Our vision.
We believe disagreement — even hatred — is natural and inevitable. Progress is not. Progress demands a prerequisite: true understanding of where the other comes from.
Only when we steelman the other’s worldview — seeing it as they see it, in its strongest form — do we escape caricature.
Without it, we reduce one another to enemies, defined only by outrage and fear. With it, we gain clarity: the common ground from which real conversation, and real change, can begin.
Our vision is of a world where we empathize with the people, and sit with the perspectives, that seem most uncomfortable and undeserving. Only then, can we begin to build bridges that last.
And how?
It begins with willingness and exposure — the choice to step toward another and see them as they are.
Our role is to keep the space open. No debate. No performance. No agenda. Only the human.
We then set the frame: one voice at a time. Questions are mindful and honest, never a cross-examination. The purpose is specificity, not spectacle.
Each exchange is brief and unguarded — a detail, a memory, a before-and-after — enough to glimpse into the world that shaped it.
We preserve what is said as it arrives: context may be added by the speaker, never by us. Silence is welcome.
And over time, these accounts stand beside one another — each a piece of a larger picture. A collage of our time, assembled in human form.
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We aspire to ask questions that reveal the person, and not the position. Have a look at our question bank.
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We sit with people all across the spectrum of popular thought — the known, the ignored, and sometimes the polarizing. No one voice defines the story.
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One voice at a time, without debate or performance. Brief, unpolished exchanges that welcome what is said as it arrives.