February 22, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Adding the secret ingredient to learning It is not such a secret ingredient. To have fun learning. When we layer learning with stress, the returns are diminished. Our muscles contract, our breathing becomes irregular, and everything is harder. When fun is present, so...
February 21, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
As luck would have it In a culture that celebrates the rigged individual who pulls themselves up from the mire through hard work and persistence or the superstar of accumulation and power, we neglect to account for luck. How convenient to step over this element,...
February 16, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Drinking pure love We stayed the night in a beautiful town in the South of the North Island of New Zealand. Greytown. Part of the Martinborough wine region. Apples growing on trees, ripe for the picking and eating. Blackberry vines everywhere, with fruit wanting to...
February 15, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Hard binary Hard binary has no place for nuance or context. It is either or. Those who live by the code of hard binary live at one extreme or the other. Good or evil. Back or white. Our technological world works on a hard binary. Zeroes and ones. But where is...
February 3, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The curated scapegoat An innocent, naive, eager, seeking relevance, yet not strong enough to know they are a pawn in a much larger game, is chosen with cruel care. I have been that person, more than once. My eyes bright with a promise based on the exploitation of my...
February 2, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Wrong philosophy I was watching a video recently where three men, all well-known in the intellectual edge scene, discussed their philosophies while referencing the philosophical heritage from which their worldview emerged. A few things struck me in the gut. Three men....
