If I look at the arc of my life there is no question that I am here to be the grit in the oyster that produces a pearl called integrity. Integrity. Like many over used words, most people have never really considered what it means. How easy it is to brandish around words that express some great and noble purpose, … Read More
People’s minds aren’t made for problems that large. You have to want to see.
This week I am watching others be so completely blind to patterns so big and obvious that have been ongoing for years…and in the watching I watch myself, with my own question…what am I not seeing that is super obvious to others? It feels to me like I have recently broken out of one of my own blindspots after years … Read More
Fractured. Breaking down the walls between us as if this mattered more than anything..which is does.
Rent, broken, torn. Our society is fighting itself. Our immunity is down. Resistance to antibiotics is rampant. Not in the way you would read this, but our human collective resistance to a massive propaganda attack is not being supported in any way by antibiotics of moderation and wisdom. We do not know moderation. Only excess. Be that excess social media, … Read More
Business as Usual. Business models built on scam, grift, and more scam.
Forgive me for the rant. We do now live in a post truth world, where the leader (if you could call him that?) of the free world is one of the best scam artists and grifters the business world has ever seen. Oh, and apparently he has a shit load of money too. I would like to see his full … Read More
Disruption – the nature of it. A Myriad dance with Debbie.
Last week in my home state of Queensland we had an extreme weather event called Debbie. Cyclone Debbie to be exact. She made landfall in north Queensland, with winds of up to 260 kilometers an hour, March 28th. Many homes were lost. Lives changed course. Heartbreak. Then Debbie moved south and dropped an alarming amount of rain onto South East … Read More
Seduction and Courtship – why knowing the difference matters
Seduction is the currency of our time. Clever campaigns invite us to believe that we are lesser humans for not having the hottest, newest “X”. Seduction is the constant barrage of images. Skinny, young, perfect. Selfies. Its the data mined construction of words and messages. The Cambridge Analytica, where unless we are super aware, we will be seduced. To be … Read More
Moving from an economy of extraction to extinction – to omni-generative
Our current economic model is designed to extract to extinction. Extract impounded solar energy (fossil fuels) from Earth, some billions of years in the making, and costing millions of energy dollars for Earth to produce, to make a profit in the short term (several hundred years of wealth for a small few), for which the future humans and Earth will … Read More
A return to Truth and Integrity – daring to care, daring to speak truth, daring to be integrity
One week into the Presidency of Trump if you have been living in a similar world to me, you might have been questioning the meaning of big keystone words like INTEGRITY and TRUTH. Words, as always, are mere symbols, and meaningless without context. They are also the foundation of constructs that build relationship and TRUST (another big word) between people. … Read More
Arrested development – two behavioural diseases we urgently need to inoculate ourselves from
Step overs and blind spots We step over so much. We do not speak up when we need. And then get upset when we get more of what we need to speak up about. Then we get angry. And then we blame. There are only two questions to ask. When did I first fail to say, “No”. “This is not … Read More
We must fight for good every single day
I am writing on the day some millions of women and men marched for dignity around the world. I was so deeply proud of my many friends marching in Washington, Boston, LA, Phoenix, Austin, Sydney, San Francisco, London. It was by their accounts peaceful and respectful. Some people have asked, what is the point? What difference will a march make? … Read More