Author: Jeremiah Josey
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Kuwait Chronicles: Engineering Success and Social Bonds
Time in the sand builds trust stronger than stone. Kuwait: Projects, People, and Paradise With the 2008 financial crisis looming, I repositioned myself to the Middle East—Kuwait, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates—moving between each of them. The crash was obvious, and by April 2008, I was in the region with my fixed assets already…
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A Warrior’s Journey – Walking with Ayahuasca – Part 1
Graphic Accounts of 6 Ayahuasca sessions over 12 days on an island deep in the Peruvian Amazonian Jungle. 10-22 August 2012 With Thanks Leah Farbstein for terrific editing. Jenny McDonald for her loving feedback on early drafts. Kaja Zu and Dajana Stupar for being the first to describe the riveting, almost-like-we-there experience from the first…
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MECi Group News Letter for 2015
A update on progress and activities and how to join us Welcome to this year’s MECi Group newsletter. This will be brief. There’s lots going on. In this newsletter I’ll cover: But firstly a little bit about our focus for this year. Shifts in dynamics of world power suggests that this year is the time…
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Artificial Intelligence and What It Means
Our world is heading for new heights all because of Artificial Intelligence Well firstly it is way, way cool…. Think Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla and Buckminster Fuller rolled into one and then multiplied 1,000 times… More than that. OK, that’s a lot to imagine. Artificial Intelligence, or AI for short, by definition cannot possible be the…
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Exponential Curves, Compounding Interest and Finite Resources
Why our earth needs nurturing and management, not raping and pillaging and how cars and bacteria can teach valuable lessons “Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it … he who doesn’t … pays it.” Albert Einstein Has anyone wondered why the roads have become so congested so…
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The Economics of Good Team Work – The Easy Way to Improve Business Profits for the Long Term
When teams hum, success flows I wrote this article for the Al Jarida newspaper and it was published on Saturday 21 February 2015. This article took a full page to discuss the economics of good team work for a business. It is published here: Al Jarida Article 21 Feb 2015 (Go to page 12) The Economics of…
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The End of Oil? Oil Pricing for 2015 and the Rise of Solar Energy
Best Business Practices, Energy, Global Issues Affecting all of Us, Money, Solar Power, Technology, The Middle EastAn Arabic prophesy half way in the making? of a monetary glitch in the status quo? I wrote the article for the Al Jarida newspaper of Kuwait and it was published on Saturday 24 January 2015. It’s a further development of my previous blog on how technology is changing the way the energy market operates…
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2015: The Year For the Downside of Solar Energy and the Upside of Banking
How financial success for some doesn’t equate to project success for others Photographer: Chris Sattlberger/Getty Images Downside of Solar? Yes, downside. The side where you slide down and things get easier and more efficient, and lower priced, and better, and people want more of it. That’s what is happening with solar power. Look at this…
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Starting out 2015 with an Ode to Unity
The ideal World – humanity working as one Today, tomorrow or the next, we will collectively look with our hearts, our minds will be idle. Connecting our third eye through to infinite intelligence, tethering our mind to the guidance of the earth bound resonance we all share from our bodies made from mud, made of…
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Seasons Greetings and Financial Events for 2014
Setting the scene for 2015 based on what has happened in 2014 As we close the chapter on 2014 and turn our attention to what lies ahead for 2015, I think I can safely say that 2014 has been like no other. I’ve been studying the financial markets for several years and the signs are…
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The Speech that Signals the Change of the World and Setting the Scene for the 21st Century.
Address by President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, about how Crimea has joined the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin addressed State Duma deputies, Federation Council members, heads of Russian regions and civil society representatives in the Kremlin. PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA VLADIMIR PUTIN: Federation Council members, State Duma deputies, good afternoon. Representatives of the Republic of…
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I Dream of Owls
High consciousness? Perhaps. A dream narrative The dream started with me walking down a street. Or rather I entered consciousness of the dream at this point. I felt as though I had been dreaming for a while before this point. It seemed like a street in semi suburban, semi industrial Australia. There are many places…
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The Beginning of Freedom
A quote by Erhart Tolle “The beginning of freedom is the realisation that you are not “the thinker.” The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated. You then begin to realise that there is a vast realm of intelligence beyond thought, that thought is only a tiny aspect of…
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Do You Find Business Hard or Easy?
For business minded people success starts with starting I’ll say something about what I observe about business. People starting out for the first time with little business history of their own or in their family believe they have to do it themselves. That they can’t trust anyone. And they are frequently trying to prove something…
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Is the US Oil Sector in Denial?
The ponzi of fracking and how it keeps the petrodollar alive I came across an interesting article in my email the other morning about how higher energy taxes threaten US shale boom, and I was intrigued not really by the message, but by how the message was being delivered. Being close to the oil sector myself…
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We are the Russians – Here We Come!
How studying secular-rational values helps you understand a culture Ever wonder about the psychology of the Russian people? Let’s look at where they come from. What are some headlines about Russia as a country? (Just a few, because there are many): So lots of space for people, lots of space for food for the people…
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Discussion with Kuwaiti Member of Parliament
An insiders view of the workings of the only democracy of the Arab world A few nights ago I met up with recently elected member of Kuwait parliament the Right Honourable Nawaf Al Fuzaia. We discussed many things, one of which was about the prospect of doubling of the budget for the Government of Kuwait over the next 10…
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Eight Principles – Participative Management
Group Think and Group Management? It’s not as easy as you think This article draws from something I read recently by Joan Lancourt and Charles Savage called Organizational Transformation and the Changing Role of the Human Resource Function What is participative management? I call it the humanising style of management that I advocate and endorse.…
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Do It Daily!
Zig Ziglar said every little step counts Bathing daily, eating daily, sleeping daily. Daily is the greatest gift we have to change our lives. Just by changing what we do a little each day means we can change the course of our lives over a life time. Yoga daily, meditation daily, fresh healthy foods daily, positive uplifting…
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