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Floating, but rooted.

A community for the caregivers of their own work.

The freelance internet is loud. Most of us aren't.

  • You post less than you produce.
  • You use AI without feeling owned by it.
  • You've stopped explaining why you're not scaling.
  • You want peers — not a coach, not a course.

If that sounds like you, this room was built for you.

Not a course. Not a conference. Not a networking community.

The monthly room

Last Wednesday of every month, starting July 30. 90 minutes online.

One in-person gathering

Brooklyn this year, possibly another city the next.

Long-form letters

Interviews with practitioners we admire, essays on solo work in the AI age.

Members write. Founders curate. The community is the magazine.

EVENT POSTER

The inaugural gathering.

Fifty freelancers. Six hours. One letter.

1:00 — 1:10NetworkingOpening · Why we're here · Yoomi & Mini
1:10 — 2:00Divya PaiPrompt as Mirror
2:00 — 2:50Christiana S. ChaeDesigning Your Own Pace
2:50 — 3:10BreakBreak · 20-min pause
3:10 — 4:25Mini NayakLike a Living Room Guest
4:25 — 4:50Yoomi JeongOpen Circle Invitation
4:50 — 5:00BreakTransition · Room reset
5:00 — 5:10NetworkingReflection · Why we need each other · Yoomi & Mini
5:10 — 5:35NetworkingNetworking 1 · Letters to December Self
5:35 — 6:30NetworkingNetworking 2 · Care Circles
6:30 — 7:00NetworkingNetworking 3 · Wall of Intentions · Founding 50 close
Time1:00 PM – 7:00 PM ET
Seats50 seats
PriceFree for inaugural attendees

The monthly online room.

Jul 30 · 7:30 PM ETDivya PaiPrompt as Mirror, Three Months In
Aug 27 · 7:30 PM ETChristiana S. ChaeYour Pace, Six Weeks Later
Sep 24 · 7:30 PM ETMini NayakLiving Room — What Stuck, What Broke
Oct 29 · 7:30 PM ETYoomi JeongLetters We've Written So Far

A place to keep your work — and be seen.

The monthly room is 90 minutes. Your practice is the other 29 days.

S6 PREVIEW VIDEO · silent · autoplay loop
#draft
Public Notebook

Tag works-in-progress. Other members react with one line — not critique, witness.

#pace
Pace Journal

Log the week's actual rhythm.

#letter
Letter Threads

Continuations of your December letter.

#ask
Peer Asks

Tagged questions matched to circles, not crowds.

Witness isn't a single afternoon. It's a thread you keep.

The first four voices.

Each chosen for one question they've been quietly answering for years.

DP
Divya Pai
Data analyst & engineer

Reading her own AI prompts as a self-portrait. Developing a practice for self-awareness through prompt audit.

CS
Christiana S. Chae
Author, The Dangerous Book of Life

Formerly at Meta, led AI at Furiosa. Writes on pace, identity, and sustainable career design.

MN
Mini Nayak
Editor at POPOPO · Co-founder, Floating Cloister

AI as a guest, not an intern. Designing AI + Notion workflows for solo workers.

YJ
Yoomi Jeong
Founder & CEO, POPOPO Inc.

Seven years building communities for caregivers. Co-founder of Floating Cloister with Mini.

One letter, six months.

At 5:00 PM on June 25, each attendee writes a letter — to themselves, six months from now. POPOPO holds those letters, sealed, and mails them on December 22.

The work most freelancers do has no natural marker. Without ritual, the year becomes a blur. This letter is one fixed point.

Six months from now, when you've forgotten what you were thinking on June 25, an envelope will arrive in your handwriting from a version of yourself you may have lost track of. That return is the heart of the gathering.

— from June 25, 2026 to December 22, 2026.

Come with us.

The Loud Door
June 25 in Brooklyn
Free · 50 seats

Join us in person on June 25. This is the room where the community begins. RSVP-based, free to attend.

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The Quiet Door
Subscribe to letters
Free

Can't come on June 25? Subscribe to the letters. We publish slowly — interviews, essays, the occasional reflection — when we have something worth sending.

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The Living Room
Annual membership
$99/year · $12/month

The small enclosed courtyard. Members-only Slack, two letters rituals a year, auto-eligible for POPOPO Magazine, Q&A priority at monthly meetups.

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Either way, we'll be in the same conversation eventually.

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