Swart Donkey

I was 31 in 2011. It was a watershed year for me in terms of assessing what was important. I dived into a “Project Mojo” to get myself back ...

Financial Yoga is a framework for release from seeing yourself as a productive asset. An asset is not simply something you have.  It is true...

My growth spurt was delayed. After being a fearless forward in my introduction to rugby, I was introduced  to high school. I had not  grown,...

The world is getting progressively (but bumpily) less racist, sexist, homophobic , and classist. We are breaking down barriers, but we still...

My path to financial security involved very little out the box thinking. The cold hard reality of London visits while I was working as a G...

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 ...

Money making, once you release the question “what do I want to be?”, boils down to Capital allocation. Where will resources be most effect...

I am a fundamental equity investor. I think money is better at working than people, and people shouldn’t have to be productive assets. This...

I have three pots in which I invest my Engine. I manage about 2/3rds myself. I then have one pot (in a Global Equity Fund) which I milk (...

Saving is still hand-to-mouth consumption. It is just more French than American in that you use smaller plates, and take longer to eat. You...

I have always been skeptical of Epiphanies. Less so when they are events in our past we reflect on. When we realise that years ago, a break...

Before the year 1800, the world was very different. There were less than 1 Billion of us. Although scattered around the world speaking diff...