What is covered, week by week, and which topics each lecture draws on.
Every lecture the course claims to run gets a dated page and a teaching-team
reference. A course decides how many lectures it needs; one of them carries a
real deck. related: connects lectures to the sessions and assessments they
feed.
Course Overview: Relationships as a Two-Party System
What the model is and isn't, why a two-party framing beats a first-person one, and what a case review actually asks of you
Week 1 · 22 February 2027
Price Discovery: Attraction and the Front-End
Attraction as the market's front-end — the signal a party broadcasts before any real information changes hands
Week 2 · 1 March 2027
Recurring Contracts: Interaction Frequency and Reliability
Why a relationship is better modelled as a recurring contract than a single transaction, and what reliability adds that attraction can't
Week 3 · 8 March 2027
Dependency Formation: The Real Balance Sheet
The five things a relationship actually puts on a party's balance sheet, and why counting only one of them causes most misreadings of "attachment"
Week 4 · 15 March 2027
Object Specificity: Why Substitutes Stop Working
What it means for a relationship to become specific to one counterparty, and why that's the point past which "just meet someone else" stops helping
Week 5 · 22 March 2027
Reciprocal Investment: Small-Scale Trust Tests
Why trust is built from small, reversible tests rather than declared, and what it means when one party keeps proposing tests the other declines
Week 6 · 29 March 2027
The Commitment Gate: Pricing Exclusivity
Exclusivity as a priced option — what each party gives up by taking it, and why the gate is where most cases stall
Week 7 · 5 April 2027
Situationship Case Studies: Three Failure Modes
Three named ways a commitment gate fails to close, and how to tell them apart from a case that's simply progressing slowly
Week 8 · 12 April 2027
Contract Design: Date / Exclusive / Official / Investment
Four named contract types past the commitment gate, what each one commits each party to, and why picking the wrong one is a design error, not a feelings error
Week 9 · 19 April 2027
Portfolio Monitoring: Behavioral Signals Over Self-Report
Why an ongoing position is monitored on behaviour, not on periodic self-report, and which signals are cheap to fake versus costly to fake
Week 10 · 26 April 2027
Risk Disclosure: Stop-Losses and the Black Swan Protocol
Setting a stop-loss before you need one, and what a black swan event does to a position that never set one
Week 11 · 3 May 2027
Course Retrospective: Applying the Full Model
Assembling framing, attraction, reliability, dependency, specificity, reciprocity, commitment, protocol, monitoring, and risk into one reading of a single case
Week 12 · 10 May 2027