One of you asks. The other answers.

If you’re listening, you can ask follow up questions. That’s all. No fixing, no advice, no explaining why they’ve got it wrong.

You can pass on any question. You don’t have to say why and nobody will ask.

Nothing has to happen after an answer. You don’t need a response ready, and there’s no hurry to move on.

There are no good answers. The only thing that matters is finding out something you didn’t know.

Do we need to be in the same room?

It works best with a phone each, sitting together. One of you starts and gets a code, the other types it in. It also works over a call, or on one phone handed back and forth. Whoever is asking sees the question first and reads it out, so you hear it before you read it.

How does it choose the questions?

It starts light and goes deeper as you go, and it never goes further than the more cautious of you allowed. Nothing repeats.

Can the other person see how deep I chose?

No. You each choose on your own screen and neither of you is told what the other picked. The conversation follows whichever of you chose the shallower. You can change your mind at any point and nobody is told that either.

Is anything I say recorded?

No. There is nowhere to type an answer and no microphone, so none of it passes through this at all.

So what is kept, and for how long?

While a conversation is running, one line: your first names, which questions have come up, and how deep you’ve got. That is what lets you back in if your phone locks. It is deleted the moment either of you ends the conversation, and after twelve hours if you both just walk away. There are no accounts.

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