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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.

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PurposeAbolish small talk by making every guest briefly an expert — you find out what people actually know in five minutes f…
VoteThe lesson most people want a follow-up on — what they’d actually read a book about.
RevealQ&A after each talk: the table has three questions and the expert must answer all of them.
Run of show

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.

A bespoke dinner-party concierge. Vote with conviction; bring something defensible. Themes · Playbook