Swart Donkey

The entry ticket of the community you are a part of goes up if the choices the collective choices they have made were good business ideas. T...

In order to consider a “post-work” world, I had to do some reading about minimalism, and explore the reasons why we get tied into expensive ...

There is a wrestle with the way people dole out respect. It is trite to say “don’t care what people think about you”, but umuntu ngumuntu ng...

Freedom is not the absence of constraints. It is a sense of autonomy and consent. The ability to make decisions. The feeling that you are se...

Wealth can create an Eagle Nest problem. As wealth compounds, and salaries and capital grow, the target at the end stretches. Not just what ...

Every decision has trade-offs and constraints. It is nice to believe we can identify and avoid all the things we don’t like and hide them un...

Sometimes you have to do things. If you are fortunate, what you have to do depends on what you want to do. There are realities to accept onc...

Money is made by solving problems for decision-makers with money. Desire to solve those problems is not enough. You need the skills and know...

Learning is path dependent. There is a real risk of Group Hypnosis on the path. Money and meaning are made in containers. Within constraints...

Money anxiety has the ability to flood our minds. This can be long-term stress where we don’t know how to overcome the barriers to the incom...

Decisions aren’t made in isolation. Value is relative and dependent on both how we see the world, and how the person we are interacting with...

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...

Not all good ideas are good business ideas. Not all good business ideas are good ideas. We can’t reduce a complex world down to clear deci...

Spending decisions always require trade-offs. Economics is the study of scarcity. It is a Social Science. Value is determined at an indivi...