The Power of Fuck

The Power of Fuck

It’s been humbling to have realised just how much I live life out of my head. I know I’m not special in this regard, it’s pretty much the norm. But still, it feels confronting as fuck. As the years of body practice have finally started to pay off, and I’ve learned how...
The Merchant’s Code: Ethics of Goodness

The Merchant’s Code: Ethics of Goodness

My upbringing gave me a very strong narrative about business: it’s corrupt and corrupts good people. It took me many years to unwind this story and reintegrate the archetype of the Merchant back into my worldview and life. It’s been a great lifeline for me, when I’m...
Reconciling the Artist and the Merchant

Reconciling the Artist and the Merchant

There’s an idea I’ve been fascinated for years now. It’s one of those things that has endured through different businesses and phases of my life. It is the idea that there is a new kind of professional role being formed in society at large – a kind of entrepreneur who...
The Heroic Professional Part II: The Transformational Cycle

The Heroic Professional Part II: The Transformational Cycle

The professional. A role as old as Adam. The professional used to be someone who had a trade – a craftsman, farmer, healer, soldier. The new professional is one who follows a vocation – literally a calling. And by following this calling, the call of the gods, we step...
The Heroic Professional – Part I: The Archetypal Trinity

The Heroic Professional – Part I: The Archetypal Trinity

We live in interesting times. The famed ‘fast changing world’ – the best we can do to describe the overwhelming whirl of evolution as it gathers pace. I believe that we’re in the midst of the early chapters of a new age. Ken Wilber calls it integral. James Altucher...