Swart Donkey

  The First Stage is a Scrum Wealth creation is not about hacks. Hacks imply shortcuts, quick fixes, a secret lever that lets you skip the ...

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 ...

In order to consider a “post-work” world, I had to do some reading about minimalism, and explore the reasons why we get tied into expensive ...

When I “stopped working” in 2014, I had ideas for projects I wanted to work on. What I meant by not working, was not working *for money*.  I...

An essential part of the practice of being good with money is being good with your emotions.  Making money involves being good with other pe...

One of my unlikely financial heroes was Bill Cunningham. He didn’t manage money. He took photographs. The friends who nicknamed me Donkey (“...

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...

As soon as you have the capacity to detach, and not be a productive asset, you are playing a completely different game.  If YOU are “not req...

You can rage against the machine, or you can start from a point of deep understanding of where you, and others, are.  The way we communicate...

You can over-extend metaphors. When you care about something, you can see analogies in everything else. Meaning comes through connection.  I...

If you get the recognition and money you require from what you want to allocate your time and energy to, that is brilliant.  The danger, and...

Once you buy into the idea of building an Engine, the how remains. I think of investing as getting my money a job. As a person, you need to ...

We don’t choose our mother tongue or the country we are born in. Similarly, our relationship with money is path dependent. Money is not a th...

I view investing as getting my money a job. When things are complicated, we simplify them into stories (based on what we already understand)...

It is easy to get caught in the trap of “defending a narrative”. The story we tell ourselves about ourselves. The real world is vastly more ...

How did you do pocket money? I got pocket money based on age, with increases each birthday. And when I was eight, I got a R8, and when I was...

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...

I am on the job hunt after a gap from the corporate world. I stepped off the ladder in August 2014 with the intention of letting my engine b...

I am making it up as I go along. If I sound confident in the way I write, it is because I like editing out wiggle words like “I think”, “for...

A key step to stilling the waves of money anxiety is changing your idea of what money is. Shifting from seeing money as something you spend,...