Swart Donkey

We celebrate outliers. Record-breaking and extremes of human achievement.  Those being celebrated have a combination of barriers to entry th...

“Reversion to Mean” is the idea that history matters. We tend to live in the now and focus our attention on things that are different from w...

All lives don’t have the same options. The challenge with reading books, watching movies, and spending time with outliers and heroes is the...

Reversion to Mean is the reliable default assumption that you should take “this changes everything” with a pinch of salt. Habits run deep....

I enjoy the “Humans of New York” series. Little stories about real people. The stories we hear tend to be about outliers. People blessed w...

“You never count your money when you’re sitting at the table. There’ll be time enough for counting, when the dealing’s done.” One of the c...

Extremes get too much attention. It is the ordinary that drives what compounds. Extremes can destroy you though, so they do need a little ...

The idea that wealth comes from stumbling across some earth-shattering breakthrough is because of our obsession with outliers. Boring does...

In George Orwell's Animal Farm, things start bad for the animals. The Revolution brings hope but things get awful fast. Everything is b...

If we lived in an artificial world designed by a computer that gave us more of what we wanted, based on what we pay attention to, we may ha...