About the club · Adventures

Turn Anything Into an Adventure

Point the lens at anything on your horizon: a hard conversation, a dinner party, an afternoon at the museum, the project you keep circling.

Talk it through with Kip, and it comes back as a brief: a role to play while you do it, a few small steps you could start in the next ten minutes, and a sealed plan for the parts that could go sideways.

Good for
Whatever you've been putting off
Drawn up with
Kip, in one conversation
You get
A brief to carry
Use it
As often as you like
Without joining
$25, bought once

The Adventure Lens

Same Desk, Different Day

Nothing about the work changes. Who's doing it does.

What you carry out

A Brief for the Thing You've Been Avoiding

Inner Isles Explorers Club

No. 0014

Issued 2 Nov 2026

Field Brief

Adventure

The Garage, Charted

As it came in

finally clear out the garage

Standing order

The Cartographer

You map every corner before you touch the clutter, so the clearing follows a route you drew yourself.

An example brief. Press a card to pick it up.

The Lens turned ‘write my first Substack piece’ from a task I kept avoiding into an adventure I wanted to start.
— Matt
Matt

TLDR it's an online explorers club for personal growth. Every month there's a new expedition that sets off but that's literally the tip of the iceberg

Sam S.
Sam S.

Without joining

Buy One Adventure

$25

Bought once. No subscription.

  • A plan made with Kip, for one real thing
  • A date of your choosing: a day, or up to two weeks
  • A letter from Kip each morning around it
  • Your brief and the letters, yours to keep
  • Plan it whenever you like, within a year

If you join the club within 60 days, the $25 is credited automatically: your first month would be $25 instead of $50.

Already a member? Adventures are part of the club. Sign in and draw one up.

Inner Isles Explorers Club

Questions About Adventures

What sort of thing is it for?
Anything with a start and a finish that you've been dragging your feet on: the garage, a hard conversation, a workout you dread, the first page of something. It's good for the things that make you want to close the laptop.
Is it part of an Expedition?
It can be. On an Expedition you can chart an Adventure straight from a step on your plan, and Kip starts the conversation already knowing what it's for. It works just as well on its own, on any day.
What happens to the brief after?
It stays on your desk, to read again and to set out on whenever you like. Each time you step into it, the date goes in its margin.
Can I buy one without joining?
Yes. One Adventure is $25, bought once: Kip helps you plan it, you give it a date up to two weeks out, and he writes to you each morning around it. Your brief and the letters stay yours afterwards. Another one takes another purchase, or a membership, which includes them whenever you like along with the Expeditions, the Lodge and the rest of the club.
How long do I have to plan it?
A year from the day you buy it. Nothing counts down while you sit with Kip and decide on a date.

Something else? Email [email protected]. Matt reads every note.

The next Expedition

The December Expedition sets out Tuesday, December 1.

Join the Club

Four weeks on one part of your life, with a party of fellow explorers and Kip, and every Expedition after it.

Or see what a month is like first, on the Crossing.

Not sure it's for you? Talk it over with Kip first.

Membership is $50 a month or $500 a year, with a 75-day refund. Nobody loses their place here because of money: makes it half, or free.