Why and How of these writings ? Don't really know how to explain it - but maybe I will ramble on a bit about history and reasoning. Maybe as I was growing up - I was too quiet and focused - now is the time to unleash the inner banshee. Or maybe there is a more recent and logical explanation. Yet the desire to share ideas and communicate goes back to the stone age - mine that is. For me it was always growing a circle of trusted friends and influencing my people's thinking - to action. On the final analysis a clear, logical thought leads to a correct decision and in turn to action... Since Earth Day in Rio we are working on the ideas of the Environmental Parliament. We need people to participate and lead in service. Although the Mobile Internet business is a demanding field and innovation is rampant - it is the Environment and Climate that dictate our Lives. So I follow the Philosopher's path. Essentially all activists, communicators, leaders, and authors wish to reach an audience, the larger the better - hoping to impact the current idea sphere and the public debate for the kind of future we all share. I think and write about the Environment, the Leadership, the Internet and Mobile Communications, Social Net sphere, Start ups, Business Models, Ventures, and Private Equity, Family, Good Corporations, Value investments in the Green Space that promote well being beyond their shareholders and product investees. I enjoy being critical as a philosophical contribution about the political and the economic subjects, about history and social institutions, and about leaders for my people, with the single aim of highlighting the path less travelled of all these unexpected connections. This Blog started Life many years ago as a subscription newsletter and it evolved into a Leadership for cutting edge thinkers. A leader for governments and Corporations and leading technology is nothing but a servant of the public good. Whether a head of state or a Mobile and Telecomms CEO it is the style of follower the leader demands that makes the difference between a so-so, a nice one or a good folk tale of a newsletter. Soon this became a Read only Bulletin Board with large amount of what I have written in books and articles aimed at a specialized audience of Corporate and Government Leaders. Being a strict and expensive subscription only model, this remained hidden from most of you. From the turn of the century onwards I have quietly shifted to a strictly Environmental Leadership Blog and written a lot, about what is happening in the world’s most powerful countries and what that might mean for the rest of us. But I also look equally hard - I hope to the most powerless countries and people - where I spend much time in service. And even though much of that remained hidden as well through my focused writings in other languages than English - here are the present day interests of my peripatetic Life. Mainly Philosophical thoughts and Leadership on the Bleeding Edge informs the title of the Blog. Here are things I have thought about and found them of interest. Maybe you will too. I hope that you will find some resonance in your Life and worth your time reading and thinking after wardsabout your impacts on this short sojourn of Life on earth. We live a little and die for a wholelot. Let's make it count... I am also intrigued by Leaders aspirations and visions and how they translate into the world's movements or their impacts on our Lives. The phenomenon of power and how that is exercised and experienced in different political cultures not just the Anglo-Saxon one is paramount. I am interested in what actively limits our gaining knowledge on important matters, and the widespread phenomenon of studied ignorance, and particularly the ways that this shapes our political environment and Governing bodies. I truly believe one man can change the world. Be Careful - as it might also be a woman or a child or a singular event - that change is everywhere unobserved. Singularity theory is for me the Quantum Theory of the day and write as if this shapes my Life daily. I will try to comment regularly on polity and economy. Should they seize to be of interest, trust that Philosophy will guide You. Leadership and Philosophy they should always be seen as parts of the same thing. Singular aspects of the same coin. Or diamond shaped events as they reflect all the people's hopes and dreams. We evolve and connect those with those of others. A lot of the time I will just be thinking out loud and calling you to be awake. Humour might do just that... I will, in a rather meandering way, follow the unfolding of events in areas that interest me, with jottings under the customary dateline, and link subjects that come up with relevant bits and pieces in earlier writing with which I will gradually fill up the reservoir. There are a number of themes that I intend to come back to again and again, when I think they are relevant to the questions and dilemmas of twentyfirst century existence. My focus is on Environmental and Economic American and European developments and the trans-Atlantic relationship, and what these mean for the rest of the world. Especially for the most vulnerable and their relationship to the most responsible for the state of the world today. After all those who have been given a lot - much is expected from. And am interested in the birth of the European federalism or the European integration, especially in the context of how a Europe with a voice could play a beneficent role in the world. Am very interested in the institution of the citizen, and in which manner citizenship remains possible on the supranational level of the European Union. Is a federal Europe possible with autonomous nation states? Or are nation-states on the way to the evolutionary extinction bin of history? Much the same as the city-states of yore? A further intention is to carry writings of friends and willing strangers whose ideas I think are worth the broadest audience they can get. Of course I want people everywhere to read me, and hope that like-minded bloggers will discover this and link it to their own musings. But I want specifically to address an English, UK and a European public and then an American and Global. Because there exists a great need specifically for the public that exists in the European Union and isn't aligned strongly with their home politics, in a parochial sense - but are evolved Europeans. Europeans just as much as Ben Franklin was an American before it became fashionable to be so. George Washington was a Virginian leading a Connecticut rebel army hoping to win integration of the new republic. Yet today there is no public sphere in Europe for these people. But I trust - it will evolve soon. It took Americans 50 to 100 years to get there. Let's see how long will take the Europeans to evolve a European identity. And invariably I must take an Anglo-American route and explain things from that context as London is where I call home the most. A European public sphere is bound to emerge. That hope is shaped by the entirely reasonable expectation that at some time, I very much want to contribute to this effort, and perhaps this website will be such a contribution. A dream for a united Europe... to presage a united world. Yours, Pano PS: Maybe too much to wish for.. But aside from the fearful freaks - who fear a UN conspiracy - most others welcome the prospect. CLimate issues and the Environment are global challenges and as such they will be solved only by collectice global action. Is there any better reason why we should be united in our responses? Europe can be united as a prelude to a wider world... If we can do it, then the whole world is afoot and able to join in unity and peace with nature and each other. Only way really to solve the global issues of the day and above else the climate & environmental challenges. Why do I care? Because perhaps... Nothing less than our lives are at stake.