August 21, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The future is in our hands Democracy says that the people have a voice. This can be expressed in many different ways, from representative democracy to direct democracy. Power and politics hate democracy. Peter Thiel, one of the tech oligarchs, quoted that democracy...
August 20, 2026 | Syntropic Contemplations weekly e-news Archives, Syntropic Signals
FIFA, Infantino, and What Unchecked Power Costs Every so often a story breaks that lets you watch a structural failure happen in real time, in public, with a paper trail. FIFA’s aborted sale of a stake in the World Cup is one of those. It is a useful live case...
August 20, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
To build relational integrity A system is a conceivable entity dividing Universe into two parts, the inside and the outside of a system. (except, of course, the part of the Universe doing the dividing.) R. Buckminster Fuller Bucky Fuller proposed that the minimum...
August 19, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Build enterprises that are harder to corrupt Design trust before it is needed. Make power visible before it becomes abuse. Make money honest before it corrupts purpose. Clean conflict before it becomes culture. Make purpose real before it becomes performance. ...
August 18, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
Retire from that which steals from our soul Retire from what? We can only retire from that which steals from our soul. Showing up each day in service to something far greater than our singular self is an additive, enriching every fibre of our being. I cannot imagine a...