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Jess Janz
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The Table where We Meet: Lessons Learned from Dinner with 1000 Strangers
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2026
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2 editions
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The Table Where We Meet: Lessons Learned From Dinner With 1000 Strangers
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“The best way we can take care of ourselves is to tend to the unique and specific calibration of rest, reprieve, and reset that we personally need. Sometimes that looks like seeking comfort and sometimes that looks like nudging ourselves out of our comfort zone. Sometimes that looks like dancing it out with thousands of people at a concert, or turning the phone to silent and reading a book for eight hours, or going on a long walk with an old friend. It’s paying attention to our reserves and our limits and not forcing ourselves to act a certain way out of obligation.”
― The Table where We Meet: Lessons Learned from Dinner with 1000 Strangers
― The Table where We Meet: Lessons Learned from Dinner with 1000 Strangers
“Even though I host dinners upward of twice a month, it’s 98
percent a new group every time, so we’re hitting reset on the experience
with every dinner. It’s not like a yoga studio or a book club or a weekly
meet-up where everyone’s seeing the same people on a regular basis,
building on their connections each time. I wonder if it’s building community
insofar as guests are experiencing and practicing a fresh way of interacting,
asking an intentional question, listening to every person in the room answer,
and seeing how impactful that can be, and then maybe bringing that practice
back to the communities they’re already a part of.”
― The Table where We Meet: Lessons Learned from Dinner with 1000 Strangers
percent a new group every time, so we’re hitting reset on the experience
with every dinner. It’s not like a yoga studio or a book club or a weekly
meet-up where everyone’s seeing the same people on a regular basis,
building on their connections each time. I wonder if it’s building community
insofar as guests are experiencing and practicing a fresh way of interacting,
asking an intentional question, listening to every person in the room answer,
and seeing how impactful that can be, and then maybe bringing that practice
back to the communities they’re already a part of.”
― The Table where We Meet: Lessons Learned from Dinner with 1000 Strangers
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