Since my early days in Egypt, certain ideas have preoccupied me, all connected by a common thread.
We need leaders to build enduring, altruistic organisations and solutions that improve lives, especially for the most vulnerable.
These institutions must endure for generations. 
They must outlive their founders. 
They should belong to their communities.1
Below, is an overview of what I am building and what I’d care to build.2
Please reach out if you’d like to discuss or share ideas.
Works in progress.
What I’d care to build.3
I. Ahwa Society (main focus)
II. Common Ground Advisory (main focus)
III. A Podcast. Currently: Ideation phase.
0. obuntō—started in 2022 and put on hold in 2023.
I. Eulogies fall short. How can we truly live, experience, and share our lives fully, both through our own perspective and through the eyes of others?
II. Community Circle: a more authentic, trusted network of professionals – early and late career – to share knowledge, opportunities, and to build.
III. Exploitation of people (commonly referred to as “workers”). What system can we create to bring injustices to light?
IV. We don’t know what’s in our food. The industry thrives on ignorance. What platform can force radical transparency and accountability?
V. How can Community Land Trusts be leveraged as engines of local innovation, equity, and shared prosperity? One example here.
VI. Egypt’s education system is broken—critical thinking is absent. What alternative model could be built to unlock curiosity, questioning, and independent thinking?
VII. not another travel company
15 February 2026 update: a reflection piece will soon be written on my thoughts and experiences since my arrival in August 2021.
No to retirement.
— Fr. José María Arizmendirrietta