June 19, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Small steps lead to big leaps I have always been a fan of small steps, repeated day after day. Step after step. Towards an intention. This is how you run a marathon, one small step at a time. Or write a book, 300 to 500 words a day, every day. Or build a cathedral....
June 14, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Sustainability
The killer app of life. Superiority I am writing this article from a National Park just north of Port Macquarie. We are camped right beside the ocean. Life has been pared back to simplicity. Building a fire. Preparing food. Walking the beach. Surfing. Fishing. (Tony) ...
June 10, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Intuition in a vacuum is bad feedback Our intuition is similar to AI. Applied Statistics, or AI, can only take responses to questions from a closed container, a black box. What you put in the box determines the response. Put in Western thinking, which, if we are...
June 5, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development
Certainty and righteousness are a form of violence I like being right. However, below my rightness and certainty is subtle domination. My rightness and certainty exclude any other possibility, which means your ability to hold a different view cannot exist in my...
May 31, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The supremacy of greater suffering Following from my post yesterday (The Supremacy Virus. https://syntropic.world/the-supremacy-virus/) supremacy also lives in the dangerous, nasty corners of comparison. When I am in the surf, I compare myself to other surfers, and...
May 30, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The supremacy virus From the simple to the extreme. We have the obvious ones. Colour, gender, financial wealth. We have the religious ones. One god better than another. One god offering heaven, or sex with many women, and the other eternal damnation. We have...