Swart Donkey

As our decision-making scales, it also has consequences that ripple. I find it incredibly disheartening when I have done a lot of work, and ...

When you are thinking “I don’t deserve to be at this table”, “I don’t know enough to apply for this job”, or “I am really confused and feel ...

Income and money operate at a very explicit level. Pay for what you see. Fully acknowledging what makes money and what doesn’t, and not usin...

In Yoga classes you can see students who are incredibly stiff, partly because they are fit and strong. Forget the forward bend, a lot of ath...

You can meet conspicuously successful people, who have got a lot to say about their ideas, with not much space for conversation and explorat...

We carry on. Through reflection we can think about what short cuts we put in place to make our decisions. We can not avoid short cuts. Short...

We see based on the experiences we have had. We build an interpretation of the world. We filter the noise and interact with it as best we ca...

Seek out mentors. Read stories. See what mistakes others have made. Be curious. Add a pinch of salt.  Recognise  that you cannot avoid const...

I t is worth reading the book, “ How to win friends and influence people ” by Dale Carnegie. The name sounds terrible. I put off reading it ...

One huge advantage of being an Investment Analyst is yogic sage level detachment. You pass judgement on the value of a business, but active ...

I have done lots of formal presentations. Despite that, I always put in hours of preparation. Each one is brand new, crafting a clear messag...

“Science progresses one funeral at a time,” pointed out Max Planck. One way of looking at science is formalised trial and error. Bold statem...

Decisions aren’t made in isolation. Value is relative and dependent on both how we see the world, and how the person we are interacting with...

Senior Management often bemoan the lack of useful information in references and exit interviews. The tendency is for most letters of referen...

In theory, a contrarian stock picker picks a business listed on a stock exchange they think is “incorrectly” priced. This means they think t...

I like to think of myself as someone who is very open to feedback. I think I search it out. A friend even affectionately called me a feedbac...

Prejudice isn’t something you can just let go of, any more than you can suddenly decide to speak a foreign language. We only take in a sma...

Actions have consequences. Some are intended. Intention and incentives matter, but the world is so complicated (and getting more so) that ...

I enjoy the series Westworld. It fits with my sense of how we live in “controlled hallucinations” at different levels of awareness. How muc...

What you see is not all there is. Even if you know more than the average bear. No one understands. No one can. We live in a complex web of...