November 17, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Syntropic Enterprise
Replicating outcomes How easily do we fall into the trap of thinking we can replicate an outcome someone else achieved by following a sequence of steps that they followed? Rivers teach us this story. You cannot step into the same river twice. We must start with the...
November 16, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Economies for justice, Syntropic Enterprise
From killingry to livingry My mentor, R.Buckminster Fuller, introduced the terms killingry and livingry nearly 100 years ago. As a naval cadet, he was trained in ballistics. He determined that the precessional effects – the effects at 90 degrees to the goal...
November 15, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication
Call it by name When the elites of capital and politics repeatedly get away with crime, corruption, rape, pedophilia and cruelty, we, the people, have many ways to respond. Here are three possibilities. 1. At the very least, to name it with precision. The mainstream...
November 14, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Governance for wisdom, Syntropic Enterprise
Rules, compliance and the authority to apply common sense Travelling with surfboards is not easy. They are not heavy, but they are long. This is now our fourth trip overseas with surfboards. We have learned a lot. Contact the airline first. Even then, record the...
November 13, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Empire to fall Departures and endings. Leaving and completing. There is a step into the liminal. One door is closing. No going back. It is simply the scale of the ending that matters; each night we end, and each morning we begin again. Many years ago, I realised that...
November 12, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Economies for justice, Syntropic Enterprise
Maintaining identity is a fiction Okinawa is uniquely itself. Not fully Japan. The indigenous inhabitants, the Ryukyuans, traded with China, and for a time, Okinawa was a vassal state to both China and Japan. It was forced to become a Japanese colony in 1879, and...
