Rabbit Hole Club

Every meeting, written down

Somebody presents, and then five lines go up here with the sources underneath. Every meeting, back to the first one.

Updated

Next Friday, September 18 6–7 PM · Lawrence Hall 231

First presentations — officers

Sydney, Maddie and Samuel are presenting. Nobody else is on the hook.

The sheet from the 11th is on the site: twelve places to look, and ten lines. A poll about slots and dates follows the 18th.

Vote on the meeting time

The poll closes Sunday, September 20, and it sets the schedule for the rest of the month.

Meetings so far

Nothing here yet. The first meeting was August 28, 2026 — introductions and a demo talk rather than a claimed slot. September 11 was a brainstorming night at Schenley Plaza. Nobody presented and nothing was collected. The record starts with the first presentations on September 18, 2026.

What an entry is made of

The same five lines the field guide asks you to keep while you are down there. Fill them as you go and the entry writes itself, which is the point — nobody is going home and composing a summary later.

  1. One

    Question

    One sentence, in question form. The thing you actually wanted to know before you opened a tab.

  2. Two

    What I assumed

    What you thought the answer was going in. This is the line that makes the entry worth reading a year later.

  3. Three

    What’s actually true

    In your words rather than the source’s. Two or three sentences.

  4. Four

    Best source

    The closest thing to primary you reached, with its date. A study, a filing, a statute, a transcript.

  5. Five

    Still don’t know

    What the hour failed to settle. Somebody else can take it.

The field guide these come from →

Why the links and not the slides

Slides are built to be talked over. Read cold by someone who was not in the room they are mostly images with no explanation attached, and the useful part — where the presenter actually got it — is the part that gets left off the slide.

So the source list is the deliverable and it goes up every time. Slides are optional, and they only go up when the presenter says yes and can say that everything inside the file is theirs or clearly licensed. Most decks assembled in an afternoon will not clear that, and an entry with good links and no deck is not missing anything.

What goes up, and what never does

Always
  • The date and the room
  • The topic
  • The five lines
  • The presenter’s source links

That much goes up whether or not the presenter wants their name attached to it.

Only if you say yes
  • Your name — in full, or first name only
  • Your slides

Two separate questions on the slot sign-up, and no is a normal answer to either. You can change your mind after the fact and an officer will edit or pull the entry.

Never
  • Who came
  • Who said what in the discussion
  • Anything from the room that is not the presenter’s own summary

The hour only works if people can be wrong out loud in it first. Nothing anyone says while thinking out loud gets written down here.

Questions about any of this, or something you want taken down: rabbitholeclubatpitt@gmail.com.