Fireside
One question travels the world. The gathering happens in your city.
I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.
We intend to actually hold that afternoon.
This week
Week 36 2026If this week were your last, what would you never do again?
“Every moment we live, all we lose is the present moment.”—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations II
Answer itNo one has answered yet. You go first.
No one has set a table this week yet.
This week's tables
The first table is waiting for someone to set it
Pick a time, say which neighbourhood, and keep it to eight or twelve people — more and no one gets to speak, fewer and it goes quiet. Only people who sign up see the address.
Around the world
Turn around, click a city
The question is the same. The time difference spread it over the whole day. When people from Taipei sat down in the afternoon, San Francisco was still the night before; by the time San Francisco gathered around the table, London had already gone to bed. It takes a full circle around the Earth to finish asking the same question.
No city is lit yet. The one you host will be the first light.
How it works
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One question a week, the same one everywhere. Not a quiz — the kind you can only answer by looking at yourself.
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Over the week, each person writes their own answer. How much, or whether at all, is up to you.
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Meet once in your own city — a vegetarian meal, tea, coffee — and go through the week's words face to face.
We are few, and mean to stay that way.