Pose a Question
Start from a problem that truly troubles you—career, relationships, the times, life and death; anything worth a serious discussion.
Yijian · A Salon for Great Minds
One Question,
a Table of Masters.
Pose a topic and gather thinkers and experts—past and present—around one table. Opposing views clash in earnest, and when the discussion ends it is distilled into insight you can absorb.
No download · Open and go · Every discussion becomes your insight card
What It Is
Compress a debate that would take ten books into a single roundtable. Three steps to start a discussion of your own.
Guests Take Their Seats
AI guests from different fields and standpoints sit around one table, clashing in earnest with their own ways of thinking and values.
Distill Insight
When the discussion ends, an overview, key points and memorable quotes are generated automatically—an insight card you can revisit and share.
Features
Not another Q&A bot, but a table of minds that argue with each other.
A Roundtable of Perspectives
On one question, hear opposing yet sincere views. We give you not a single answer, but a panorama of thought.
Masters at the Table
Thinkers and experts, past and present, are carefully modeled as personas—speaking with real temperament, stance and voice.
Distilled Summaries
Editorial serif typesetting gathers an entire discussion into an overview, key points and quotes, so your thinking truly settles.
You Host and Join In
Cut in, follow up, steer the topic toward what you truly care about—you are the host of this roundtable, not a bystander.
Sharper Thinking
What Yijian really gives you isn't information, but a way of seeing the problem.
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Find an answer
See the whole
In the tension between opposing views, learn to think from many angles instead of rushing to pick a side.
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Read ten books
One roundtable
High-density input of ideas, concentrating the reasoning scattered across heavy reading into one conversation.
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Heard and forgotten
Made to last
Every discussion becomes an insight card you can revisit and share, so ideas take root in you.
Will AI replace human creativity?
Key Points
01Creativity is built on distant associations; AI can accelerate it but can hardly replace the “why” behind creating.
02The stronger the tools, the scarcer and more crucial those who ask good questions and set good taste become.
Notable Quotes
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What's truly scarce has never been answers, but questions worth taking seriously.
Kevin Kelly
Featured Roundtables
See who others are talking with, and about what.
Will AI replace programmers?
“In the short term it's not replacement but amplification. The real change comes in five to ten years.”
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Tech optimist · Humanist · Industry observer
How do we make peace with death?
“Our attitude toward death decides how we spend every day we are still alive.”
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Existentialist philosopher · Hospice doctor · Meditation practitioner
What is a good education?
“Education is not filling a basket, but lighting a lamp.”
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Frontline teacher · Education researcher · Been-there parent