🐺 9 Events and a New Year filled with connections!

Howl yeah, it’s the last Monday of 2024!

Happy New Year's Eve Eve!

I’ll spare you yet another year-end list and instead share something I’ve been thinking about a lot this year: Potential Energy.

Am I a physics expert? Absolutely not. I’m talking about building potential energy within a community: the ability to give to others without asking for anything in return. It’s a shift away from a “matcher” mindset (if you’ve read Givers and Takers by Adam Grant).

Hold up, I’ve skipped “takers”? I did this on purpose. Friend of the pack and wise coyote Ashok once told me: a community has a way of weeding out those who only take.

I’m no stranger to the idea that we all need something or we could all benefit from help in some way. But I find it far more powerful to offer support without any strings attached. Do I need help sometimes? Of course, tons of it. But my mindset is less about tracking and recalling favors and more about paying them forward.

There are many ways to do this. One is curating tech events (which might be why you’re here). Another is highlighting the cool things coyotes in our community are doing—elevating others and making sure they’re on our radar. Not only is this fun, but it also helps us more easily build a web of connections across the city.

The most important thing we can all do is connect people together. It’s actually really simple: double opt-in a connection, start a group chat, then back away and see if there’s a spark. It doesn’t always work, but when it does? Magic. And you’ve just added some goodwill to the ecosystem. Zap.

Why am I barking up this tree so much? Because as more people offer their energy, something special happens: the community feels more interconnected. Founders meet the right people a little easier; investors find quality companies a little faster, businesses grow, and they hire new people. We all benefit from this energy-building around us.

We could focus on recalling favors, or we could focus on building an even better ecosystem to play in. The latter always comes back around, often in much more beneficial ways.

2024 was great, but I’m looking forward to 2025.

Howl yeah!

Here’s what we can get excited about this week:

🐺 Friday January 3

• SD Founders Hike at 6:30 AM - Torrey Pines Gliderport 🐾 

• Founder Fridays at 7:30 AM - Solana Beach

🐺 Saturday January 4

• AI and Machine Learning Social at 4:00 PM - Mission Valley

Here’s what we can get excited about next week:

🐺 Thursday January 9

• Triton Tank at 2:00 PM - UCSD

• Meet the VC at 4:30 PM - UCSD

🐺 Sunday January 12

• Weekend Function() { Meet and Learn from Local Software Developers } at 12:00 PM - Little Italy

Looking for a new career vibe in 2025?

We’re launching Coyote Careers in the new year! Picture this, a simple, easy-to-navigate list of curated San Diego tech jobs sent every Monday. Don’t worry event seekers, we’ll be rolling it out as its own publication to preserve the Social Coyote events newsletter.

Where do the opportunities come from? Great question: trusted recruiters and headhunters we know personally, ensuring each one is a high quality opportunity and we can give ‘em a call if we need to.

Get on the list, Coyote Careers is launching soon!

A few more upcoming events to have on our coyote radars 📡 

• ($) 7CTOs: The 11th CTO Colloquium

• Dent:AI Startup Showcase Reception approval required

• ($) TechCon SoCal use code: CoyoteCode

Howl yeah and Happy New Year,

Jonah “the Howl Guy” 🐺
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