Swart Donkey

The original Marshmallow experiment looked at whether you could predict future success based on the ability to wait for a sugary treat. The ...

Meritocracy came in as a response to hereditary wealth. Hereditary entitlement. You had a position or role in your caste or class, and that ...

Building wealth takes time. 15 years is an aggressively short period to build an Engine (Capital that can earn enough to cover your expenses...

“ The markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent ” was a warning given by John Maynard Keynes. The reason the “Martingale ...

Some of the best investors I know don’t believe you need financial advisors or asset managers. Unfortunately, “you don’t need me” isn’t a go...

You can’t “think like an owner”. You either are an owner, or you have different incentives. The Agency Problem is the conflict of interest...

“Self-Made” implies unplugging from the Matrix. Choosing the red pill. I believe Free Will is possible, it is just incredibly hard. Even t...

Wealth Compounds. It builds on what came before. On what has soaked deep. It builds on what we pay attention to, and what we see as releva...

The marriage between income and expenses is an unhappy one. Incentives matter. I can see the crude rationale behind a superficial meritocr...

There are two big problems with the idea of a “Post Work” world I have discovered since I stopped being an employee five years ago. We buil...

If you spend what you earn, you need to earn what you spend. Living hand to mouth makes you completely dependent on the hand. It keeps the...

Most people's biggest asset is their ability to work. That is why Disability Insurance is a bigger deal than Life Insurance. If you ar...

I don't like the politics of 'Rich v Poor'. 'The poor' are disempowered, but often those fighting for them do so in a ...

Delhi Map The National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT) is both a city, and a union territory of India . Almost 17 million people liv...

I am far more concerned about consumption inequality, and absolute poverty , than I am about wealth or income inequality. Defining goals in...

Norway has a population of 5.2 million. Before unification in 872, archaeologists estimate that there were about 20 petty kingdoms. ...

When anything is reduced to a number, something is lost. Numbers are incredibly powerful communication tools, but they oversimplify. Someo...

If you believe that earnings should be tied solely to labour, you are not a capitalist. Capitalism changes the form of labour that is not c...

Gabon Roughly half of Gabon's government budget comes from Oil revenues, but production is decreasing rapidly with a need for...

Sierra Leone Sierra Leone surrounds the third largest natural harbour in the world. It has suffered from the 'Resource Curse...