This is an auction for one hour of coaching, where the theme of the coaching is (reasonably loosely) based on the piece "Stop Telling People What To Do" (
http://drmaciver.substack.com/p/no-backseating).
The auction is run as a Vickrey Auction (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickrey_auction), which is to say that what you bid is not necessarily what you pay: You actually pay the largest value that you outbid. For example, if you with with a bid of £100 and the highest bid below that was £50, you bid £50. If on the other hand two people bid £100, I will break the tie arbitrarily, and the winner will pay £100.
The mechanism of a Vickrey auction ensures that the best strategy is always to bid what exactly the value of the auctioned item to you: If you bid more than that value, and someone ends up bidding less than you but more than your desired value, you will end up paying more than it's worth. If you bid less, someone may outbid you and win the auction when you were willing to pay more.
Note that you are allowed to bid £0. If you would like to have such a session but can't or don't want to pay for it, that's entirely fine and you are encouraged to do so. The worst case scenario here is that we hold a lottery for a free discussion of this piece, which I am entirely fine with.
Bidding will close at 12:00 UK time on 2021-04-20, and I will notify the winner on 2021-04-21.