Swart Donkey

Confidence is attractive because it suggests insight into bewildering complexity. Admitting you are lost doesn’t feel like, or often transla...

Cooking is a great example of “sources of joy” where some very simple processes are things people “can’t do”. Have you made mashed potatoes?...

Agreements are made by getting to know elephants. In Jonathan Haidt’s analogy, the conscious choices we make are the riders, and normally wh...

Goals are not picking the best of every possibility in isolation. That is dreaming. You can close your eyes and visit various places instant...

“Numbers to leave Numbers. Form to leave Form.” This is the way Josh Waitzkin describes his practice of embodied learning in chess and marti...

  “sat u dirgha kala nairantarya satkara sevito drdhabhumih” Yoga Sutras “Practice becomes firmly grounded on being continued over a long ...

  “Tatra sthitau yatno bhyasah” Yoga Sutras Abhyasa is the continuous effort towards firmly establishing the restraint of thought waves. ...

I buy many of the stronger arguments about eating less meat, and so am slowly changing my habits. I also buy the argument that we have a qu...

Unlearning is so hard because most of the things we are really good at soak to the bone. They become as natural as breathing or walking. Wh...

The French word for worried is inquiet. The German word for memory is erinnerung. More thesaurus than foreign if you look at the substance...

It is only possible for us to think of one thing at a time. We can do lots of things at the same time. Multi-tasking happens when it is no...

I don’t believe honesty is verbal. You can’t just vomit the truth. We aren’t always even conscious of our “truth”. We are all incredibly s...

The law is changing in the UK, so that all citizens are organ donors should they die. By default. You can opt out if you want to. Evidence...

A real competitive advantage doesn’t need to be hidden. In a world with full transparency, you have to assume that anything that can be co...

Most of our money thinking is focused on the “profit line” – earnings and returns. Yet despite the wide range of incomes people get, the v...

I am highly suspicious of transformational events. Let's see . Books like " The Happiness Hypothesis ", " Blink ", ...

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 lived in London for 8 years before moving to the Shire. Most of it was spent with a normal job, until I decided that was overrated. Norm...

The Holy Grail of business is 'discriminatory pricing'. The ability to charge different prices (for the basically the same thing) t...

I try write in my blog every day. I believe we are mostly a collection of habits. I want writing to become a habit. Making it a part of wha...