April 1st 2025 Betraying your mission to save your bacon Betraying your mission to save your bacon We watch this happening everywhere. The mission of a University is to be open-minded, exploratory, co-learning, research-based, big-picture thinking, challenge thinking, stretch, innovate, and emerge. Not bending the knee to the money, finance and the lobbyists. And as they do this, throwing a select group of students under the bus, or in the case of the USA, onto a bus to a detention centre for...
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March 31st 2025 Gravity and the Pedestal Gravity and the Pedestal Putting people on a pedestal, no matter how high the pedestal, has only one ending. We can admire someone. We can be inspired by them. They can mentor us. But to place them above us diminishes everyone, the person placed on the pedestal and those looking up and bowing down. This is in distinction to reverence. To revere. A deep and abiding respect for. One of the intentions I set for a future intimate partnership before I met...
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March 30th 2025 We are the imaginal cells We are the imaginal cells It is a beautiful Sunday morning, with blue skies after a few days of relentless rain in an already soaked area. I watch a country that has, from its colonial existence, espoused freedom and free speech take the quick step to autocracy, a path it has been building from its inception, the shadow of freedom never addressed through its relentless oppression of anyone who doesn’t fit the constructed image of what a human should...
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March 29th 2025 Particular customer Particular customer I will tell you exactly what I want. You can serve me and make me happy, or you can ignore me and make me unhappy. Or we can renegotiate. This is real for me as I have a daily ritual luxury of a morning coffee, and I like my morning coffee in a very particular way. Boiling – as in technically boiling – hot. Over the years, I have attempted to communicate this request in as many ways as I can to ensure I get a boiling cup of coffee. Words...
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March 28th 2025 Courage Leadership Wisdom Courage Leadership Wisdom I loathe cowards Those who make mistakes and then try to blame another, deflect, or dismiss the accusation as trivial. It shows the level of cowardly depravity, far from any quality of leadership. The craven people in the top positions of government, not just in the USA, but in most governments, disgust me with their lies and blaming. I struggle to find one redeeming quality about them. Courage is the ability to stand in your...
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March 27th 2025 Equity in shares is rarely based on equity Equity in shares is rarely based on equity Equity from aequus “even, just, equal. The uniform relation of one thing to others, equality, conformity, symmetry (From Etymology Online) Equity in a venture means you have shares in the venture, where one share of yours is equal to a share of someone else. Equity is often assigned to people who have made a financial investment. In a startup, the founders might get equity to account for the...
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March 26th 2025 Nuance stripped Nuance stripped We make decisions and act in certain ways for so many reasons, the obvious and the reflexive, unconscious. The decisions we make in the heat of the moment often are mysterious to ourselves in that moment. Yet alone in the eyes of others. But here we are, judging others on their decisions, with all nuance stripped out. I do this every day to others. Particularly in a world where the pot has been so traumatically stirred that anger boils. This is...
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March 25th 2025 Syntropic Empathy Syntropic Empathy A crazed man with unprecedented power said the fundamental weakness of Western civilisation is empathy. Empathy en=in, pathos=feeling. Feeling in. The ability to feel with others in their experience. But in order to be empathetic, I must first consider you, and stop thinking about me. In other words, I cannot be a narcissist or a psychopath. A world without empathy is a world where cruelty is sanctified. Where I have no interest in being...
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March 24th 2025 Necessary boundaries Necessary boundaries If you live in a cold country, you keep the doors closed and sealed to prevent the heat from going out and the cold from coming in. If the door is left open, cold air comes in, and you can feel the difference. But warm air also goes out, and it makes marginal difference to the outside air. Why? A house is a structure is a boundary. Air molecules are like people. If you have a structure, it maintains some form of coherence and...
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