March 28, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
From systems to ground The ability to think in complex whole systems can be learned and trained as a discipline. Our education system trains us to understand parts, becoming a specialist. To be taught how to see the whole system, which requires enquiry, the...
November 30, 2022 | Sunday Syntropy Archives
Embrace difference. Manage too much charge. Refuse a singularity as a response. Our current culture seeks consensus and avoids authority. Likes freedom but hates responsibility. Seeks decentralisation and abhors centralisation. Wants rights but refuses...
November 26, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
Jumping out of my skin Sometimes, like today, our excitement bubbles over. I am the fully grown version of a 3-year-old going to get ice cream. It is a glorious morning. Not too hot, though the heat will arrive. An ocean too flat to surf. Our last weekend in this...
November 9, 2022 | Sunday Syntropy Archives
In our human experience, we live in a world of solid things. The chair we sit on. The spoon we eat from. Yet, at the atomic level, no two points occupy the same space. The spaces between atoms that make up the solid chair are far greater than the atoms themsleves that...
October 31, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
A healthy life is one of tensegrity The word tensegrity was coined by Buckminster Fuller. It is a combination of tension and integrity. A steady state is entropic – towards decay. Our desire to be free of conflict, diversity, robust debate, divided opinion, and...