A practice space, not a curriculum

Train the craft of hosting conversations.

Hosting is a sport: it improves with reps, not with reading. UltraHosting gives you a palette of moves, timed games that isolate one skill at a time, tools for live conversations, and a field guide to raid in any order.

Five working principles

Everything on this site maps back to these. Each game trains one or two of them under time pressure.

The space

Where to start

Ten minutes, alone

The daily set

One set of Rapid Repair (8 rounds), one set of The Naive Ear (10 rounds), one Recap in One. Out loud, standing up.

Before a real conversation

Deal a hand

Open Palette Draw, deal two moves, and carry them into the dinner, meeting, or interview. Afterwards, mark what you used and log one note.

With a partner

Host for twelve minutes

One hosts, one guests, using the Table Timer to keep the host under 25% of talk time. Swap. The Ideas page has full formats.