Post by Mohammad Dayem A.

I'm building something that probably isn't for most people. And I'm okay with that. Recently a friend and I tried to have a Socratic dialogue about religion. Within two minutes he said: "I already know the answer. I just want to hear your views." And that was it. Dialogue over before it started. Not because he was a bad person. But because nobody ever taught him — or most of us — how to actually think *with* someone instead of *at* them. We've built incredible platforms for sharing opinions. Almost none for questioning them. Epistemic practice — the discipline of genuinely examining what you believe and why — is one of the most important skills a person can develop. It's what separates inquiry from performance. It's what makes it possible to sit with someone who sees the world differently and actually learn something, including about yourself. But it's hard. It requires you to hold your own views loosely. To ask questions you don't already know the answers to. To treat confusion as progress rather than failure. Socrates called this aporia — the productive state of not-knowing. Most of our conversations are designed to avoid it. I want to build something designed to pursue it. So here's what I'm working on: A web and mobile app — think Slowly.app but for Socratic dialogue — where anonymous users are matched to explore charged topics together. Religion. Morality. Free will. Political legitimacy. Not to debate. Not to convert. To genuinely inquire. The platform will coach users on the Socratic method before they begin, guide them through responses in real time, and gently flag when a message reads more like a declaration than a question. Think of it less like a forum and more like a dojo — a place you come to practice a discipline, not win a match. I'm building this in public and looking for collaborators who find this as important as I do. Designers. Developers. Philosophers. People who've thought deeply about online discourse, epistemic culture, or behavior change. People who've sat across from someone they disagreed with and genuinely wondered: what if I'm missing something? This won't be for everyone. If you're comfortable in the echo chamber, if jingoistic tribalism feels like community to you, there are plenty of platforms built for that. But if you want to think better — if you're tired of conversations that confirm rather than challenge — come help me build the dojo. [Drop a comment, DM me, or share this if you know someone who'd get it.]