November 13, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
Held hostage Access to the internet has become a basic human right. Our entire culture lives through the internet. If it went down, everything would halt. No food, no electrify, gas, medical services, education. Nothing. The estimates of the number of people who...
November 12, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Masks are off I despise deception. I squirm when I watch a movie where deception is the major story. More often, I choose not to watch a movie about deception at all. I despise how people use deception masterfully to get others to do things they would not normally do....
November 11, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Tools to think and act differently You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently. — R. Buckminster Fuller I was thinking about this quote when my partner and I were chatting this morning about an...
November 10, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Not a word It has all been too much. We made an escape down the coast. A change of scenery. Seeking surf. On a back beach far from buildings, we found a messy little break. Not many waves caught, but beautiful clean water, fresh enough to have a cooling effect after...
November 9, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The answer is not more of the same I was awake too early, a thought trying to take hold through dreaming. As a active cultural anthropologist, I have spent the last few days scanning the edges for reflections on our current state of the world. I listen to brilliant...
November 8, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Burning down the status quo Not just challenging. Burning it down. I look at the Australian government of the day. A Labour Government, the one that is supposed to stand for the working class. But they are tepid. Gutless. Tinkering. Like most political parties,...
