A whole camp
in the Catskills.
Cabins in the woods, thirty teams, and three meals a day in one hall. Two and a half hours north of Manhattan, ours alone for the fourteen days. The only real difference from the camp you remember is what you leave with.
The location is doing more than it looks like it is.
Every accelerator that runs in a city loses to the city. People go home, take the meeting, keep the contract, sleep in their own bed and arrive with half a head. The programme becomes a calendar invite.
Put thirty teams somewhere with one road in and the arithmetic changes. The only people to talk to at eleven at night are the other twenty-nine teams, and every one of them is two days ahead of you on something and two days behind on something else.
That is what the Catskills are for. Not the view, though the view helps at 6am on the morning the deploy finally goes green.
- Getting there
- Two and a half hours north of Manhattan. Coaches run from the city on check-in morning, and back again at the end.
- Sleeping and eating
- Cabins on site, shared by team, and three meals a day in one hall. Nobody books a hotel and nobody eats at a desk alone.
- Building
- One large build hall, a scatter of smaller rooms for calls, and proper fibre at every desk. A camp in setting only.
- Phones
- Every camera in the place is one more angle on your story, and the founders who film the most of it are the ones people follow out.
Friday, October 2 to Saturday, October 17.
Coaches leave Manhattan on the morning of check-in. Bring a laptop, two weeks of clothes, and whatever you were already going to build.
