GetToKnow.You
Get to know someone.
Better conversations can help us understand one another and build relationships that matter.
Where to begin
Five ways in
Whether you arrived from social media, MandarinOS, or a personal recommendation, start wherever feels natural.
Explore
A guided introduction to the ideas, stories, projects, and emerging community.
Read
Essays, reflections, stories, and ConversationOS thinking—plus room for future writing and social references.
Try
MandarinOS, ConversationOS practices, and future workshops or experiments you can put into use.
Meet
The emerging community, future conversations and gatherings, and the shared Community Charter.
About
Raymond Young, why he is building GetToKnow.You, and how ConversationOS and MandarinOS fit together.
From the commons
A few places to start
Selected from the curated works collection—published pieces and honest notes on work still taking shape.
Read
Better Conversations
An emerging collection of practical ideas about curiosity, follow-up questions, recovery, appropriate self-disclosure, and moving beyond small talk. These practices are being gathered for the commons and are not yet a finished guide.
In development
Cross-Cultural Stories
A future collection of personal stories about what people discover when they ask better questions across cultures, generations, and life experience. No individual stories are published here yet; this record marks the intention.
In development
Trust and Human Connection
An emerging selection of Raymond’s writing on trust, decency, culture, and the conditions that allow people to live and relate well. This is a developing strand of the commons, not a claim that a new publication already exists.
In development
Try
MandarinOS
MandarinOS is the first practical application of ConversationOS: a conversation simulator that helps Mandarin learners sustain meaningful exchanges and form relationships. It belongs in the commons as a working example of conversation as the path to knowing people.
ConversationOS
ConversationOS is the emerging framework behind GetToKnow.You: conversation as the mechanism through which people understand one another and build relationships. The idea is taking shape; a finished public framework has not yet been published.
In development
Meet
GetToKnow.You Community Charter
The Community Charter defines the purpose, principles, and expected conduct of the emerging GetToKnow.You commons. This Explore record is a signpost only; the authoritative wording remains on the Community Charter page.
The founder
Raymond Young
Raymond is building GetToKnow.You from a career that has crossed technology, organisations, education, China, Australia, and New Zealand—and from long experience watching how people communicate, and how often they fail to understand one another.
Community Charter
The Community Charter sets out how we hope to treat one another as this commons grows.