Swart Donkey

I was 31 in 2011. It was a watershed year for me in terms of assessing what was important. I dived into a “Project Mojo” to get myself back ...

Working in investments involves periods of existential crises. Trying to explain underperformance can be really testing even if you are a ha...

A pivotal moment happened in my career when I had a particularly stressful month while on a roadshow to South Africa. I still remember it (a...

One of my unlikely financial heroes was Bill Cunningham. He didn’t manage money. He took photographs. The friends who nicknamed me Donkey (“...

I have always envied Hole Diggers. Someone whose job it is to dig 6 holes. They dig 8, drop the mic, and leave work early. The ask and off...

One of the techniques used in teaching people to draw is to forget the object. Draw the negative spaces. Don’t draw the chair. Draw the sh...

Ken Robinson points out that if you ask a classroom of five year olds who can draw, they will all put their hands up. It is only 10 years ...

On the most basic and general level, cultural appropriation happens when one culture adopts or borrows aspects of another. Since there has ...

The Spanish-American  war of 1898 ended a long period of Global Spanish dominance. Generación del 98 was a group of novelists, poet...

The Raft of the Medusa On 5 July 1816, 147 people were set adrift after a ship wreck off the coast of modern Mauritania . 15 people s...

I was a serious teenager. My Art teacher pushed me hard to let go . To be less academic about my creativity. On one occasion, he 'accid...

I have mentioned my cousin Charles before, in discussing the ' Normalising of Suffering '. He is a Psychologist (and an awesome gu...

One definition of Economics is the study of limited resources. In a world without enough , what is the best way to go about producing, cons...

Two of the focuses of Plato's thinking were love and beauty . Love connecting to aspiration through relationships, and Beauty connectin...

16 year old Trev was a staunch Feminist. Before terms like ally  or HeForShe  so I can't get in trouble for claiming a word I shouldn...

While in Amsterdam recently I went to the Van Gogh museum. The first time I went was 16 years ago. It was at the tail end of a 17 country c...

I like myself least when I am in a corner . When I feel like I am forced to make a decision where I don't like any of the alternatives...

The goal of my four years at Wimbledon Art Studios was to tap into something other than rationality. I wanted an emotional reaction. Like ...

I have enjoyed watching Obama get a little more bolshy given that he is no longer running for anything. ' That's nonsense, and you ...

'Flow' is a form of meditation . It lets you focus, and in focusing you lose awareness of all the other things we normally chew ove...