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Archive
The complete library, newest first. This includes everything that has been published or retained for the record—not just the curated Start Here sequence or collections.
Conversation — Missed Opportunity
As a teenager, I met someone I wanted to know better—but I did not know how to move the conversation beyond hello. Looking back, it was not only a lack of confidence. Nobody had taught me how to keep a conversation going.
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
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
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
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.
MandarinOS
A working example of ConversationOS in practice: MandarinOS helps people sustain meaningful exchanges and form relationships while learning Mandarin. It belongs in the commons as one concrete way conversation becomes the path to knowing people.
The Coffee Date That Went Silent
A story about the awkward pause that ends a conversation before it really begins—and what could have kept it going. Part of the "Conversations I Wish I'd Had" series; the video itself is still being prepared.
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
Conversations - The Dunedin Checkout Success Story
A short, everyday story about turning a routine checkout interaction into a real connection by a small moment of genuine curiosity.