June 1, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
How far do we need to fall? From Heather Cox Richardson. Internationally, Musk’s destruction of the United States Agency for International Development, slashing about 80% of its grants, is killing about 103 people an hour, most of them children. The total so far is...
May 31, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The supremacy of greater suffering Following from my post yesterday (The Supremacy Virus. https://syntropic.world/the-supremacy-virus/) supremacy also lives in the dangerous, nasty corners of comparison. When I am in the surf, I compare myself to other surfers, and...
May 30, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The supremacy virus From the simple to the extreme. We have the obvious ones. Colour, gender, financial wealth. We have the religious ones. One god better than another. One god offering heaven, or sex with many women, and the other eternal damnation. We have...
May 29, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Alive is a way of being To feel alive. Truly, outrageously, vibrantly alive. To build living enterprises. Living, changing, transforming relationships. To refuse the static, the entropic. To walk to the edge and play with risk. To inhabit alive is an investment in...
May 28, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Empire doesn’t serve humanity I was in the surf this morning, the most amazing sunrise and gentle, easy surf after weeks of bigger waves. My rhythm was out, as happens without reason. I was frustrated. More and more people arrived to surf, typical when there are...
May 27, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Imagine a better future together When the systems and structures deliberately reduce humans to utilities, commodities, or numbers in a spreadsheet, when the profit-maximising machine discards life, we do not need to fear AI. The fear arrived long before AI. When the...
