Swart Donkey

We all need to eat. To eat, we need money. To get money, we need to be paid. One of the fundamental parts of getting paid is the container. ...

It’s not all about you. Part of letting go of anxiety is not feeling like you are being judged in each and every moment. Where your waves of...

Find value in the abundant that is neither contained nor containable. Find value in things that are difficult to monetise. When you want to ...

If you tie your identity and incentives to your job and pay, the stress and shocks of money will drive your anxiety.  Hunter-Gatherers may h...

Formal studies are not solely about skills and knowledge. We live in a world where that is largely available for free. I heard about email a...

Price is not value. Daniel Kahneman points out that while we might be intuitive grammarians, with our ears bristling when someone butchers o...

One of the most important lessons in the world of money is that “Price is not Value”. We half wish that it was, because of a love for scorec...

“Rewilding is about letting nature take care of itself, enabling natural processes to shape land and sea, repair damaged ecosystems and rest...

The median (half have less) disposable income for UK households (2.4 people) is £29,400. After reading William MacAskill and Peter Singer ...

I don’t’ write Blank Cheques. Every decision has trade-offs. Having been born into Apartheid South Africa, I don’t subscribe to the philos...

Life preparation was very gendered in the bubble I grew up in. One example of this was that Mathematics was compulsory in High School for ...

Intrinsic Value is the idea that something has an internal worth separate from the price. Price is a communication tool. A crude number tha...

In Dutch and German, an Employee is “werknemer” and “arbeitnehmer”. A work taker. One of my pet peeves is when managers tell employees to ...

Nothing kills an activist like work deadlines, a mortgage, and school fees. Markets work best when there is full transparency, understandi...