August 27, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Care of each other is on us As I was driving home from the beach this morning, I was thinking about people like us. This morning Meta decided to pay and pretend to fix some of its harms to children. In Australia, the data centre build-outs appear to be winning. Energy...
August 26, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Dolly has left us She was one of the few people who managed to be universally loved. I think about this. For some, to be universally loved is an aspiration. And I wonder, is it the way, in a world that kills the ‘other’ with such ferocity? We need people like Dolly....
August 25, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Economies for justice
The innocent pay The Israeli Defence Force cleared soldiers of criminal responsibility for the 2024 drone strike that killed seven World Central Kitchen aid workers, including Australian citizen Zomi Frankcom. Hillel Newman, the Israeli ambassador to Australia, said...
August 24, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Education for integrity, Syntropic Enterprise
Privilege comes with responsibility Not everyone gets to become an elite athlete. Like it or not, there is a certain set of genetic, inherited preconditions plus social factors that allow elite athletes to become the best. Height, body shape, muscle fibre twitch...
August 21, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The future is in our hands Democracy says that the people have a voice. This can be expressed in many different ways, from representative democracy to direct democracy. Power and politics hate democracy. Peter Thiel, one of the tech oligarchs, quoted that democracy...
August 19, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Build enterprises that are harder to corrupt Design trust before it is needed. Make power visible before it becomes abuse. Make money honest before it corrupts purpose. Clean conflict before it becomes culture. Make purpose real before it becomes performance. ...
