Breakfast Without an Agenda

Not every breakfast needs to become a meeting.

There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from treating every conversation as potential deal flow. You stop listening for what someone means and start listening for where the exchange could lead.

The diner is a useful correction. The coffee is ordinary. The eggs arrive before the idea is fully explained. Nobody is building a deck.

The best conversations move without a destination. They cover work, mistakes, people we have not called recently, and the strange confidence required to order the same breakfast for ten years.

Trust compounds differently from capital. It grows through repeated moments that do not demand an immediate return.

Some opportunities begin at breakfast. The better breakfasts do not need to.