October 18, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The masters house is burning Reading the speech given by Arundhati Roy on the receipt of her PEN prize last week, and then this article by Pankaj Mishra where he says, History has always been a clash between stories in which people aspire to recognise themselves. Our...
August 7, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
Too progressive I was listening to the morning news as I was driving home from my pool session. They were discussing Tim Walz, the Vice President pick for the Kamala Harris team. The reporter said there were concerns that he was too progressive. I was curious what too...
August 4, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Insufficiently feminine Consider that no two snowflakes are the same. The mind boggles. Yet there is an insistence from the overlords of humanity that women must fit a defined category of sameness. Not too strong, bossy, muscular, or masculine. And as to the nuances...
August 2, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
A panel of white men Imagine this scene. A group of privileged white men set the stage as being the leaders of rethinking how humanity progresses. Sadly, this scene is the predominant scene still at play. The same thinking that got us to this point, absent any...
April 1, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
Beautiful Diversity One of Singapore’s admirable qualities is the requirement that the different ethnic groups be spread throughout the country, never building their homes and lives together as a collective. It is regulated diversification. In my country and...