1. Not the fediverse
2. Volkswagen
3. Canada
4. Andorra
5. Switzerland
6. FC Barcelona
7. Monopoly
8. Praxis
9. The advertising industry
10. Fox News
11. The Vatican
12. The Washington Post
13. Berghain
14. Hearst Castle
15. Burning Man
16. TED
17. House of Gucci
18. House of Beautiful Business
19. The Davis Cup
20. Bundesliga
21. Studio Babelsberg
22. Disneyland
23. A public square on Mars
24. NASA

We actually don’t know enough about football to write this list. However, we’re featuring three football experts at The Gathering in Tangier—FIFA agent Zineb Rechiche, chair of Women in Football Ebru Köksal, and former general secretary of the Federation of African football, Hicham El Amrani—who will be able to weigh in on this subject and more.

1. Arthur Schopenhauer
2. Emily Dickenson
3. Kara Swisher
4. Thomas Bernhard
5. Oscar Wilde
6. Virgina Woolf
7. Michel Houellebecq
8. Thomas Hobbes
9. Al-Ma'arri
10. Omar Khayyam
11. Oswald Spengler
12. George Orwell
13. William Blake
14. Theodore Kaczynski
15. Pope Francis
16. Agnes Taubert
17. Emil Cioran
18. Diogenes
19. Simone Weil
20. Michael Haneke
21. Sylvia Plath
22. Mary Shelley
23. Charles Bukowski
24. Quentin Tarantino

1. The Queen Consort is a major Justin Bieber fan.
2. William hasn’t read a single Charles Dickens’ novel.
3. King Charles’ favorite tea is not, in fact, Earl Grey, but chai.
4. Princess Beatrice is actually an AI clone.
5. Prince Philip never won a game of polo in his lifetime.
6. 3457 sweatshops contribute annually to the royal wardrobe.
7. The royal dog’s masseuse plans to publish her own tell-all memoir.
8. Zara Tindall refuses to buy anything from high-street chain Zara.
9. Queen Elizabeth’s favorite Netflix series was Alpha Males.
10. Meghan Markle is actually Elena Ferrante.
11. Kate Middleton is actually Banksy.
12. Archewell’s next production project is a behind-the-scenes documentary about the House of Beautiful Business.
13. Oprah has had a longtime crush on Prince William.
14. Kate Middleton wanted to name her firstborn X Æ A-14, but settled on her second choice, George.
15. Princess Charlotte is afraid of horses.
16. No living member of the royal family has ever been on the tube.
17. When surveyed, only Camilla, the Queen Consort, could accurately explain the relationship between Henry IV, Henry VI, and Richard III.
18. Harry and Meg tried to launch a crisp brand in the U.S. featuring jellied eel and black pudding flavors, but failed to secure investors.
19. King Charles longs to be the first non-American US president.
20. It’s an annual royal family tradition to stay up late on Christmas eve watching Die Hard on repeat.
21. No one in the royal family has ever used a vacuum cleaner.
22. When surveyed, neither King Charles nor the Queen Consort could list all the countries they reign over. They were delighted to learn they own Belize and are planning an upcoming beach vacation. They are still trying to find Tuvalu on Google maps.
23. After several bottles of claret, Prince William confessed his favorite ancestor is Henry VIII.
24. The royal chef has a garden of extinct fruit, including the Ansault Pear, the Taliaferro Apple, and the Madagascar Banana.

1. El Savador
2. Nicaragua
3. Cambodia
4. Vietnam
5. Chile
6. Bangladesh
7. Argentina
8. East Timor (Timor-Leste)
9. Honduras
10. Colombia
11. Bolivia
12. Ecuador
13. Paraguay
14. Uruguay
15. Panama
16. Guatemala
17. Haiti
18. Cuba
19. Peru
20. Russia
21. Venezuela
22. Mexico
23. Brazil
24. Dominican Republic

1. Your wedding
2. CES
3. House of Beautiful Business
4. The Academy Awards
5. An Ayahuasca retreat
6. Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum
7. The Beatles' reunion tour
8. The next Apple product launch
9. The Republican National Convention
10. A bullfight
11. 2001 - Odyssey in Space
12. The Champions League Final
13. A very exclusive date
14. One of the football tight ends' proposals to Taylor Swift
15. The Olympics
16. Summit at Sea
17. TED
18. The Metaverse
19. A 15 Toasts dinner
20. Cannes Film Festival
21. Rio Carnival
22. State of the Union
23. A rave
24. Tea time

Same as this year’s.

