October 8, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
If you live in a glass house do not throw stones I remember this proverb from my childhood. I was taught quite a few like this. For example. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me. Chaucer wrote the glass house proverb in 1385 Troilus and...
October 6, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
Integrity and principles It’s only a principle when it costs you money.” Bill Bernbach Will you stick to your values and ethics when the price is high? Or will you capitulate? How easy is it to speak of principles, values and ethics when life is free and easy? To...
October 4, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
The tension between We know great love because we know all that is not love. Pain, isolation, rejection. We know great beauty because we know all that is not beauty. Trees felled in their thousands, giant pits to extract something deemed more precious than the beauty...
October 3, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
All billionaires are policy failures “All billionaires are policy failures”, Cory Doctorow. I agree. To put billions in perspective, this is what it means. Suppose you landed a job paying $1 per second, or $3,600 per hour. You are paid 24/7. At this rate, it would...
October 1, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
We need new maps You can’t use an old map to explore a new world. Einstein Bright-eyed social enterprises wanting to create a new world use all the old maps. Old legal codes, old methods of accounting and finance, never realising that the old maps keep them in the old...
September 27, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
The whiplash of shock After a long run in steaming humidity, the shock of the ocean swim took my breath. It was a welcome shock. Tingling and delicious. Shock wakes us from our slumber, be that the slumber of non-attention, the slumber of hubris, the slumber of...
