Swart Donkey

I started my career in Finance in South Africa and the United Kingdom during two watershed moments. Just after the bursting of the Internet ...

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

Playing the Corporate Game involves not burning bridges. When it comes to interviews, reviews, and exit discussions, senior people will re...

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

When you are 18 you pick a romantic partner based on how they look and whether they make you laugh. By 30, what matters is how they pack t...

I started seeing a psychologist once a week about a year ago. I have always been transparent and honest with my friends, read about mental...

Adam Smith favoured local market exchanges because of Tacit Knowledge. Explaining our needs and wants is difficult. Conveying that informat...

Trev: Competence and Confidence are guys' version of Make-Up and Fashion. Trying to understand why men struggle expressing vulnerabili...

Honesty is not opening the door. Honesty is cumulative. It is multiple conversations, interactions, and moments of silence . Honesty is t...

Imagine a world with zero transaction costs, perfect transparency, and the instant ability to repeat anything that has been done before. A ...

An advantage of monetary exchange is the clean beginning, and end of the transaction. If someone gives you something, there is a subtler, r...

I have a committee in my head that only occasionally find common ground. Every thought exists in context. Honesty is a conversation flavo...

I have had several journals. One of the problems they caused when 'looking back' is that they weren't a reflection of my actual...

Before we had words to express things, we still thought and felt. Words are a powerful but inadequate form of communication. You can't...

One of the things I love about keeping a blog is that when I meet up with people who read it we are able to chat about something that matte...

There are lots of ways to communicate. We often think of honesty as a choice. Like someone can ask a question and the person answering can ...

In the video below, Richard Dawkins interviews Derren Brown as part of his "Enemies of Reason" series. One of the key ques...

Still reading 'The Future and its Enemies' , Postrel talks about the difficulty in expressing knowledge. She quotes Alexander Pope:...

I just watched the Frost-Nixon movie... I have to admit to being a little cynical of politicians. A friend once told me I would grow up to b...

Like the subject matter, the series 'The Wire' is addictive. I have spoken before about how much I enjoy the move towards portrayin...