Find Clarity in a Confused World

The noise is exhausting. The irrationality is relentless. Step away for five days and return with a sharper mind, clearer purpose, and renewed conviction.

June 26–30, 2026 New Orleans 400+ Attendees

Refuel Your Mind

OCON 2026

You Can't Think Clearly When You're Surrounded by People Who Don't Want to Think at All

Every day you're bombarded with contradiction. Leaders who demand you ignore what your eyes can see. Experts who penalize questions. A culture that treats achievement as suspicious and ambition as a character flaw.

It's exhausting. Not because the arguments are hard to refute — they're not. It's exhausting because you have to refute them constantly, in an environment that punishes clarity and rewards conformity.

You need a reset. Not a vacation — a recharge. A place where reason is the starting point, not the exception. Where independent thought is celebrated, not tolerated.

OCON is that place.

Five Days to Reclaim Your Intellectual Energy

Not just a conference. An intellectual retreat for serious minds.

Challenging Ideas

Lectures that push your thinking — not your patience. Engage with philosophers, psychologists, and historians who reason from principles.

Honest Discourse

No walking on eggshells. No virtue signaling. Conversations where disagreement is welcome and clarity is the goal.

Renewed Purpose

Return home with sharper thinking, clearer priorities, and the conviction that comes from knowing you're not alone.

Hear From Minds Worth Your Attention

Speakers who don't just study ideas — they live them.

Steven Pinker

Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University

Author of Rationality and Enlightenment Now. Named by TIME as one of the 100 Most Influential People. Join a special panel discussion on reason, progress, and the future of Western civilization.

Greg Salmieri

The Philosophy of the Producer

Gena Gorlin

The Psychology of the Producer

Tara Smith

Intellectual Shrinkage

Peter Schwartz

The Meaning of Fundamentals

It's very rare that you can have such intellectual intensity be effortless as well. The conversations flow naturally because everyone operates from the same foundational principles. You can skip the basics and go straight to what matters.

— Daphne, OCON Attendee

Refuel Your Mind.
Reclaim Your Future.

Five days in New Orleans — the city where Ayn Rand delivered her final public lecture. A fitting setting for a gathering dedicated to the power of the individual mind.

June 26–30, 2026 Sheraton New Orleans Hotel

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