Expand Your Intelligence
A sedated population is easier to control.
The conversation is over. You said all the right things. So why does it feel like you never spoke at all? The real question — the one you can’t yet defend — never made it into the room.
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Founding membership. Cancel anytime.
The problem
Ten years ago, two people sat in the same seminar room — both sharp enough that people argued over which one was sharper. Last month, one of them hit a real question, typed the gist into an AI, took the smoothed-over answer, and moved on. Ninety seconds. Felt like thinking. The other brought the same question to people who’d take it apart whether they liked it or not, and left with something neither of them would have reached alone. Ask either one when they last sat with a hard thought longer than it took to find the easy answer, and you’ll find the difference that explains everything else.
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In 2025, MIT’s Media Lab wired up 54 people writing essays. The group using an AI assistant showed the weakest brain connectivity of the three tested — and afterward, many couldn’t quote their own essay back.
MIT Media Lab, 2025 ↗What a session is
Ninety minutes. One real question or one unfinished piece of work on the table — not the version you’d put in an elevator pitch. Cameras on. No lurking, no narrating the work from the outside. A group small enough that you can’t hide in it, people who showed up with something real, and a question that has to be answered out loud, now, by someone who actually has to listen first.
The Circle — Founding Membership
Everything that’s running at launch
An intellectual refuge: a place to bring the question you keep to yourself and work on it with people who showed up to actually think, not perform.
- Two live 90-minute conversation salons a month
- One guest Q&A with a working practitioner
- A monthly project-circle check-in
- A full recordings archive
- A members-only discussion space
You’d be one of the first people in the room — helping set what this becomes, not arriving at something already finished. Founding pricing holds for the first members; once the founding cohort is set, the price moves to its standing rate.
For the skeptical
- US 12th-grade reading scores hit their lowest point on record in 2024. NAEP, 2024 ↗
- Confidence in generative AI tracks with less self-reported critical thinking. Microsoft Research & CMU, CHI 2025 ↗
- A tracked sample of nearly 400,000 US adults showed several cognitive scores falling since 2006 — a reverse of the Flynn effect. Dworak, Revelle & Condon, Intelligence, 2023 ↗
- Reading for pleasure on a given day fell from 28% to 16% between 2004 and 2023. iScience, 2025 ↗
Founding membership
$49/month, billed monthly, cancel anytime. Or $490/year — two months free.
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