Swart Donkey

A lot of people work best under pressure. When they have to. When they are in a corner. I am the opposite. I don’t like myself in a corner u...

One of my favourite essays to regularly reread is Scott Alexander’s “ I can tolerate anything except the outgroup ”. It reminds me of how ...

If I had to pick only one rule for making sustainably successful investment decisions, it would be ' Never be a forced buyer or seller ...

' All advice is autobiographical '. We can only see the world from the perspective of the life we have lived. When we act, no ...

Ek het gister terug van Suid Afrika na Engeland gekom. Ek het in 2008 na London verskuif om naby my nuwe niggie te woon, en om die groot we...

I am not sympathetic to the response, ' I don't have time '. We all have time. 24 hours in a day. We choose between various op...

Chatting to my host, I asked about what people living in Langa were typically able to earn, and how much it cost to live. There are a lot o...

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

Rob Grave is a great friend I met at university. We had a chat... Trev:   A few years back I was lazying on the couch when my curly hai...

If you have ever had the privilege of popping over to the opposite side of the world , you will have felt the joys of jet lag. The body bei...

I was working very closely with Chris when the story he shares here happened. We both headed into the mountains around the same time. Altho...

I asked a buddy to write a guest post the other day and he said he would leave the navel gazing to me. He is working in South Sudan where ...

After a holiday with a twist (a 4 day Yoga retreat), I headed to Athens for a U2 concert. The next day I spent wandering around the city. Th...