Swart Donkey

Stilling anxiety and making decisions we are comfortable with can revolve around building agreements. Managing expectations through commitme...

There is a wrestle with the way people dole out respect. It is trite to say “don’t care what people think about you”, but umuntu ngumuntu ng...

Local markets should be more responsive to changes in preference, because they are able to respond to tacit knowledge. The stuff we can’t pu...

Freedom is not the absence of rules. The biggest defenders of liberty will also be the strongest advocates for rule of law. Rules are just a...

An Echoborg is a person whose words and actions are determined, in whole or in part, by artificial intelligence. The outsourcing of decision...

One huge advantage of being an Investment Analyst is yogic sage level detachment. You pass judgement on the value of a business, but active ...

For my Batchelor’s Party, my Best Man knew the normal ways of embarrassing me would not work. Instead, he dressed me up as White Jesus with ...

I started my career in Finance in South Africa and the United Kingdom during two watershed moments. Just after the bursting of the Internet ...

Decisions aren’t made in isolation. Value is relative and dependent on both how we see the world, and how the person we are interacting with...

It is important to map ignorance. Here be dragons. My impression is that we don’t have the necessary tools to unpack many of the complicat...

Some people like hierarchy. That’s okay. Everyone has their kinks, and anything that goes on between consenting adults is fine. It’s the co...

A good friend of mine loves being micro-managed. He says it means he doesn’t have the pressure of responsibility. He can just do the job t...

Morality and ethics remain even when you have different religious beliefs. Even if you don’t have a higher power. They are the agreements ...

A Stokvel is an invitation-only club which can serve as a rotating credit union (pool money and take turns to get the pot) or a savings sc...

A Community Wealth Fund is analogous to a Sovereign Wealth Fund. A Stokvel is a savings or investment society to which members regularly c...

Freedom isn't the absence of rules. The absence of boundaries and constraints can end up being a constraint. It can stop you building. ...

When I was 19, I went to Europe for the first time. I was in the UK for 18 months before that working, an d did my traveling in one big bin...

One of our strengths as humans is our ability to believe two things that can't both be true. If we become aware of the inconsistency, w...

A world of scarcity and abundance have different rules. We have flipped the two as people have become richer. Our resources are finite, but...

Before elections in the United Kingdom, political parties release Manifestos. These are supposed to detail the mandate they are given. In S...