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...

Playing the Corporate Game involves not burning bridges. When it comes to interviews, reviews, and exit discussions, senior people will re...

We haven’t got shared words. Words are imperfect, but useful if they connect us. If they move the conversation forward. Words are models of...

What is it like to be a bat? Thomas Nagel asked this in an essay exploring the limits of our ability to understand things beyond human con...

“Do you believe in God?” This question had an easy answer in Westville where I grew up. We had a shared vocabulary. Yes, the people who we...

You can’t tell if a coin is biased with one spin. A coin biased to Heads can still fall on Tails. That is pretty compelling evidence that ...

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

It is a privilege to be treated as an individual rather than a category. To be seen. Part of that comes from not having to be standardised...

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

Hans Rosling points out that you should “ never leave a  number  all by itself. Never believe that one  number  on its own  can  be meanin...

Financial Security is a team sport. The former Mayor of South-Central Durban, Theresa Mthembu, invited me to her home in 1996. It was the ...

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 ...

I grew up in the Kwa-Zulu Natal Bible Belt. It was during the tail end of Apartheid, and the birth of Democratic South Africa. I would desc...

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

Most of us didn't learn our Mother Tongue academically. We didn't learn the rules. Instead we waded through years of confusion as r...

The Congress of Berlin was held in 1878. It was there that modern Colonialism was born. The New World had gone after independence, and so ...

(1/10) Trev: Brett, you and I both come from incredibly similar backgrounds. We are also both extroverts and very keen to have a positi...