Share as much — or as little — as you want.
You control everything that runs, from your name and employer down to the last sentence. If, after our interview, you don't discover something you didn't know about yourself — or remember something you'd forgotten — we've failed.
Start the conversation →Pick your level of attribution.
Full attribution
Your name and your employer are named.
First name only
First name, no employer.
Discipline + company tier
e.g. “a systems engineer at a Redstone prime.”
Fully anonymous
No identifying details. First-person voice, nothing that traces back.
You pick your level. You can change it any time up to publish. If we can't fit your comfort, the piece doesn't run.
Seven steps from “maybe” to published.
- 1
A 30-minute call
Phone or Signal, your choice. We’re finding what’s actually interesting — not filling out a form.
- 2
A written questionnaire, seeded by the call
15–20 questions across six areas. Self-paced. Days or weeks is fine.
- 3
A short follow-up if we need to
About 20 minutes. Optional.
- 4
We draft the piece.
- 5
You review, line by line
Strike anything. Kill the whole thing if you want.
- 6
Your OPSEC / PAO review window
Two to three weeks, or as long as you need. We can do our own OPSEC-lens pre-read to flag anything obvious before it goes to your reviewer.
- 7
We publish
Any time after, if you want it pulled — down within 24 hours. No questions.
Six areas, about 15–20 questions total.
1. The path
How you actually got here — not the LinkedIn version.
2. The work
The specific desk, the specific problem, what you’re doing at 7:12 AM.
3. The hardest problem you’ve solved
One problem, walked through as a story.
4. What nobody tells you
The insider lesson. The thing only people in the work know.
5. The human bits
The commute, where you live, what you do with your hands off the clock.
6. The reflection
What you’d tell yourself ten years ago.
As informal or as serious as you want — the tone is yours.
What runs is yours.
- · Strike anything you don't want to run.
- · Kill the piece entirely at any point, up to publish and after.
- · If a published piece needs to come down, we take it down within 24 hours. No questions.
- · We don't publish before you sign off.
Hard lines.
- · No classified material. Ever.
- · Nothing that would embarrass your program, your team, or your family.
- · Nothing you haven't approved.
- · We don't share your data with recruiters. Ever.
About four hours, over a few weeks.
- 30-minute intro call
- ~90 minutes on the questionnaire (self-paced)
- ~20 minutes follow-up if we need it
- Whatever time you need for review and OPSEC/PAO
If after our interview you don't discover something you didn't know about yourself — or remember something you'd forgotten — our interview process has failed. That's the standard we hold ourselves to.
One email. That's all it takes.
Email Billy with the subject line Day in the Life. Tell me your discipline and one sentence on why you'd want to be featured. We'll take it from there.
Email Billy →
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