November 17, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Syntropic Enterprise
Replicating outcomes How easily do we fall into the trap of thinking we can replicate an outcome someone else achieved by following a sequence of steps that they followed? Rivers teach us this story. You cannot step into the same river twice. We must start with the...
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 14, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Governance for wisdom, Syntropic Enterprise
Rules, compliance and the authority to apply common sense Travelling with surfboards is not easy. They are not heavy, but they are long. This is now our fourth trip overseas with surfboards. We have learned a lot. Contact the airline first. Even then, record the...
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 27, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
How Infrastructure Makes Culture We think of infrastructure as convenience. Yet infrastructure is also the container that holds the context for everything that happens through infrastructure. When there are no footpaths, people do not walk. When there are scooter and...
October 24, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
A Syntropic Story from Taiwan A 23-year-old Taiwanese from a fishing village found himself at Princeton University in 1969, dropped into a world so different from his. A land of great wealth and technological supremacy. This young man determined he must do something...
