When I moved to San Francisco a couple years ago the city was still pretty dead from the pandemic. I knew a lot of people were here cuz I saw them online, but there was no obvious place to meet up in person. So gf and i started going to the same beer hall every week and calling it "Office Hours". I would post about it on Twitter and we texted our friends the first few times, but after a couple weeks the ball kept rolling by itself. Other people started doing it in New York, Philly, then more and more places. It became a tpot institution. anybody can make an office hours happen just by posting about it and showing up. worst case scenario is you drink a couple beers by yourself and read Twitter.. you were going to do that anyway. We figured out some guidelines, The DNA of the event. Regular time and place, announce it online, bring a rubber duck or some other totem so people can recognize you. Some people made a website and the communities post their locations and times to it. It's all decentralized and organic. in San Francisco whoever has the duck has to post about it and it changes hands every week. And you show up even if nobody posted about it cuz you know the place and time. Ignore all rumors of cancellation or organization! This is a super lightweight tradition. It only takes a little bit of patience, and the effects are huge. multiple couples have met at office hours. businesses have been started. conversations at office hours are 6 months ahead of front page of New York Times. you can just do things + focus on what you want to see + meet your mutuals Office Hours. (how it started / how it's going)

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