January 8, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
Life and syntropy are the greater forces As I write, I am surrounded by rain, my home high enough to be shrouded in clouds. The garden is happy. The avocado tree bursting with new leaves. I think about life. Aliveness. To be surrounded by green. To have the...
January 7, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business
Climate change is a class war It is the richest nations, the wealthiest people, and the biggest corporations that are the most egregious perpetrators when it comes to climate change. It is the poorest nations, the people on the margins of survival, that are at the...
January 2, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Why a 100% cooperative doesn’t work for transformative change When we live by consensus we become the average. The edges, the wild ideas and innovators AND the laggards and cautionary are merged into the mean. This is where decay and entropy set in. Life and...
December 2, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Syntropic Enterprise
Wanting to believe Sometimes, we want to believe something so much that we violate our code of conduct to do so. We may have invested years into the belief before we start to sense disbelief. The sunk costs of transcending the belief feel too big. Our identity might...
December 1, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Syntropic Enterprise
Solid Foundations For so much of my life, I was a single mother, self-employed. My foundations – support networks, financial security, home security, collaborative networks – felt tenuous. I lived, as so many people do, in precarity. This is not all bad....
November 24, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Syntropic Enterprise
The myth of personal responsibility When we discover the agency we have to affect change, to no longer be a victim of whatever circumstance we find ourselves in, to know that we have the power to choose how we respond in every moment, it is the ultimate freedom. At...
