Swart Donkey

Detachment isn’t finding a cave and not participating in society. It is partly about the conversation you have with yourself in your head. I...

We speak too quickly for each word to be a conscious choice. The stream that bursts from us comes from deep beneath the surface. A reaction...

I've read the bible front to back 3, maybe 4 times (I can't remember), and probably two of my favourite books are Ecclesiastes and ...

It’s not about me A focus on identity is a recipe for unhappiness. Identity is temporary and is a manifestation of our shared existence...

I guess it’s a bit of a truism that women are usually better listeners than men, and that men tend to give more advice , while women give m...

Trev: Some things are done better at scale . Often + Same Way + Fixed Costs => Bigger is Better. The Industrial Revolution has been sm...

I have no idea how to respond to tragedies like we woke up to yesterday other than a deep sickness in my stomach. In January, Boko Haram o...

'Sticky Wages' is the name for the fact that pay tends to go up, not down. We want our pay to be connected to our performance. Meri...

Trev: Jonathan Haidt wrote a fantastic book called 'The Righteous Mind'. It's subtitle is 'Why Good People are Divided by...

Tim: I want to start off with the idea of empathy. Roughly speaking, empathy is the ability to read the emotions of others , combined wit...

Life is more inspiring and fulfilling if you give people the benefit of the doubt. When someone does something that irritates, exasperates...

If you have ever had the privilege of popping over to the opposite side of the world , you will have felt the joys of jet lag. The body bei...

Being able to quantify things makes them much easier to manage. You can compare them. You can say which ones you prefer. Which ones are mo...

Conversations, social media, blogs and banter don't go through the same rigorous editing as most professional media outlets or corpora...