May 12, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Completely redesign human enterprising Machines are great. They make life so much easier. Washing machines, printing presses, and motors of every kind. But humans are not machines. And a gathering of humans does not convert them into machines. Yet this is the world...
May 2, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
The tools we use to measure tell us a story How the neoliberal story loves to disdain the poor. Worthless. Useless. A drain on society. Lazy. I was raised on this story. I believed it until I found myself a highly educated single mother and struggling to pay rent. If...
April 28, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
Poverty is a political choice It always has been. The wealthy need low-paid workers to do the shit jobs. A new study of some 50,000 households in 1,000 archaeological sites worldwide reveals that wealth inequality is both a political and governance choice. New study...
April 24, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Syntropic Enterprise
Sympoiesis Sympoiesis means making-with. Poiesis is Greek and means production or composition. Syn or Sym means together. The term was coined by the scholar Donna Haraway as a counter-response to the word autopoiesis, which means self-making. Highly complex and...
April 19, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Syntropic Enterprise
Speaking from conscience Now is the time. Silence makes us complicit. Speak for the good, the true and the beautiful. Not just to feather your nest, but rather to elevate all lives. The political class, with rare exception, speak for polls, money and their sponsors. ...
April 14, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
There are rainbows There was a rainbow over Rainbow Bay. I listened to an Australian satirist speak about how she had cancelled her trip to the USA because her job of making fun of anyone in the political headlines would be a risk to her life and safety if she crossed...