Teach Us Something
Every guest gets five minutes to teach the table one thing they’re irrationally good at or obsessed with — sabering champagne, poker math, how mortgages work, why Formula 1 matters, the fall of Rome. A TED-talk format that produces shockingly good conversation and zero small talk.
What it's for
Abolish small talk by making every guest briefly an expert — you find out what people actually know in five minutes flat.
The guest's job
Prepare a five-minute lesson on one thing you know unreasonably well; props, demonstrations, and handouts are encouraged.
The vote
The lesson most people want a follow-up on — what they’d actually read a book about.
The reveal
Q&A after each talk: the table has three questions and the expert must answer all of them.
Food & drink spine
Light food between talks; the host paces the dinner around the curriculum.
Conversation fuel
"What did you learn tonight that you genuinely didn’t expect?"
How it flops — steer around it
Five-minute lessons that run twenty. Set a hard clock and enforce it without mercy.