Proconsul 2026
I talked to a reader last week and they asked if I had been publishing anymore here. I haven't for a while. I may, going forward, but I don't know yet where this fits in the work I'm pursuing now. I have moved back
Liveable Homes
At-Cost, Climate-Secure Housing for Canada Canada’s housing market is not suffering from a shortage of materials or land. It suffers from a shortage of integrity in the way homes are conceived, financed, and delivered. Subscribe For decades, developers have built to extract, not to endure. The result is a
Canada’s Last Advantage
Community as the System That Outlasts Capital, Technology, and Drift The world is splintered. Supply chains buckle under pressure. Capital pools, but doesn't flow. Nations drift between identity and ideology. Technology sprints ahead while governance crawls. The common person feels the strain in every grocery bill, every rent
Feeding Canada
Building Infrastructure That Can't Be Cut In September 2025, the Yukon First Nation Education Directorate (YFNED) announced it was forced to shut down its rural nutrition program. For five years, the program delivered two healthy meals a day to 900 Indigenous children in schools, daycares, and homes across
Strategic Mindfulness in Uncertainty V
The Operator’s Advantage This isn't meditation. This isn't calm for its own sake. It's sovereignty in storm. Awareness weaponised into architecture. And the operator who installs this wins — not by force, not by speed, not by capital — but by clarity. Subscribe The Age
Strategic Mindfulness in Uncertainty IV
Politics: Power in Perception Political cycles are engineered distraction. This is the design, not the accident. Outrage. Crisis. Promise. Betrayal. Reset. Repeat. Citizens are trained to react. Media is trained to amplify. Leaders are trained to perform. It's theatre engineered to blind. Subscribe In this theatre, most executives,
Look at the Sky
My patience is nearly infinite. But I don't wait well. :) Subscribe Look at the sky. Take time with your coffee. Find the joy in your day. Breathe. B “You have not met all the people that will love you” is so comforting — Bellejoulove (@bellejoulove.bsky.social) 2025-09-28T11:21:
Strategic Mindfulness in Uncertainty III
Society: Trust in Collapse Institutions are burning trust faster than they build markets. It’s the slow bleed nobody wants to measure. Governments collapse in failure. Media trades authority for clicks. Corporations gut their own credibility chasing quarterly optics. Universities, banks, and once-stable systems lose their footing one breach, one
Rewriting the Apocalypse
What if the The Walking Dead was Fascists Instead of Zombies? The Walking Dead was never about zombies. Zombies are theatre, distraction, camouflage. The real subject is collapse. What happens when systems fail, when trust evaporates, when the rules vanish overnight. Strip away the gore and the staggering corpses and
Strategic Mindfulness in Uncertainty II
Commerce: The Cost of Blind Growth Most businesses scale noise, not clarity. It’s the hidden tragedy of the modern founder. They mistake motion for growth, speed for traction, attention for revenue. They obsess over visibility, vanity, and volume — and then wonder why, when the market turns volatile, their systems
The Last Mailbox
What Would Tommy Douglas Tell Canada Now? The collapse of Canada Post is not about stamps. It’s not about sorting facilities, logistics software, or quarterly losses buried in government press releases. It's about whether this country still believes in the idea of public purpose. Subscribe I can&
Strategic Mindfulness in Uncertainty
Clarity as the Last Competitive Edge Uncertainty is not a temporary condition. It's the new ground we walk on. The founder who waits for stability will die waiting. The executive who bets on predictability will bet the company away. And the politician who clings to the illusion of