This blog documents my personal journey on the road less travelled. My struggles to find my True North… and then to stay on the path to what I believe will lead to my personal freedom in The Nusantara Story, an evolving story of unity in diversity.
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In Kafka’s book, The Trial, a middle-level bureaucrat is arrested and put on a series of endless trials but the charges are never specified. And he searches for meaning in the endless rooms of accusatory faceless people. I believe the primary imperative of human evolution is in the search for understanding, for purpose, for the meaning of our existence —…
By June 2018, Nusantara was up, supply line established, website was up, testing and commissioning done with first test sale executed flawlessly. All that was needed now was an organic sale and I would have achieved the proof of concept to satisfy 2 of our potential investors. And then the backend broke. At first, we thought that was a minor…
Very early on the Nusantara team decided that we would develop an independent site and we would avoid existing platforms so we could learn at our own pace. The second decision we made was to use DHL as our logistics partner. Shortly after that, the team member in charge of developing the supply chain moved to London. So that task…
Nusantara is a region enriched from centuries of practising a unique philosophy described as ‘syncretic’ in her global marriage and subsequently bears this in her embrace of life. This story started from an exchange at an international chess tournament. I can’t remember how the conversation got going but the idea revolved around how to save the dying artisanal craft in…
The Purpose of Meditation. Let’s discuss this for a moment since I believe there are many perspectives. For me, the purpose of meditation is to arrive back to the present. Back to conscious action. Towards awareness and consciousness. To be able to see the elephant in the room. So it makes sense to me that the pathway lies in moving…
The year was 1997, just after the Asian financial crisis — and I had just descended into a Kafkaesque world of my own — when I discovered the works of M Scott Peck. In them, he described a journey on the road less traveled and he also came up with a concept he called Community Building in Business. I found…