January 11, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Current Affairs, Economies for justice, Syntropic Enterprise
Honouring the whole value of a tree Our economics states that the tree has no value at all unless we are prepared to cut it down and carve it up. It needs to be commodified, traded, exchanged to be registered on a balance sheet. If you have ever sat under a tree and...
January 4, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
What is a living wage? Why do we not ask this question? Why do we not have this discussion? Perhaps it suits our current capitalistic models that we keep the definition of a living wage as this obscure, ephemeral thing. In some places we have replaced it with basic...
January 2, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Tensegrity Teams You have an idea. It takes your breath away. It wakes you in the night, calling you to act. It is an idea, and needs humans working with matter to bring it to life. In the software world there is such a thing as red teaming, where an idea is held...
December 22, 2021 | Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Syntropic Contemplations weekly e-news Archives
Synergistic Audit for Syntropic World for the Year 2021 To everything there is a season. These last few years of COVID has interestingly been the season for Syntropy. Some historical context I was introduced to the work of R.Buckminster Fuller when I was 26. I...
December 18, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Dare to be naive The archetypal story Of good and evil. Of syntropy and entropy. Of love and hate. The push pull. The edge we live on in every choice. We can believe these two forces – syntropy and entropy – towards a higher order, towards love; or...
December 14, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Current Affairs, Deliberately Developmental Organisations, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Foundations, baking, sequence I am a baker, beginning with my mother teaching me in the kitchen from a very early age. Taking odd ingredients that on their own do not taste very nice, like flour, raw eggs, butter….and mixing them in the right amounts, with the right...