Philosopher, author, educator, institution-builder. The stamp is the shape of the existence it marks: eight strokes, one grain, becoming in progress.
一粒一世界: one grain, one world. 粒, the grain of rice, of Anatolian wheat, of Blake’s sand, is 米 standing. In Latin, omnibus: one for all.
Ancient philosophers, Sufi poets, systems thinkers. The reading hardened into a method and a lexicon of its own.
The Hellenistic schools as ways of living rather than doctrines: the first long reading.
Rumi and the inward road: the pearl, the ocean, the pebble.
Thinkers of layers and wholes: the onion of the self, the membrane, the feedback loop.
The reading hardened into an instrument: a compass for knowing.
Anatolian and Bulgarian roots; Sofia as home ground, with years in Brussels and the UK. The village-first instinct behind everything else.
The older root: grain, wheat, the village table.
The Balkan root: the horo, the crossroads.
Home ground and the base of the work.
Years in Brussels and the UK: Europe seen from inside its institutions.
“A Generalised Theory of Comparative Advantage” (Nottingham 1995, UCLouvain 1997). Comparison grew from a trade theory into a theory of knowing; the straight line of this map runs on into the books.
The theory first formulated.
The theory carried further.
Comparison as the engine: from a theory of trade to a theory of how we know.
Decades of CRM and Salesforce practice through ADOXY: the craft that funds the turn to philosophy.
ADOXY OOD: the consulting practice.
CRM systems, earned in production.
Admin, analyst, architect and Agentforce services for Salesforce teams.
Essays on Medium, long-form on Substack, and “Beyond Wisdom: The Soul Market” arriving as a LinkedIn newsletter.
Essays under eutop.ist.
Long-form letters.
“Beyond Wisdom: The Soul Market”, a LinkedIn newsletter.
Renaissance 3.0, the evolution from Homo Vulnerabilis to Homo Sophos Moros, with the Sophorganon as its instrument; Wisdom in Progress before it, Will Care ahead.
The book before the series.
Civilisation as evolution, in eight books.
The vulnerable species and the first membranes.
The instrument of the series.
The gentle manifesto still being written.
saaasforce for Salesforce teams, Sopho.Life wisdom coaching, and the Chief Wisdom Officers circle taking shape around the books.
Salesforce services for admin, analyst, architect and Agentforce work.
Coaching with a custom Sophorganon for each person.
A circle of Chief Wisdom Officers taking shape around the books.
The Creative Institute: Creative Fridays, PechaKucha Night Sofia, Balkan Dreamin’.
The weekly room at The Creative Institute.
Twenty images, twenty seconds each.
The Salesforce community conference, waiting for its time.