[{"insert": "Ten stages over two days, and the best conversation you have at this show will not be on a stage.\n\n"}, {"insert": "This is half an hour outside with one other attendee. You leave the floor together, walk west until the Hudson opens up in front of you, and then go up the ramp onto the old rail line with the whole west side of Manhattan behind you.\n\n"}, {"insert": "The walk gives you something to do. One of you asks, the other answers, and you swap at the next stop. Nothing to pitch, no badge scan. The prompts handle the awkward part, and the walking between them is where the real conversation happens.\n\n"}, {"insert": "The turn comes thirty feet up, on the line above the working rail yards: one question neither of you could put to a model. Then down into the square, a minute from the doors, where you each name one thing you'll actually do about today.\n\n"}, {"insert": "Badge on, phone in your pocket, back before the next session. You walk in with a decision instead of a list, and one person worth emailing.\n"}]