Meeting
Chris & Judd Chat About Design
Gist
Chris caught up with Judd Lyon, an agency friend, covering networking plans, EO/forum-style peer groups, and design experiments. Chris invited Judd to a small agency lunch Thursday in Dunwoody, discussed possibly starting a monthly peer-advisory group for agency owners/fractionals (inspired by his EO forum) and got a recommendation to talk to Carrie Hayne who runs a similar group. They also swapped notes on Sahil's conversion-focused event in Florida, Judd's new Exit 5 Atlanta ambassador role hosting events at Colony Square, and Chris showed off several experimental Figma website concepts (Batman-inspired IT site, Multidots redesign, and a Paul Carpenter passion project) built using Jack McDade's radical design course approach.
Distilled from the transcript by claude-sonnet-5 · Jul 25
What came out of it
Decisions2
- Chris decided to invite Judd to the small Thursday lunch in Dunwoody at Lazy Dog after other invitees dropped out.
- Chris is leaning toward not renewing his EO membership in favor of building his own peer-group format.
Risks and blockers4
- Chris is now below the EO million-dollar revenue threshold and could not rejoin the same forum group if he leaves.
- Chris knows people who tried to copy EO's forum format and failed, so he's wary of directly copying it.
- Chris admits his own weakness is cutting people off, which could let one person dominate a peer-group conversation.
- Original research/data study idea may be cost-prohibitive for either of them alone.
Open questions3
- What exact format would Chris's new monthly agency-owner peer group take?
- Whether Judd and Chris could partner with Sahil or Winter to get anonymized data for a joint research study.
- Whether enough Exit 5 members will show up to Judd's first Atlanta happy hour event given it's summer.
Next steps4
- ClientJudd will join Chris, Mickey, Ryan Clee, and Katie Wagner for the small agency lunch Thursday at Lazy Dog in Dunwoody.
- ClientJudd will email Chris and connect him with Carrie Hayne about how she structured her peer-advisory group.
- UnassignedChris and Judd will consider teaming up on original research using data from Sahil's company (Winter/Spiralize-type data).
- ClientJudd will put Chris in touch with the Colony Square venue contacts (Sasha and Zoe) for booking lunch spaces.
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