Swart Donkey

Joint decision-making is complicated. We make mistakes when we make our own decisions. They are our mistakes. They reveal information about ...

Money is made by solving problems in containers for people with money. The key is being able to communicate with the decision-maker-with-mon...

Ideally, we would have a very transparent relationship with asking and offering. Money is made by solving problems for decision makers with ...

The challenge we face with politics is that we want it. The most political people I know use phrases like “leave your ego at the door”, and ...

I am the youngest of three brothers, by four years. My oldest brother is powerful. My middle brother is cunning and good with submission hol...

Once you let go of the illusion that price is value, anxiety disappears from selling the pie. If people want pie, and you can get it made at...

I stepped away from the Corporate world in August 2014. I liked the idea of living off an Engine of Capital where my decisions of how to spe...

A family member of mine recently had an honest conversation with his boss about what, and when, his boss wanted next. Because he wanted his ...

Projected confidence and imposed binaries. If, like me, you feel ill-equipped to make sense of the world… where do we start? There is no s...

It is easy to paint a picture of my story that seems like it all went according to plan. I talk about Engine Building and Financial Freedom...

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

A significant obstacle to us finding each other in public debates is we aren't coming from the same base. The words we use don't me...

Whether you are in politics, education, academia, business or the home, most of what we do ends up being about people management. Managemen...

Identity Politics is when we represent the specific interests of social groups to which a clump of people identifies. Identity Politics re...

In a two-party Us and Them political world, the incentives are there to moan. The other side is stupid or evil. With big Nation-based Wel...

There is a big difference between being something, and feeling something. The things we are,  are permanent. I am angry, is different from...

The Mongol invasions that touched most of the Eurasian landmass also ended four centuries of power of the Pagan Empire  in 1287. The...

The Royal Oak under which Charles II hid  to avoid capture by the Roundheads   (supporters of Parliament in the English Civil War) ...

I believe in a post-partisan political world. The problem with parties is people end up having to 'fall in line'. Anything else is...

Local governance becomes more practical. There can be relationships involved. Mayors can have grown up in the area they are in charge of...