Say Something

Crossing 1's fieldwork — walk up to someone you've never spoken to and start a real conversation, for a reason that isn't this course

Attention is the first currency this course spends, and the cheapest way to find out what a stranger’s is worth is to ask for a minute of it. That’s the whole of Crossing 1: no stall, no pitch, no assignment to point to — just you, someone you don’t know, and an opener that has to survive contact.

The brief#

Walk up to someone you don’t know and start a conversation that isn’t about this course.

The person at the same library table every week. Whoever’s ahead of you at the coffee cart with nothing to do but wait. Someone standing at the edge of a room where everyone else already seems to know each other — that edge is where Crossing 1 actually happens. “So, what do you do?” is a start; a real reason to be talking to them is what makes it land. If the honest answer to “why did you say hello” is “for the mark,” find a different opener.

What you carry into next week#

Nothing written. Just the conversation itself, close enough to the moment that you can still say exactly what you asked, what surprised you, and what it cost you to walk over — How It Landed is where you tell the room. Come away with a short clip too — the first of the five Legacy asks for at the end. It’s your record of your Crossing, not a recording of them; if you want them in it, Policies says what that takes.

Crossing 1 · Week 1 · 27 July 2026