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The Fascination of the Invisible: Aphanipoiesis, Love, and Systems That Only See What Has Already Appeared
If you can list the reasons you love someone - their kindness, their intelligence, their smile - then, in a sense, you are no longer really speaking about love.

Ushma Issar
Feb 283 min read


The Paradox of Emergence: Balancing Doing and Allowing
We often speak about change as something that must be driven, pushed, accelerated. As if progress only happens through constant motion, pressure, and effort. In a world shaped by urgency, it can feel almost irresponsible to slow down. And yet, the more I observe how real change happens, in systems, in organisations, in people, the more I see a different truth emerging. Change does not only come from doing. It also comes from allowing. This is the paradox of emergence: transfo

Ushma Issar
Dec 27, 20252 min read


Why Innovation Needs Forgiveness: Holding On to Intentions in a Cancel Culture World
To innovate — in health, in climate, in governance — we must reclaim the space to be wrong on the way to being better.

Ushma Issar
Nov 16, 20253 min read


What Would It Take to Get Prevention Into the Right Pocket?
We all know prevention makes sense.It saves lives, saves money, and strengthens communities.So why does it still struggle to get funded? The answer often comes down to one frustrating concept: the wrong pocket problem . The Prevention Paradox in Practice Imagine a city investing in cleaner air or early childhood programs.The health benefits show up in hospitals — fewer asthma cases, better long-term outcomes —but the savings show up in someone else’s budget.Education gai

Ushma Issar
Oct 29, 20253 min read


From Cost to Investment. From Treatment to Health-ing.
Let’s go further. Let’s reframe the language altogether.
Words like “prevention” still center illness—they define health by what it’s not.
What if we talked about health-ing instead?

Ushma Issar
Jul 21, 20253 min read


One year anniversary: The ups and downs of Rypple in an adventurous journey
Tackling the Big Stuff: Setbacks? Check. Determination? Double Check.

Ushma Issar
Nov 28, 20244 min read


rypple diaries: it starts with a drop
Only when you look back you realize what moments in your life have lead you to take big decisions.

Ushma Issar
Sep 27, 20236 min read


Chapter 10: loving - Final Chapter of The Good Heart Project
What if the purpose of loving another human being thoroughly and purely, is to teach you what is possible with all beings?

Ushma Issar
Feb 24, 20235 min read


Chapter 9: understanding - The Good Heart Project
George Orwell: "Perhaps one did not want to be loved as much as to be understood."

Ushma Issar
Jan 15, 20234 min read


Chapter 8: real-eyes-ing - The Good Heart Project
What is in your control is to create an environment for yourself, in which your mind and eyes are able to see reality.

Ushma Issar
Jan 7, 20234 min read


Chapter 7: dancing on ignorance - The Good Heart Project
Whichever space you find yourself in right now, remember that ignorance will always be there. It's just our responsibility to identify it!

Ushma Issar
Jul 7, 20223 min read


Chapter 3: Goals - The Good Heart Project
Learn to live by the principle of the GPS - Goals are overrated. Listen to your heart, and you will be fine.

Ushma Issar
Aug 21, 20213 min read


Her Worth.
"A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not."

Ushma Issar
Nov 17, 20207 min read


On the verge of societal change...
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty!

Ushma Issar
Jun 22, 20203 min read


The Power of Education
Nelson Mandela stipulates that “education is the most powerful weapon, which you can use to change the world.”

Ushma Issar
Feb 1, 20204 min read

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