Swart Donkey

Confidence is attractive because it suggests insight into bewildering complexity. Admitting you are lost doesn’t feel like, or often transla...

Part of risk management is creating limits. Self-imposed limits. Investment managers will disclose their investment restrictions. The things...

To outsource your decision-making, you need to develop trust. I like to believe in a world where we can have open conversations. The reality...

People are interested in people who are interested in them. I have a deep reserve of inner confidence, partly because my Mother was always f...

The Holy Grail is a direct, sustainable, relationship with decision makers with money, where you have their trust and confidence. Trust that...

Projected confidence and imposed binaries. If, like me, you feel ill-equipped to make sense of the world… where do we start? There is no s...

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...

The hardest part of making money is finding customers. It is the same thing as getting a job. It is preferable to get to come back tomorro...

Always throw half the CVs of applicants away without reading them. You don’t want to hire someone who is unlucky. There is an existential ...

I am a slow learner. Always have been. I started walking late. My Mother says that is because my older brothers carried me everywhere. I s...

Conspicuous allows you to justify yourself. Something you can count. In a world that is complex, ambiguous, and random, having a cause for...

For any business, but particularly a small business, a hiring decision is a big decision. Meeting Payroll is the primary stress of most ow...

I did Marketing courses at University, but I didn’t learn Marketing there. My approach comes mainly from following Seth Godin. I was once ...

“ The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent ” warned John Maynard Keynes. “ When there is nothing particularly cleve...

In a lot of cases, the generic product people are selling is Confidence. The world is confusing, ambiguous, complex and random. When someon...

My abiding lesson of the last three years is that there are no Adults. It is tempting to think someone else knows what is going on. That th...

Negativity sells. We have a bia s toward dra ma and extremes. Talking about slow, long-term, progress doesn't lead to the sense of urge...

Human Brilliance is partly over-confidence, the ability to make and tolerate mistakes, and the ability to believe things the evidence doesn...

Pronounced like 'Duh' in American, De (德) is something like charisma and confidence... but deeper soaked and with less to prove. ...

Confidence is attractive in a world that is complicated, uncertain and ambiguous . The idea that even though there are tough problems in th...