December 4, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Economies for justice, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
The desiccation of our souls A small business relies on the relationship with its customers. The small scale means that when one person receives bad service or a shonky product, this can have an exponential effect on the whole business. When a large business gives...
December 3, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Economies for justice, Syntropic Enterprise
For AI to make a return on investment The investment in AI is ridiculous. For it to get a return on investment, there would need to be a loss of half the entry-level jobs on the planet, adding 10 to 20 per cent to the unemployment situation. This, or the AI bubble...
November 24, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Life as feedback After a break from work and routine, I am assessing my life and work. This is a healthy thing to do regularly. Here is my process. Start with the whole. This is the Principle of Syntropic Principles, Synergy....
November 22, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Authoritarians do not come to power in stable times Authoritarians are the ultimate predators. They seek the fear of people diminished by inequality, seizing it and weaponising it for their gain. They need division. They deliberately stir hate. This is their happy...
November 20, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Living a charmed life I was speaking to someone recently who said they lived a charmed life. Yet they were speaking to me about their work, which they had come to resent. At work, they were taken for granted, exploited, rarely acknowledged and paid very well. As if...
November 19, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Wilful resistance Both of my parents are alive, one is 92 years old and remarried at 80, the other is 88, lives independently and drives. I understand resistance to technology. I am a fan of the Luddite movement, as we must be able to draw the line between real and...