1. Can you take a break without feeling guilty?
2. Have you ever cut professional ties with someone because of personal differences?
3. How has your view of “having a career” changed in the last year?
4. Is there something (or someone) you refuse to coexist with?
5. Do you know any of your coworkers’ love languages?
6. Do you base your decisions on efficiency or longevity?
7. What was the last unethically sourced product you bought?
8. What mission are you currently on?
9. Are there any projects you abandoned midway that could be picked up again?
10. What person, dead or alive, would you want to go stargazing with?
11. Is inspiration overrated?
12. Do you remember the first toy you loved?
13. Are you where you thought you’d end up?
14. Do you place hidden messages in your work?
15. Who takes care of plants in your office, and in your home?
16. What if beauty was a metric?
17. What are you purposefully ignoring?
18. Do you always want to be right?
19. If your company had a zodiac sign, what would it be?
20. What would you do if you had no fear of failure?
21. Does your personal brand need a rebrand?
22. What was the best night of your life?
23. What dream did you have to let go of?
24. Action card: Write a note to your coworker thanking them for something they did.

LEARN MORE AND ORDER

1. Everywhere without stable internet (e.g. Deutsche Bahn)
2. San Francisco
3. Switzerland, maybe
4. OpenAI headquarters
5. Microsoft headquarters
6. Meta headquarters
7. Amazon headquarters
8. Apple headquarters
9. Fediverse
10. Metaverse
11. The VERSEverse
12. The House of Beautiful Business festival
13. Antarctica
14. Sahara
15. The vast interior landscape of your soul
16. Off-broadway theater
17. A film by Eric Rohmer
18. A hard copy of a good book, say Tremor by Teju Cole
19. Circus
20. A dinner with friends (but without phones)
21. A walk in the park
22. Inside the LLM black box
23. Hydra, Greece
24. The Camp Nou in Barcelona

1. It’s beautiful
2. It’s good for business
3. It’s good for you
4. The ideas
5. The actions
6. The people
7. The music
8. The movies
9. The dinners
10. The unexpected
11. The rooftops of Tangier
12. The seascapes of Arrábida
13. The life-centered economy
14. A mirror world
15. A parallel world
16. A better world
17. Dissent without dissing
18. Culture without canceling
19. Melancholy has a seat at the table
20. The future is African
21. Unpack the polycrisis
22. Feel the numbers
23. Old and new friendships
24. Love

LEARN MORE AND JOIN

1. How to Work with (Almost) Anyone, Michael Bungay Stanier
2. Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone, Minna Salami
3. You Belong Here: The Power of Being Seen, Heard, and Valued on Your Own Terms, Kim Dabbs
4. The World We Create: From God to Market, Tomas Björkman
5. Joined-Up Thinking: The Science of Collective Intelligence and its Power to Change Our Lives, Hannah Critchlow
6. Reboot: Reclaiming Your Life in a Tech-Obsessed World, Elaine Kasket
7. 10 Moral Questions: How to Design Tech and AI Responsibly, QCollective
8. All That We Are: Uncovering the Hidden Truths Behind Our Behaviour at Work, Gabriella Braun
9. Not Being: The Art of Self-Transformation, Steven D’Souza, Khuyen Bui
10. The Persuaders: Winning Hearts and Minds in a Divided Age, Anand Giridharadas
11. Tell Me What You Want: A Therapist and Her Clients Explore Our 12 Deepest Desires, Charlotte Fox Weber
12. Dance or Die: From Stateless Refugee to International Ballet Star, Ahmad Joudeh
13. Bittersweet: How to Turn Sorrow Into Creativity, Beauty and Love, Susan Cain
14. Rise: Extraordinary Women of Colour who Changed the World, Maliha Abidi
15. These Wilds Beyond Our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity's Search for Home, Bayo Akomolafe
16. On Time and Water: A History of Our Future, Andri Snær Magnason
17. Life, Death, Grief and the Possibility of Pleasure, Oceana Sawyer
18. Heartificial Intelligence: Embracing Our Humanity to Maximize Machines, John C. Havens
19. Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy, David J. Chalmers
20. Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent, Katherine Angel
21. The Business Romantic: Give Everything, Quantify Nothing, and Create Something Greater Than Yourself, Tim Leberecht
22. The Future of Foreign Policy Is Feminist, Kristina Lunz
23. My Face in the Light, Martha Schabas
24. Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data, Carissa Véliz

1. Hillary’s emails
2. Your CIA file
3. The Caramilk secret
4. The Pentagon Papers
5. Bayo Akomolafe’s new book
6. The first draft of Ulysses
7. All the unsent emails in your draft folder
8. What has remained unsaid between us all these years
9. Pep Guardiola’s tactics
10. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault
11. The House member list
12. The original screenplay of Alien
13. The entire human brain
14. The Coca Cola formula
15. Santa Claus’ shopping list
16. The Google Gemini model
17. Content by Axel Springer’s competitors
18. The unpublished Wikileaks files
19. The director’s cut of Turner and Hooch
20. Sam Altman’s secret plan
21. Satya Nadella’s secret plan
22. All of NATO’s meeting minutes
23. El Bulli’s VIP cookbook
24. Ernest Hemingway’s outtakes

We wish we had a list for this. Unfortunately, studies have shown that all dating apps will slowly and irrevocably erode your enthusiasm for dating. Better to jump to list #XXIV and spend your time more productively.

