A satirical mirror. Same structure, same dates, one word changed.

Why this exists

The rest of the year.


Two festival days come to fourteen hours. These are the other eight thousand seven hundred and forty-six.

Mentorship

Six-month pairings, matched by hand, free at both ends.

Two rounds a year. You say where you are, where you are trying to get to, and what you are avoiding. Somebody reads that and pairs you with a person who has already done it, rather than an algorithm pairing you on job title.

Mentors get a short brief and a suggested cadence. There is no curriculum, because the most useful thing a mentor does is answer the question the mentee is embarrassed to ask their manager, and that has never needed a framework.

Length
Six months
Cost
Free, both sides
Rounds
Twice a year
Matching
By hand

Speakers Hub

A public list, so nobody can say they could not find one.

Searchable by topic, by city, and by whether the person has spoken before. Anyone in the community can add themselves, and adding yourself does not require a showreel or three previous stages.

The single most common reason a line-up ends up looking like every other line-up is that the organiser asked four people they already knew. This is the list to check first.

Entry
Self-added
Filters
Topic, city, experience
Cost
Free to list, free to search
Vetting
None, deliberately

Founders Hub

For the men running agencies and products, about the parts nobody warns you about.

Cash flow, first hires, the client you should have fired a year ago, and what to do in the month where you cannot pay yourself. A smaller room, on purpose, because these conversations do not happen at scale.

No pitching, no investor introductions, no growth theatre. If somebody wanted a podcast about scaling they would already be listening to one.

Size
Capped, deliberately
Format
Monthly call
Cost
Free
Pitching
Not allowed

Knowledge

Long-form technical writing from members. Edited properly. Paid for.

One piece a month, commissioned, with a real editor and a real fee. Nobody is filling a content calendar with it, nobody is trading it for a link, and it will never be somebody else’s study with the numbers reworded.

Datasets and queries published alongside the piece. A finding you cannot check is a finding you cannot use.

Cadence
Monthly
Writers
Paid
Editing
Real editor
Data
Published

Virtual events

Monthly online sessions, small enough that you can actually ask your question.

Capped attendance, cameras optional, and a genuine Q and A rather than four planted questions and a demo. Recorded for members who could not make it, with the chat stripped out.

One session a quarter is a clinic instead of a talk: bring the thing that is broken, and somebody looks at it with you.

Cadence
Monthly, plus clinics
Capped
Yes
Recorded
Yes, chat removed
Clinics
Quarterly

Interviews

Long conversations with people who have done the job for a long time.

Not a promotional circuit. The questions people are actually curious about: what they earn, what they got wrong, what they would not do again, and what they think the industry is quietly lying to itself about.

Published as transcripts as well as audio, because a lot of people would rather read for eleven minutes than listen for fifty.

Format
Audio and transcript
Length
Long
Sponsored
Never
Cadence
When there is one worth doing

All of it comes with membership.

Which is free, and stays free, and has no upsell at the end of it.

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