Six months. One thing you have been putting off.
A small cohort, a fixed length, and a commitment specific enough that everyone will know whether you did it.
[COHORT NAME — e.g. Cohort 02][STATUS — e.g. Applications open]
What it is
Not a course
There is no curriculum, no modules, and nothing to complete. You bring the thing. We provide the length, the cohort, the fortnightly check-in, and the uncomfortable fact that somebody is going to ask you about it.
The mechanism is not accountability in the usual sense. Nobody is grading you. It is that six months is long enough to make the excuse untenable and short enough that you can see the end of it from where you are standing.
The shape of it
- Months 1–2Set the thing down in writing
- One commitment, narrow enough to fail at visibly. Most people arrive with something far too large and spend the first fortnight cutting it down to something that can actually be started on a Tuesday.
- Months 3–4The part nobody photographs
- No launch, no breakthrough, no milestone. Repetition, and a schedule that has to survive a bad week. This is where the project is decided, and it is why it is six months rather than six weeks.
- Months 5–6Finish it, or say what stopped you
- Ship the thing. If it does not ship, we publish what happened anyway — accurately, with your name on it if you want it there and without if you do not.
Who it is for
And who it is not
It works for
- People with a specific thing, deferred for a specific and slightly embarrassing length of time
- People who can give it [HOURS] hours a week for six months
- People who would rather be asked directly than encouraged
It does not work for
- “I want to be more disciplined” — too vague to fail at
- Anyone looking for a coach, a mentor, or a network
- Anyone who wants the six months documented but not lived
What happened
The people who did it
Published as they go, including the months where nothing moved.