June 18th 2026 An independent fourth estate An independent fourth estate Once upon a time Journalists asked blistering questions of politicians and CEO’s – never allowing a single opportunity to pass without some form of journalistic interrogation. No more. The mainstream media have been sold to the very class that profits from the people who dictate policy. They want the rot to be left unchallenged. Because it enriches them. So here we are. We have Australia’s equivalent of Trump/Farage...
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June 17th 2026 Go Play Go play Long-term readers will know I have been learning to surf. I will never not be learning to surf – as in I will never reach a destination of ‘surfer.’ It has been humbling, frustrating, joyous, terrifying, fun and challenging. Sometimes all of those emotions are experienced in one surf. I have been in a little slump. The surf has been tricky. My confidence has dropped dramatically. Oftentimes, naivete is so liberating because we have less fear. I need a reset....
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June 16th 2026 Sometimes it is out of integrity to scale Sometimes it is out of integrity to scale Our current world propagates scarcity as a currency. Our economy depends on scarcity to survive in its current form. The marketers of the world thrive on scarcity…only 100 places, get in now before the price goes up…this offer will never be repeated… Our addiction to consumption is driven by scarcity. We wake up at night with fears of loss, lack, and other forms of scarcity. When someone acts...
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June 15th 2026 Assimilation, synergy and refugees Assimilation, synergy and refugees From the Australian football team winning their first match against Turkiye, against the odds and against Turkiye’s expectation that they were the superior team, with many players on big salaries in European football. The Aussie team comprised 15 cultural and ethnic backgrounds, 8 of them born overseas, some in refugee camps. No big Euro players. But what a team. And on this day, the leader of our hate...
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June 13th 2026 Generating value is like love. It is synpoietic Generating value is like love. It is synpoietic You buy a product or service you love. The value is far greater than the cost of your time, energy, money, resources and effort. Value is generated. But it is never one-sided. The enterprise or person providing the product or service is also receiving value. Not just in the form of money. They may also receive positive feelings, energy, love, and care for providing the service. They...
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June 12th 2026 Harder to break Harder to break Human bodies are fractal metaphors of all life. The female body, as current Western Culture dictates, is to be skinny. The skinnier the better. The scales are to tell a story of skinny. Food is to be skinny. For many, food is to be dreamed of and not eaten. Our faces are supposed to be plumped with fillers so that all of our lived experiences are eased and our smiles a stricture. We spend fortunes on moulding and contorting. To fit some ideal....
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June 11th 2026 7 months old 7 months old Sam Abu Haikal 7 months old. Shot in the head. In the West Bank. Sam Harris, a man of immense privilege, writes that if the Palestinians had put down their weapons in 1948, and today, now, everything would be peaceful. I would like to see how peaceful Sam Harris would remain, even with his meditation practise and bank account, if a group of people came and forcefully took his home, and the homes of his family and friends, bulldozed it, bused everyone...
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June 10th 2026 I love you too much to let you stay broken I love you too much to let you stay broken 25 years ago, I created a program called Dare to Care – How to speak the radical truth with compassion. The point was that if we care enough about someone, we will tell them the radical truth, ideally in a way that does not demean, belittle, shame or ridicule. We often confuse love with being nice. Love is courage. Love is wanting for the other great things, including being the most beautiful...
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June 9th 2026 Standing even against relentless criticism Standing even against relentless criticism Almost every human I have met has before them the choice between the path that calls to them but is filled with uncertainty, risk, and exposure, and the safe path. We are faced with this choice every single day in one form or another. When we take the risky, exposing path, then we face everything that we fear. This includes shame, failure, rejection, ridicule and isolation. Our world is full of...
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