December 4, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Economies for justice, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
The desiccation of our souls A small business relies on the relationship with its customers. The small scale means that when one person receives bad service or a shonky product, this can have an exponential effect on the whole business. When a large business gives...
December 3, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Economies for justice, Syntropic Enterprise
For AI to make a return on investment The investment in AI is ridiculous. For it to get a return on investment, there would need to be a loss of half the entry-level jobs on the planet, adding 10 to 20 per cent to the unemployment situation. This, or the AI bubble...
November 18, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Economies for justice
A shark feeding frenzy Several weeks ago, my local surf break became a shark feeding frenzy. See the footage here with very Aussie commentary. I am in this very water most days. The sharks are always there. Just not as snappy and unified as they are in this video....
November 16, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Economies for justice, Syntropic Enterprise
From killingry to livingry My mentor, R.Buckminster Fuller, introduced the terms killingry and livingry nearly 100 years ago. As a naval cadet, he was trained in ballistics. He determined that the precessional effects – the effects at 90 degrees to the goal...
November 12, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Economies for justice, Syntropic Enterprise
Maintaining identity is a fiction Okinawa is uniquely itself. Not fully Japan. The indigenous inhabitants, the Ryukyuans, traded with China, and for a time, Okinawa was a vassal state to both China and Japan. It was forced to become a Japanese colony in 1879, and...
October 9, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Economies for justice, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
The indignity of time-based economics Do you love it? Being reduced to a dollar amount for your precious time? Is this the life meant for the bright-eyed baby who is hungry to share themselves in their wholeness with the world? But if not this model, then what? What...