Swart Donkey

A foundational principle of Capitalism is that money can work. To turn ideas into reality, you need capital and containers. One form of cont...

I work hard at catching myself when I am straying outside of what Warren Buffett calls my “Circle of Competence”. I am not an essentialist. ...

Some of our waves of money anxiety are memories. Both of our own experiences and those of the bubble we are born into and raised in. These t...

“Restraining of thought waves means analysing your thoughts constantly, it does not mean suppression of thoughts.” Swami Durgananda (comment...

When organisations and groups are small, it is possible for the people in charge to understand the dynamics and treat everyone as individual...

In a knowledge economy, the key asset is the people. There is no real intellectual property (IP), because people aren’t allowed to be proper...

I buy many of the stronger arguments about eating less meat, and so am slowly changing my habits. I also buy the argument that we have a qu...

Prejudice isn’t something you can just let go of, any more than you can suddenly decide to speak a foreign language. We only take in a sma...

Complexity is hard to deal with. So we ask easier questions. We model reality with stories and characters. We come up with simplifying num...

“If you want to learn a language, you have to give it life”, explains Gabriel Wyner of Fluent Forever. When I was playing poker, my friend...

I still consider myself monolingual even though I have a childlike grasp of a few other languages. I believe you learn languages through e...

Connecting lifestyles to scorecards of success is both incorrect and dangerous. Capital can live forever if treated well. It can sustainab...

In a simple world where you did what your parent of the same gender did for a living, your path was decided. Our paths are still decided p...

Incentives matter. We do what we do for various reasons, but normally there is some sort of tangible reward on offer that we value. For thi...

“ Everyone is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. Always. ” This is also true of perceived wealth and perceived success. It...

Trev: It sometimes feels like I am a passive bystander to the large events that are passing us by. I rouse myself to action, only to feel ...

Nationalism is a very young concept. As a way of organising ourselves, we have trialled and errored lots and lots. Nations came out of the ...

Donald Rumsfeld famously divided all it was possible to know into four categories. Known Known - the things you know you know. Known Un...

Vooroordeel is 'n nuttige kortskrif vir beginners. Wanneer iemand sê, 'Ek kan nie die klavier speel nie', beteken dit nie: ...

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...