A PRACTICAL INSTRUMENT FOR POLITE OUTSIDERS

The Well-Informed
Interloper

Enter a new room with enough context to be interesting, and enough humility not to be unbearable.

The world you are walking intoThe place that matters

The roomYour honest starting point

Who will be there?What might you eventually bring to the conversation?Optional note to the machine

A necessary embarrassment: this generates conversational orientation, not verified local research. Anything precise gets checked before it gets repeated over canapés.