About

Michael Schaeffer

Two decades of executive leadership, crisis management, and organizational design. Founder and operator across fitness, apparel, and professional services. AI safety and governance research through BlueDot Impact and Oxford Saïd. Creator of a yoga teacher-training methodology — 7,000 teachers trained across 15 studios.

The Law of Recognition began as an observation about how agenda distorts contact between observer and observed. It became a formal framework developed across a 31-paper research series — including pre-registered empirical tests whose falsifications are part of the published record.

Research developed with AI collaboration, used and credited transparently. Based in Denver, Colorado.