Lectures
One shared lecture a week, every stream in the same theatre, for twelve weeks.
Lectures are shared: whatever stream you tutorial in, you hear the same hour. Week 6 is the only one that ships as a deck, and week 10 is not a lecture at all but three practitioners in fifteen-minute relay.
Week 01 · 22 February 2027
The Room Already Knows
Everyone in the room is already performing a professional identity, including the staff. The course's one rule is the difference between framing what is true and claiming what is not.
Week 02 · 1 March 2027
Reqspeak: A Field Guide to the Dialect of the Job Ad
A job advertisement is four documents stapled together, and only one of them describes the work. Learning to read the fourth is the whole lecture.
Week 03 · 8 March 2027
The Shape of the Distance
Gaps are not sizes, they are shapes. The three tiers, and why the specific version of a gap earns more respect than the vague one.
Week 04 · 15 March 2027
Receipts
The ninety-second verification, and what survives it. Converting activity into artefacts a stranger can check without you in the room.
Week 05 · 22 March 2027
The Load-Bearing Anecdote
Three prepared stories beat twelve improvised ones, and preparing is not dishonest. Structure, and the two failure modes that sink an anecdote.
Week 06 · 29 March 2027
Varnish, and How Much Is Too Much
Nobody assesses your work; they assess your work as presented. Where finish makes real work legible, and where it starts concealing thinness.
Runs from slidesWeek 07 · 12 April 2027
The Pre-Warmed Stranger
Outreach that is not cold: research a specific person, find a real reason, write something answerable in one line, and survive the silence.
Week 08 · 19 April 2027
The Plausibility Budget
How much unevidenced claim a document can carry before it collapses, and how to spot the same collapse in somebody else's.
Week 09 · 26 April 2027
Interview Weather
Interview mechanics, and the explicit separation of what you control from the weather you do not.
Week 10 · 3 May 2027
What They Wish You'd Asked
A guest relay: three practitioners, one per field, fifteen minutes each, on what candidates never think to ask and what it costs them.
Week 11 · 10 May 2027
Competence Lag
The first ninety days: asking for help without forfeiting credibility, learning in public, and setting a ramp you can actually hold.
Week 12 · 17 May 2027
Seamwork
The closing audit, delivered by the convenor as an audit of her own performance first: what was performed, what became true, and what to do about the difference.