June 13, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Economies for justice, Syntropic Enterprise
Scarcity One of the key threads of my life has been to understand money and value and its opposite, scarcity and lack. In the last 18 months, like many people, my relationship with money has been tested. Nothing like the Global Financial Crisis to get you to revisit...
June 13, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Current Affairs, Economies for justice, Syntropic Enterprise
Generating value is like love. It is synpoietic You buy a product or service you love. The value is far greater than the cost of your time, energy, money, resources and effort. Value is generated. But it is never one-sided. The enterprise or person providing the...
May 28, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Economies for justice, Syntropic Enterprise
Capitalism has no interest in the sacred We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter. Sam Altman This thinking, from one of the tech lords of Silicon Valley, the bro behind ChatGPT, is the exact...
May 26, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Economies for justice, Syntropic Enterprise
Dehumanisation is the point Today, Pope Leo said this. Among these ideologies, I consider particularly insidious the one that suggests that every person must earn or justify his or her own worth, to the point of attributing greater value to those who are more...
May 6, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Economies for justice, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Profit and its illusions Profit – from Latin profectus ‘progress, profit’, from proficere ‘to advance’. We seek as humans to advance. To make progress. This is a healthy impulse. But at what price? And is it acceptable that one person profits at the expense of...
March 18, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Economies for justice, Syntropic Enterprise
The false economy of measurement What we love to measure now. In business How much profit we make, our costs, efficiency, performance, ROI, sales. In life How much money we make, how heavy we are, how much stuff we have, how young we look, how we compare with Jill and...