1. Honor cycles
2. Embrace all emotions
3. Create intimacy
4. Dare to be ugly
5. Do the unnecessary
6. Regenerate everything
7. Cherish body and soul
8. Sit still
9. Listen
10. Change your mind
11. Plant a tree
12. Keep (some) things sacred
13. Don’t kill that ant
14. Show up when it’s showtime
15. Trust your guts
16. Be a feminist
17. Nurture ecosystems
18. Stay humble
19. Stay curious
20. Go with the flow
21. Co-create with AI
22. Fluid identities, fluid designs
23. Play
24. Live to the fullest

We strongly advise that you keep conversations focused on food, the weather, and Netflix recommendations.

1. Any tone ever used by any member of Succession’s Roy family
2. Monotone
3. Sarcastic
4. Condescending
5. Groveling
6. Self-righteous
7. Accusatory
8. Seductive
9. Egotistical
10. Clinical
11. Vindictive
12. Authoritative
13. Gruff
14. Shrill
15. Artificial
16. Aggravated
17. Obnoxious
18. Bitter
19. Flabbergasted
20. Ra-ra-ra
21. Cynical
22. Sycophantic
23. Phony
24. Robotic

1. Your posture and eyesight will vastly improve once you’ve permanently said goodbye to your desk and laptop.
2. You’ll be richer, save for the investment in a topline Canada Goose parka.
3. The bears are better company than your boss–except when they’re hungry.
4. You can scream as loud as you want for as long as you want, and no one will ever hear you. Even when those bears approach.
5. You’ll reconnect with nature and your environment. The stars will tell you more about the world than the news feeds of your past life.
6. The movies of Atom Egoyan, David Cronenberg, Sarah Polley, and Norman Jewison. (Although, you may have trouble finding a film projector once you’re north of 60°).
7. Our co-founder, Till, vacationed there this summer and LOVED it. (He did, however, stick to the populated urban parts that cling to the U.S. border).
8. Ok, maybe there aren’t too many more reasons.
9. In fact, instead of Canada, consider Portugal?

Fill this one in at your discretion.

It actually doesn’t get any better than her chilling whisper, “I wish you well.”

We tried nearly fifty filters, and he still looked terrifying.

1. Anna Freud
2. Eleanor Marx
3. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
4. Annie Darwin
5. Harilal Gandhi
6. Jean-Michel Cousteau
7. Laila Ali
8. Isabella Rossellini
9. Kublai Khan
10. Zindziswa Mandela
11. Yolanda King
12. Alexander IV of Macedon
13. Kong Jiao Confucius
14. Jesus
15. Josephine Truffaut
16. Yolande Du Bois
17. Octavian Caesar
18. Charlie Chaplin
19. Martin Amis
20. John Quincy Adams
21. Sofia Coppola
22. Justin Trudeau
23. Gabriel Kane Day-Lewis
24. Honor Swinton-Byrne

1. He was sleepwalking.
2. He didn’t realize his party members were people.
3. He thought gatherings involving cocaine were exempt.
4. He ran out of excuses.

1. Cerise
2. Fuschia
3. Salmon
4. Blush
5. Rose
6. Rouge
7. Coral
8. Flamingo
9. Bubblegum
10. Peach
11. Baby
12. Ruby
13. Magenta
14. Punch
15. Amaranth
16. Lemonade
17. Carnation
18. Thulian
19. Watermelon
20. Taffy
21. Crepe
22. Ballet slipper
23. Hot pink
24. Cotton candy

1. Flossing your teeth regularly and carefully, though its benefits are still debated
2. Playing a classic board game with friends and family
3. Authoring your own curated year-end list that showcases your impeccable taste and winning sense of humor
4. Living your bucket list
5. Lying flat on the floor in the style of China’s tang ping trend, a movement that tries to subvert the pressures of a profit-driven world
6. Reading poetry softly to yourself aloud
7. Picking wild plants and cooking them into a delicious meal for a loved one, doing your best to discard of anything poisonous, unless you’re playing a game à la Phantom Thread. (Speaking of which, actress Vicky Krieps will be a speaker at The Gathering in Tangier!)
8. Buying a pass for our 2024 festival Between the Two of Us
9. Eating another piece of cake
10. Playing our card game
11. Watching Anatomy of a Fall, winner of this year’s Palme D’Or at Cannes
12. Listening to the musical sins of House co-founder Till Grusche
13. Declaring your daily goal from an open window
14. Dancing!
15. Bingewatching The Kitchen (premiering on Netflix in January)
16. Volunteering in your community
17. Taking a walk in nature
18. Complimenting a stranger
19. Hosting a “running” dinner (every course is served at a different home)
20. Starting a social media detox program
21. Taking a cold, rejuvenating shower to refresh your spirit
22. Cleaning out your closet and donating everything you don’t need
23. Having a nap
24. Listening to a beautiful piece of music, such as Glenn Gould playing Bach or Fela Kuti’s invigorating jazz