Swart Donkey

The original Marshmallow experiment looked at whether you could predict future success based on the ability to wait for a sugary treat. The ...

Meritocracy came in as a response to hereditary wealth. Hereditary entitlement. You had a position or role in your caste or class, and that ...

Pushing paper is a core part of finding your way in the modern jungle. My friend Karabo wrote a guest post for my blog a few years ago where...

I spent two years between school and university on a work-travel visa in the UK. I did not know what work I wanted to do, and my older broth...

In well-functioning markets, things get cheaper. This is a key reason you should not define your worth by your salary. Your salary is the pr...

My oldest brother used to love (as a Medical Student) asking, “What do you call a Medical Student who gets 50% for their final exam?”. The a...

It is true that the world is always changing. But it is not changing so fast that you don’t get a lot of information by asking simple questi...

Some of the best investors I know don’t believe you need financial advisors or asset managers. Unfortunately, “you don’t need me” isn’t a go...

A Competitive Advantage is the reason why one Container (business/nation/community/family) is able to produce goods or services better or mo...

“Fitting the curve” is when you take the results of an exam and change them to fit what is “normal”. Through squashing, stretching, and stan...

I am eagerly anticipating Brandon Stanton’s book “Humans”. A large part of our collective social capital is that we aren’t alone. Our live...

The world changes fast. But not fast enough (yet) that it is not worth modelling where you would like to be on a few people who went from ...

“ The Forwards win the match. The Backs determine the scoreline ”. Sometimes what is true in Rugby, is true in life. In 117 appearances fo...

If you want to learn about learning , it depends which angle you are coming from. If you want the low hanging fruit, Tim Ferriss is your ...

The most traditionally successful people I know are also the most pragmatic. The world tells you the answers if you are willing to accept ...

I enjoy the “Humans of New York” series. Little stories about real people. The stories we hear tend to be about outliers. People blessed w...

Money is made in containers. We don’t have the same menus. Resources, Skills and Knowledge mean the answer to “how to make money” is not t...

The gaping hole in my thinking about Financial Security is that most people can’t do what I did. They don’t have the privileges I had. Tha...

Time, Delayed Gratification, and Demonstrable Value Creation. 15 years. Half of what you earn. Reinvesting Real Return. There is nothing se...

Money is made in containers. We spread the story that Entrepreneurs need to think outside the box. To generate excitement. The reality is ...