“Live in the future, then build what’s missing.” Paul Graham The future we are building in the blockchain world is almost entirely designed by men. Actually the future we are building in any area is almost entirely designed by men. Still. Has anyone considered that this is a serious problem? What does ‘designed by men” get? Let’s go back 50 … Read More
Can anyone name a global leader occupying a political position who is a stand for integrity? | A Stand for Integrity
Can anyone name a global leader occupying a political position who is a stand for integrity? Hmm, anyone? You know, someone who does what they say? Who does not accept legal bribery? Who doesn’t obfuscate the truth? Or outright lie a hundred times a day as a practise? How did we get to a place where the people charged with, … Read More
Time for the Declaration of Human Responsibility to counterbalance and make honest the Declaration of Human Rights | Rights, responsibilities and integrity architecture
It is time to balance the Declaration of Human Rights with the Declaration of Human Responsibilities. Now that would be an evolutionary step. We have rights..but what about rights AND responsibilities? On December 10th, 1948 in Paris the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This very significant declaration is held in theory as a practice … 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
What is ‘cheap’ labour? | Cheap Labour
We humans are being called to account. Our system of capitalism – a system that has been built, that could only have been built, entirely on the ability to NOT count for the many externalities, such as the cost of Earth to create ‘fossil’ fuels, as well as the cost to release the ‘waste products’ of fossil fuels into … Read More
Our addiction to coupling – the values of a single life
I am not sure where I found my strong sense of identity. I think it arrived with me at birth. I was never the timid, frightened child. It was me, after all, that held my fists up to ward off the person bullying my older brother, all tiny me, undaunted. You would often find me in trees, high up, alone, … Read More
We really are all connected – even our photo’s now live in the same building
In a beautiful and emotively shocking presentation on the Gold Coast this past Sunday by a South East Queenslander now London based, Liam Young, the image of Facebook’s storage facilities were shown. This place of black and blue and machines and very carefully controlled temperature in a shed in a remote place in Oregon houses the photo’s of our lives. … Read More
In a post truth world the right to an opinion without the responsibility to explore the whole story is an act of ignorance
The older I get the more I realise that so much of the story of incidents are suppressed. That our role as grown ups is to observe and ask questions. To never accept anything unless it is through our own experience, and even then to be sure to get the whole picture. The discipline required to do this is counter … Read More
We are citizens of the world, and our voice matters. #boycottbali #boycottindonesia
I am angry. I am angry because two young Australian men are to be shot by firing squad in Indonesia. Sure they did a crime which was to try to bring a big amount of heroin into Australia. That was 10 years ago. Sure they need to be held to account. But shot to death? Really? Is that what a … Read More
How do we live in a world so divided?
On this beautiful dawn lies a sea of conflict. I stand here, the energy of the sun penetrating my bones, fueling me through human photosynthesis, knowing that even as I am blessed with life and the opportunity to drink in the gorgeousness of this morn, others are waking to grief, and loss. How do we live in a world so … Read More