"The world is made of events, not things." — Carlo Rovelli Exactly who are you?  People have always been fascinated by self-assessment studies. What type of personality am I? Am I an introvert or an extrovert? Perhaps an eagle or a tortoise? Perhaps an interesting colour? The majority of such assessments may be fun, but they suffer from one ba...

"It is important to realise that in the world today, we have no knowledge of what energy is."Richard Feynman"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."Plato Energy - Life Force and Eternal Enigma  Superficially "Organizational Energy" may refer to the c...

"We are free to change the world and start something new in it." Hannah Arendt The New Leadership in a World of Science and Machine Intelligence  If you decide to build a universe, it's quite simple.  Apart from plenty of space and about a hundred basic building blocks you need two key elements.   Energy and the e...

"Complex systems throughout Nature (including all social systems and organisations) display structures and functions that are built and maintained...by optimal energies flowing through them." Eric J. ChaissonHarvard-Smothsonian Centre for Astrophysics, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA Energy and Complexity.  Drivers of all Cultural Evolution...

      "Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark." Carl Sagan If you are a reader of my blogs you will know that I have been focussing on corruption ...

It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now. David Attenborough The Facts Matter - some things to ponder In a world ...

"We live in a real world of rivers, trees and lions (the planet) and an imaginary world of gods, nations and organisations (human consciousness)." Yuval Harari Our Reality Paradox  COP 27 has come and gone and a few more deck chairs have been shuffled about.  And the now fast looming iceberg of global corruption and tragically incomp...

Corruption kills.  It's time for action in SA  It's time for brutal honesty. The recent COP 27 continued to shuffle the deckchairs while the band played its endless drone of irrelevance.  The two critical issues of global corruption and global leadership were not addressed. Corruption is akin to a virulent sexually transmitted d...

"It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong." Richard Feynman, Physicist and Genius in the World of Energy Energy.  If you cannot measure it, you cannot manage it.  A solution. Nikola Tesla.  One of the greatest geniuses of the past century.&nbs...