Big vision. Big growth. Big exits. Big applause. We celebrate BIG and BOLD like it’s the only way to be legitimate. Everyone’s quietly told they should be aiming to be the next billionaire disruptor. Here’s the bit we’re not allowed to say out loud: Most of us are not going to be “huge successes” in … Continue reading 📢 Everyone’s running an epic mental script. 🧠
We’re told the future belongs to faster thinking. Smarter tools.Sharper competition.More individual optimisation. But that’s not how humans have ever met uncertainty. Our advantage was never information.It was wisdom. Not speed — but sense-making.Not dominance — but creative collaboration.Not noise — but dialogue. When the world became complex, humans didn’t sit still and compete harder.They … Continue reading The Fellowship Community – Men’s Retreats
There’s growing evidence that heavy tech use in schools and work is quietly eroding our ability to think deeply. https://www.instagram.com/p/DUnMft6EZ4L/ Humans didn’t evolve to learn alone, staring at screens. We learned by walking, arguing, questioning, and thinking together. Aristotle taught while walking. Socrates learned through conversation. If you don’t want to outsource your thinking — … Continue reading If you don’t want to outsource your thinking — and eventually your relevance — you need to train your mind the old way.
Looking back at this old photo from my military days reminds me why adventure has always been my motivation. The above was taken wandering and climbing around the Himalayas. Early on, I learned to escape hierarchy and test my own limits — eventually joining the SF world, not for prestige, but just to see if … Continue reading 💫⚡💡 Empowered People Behave Differently….And Better! 💪
🍀 Aspirational — Who are we becoming?🍀 Inspirational — Who benefits beyond us?🍀 Motivational — How does this make life better now? That’s what From Mercenaries to Missionaries was really about. Not leaders.Not hierarchy.But ordinary people, in small, trusted teams, choosing to act with purpose—right where they are. History doesn’t turn because of strategies.It turns … Continue reading 🌱 When three things align, change becomes inevitable: 🌊
Are we? If so… maybe it’s how we make decisions. We turned humans into widgets and called it management.Trained ourselves to think in steps, stages, metrics and loops.Efficient. Useful. Incomplete. What’s breaking isn’t intelligence — it’s awareness. • Linear models applied to living systems• Speed optimised, wisdom lost• Control mistaken for understanding At the February … Continue reading “We’re all doomed.”
'the smartest people aren’t just the most technical. They’re the ones with foresight, wisdom, and empathy.' That’s exactly what we train for on The Fellowship men’s retreat. Not through slides or performance theatre — but through peak states, long walks outdoors, nature, and deep dialogue. The way Socrates and Aristotle actually did philosophy: walking, questioning, sensing, … Continue reading Jensen Huang of NVIDIA says it plainly:
Human nervous systems evolved for villages, not global firehoses. Yet today, we absorb the whole world before breakfast. War. Disaster. Collapse. Injustice. Suffering. The anterior cingulate cortex doesn’t experience this as neutral information. It experiences it as threat. So attention narrows. Habits tighten. Possibility contracts. Not because we are failing, but because biology is trying … Continue reading ✨ Reconnecting Clarity in an Overloaded World ✨
Most of us were trained to behave like widgets. -Stay in lane. -Wait for permission. -Optimise your function. But humans are not components. We are sensing, creative, relational, meaning-seeking beings. That’s why working in Dynamic Self-Organising Teams (D-SOTs) feels so different. Because in D-SOTs: -Leadership circulates. -Intelligence is shared. -Responsibility is human again. -And something … Continue reading “Leadership is not scarce. Our systems just make it so.”
💚Yesterday, I witnessed something quietly beautiful.💚 As part of the Stoic Pilgrim Fellowship, we live by a Field Manual of 12 principles — ethical anchors for how we move, think, and act. One of them is Generational Generosity: the idea that our actions today should benefit those who will come after us. A small group … Continue reading 💚 Planting for the Future: Generational Generosity in Action 🌱
