Swart Donkey

What we do, matters. What has been done, matters. History plays out its consequences. For me, being (randomly) born in South Africa at the t...

The thing you are (currently) doing does not define you. Knowing who you are, is the heart of choosing a path. The practice of Neti  Neti  (...

There is a conflict between the idea of “leave your ego at the door” and meritocracy. If we believe in a world where the quality of life you...

It is easy to get caught in the trap of “defending a narrative”. The story we tell ourselves about ourselves. The real world is vastly more ...

Money making boils down to solving problems. If you genuinely want to create compounding momentum, you must repeatedly make yourself redunda...

When the default is to work full-time for one company, that becomes the container into which we direct most of our energy. I think you get a...

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...

One of the challenges with investing is when to admit you were wrong. If your goal as a stock picker is to do better than just investing bli...

Money makes money. This allows wealth to compound (the growth also produces), if not everything that is produced is consumed. If some of the...

Risk is not just the chance that something will go wrong. The study of risk goes wider than that. Looking at the complexity, ambiguity, and ...

One of the eternal questions in Investment is “Active vs Passive”. Should you just invest in a diversified index or is it worth paying a man...

Learning is path dependent. There is a real risk of Group Hypnosis on the path. Money and meaning are made in containers. Within constraints...

  “tat param purusakhyater guna vaitrsnyam” Yoga Sutras “The highest awareness of non-attachment stems from awareness of purusha (the Self...

Yogas chitta-vritti-nirodhah Chitta is all the stuff of the mind, intellect, and ego. Our awareness. Our anxiety. Our identity. Our consci...

I am not that interested in the first five years, if that is all that is on offer. I believe in compounding and foundation building. If you ...

I stepped away from the Corporate world in August 2014. I liked the idea of living off an Engine of Capital where my decisions of how to spe...

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Balanced Scorecards are ways of managing performance. They are particularly challenging in areas that...

If you want to be part of an Elite Team, you first have to accept the idea that there are people that aren’t good enough. You have to accep...

My income comes primarily from my Engine. I spend very little time managing that Engine. My investment philosophy has become gradually mor...

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