January 14, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Brought back to Earth Sometimes we humans need to be brought back to Earth. Imagine. A leaf, such a common thing, is the world’s first disposable solar panel. We like to think that we are brilliant innovators and creators. Yet nature is way ahead of the game....
January 13, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
From zero to one million Change is usually drop by drop, bit by bit. The wind erodes the rock. Lines and gravity have their way with our face. We agree to monopolise media into the hands of one man over the course 40 years. Little atrocities over time become heinous...
January 12, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Intellectual Humility There can be great delight in a robust debate, where there is a willingness to consider opposing arguments and where each party is open to consider that their strongly held position may be in need of an upgrade. It is hard to admit that we might...
January 11, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Real value To be worth something. Like beauty, value is in the experience of the exchange. Our current economy has conflated value to extraction and accumulation. How much we have accumulated, how much we have sucked up from the economy without giving value to others,...
January 10, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The Gravity of the Battle Means Nothing to Those Who Are at Peace Occasionally, words spoken on a podcast or audiobook literally stop me in my tracks on my morning run. Mo Gawdat spoke these words that were tattooed onto his son, while narrating his wonderful book,...
January 9, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
Metamorphosis A transformation, to transform. An alchemical process. The process is never easy. In distinction to an adjustment, or a rearrangement, metamorphosis occurs to the entire organism, leaving no part untouched. The caterpillar to the butterfly, the babe in...
