June 10, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Intuition in a vacuum is bad feedback Our intuition is similar to AI. Applied Statistics, or AI, can only take responses to questions from a closed container, a black box. What you put in the box determines the response. Put in Western thinking, which, if we are...
December 15, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
How cruel is meritocracy On paper, it sounds great. Those of merit get the prize. Such a persuasive argument. Rational. And horribly enduring. Yet, like all things, when we fail to include context, when we fail to look at merit through a systems lens, we end up...
August 23, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
To know humility is to be powerful We came to Sri Lanka for adventure and to spend two weeks in one place surfing. Today I had a case of the yips. Fear ruled my head. Tony, my partner and amazing surf coach, reassured me that the waves are different today, requiring...
November 13, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Crimes against the faceless When we are reduced to numbers on a spreadsheet it makes it easy for someone in a position of power who is also far removed from human beings affected to decree horrid things. In Australia, a government decided to hunt down those on welfare...
