Every occurrence that involves multiple people engaging intensely in a short period of time represents a unique ‘Time-compression event’… These are typically highly-focused opportunities for both systematic and serendipitous interaction within self-identified communities. Each event is effectively a dynamically forming, constantly morphing, mesh network of attendees — a powerful way in which to compress the equivalent of human-months’ worth of idea exchanges, relationship developments, and more, into the time & space of (on average) just 2.5 days…. Going to one of these is like tumbling through a wormhole in space-time, being accelerated by a factor of 40x (e.g. 90 days of interactions in 2.5 days), and tumbling back out into normality.

— Ajay Royan, Managing Partner at Mithril