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...

October 13th 2026 Who is the rogue state? Who is the rogue state? It is clear that the rogue states of the world are not the ones we have been told about for decades. Instead, they are the ones we have been told to celebrate as a bastion of success. A state that live-streams executions. A state where state-sanctioned masked men terrorise citizens on the streets. A state that bullies their ‘allies’. And has more people incarcerated than any other state in the world. (Per capita, the USA ranks...