October 16th 2026 What do we need now to feel safe? What do we need now to feel safe? I heard a politician say that governments have a responsibility to keep their citizen safe. What is it to feel safe? To have a roof over your head. To sleep at night without fear of invasion, attack or threat. To know that if you fall ill, there is a path back to health that you can access and afford. To know that your neighbour will not attack you for your difference. To be able to drink clean water, eat...

October 15th 2026 How do you create the culture you want? How do you create the culture you want? It’s the culture - easy to say, as if the word itself comes loaded with the means to create one. There is always a culture. It just may not be one you want or like. In Syntropic World, our suite of tools and practices creates a culture of self-responsibility, agency, collaboration, trust, integrity and synergy - where we are better for working together. Desired cultural creation is a design...

October 14th 2026 Beauty and the Question of Integrity Beauty and the Question of Integrity If beauty is present, so too is integrity, for integrity means to hold its shape. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Does that mean integrity exists when we terraform the land to extract and exploit? Or as we go under the knife to uplift, enhance, pump and preen? I contemplate this question, not yet finding an answer. I think about beauty as I age without cosmetic enhancements. I read yesterday...