Swart Donkey

Eternity is a concept that is hard to wrap our heads around. We think in contrast and action, and stories. Stories of change and growth. It’...

Even if you can stop yourself bending to the social pressure of keeping up with the Joneses and Khumalos, you still need to eat. You cannot ...

Whether it is from growing up in Apartheid, or being the youngest of three brothers, I have the common South African trait of a healthy disr...

How we see the world is path-dependent and cumulative. We are partly conscious of how the incoming waves of information get processed. Other...

Wealth Compounds. It builds on what came before. On what has soaked deep. It builds on what we pay attention to, and what we see as releva...

People without money aren’t infants. They don’t need decisions made for them. They need money. Money is the fundamental unit of decision m...

The theory behind GiveDirectly.org is that people are best placed to make their own decisions. As Rutger Bregman puts it, “Poverty isn’t a...

A good friend of mine loves being micro-managed. He says it means he doesn’t have the pressure of responsibility. He can just do the job t...

A reasonable definition for Politics would be “the management of information asymmetries to get the desired outcome of a particular tribe”...

My objection to Living Wage and Minimum Wage is the opposite of believing people shouldn’t have sufficient money to, at a minimum, survive...

The team at GMB Fitness talk of developing Physical Autonomy through working on strength, flexibility and control. Watching them move so g...

Delegating responsibility without authority is dangerous. I have always had a lot of respect for leaders who remain involved in the task. ...

We learn best through instantaneous feedback. Particularly if it is repeated every time we do the same thing. Predictable cause. Predictab...

There is something Yogic about the progression of thinking about money. It starts with “What do you want to be?” which is all about you. I...

Tacit Knowledge is the stuff we know without even necessarily knowing we know. It is near impossible to communicate, because it is embodie...

We think in contrasts. Things become what they are in our minds because of how they are different. That is where Benchmarks become useful....

The world is complex, ambiguous, and random. Our capacity for understanding our own world is limited to the experiences we have had, and k...

We see the world differently. Max Planck said Science progresses one funeral at a time. " A new  scientific  truth does not triumph by...

I am fortunately not allergic to any food that I am aware of. I don't like messy fruit, but that isn't an allergy... it is a childh...

I believe in bottom-up empowerment. Rather than finding people to represent a theoretical "The People", I believe in empowering i...