On August 14th, 2024, signed by Conceivian Co-founders

Saqib Rasool, Victoria Ruelas, & Mareya K. Ali 

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Note 1: Acknowledgments  

Martin Heidegger, Humberto Maturana, J. L. Austin, Jubert Dreyfus, John Searle, Stafford Beers, and most notably, Fernando Flores, along with his teachers, his peers, and his students, form the background of our work of developing the elixir for human potential. We thank Chauncey Bell, who has guided us for years and opened the doors to this world to us.  We thank Will Poole and his colleagues at Capria Ventures, who early on recognized the transformative potential of our work, providing us with the opportunity to validate and refine our technology through partnerships across their extensive network. 

We thank our fellows whose council, participation, and support gave us the confidence to continue our work. These include but are not limited to Darrel Rhea, Peter J. Denning, Peter Yaholkovsky, Rob J. Mathewson, Amy Graglia, Avi Bathula, Habib Ullah Khan, Chris Wiesinger, Romy Sala, Luke Epperson, Kathy McDougal, Touseef Liaqat, Matt Horvat, Waqar Hafeez, Ian Higginbottom, Leah Santa Cruz, Guida Sampedro, Luiza Pagel Classen, Jose Gabriel Schonenberg, Beau Seil, Ariel Arrieta, Najeeb Aslam, Shweta Garg, Maria Gracia Agurto, and Tyler Krupp-Qureshi. 

Finally, a note of gratitude to Allama Iqbal, Hakeem Saeed, James McManis, Roberto Mangabeira Unger, and Bruno Alabiso for teaching us our early philosophy of care. 

Note 2: On Education, Coordination, and Action

The role of education has always been to prepare us to take care of the future. The failure of schools and universities to provide necessary education invites us to reconsider what is missing and what kind of education will be necessary for the future. Fundamentally, the 300-year-old Enlightenment-inspired plan to organize populations with knowledge, strategic planning, and rational control is failing. The failed attempts at mechanizing human beings have left us with significant gaps in the skills and tools required for navigating change. The kind of future we see headed toward us requires that we learn to listen to the people different from us, to coordinate effective action, and rebuild our worlds.

Today, all manner of difficulties emerge from this single source of errors: miscoordination. Miscoordinations and failed coordinations lead to waste in terms of inability to innovate, lost revenues, missed deadlines and opportunities, dissatisfied customers, unhappy teammates, and more. Worse yet, this category of failures isn't tracked or reported. This is why even very sophisticated communications systems fail to show what’s really getting done and not done, what’s broken and needs to be rebuilt. To deal with today's unpredictable competitive environments and demanding customers, we must learn how to learn and how to mobilize effective action in conversations with others. We see conversational skills in dynamically changing situations as required but missing.

Most companies are likely filled with amazing human beings, but the current way of managing work is not working. At the same time, the old institutions of religion, politics, consulting, and therapy that were once considered sources of guidance are no longer trusted by people. It’s time for something new.

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“Our reality is a dream. Only the dreamer considers it real.” - Rumi