April 25th 2026 My stadium is the dawn My stadium is the dawn Today, I share a quote that speaks to something deep inside of me. Our pathway to our individual cathedrals – the places we go to fall to our knees in awe – is different. My cathedral is the Ocean. My stadium is the dawn. My partner Tony shares the same love. In the stadium of dawn, either by the ocean or in the ocean, the harsh edges of my life and experience are weathered and smoothed by the power of water and the light of the...
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April 24th 2026 Courage is the path of the heart Courage is the path of the heart There is a part of each of us that is wise and knows the truth about what is calling us in our lives. And then there is the rest of us. This is how it works. We come to a crossroads. It can be a big crossroads. Leave a job and start a business. Propose to your beloved. Buy a house. Put out some very clear boundaries to friends or family. It can be a smaller crossroads. Publish that blog. Eat the pizza. Go out...
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April 23rd 2026 No customer service available No customer service available Cory Doctorow calls it enshittification. And it happens especially with the behemoth companies, the too-big-to-fail, the monopolies. All in the interest of cutting staff and outsourcing customer service to a bot. Over the last three months, I have tried to reach Booking.com. To get a response. A human. Anyone who cares. (They don’t.) To get a refund on a hotel booked to see my father in his last stage of life. He died...
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April 22nd 2026 To transcend ordinary we need idealism To transcend ordinary we need idealism Please call me idealistic. I will wear it as a badge of honour. Idealism has been getting a bad rap for the past few decades. A large part of this has to do with our current worldview, which is based on the scientific, everything that cannot be measured is not real, rational, success-driven view. When we awaken idealism, we awaken imagination and the world of ideas. What is not to love about that?...
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April 21st 2026 Language creates culture Language creates culture Business as usual, and the world as we know it is a culture of domination, top-down hierarchy, leader as authoritarian, employees as commodities, customers as consumers, and citizens as useful when spellcast by lies. If we want to change the world, we need to change our language. Part of our commitment in Syntropic World is to bring new language, and therefore, new worlds, into existence. We can be a steward rather than a...
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April 20th 2026 We need to love tension in our businesses and teams We need to love tension in our businesses and teams In Buckminster Fuller’s tensegrity model, there is this beautiful relationship between tension and compression. Bucky demonstrated that tensegrity exists in all of nature. So often we avoid either tension (blow apart stress/pull/exterior) or compression (contraction stress/push/interior), but for integrity to occur (for things to hold their shape), we need both. Fall in love...
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April 18th 2026 The Empire has fallen The Empire has fallen For most of my younger years, the golden destination on the planet was the USA. It was for this reason I went there on my first major solo trip, aged 23years, spending four months travelling to 48 states. This year we went to Mexico, choosing to go there rather than the USA, to spend a week with my partner’s son, who is working and studying there. We did not want to go to the USA. However, the rules are such that you cannot transit...
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April 17th 2026 Love does not lend itself to statistics Love does not lend itself to statistics In a world addicted to measuring, there are some things that defy measurement. Our scientists and rationalists scramble desperately to measure everything. They even say dumb things like…” if it can’t be measured it can’t exist.” Tell that to the love you have for your child. We may well be able to measure the outcomes of imagination, but we cannot measure the delicious act of imagination itself....
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April 16th 2026 Friending rather than dating Friending rather than dating Dating is loaded. Expectations. Assessments. Hopes and dreams. Friending is different. Do I like this person as a friend? Their values. Their way of life. What they fight for? Cry for? Do I want them as a friend? With a friend, we can have coffee and walk away and get on with the day. With a date, we judge. Measure. And when we walk away, the space is either full of our hopes and dreams, reasonable and unreasonable, or...
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