Many potentially amazing technologies and discoveries are stuck, not because of a fundamental problem, but because of a complex logjam of uncertainty and incentives that keep a field from moving forward.

Unjamming a field (and the subsequent flourishing it could unlock) requires identifying leverage points where specific work could create momentum and a direction around which individuals and institutions can productively coordinate.

Over the course of nine months, we will support and mentor a group of four to seven field strategists to identify, with as much specificity as possible:
Ideas (term used very broadly) in the “adjacent possible” of current knowledge and capabilities that people aren’t executing on or are executing on poorly
Why they’re not happening well
What work needs to happen in the short-term to “unlock” the idea
Who should be involved in that work — both producing it, consuming it, and supporting it. At the end of the day, research is done by incredibly non-fungible people.
