May 18, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
We are all minorities We want to stop something from happening. Let’s say we want to stop discrimination and racism. You do not do this by being racist or discriminating. Violence begets violence. Ethnonationalism begets ethnonationalism. You cannot end...
May 4, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
There is no going back The yearning for some past lifestyle. The trad wife. The land before colonisation. The way it was. It is, at every single level, impossible. To go back violates the laws of physics and maths. For a start, you are not the same person you were...
April 29, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Viva la resistance The designation “terrorist” is a political act, not a legal classification Nelson Mandela was designated a terrorist; his party, the ANC, was considered a terrorist organisation for years by my country and many others. He went on to win the Nobel...
April 27, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
On propaganda The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. This might well be the test. The moment we assign a group of people as subhuman, we are under the spell of propaganda. The propaganda might have...
April 23, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
No customer service available Cory Doctorow calls it enshittification. And it happens especially with the behemoth companies, the too-big-to-fail, the monopolies. All in the interest of cutting staff and outsourcing customer service to a bot. Over the last three...
April 18, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
The Empire has fallen For most of my younger years, the golden destination on the planet was the USA. It was for this reason I went there on my first major solo trip, aged 23years, spending four months travelling to 48 states. This year we went to Mexico, choosing...
