Swart Donkey

The deeper philosophical challenge of AI is not merely that it may become more capable than us in many domains. It is that it makes us feel,...

We speak in chunks. A single word can connect to a world of shared meaning, or none at all. There is too much for us to understand, so we pi...

Westworld explores how others might have a better understanding of you than yourself. The chance, if we aren’t paying attention, that other ...

Investment Analysts build models of businesses to help understand complexity. The point of the model is not to be correct or not. You know i...

Money and words are a form of communication. A way to hear stories. You can reflect on and learn through other people’s stories. Your reflec...

How you define words matters. What do you mean? Meaning is revealed over time through what we pay attention to, and what relevance we atta...

I don't believe everything happens for a reason  (pulled). I don't believe everything happens because of something (pushed). I bel...

'The best way to make a small fortune is to start with a small one.' Someone's visible signs of success are not necessarily a g...

I love stories. They breath life into objects, facts and things by creating a way for us to relate to them. Through comparison and contrast...

Map of Alexander's Empire and his route There is a story of Alexander the Great coming across a Yogi on the banks of the River In...

Buffers protect what is precious to us. What we care about can be fragile under repetitive strain. That is seldom the best time for fixing....

People are essentialists . We believe that there is something core at the heart of things and people that make them what they are. Beneath ...

I love Rugby. Mostly I hate it. It has the ability to pull all the joy out of my world. A Test Match can feel like I am having to sit thro...

Contradictory things are sometimes true. Preferences aren't always consistent. What we want is fuzzy. The Pale Blue Dot  picture of ear...

I have always felt very uncomfortable when I don't feel understood. When thoughts are bubbling round my head, I am able to recognised t...

Trev: We should retire the idea of retirement. A better concept would be managing how we spend our time. Segmenting our lives into school...

When trying to wrap my head round something that is vast and scary, I have started trying the idea of ' Thin Slicing '. Asked for a...

Megan Butler is a regular guest poster on Swart Donkey. We had a chat... Trev:   One of the interesting philosophical dilemmas workin...

When we listen to a language we don't understand, there is just a string of sound. The idea of spaces in between words for reading was...

Guest Post My Dad is the one person who gets my humour. I am the one person who gets his. It's ours. Beyond that, we have had to make...