MODERN FABER
TO THE FABERS:
Faber is an old word for a maker — the smith at the forge, the carpenter at the bench. Homo faber: the one who makes. There have never been fewer — not for lack of wanting, but because talking about making became easier than making. The feed rewards the announcement, not the object, and whole rooms fill with people circling the work they say they want to do.
Modern Faber is a room for the ones who still make. One rule holds it together: come back every week with something real, and say what you changed. No audience, no applause — only other fabers paying attention to the details you almost skipped. That attention costs something. It is meant to. Keep the rhythm long enough and you are left with a body of work, a sharper eye, and the few people you actually want beside you at the bench.
HOW WE OPERATE:
REFERRAL. Members put names forward and the room decides; one no keeps the door shut. Write if you like — a note is not an application, and only work with taste in it moves anyone.
COMMUNITY. An open agora: bring what you are stuck on, show work still rough in the middle. You hold your seat by what you give back.
MEETUPS. Three or four to a table, never more, matched at random. Ninety minutes, dense enough that you leave with something you could not have reached alone.
MEMBERS:
- John — Co-founder at Fastrepl (YC S25).
- Chanhee — Co-founder at Aside (YC F25).
- Jay — Research engineer at Cartesia AI; formerly co-founded Nari Labs (YC F25).
- Sunghyun — Research engineer at Twelve Labs.
- Woohyeok — SRO at Palantir; formerly Chief of Staff at Delightroom and CPO at Swing.
- David — Co-founder at Sume (Founders Inc).