For years, even.

I'd become pretty insular.

Recently, after attending a few of Ben Dietz Breakfast Club events, I thought, "This is so easy that I'd be stupid to not do it here."

So I did.

And it was awesome.

And I feel like I'm slowly starting to rebuild that community that I'd lost.

Thanks again for everyone who attended. What a blast.

Veenerick Vos Van Liempt / Jonathan Shoemaker / Andrea Grover / Jim Porcarelli / Adam Donald / Kevin Kollenda / Emily Holmes Hahn / Phillip Lehans

Song: Skin on Skin by Franc Moody.

BC DTBK Last Week, courtesy of Kat Popiel

At my end, we talked about high rent in NYC, meet cutes, living above the place you work, all inclusive resorts, great American fashion brands, island culture & politics, bunking with your friends as adults, fried potatoes that move you & more.

Thanks to Marina Garcia-Vasquez for cohosting this week and to everyone that joined: Jeremy Judelson Thomas Murphy Donalee Curtis muhammida E. Thomas Cissel Andrew Via Andrew Tokar Not pictured: Ben Dietz Todd Sines

Meet Jeff Weiner & I every week at The Ace Brooklyn. Next one is Friday May 17th at 8:30am (we’ll be moving to Thursdays from May 23rd for the summer season)

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Meanwhile, back in Williamsburg, my report:

At my table we talked home pickling, exclusively wearing tennis gear, palette-based dressing, members clubs in Bushwick, Soho House & Co, celebrating the pioneers of house music, dancing the pain away, hip replacement, Universal Basic Income at $250k, the economics of selfishness, the Argentinian 10,000 peso bill, one bedrooms in the Bronx, growing up in Riverdale, the tyranny of gravity, Fundamentalco, PE companies owning agencies, secret giants, working where they sell what you wear, spinning up an LLC to hunt for apartments, deepfaking yourself, meatpuppeting a full team, Going to the BRXND conference, NeueHouse, the 'vertical artist village' at Water Street Associates, Emily Ratajkowski's Met Gala Afters fit, lit flights to the DR, clapping on planes, the "Miami Model," what could entice us to vote for Trump, the inherent perils of socialism, Cubans in Florida, the bell curve of unemployment, catalyzing an artistic revolution, why people become lawyers anyway, the give-get of boring careers, motivations beyond money, imagining a Pampers World activation for Throwing Fits, the failure of the long tail, Breakfast Club downtown Brooklyn and lots more.

And as Veenerick Noted:

And that was just at your table 👊🏼🔥

It was 22: Jose Castillo, Charles Bane III, Paul Greenberg, Ian Edgar, Marina Garcia-Vasquez, Stephen Penta, Nick Bodor, Matt Flickman 🎥 Hickman, Ryan Beltran, Dominic Counahan, Theo Erasmus, Elliot Aronow, Eva McCloskey, Jasmine Takanikos, Zachary Mallard, Leonardo Olafsson, Dan Barman, Donalee Curtis, Zaira Stefani Vallejo, Leann Abad, Joel Linkewer, David Gill. And me. And Samba the dog. 📸chris kenkelen at Le Crocodile Restaurant

Zach added:

We talked about how to write a grooms speech, AI and the illusion of thinking machines, do's and dont's of having custom menswear made (do get suits made, don't get shirts made?), watches, and the mystery of the missing fries.

And, per Marina:

We talked about building personal branding and rates commiserate with our experience to be of better service to creatives at large, especially in the face of AI and the ever shifting content landscape.

Theo’s Rejoinder:

New York Dive Bars in the 80s

While Alona’s Comment

The doodles!

Sparked a whole side conversation about Howard Gossage and [a] radio documentary for the BBC... - if that peaks your interest happy to send you the photos of Howard's graffiti wall, with contributions from Buckminster fuller, Tom woke, Marshall McLuhan and John Steinbeck...