Open Letter to Steve Jobs

Well, a whole bunch of astonishing synchronicities have taken place since my last posting, all to do with activating the concept of The Could Life on a more ambitious scale. Rather than bore you with the details, I'll simply distil it all down into a letter to Steve Jobs, in the hope that someone out there can arrange to sit him down to read it. Who knows what may then unfold?

Dear Steve,

I was delighted to read your speech to the graduating class of Harvard (as detailed in an earlier posting on this blog). A thought has occurred to me as a result. The combined resources of you, Apple Computer and Pixar International could perhaps achieve something of potentially enormous global, social, economic and historical significance. Imagine combining the resources of Apple and Pixar in the creation of an online learning, inspiration, information-sharing and action-creation system which had the following features:

• It enabled people of all ages and cultures to take a little time out to explore, identify and activate their true vocational dreams
• It connected those who'd discovered their unique potential contribution to society with those who already had great experience of working in the relevant fields through an inter-cultural, inter-generational, interdependent network in which everyone gains
• It offered opportunities for those who had progressed from defining their own individual passion-based lifework to meet, face-to-face, with those who could offer them hands-on mentoring in actualising these dreams
• It thus created the means for them to begin making those powerful contributions, overcoming the limitations of soul-destroying dead-end employment (within the wealthy nations) or crippling socio-economic deprivation (within the poorer nations)
• In a similar way, it linked vocation-workers with potential beneficiaries of such work
• It operated on a business model whereby those with relative personal economic wealth would pay for their vocational learning opportunities, the revenue from these payments being used to subsidise those who were unable to contribute so much financially
• The participation of a growing network of players in this system was stimulated by outstanding and inspiring Pixar movies and facilitated and grown via an Apple-based, global, online communications system
• By this means, eventually, millions of people discovered the route to meaningful deployment of their energy and passion, each in their own unique way giving and receiving optimally in a mutually beneficial web of unlocked potential

This idea is the culmination of a good deal of thought and action on the part of myself and others here in the UK and elsewhere over the last fifteen years or so. I would very much appreciate the opportunity to share more detail with you. In this way, you could play a vital role in creating a legacy that would realise for many people the inspiring reality you outlined in your recent speech at Harvard.

Yours sincerely,

Rob Weston

OK dear readers - anybody who has a link to Steve Jobs, please let me know so we can get this in front of him and help spread The Could Life concept to millions :)