October 27, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
How Infrastructure Makes Culture We think of infrastructure as convenience. Yet infrastructure is also the container that holds the context for everything that happens through infrastructure. When there are no footpaths, people do not walk. When there are scooter and...
October 26, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Lessons in Syntropy from surfing When you go on a surfing holiday, the weather is either your friend or foe. You learn to manage expectations and adjust quickly to conditions. It is a beautiful classroom in patience, humility and the recognition of the level of...
October 25, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
The magical differences of the human family Footpaths are not common in Taiwan. You do not see many people walking. Every road has a bike and scooter lane instead. Walking is not a thing. Although road cycling is. We haven’t figured out the cadence of shops opening....
October 24, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
A Syntropic Story from Taiwan A 23-year-old Taiwanese from a fishing village found himself at Princeton University in 1969, dropped into a world so different from his. A land of great wealth and technological supremacy. This young man determined he must do something...
October 23, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
Things I did not know about Taiwan I am writing from Dongue Village in Southern Taiwan. Our little home for the next week is a typical Taiwanese house, snuggled close to the main road, wedged between other houses, townhouse style. We are on the third floor and have a...
