Swart Donkey

When organisations and groups are small, it is possible for the people in charge to understand the dynamics and treat everyone as individual...

Meritocracy is an appealing euphemism for hereditary privilege. It is appealing because within our bubble, it makes us feel like we genuine...

We have limited capacity. Limited time. Limited attention. Limited energy. The power of this is that we will make different mistakes. Mista...

Framing is everything. It is the context. ' The Endowment Bias ' shows that people are willing to pay less for something that isn...

Always have some time between thinking and sleeping, for your mind to calm down. I learnt this lesson most vividly when I was doing a cour...

For obvious reasons, Colonialism is associated with its most recent incarnation. A distant land with a superiority complex, on a mixture of...

'Big Solutions' take a lot of people agreeing and a strong vision of where the destination is. Bringing empowered people along with...

If forever is your time frame, you could solve a lot of problems with little changes. Most of our actions are discounted by time value ....

We could crowdsource  a Community Wealth Fund  (CWF) to pay a Universal Basic Income  (UBI). G iven that it is Universal and doesn't d...

There are two sources of income - Labour and Capital . What you get paid for your work. What you own gets paid. Half the world's popu...

One way to build is to have a vision, and then fight your way through the obstacles in the way. Another way to build is to see . To give s...

A Community Wealth Fund  could finance an Unconditional Basic Income . A UBI is defined by the Basic Income Earth Network as " a peri...

When groups become too big, they become abstract. The story stretched.  Dunbar's number  is a theory that, as people, there is a limit ...

I am working on an idea of building a community of 150 people . I want to simplify what seems like a bottomless pit of issues to something ...

A Community is a group of people sharing a particular characteristic , or certain attitudes/interests . Community is a trust tool  that imm...

The smallest country in the world by population is the Vatican City, with 451 people. China has a population of 1,386,923,384 +. The World ...

How much is enough? More. Or Less. Two and a half years ago I ' declared independence '. Later, I thought ' interdependence ...

At some stage I would like to start a company. I have been plotting for years with some friends. The name of this company has shifted from ...

We like the idea of fairness. People shouldn't take advantage of others. Experiments have shown people are actually willing to pay to ...

Creating opportunities for community building is hard. It is very tempting for us to spend time with people who are the same as us. I...