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Interactive Decision Stories — Season 1: The Semester

One semester, six decisions: exam-week favours, money choices, a dying society, a group project, roommate friction, and a December finale where every choice comes back — each episode trains one mental model by making you live it.

Ep 1 The Swap A 5-minute decision story: exam week, your best friend's interview, and one shift you can't get back. Three choices, real trade-offs, your reasoning recorded — trains second-order thinking by letting you live it. Week 1 Ep 2 The Ticket A 5-minute decision story: a festival weekend, a £120 course, and rent due in December — three ways to spend the same money. Three choices, your reasoning recorded, and a debrief that names the mental model: opportunity cost. Week 3 🔒 with Trailblazer Ep 3 The Society A 5-minute decision story: the society you co-founded is dying after six weeks. Quit clean, one more month, or a relaunch? Three choices, your reasoning recorded — and a debrief that names the mental model: sunk cost. Week 6 🔒 with Trailblazer Ep 4 The Group Project A 5-minute decision story: Marcus's whiteboard has no word for failure, the demo is in December, and Dan hasn't said a full sentence in three meetings. Three choices, your reasoning recorded — and a debrief that names the mental model: premortem. Week 8 🔒 with Trailblazer Ep 5 The Roommate A 5-minute decision story: dishes in the sink, 1am guests during your heavy night, and a note on the fridge you don't remember writing. Three choices, your reasoning recorded — and a debrief that names the mental model: steelman. Week 10 🔒 with Trailblazer Ep 6 December The Season 1 finale: five days — the demo, the birthday, the scholarship exam — five mental models in one week. Every decision you made since Week 1 shows up as your situation. Three outcomes, eight earned titles. Week 14 🔒 with Trailblazer

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