Think about the last time you sat in a cafe, on a train or walked in a park and made a new connection with a complete stranger, or even someone you recognized yet was never close. The physical distance between people is so easily measured, yet the actual connections can be lightyears apart.

We invented the global network to bridge the oceans. We were looking forward to the absolute connection. We built social media apps, complex algorithms, video calls and instant messaging so that a voice from thousands of miles away could feel like it was right next to you.

And it worked. But at what cost? Looks like we only learned how to look far away, over what is right in front of us...

In the attempt to bring the far away closer, we pushed the immediate away. We learned how to be physically absent while mentally present, BUT also vice versa. Sitting shoulder-to-shoulder we now live parallel lives. How many of you actually know your neighbors in the new house? We engineered the ultimate tool to be closer to one another, only to end up on the same global stage by ourselves all together.

I spend my days studying the very logic and architecture that builds these systems. I respect the code, the syntax and the undeniable power of a well-engineered network. But there is a profound irony in using the most advanced communication tools in human history to avoid looking someone in the eye.

This is why the Daydreaming club exists.

It is not a rejection of the digital world - it is an attempt to reclaim the human element within it. I wanted to create a digital space that doesn't feel like endless scroll or spotlight stage, but rather a shared roundtable. A place where the text on the screen actually brings us into the same room, something real in the virtual world, yet in the same dimension.

It is an attempt, not an algorithm.

Welcome to the table.