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This morning I saw a headline about sobremesa, the Spanish word for the time after a meal when nobody gets up from the table and the conversation keeps going. It got me wondering how many big ideas came out of long conversations at a table. One answer is Birmingham, England, in the 1760s. A group of friends started meeting for dinner once a month, on the Monday closest to the full moon, so they'd have moonlight to ride home by. They called themselves the Lunar Society, and joked that they were lunatics. Who was at the table: - Matthew Boulton, who ran one of the biggest factories in England - James Watt, who was trying to make the steam engine work - Josiah Wedgwood, who turned pottery into an industry - Joseph Priestley, the chemist who isolated oxygen - Erasmus Darwin, doctor, inventor, and Charles Darwin's grandfather Boulton and Watt became partners. Watt had the engine and no money. Boulton had the money and a factory. Their engines went on to power the factories that came after. What stuck with me is that none of them had the full picture alone. A factory owner, an engineer, a chemist, and a doctor at the same table, every month, for years. Compare that to how most of us look for the next idea: same team, same meeting room, a 30-minute slot with a hard stop. So I'm curious: - Does anyone here have a version of this, a regular dinner or group with people outside your field? - Has a conversation like that ever changed what you built?   submitted by   /u/bookflow [link]   [comments]

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  • 发布时间：2026/10/18 00:03:00