Swart Donkey

Relaxation is deeper than “not doing anything”. The deepest of relaxation is far from passive. In Wu Wei (Action through Inaction), they cal...

Much of the anxiety I have experienced comes from expectations. Stated and unstated. Known and unknown. Managing both the conversations in m...

Pure equality would restrict us. Like the monoculture of a Palm Oil Plantation versus the rich biodiversity of a Rain Forest. One may be gre...

Acceptance is difficult. I have always been a bit of a “try hard”. That was what we called people at school who were constantly doing someth...

Two concepts I am progressively incorporating into my investment philosophy are Rewilding and Biodiversity. My Father-in-Law is a Natural Be...

Karma Yoga is one of the four paths to stilling the waves of the mind. Karma means action. The other three are Bhakti (love/devotion), Raja ...

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

Although building Engines is an incredibly empowering financial goal, I prefer to think like Michelangelo. The Italian sculptor would create...

Actions have consequences. Some are intended. Intention and incentives matter, but the world is so complicated (and getting more so) that ...

My income comes primarily from my Engine. I spend very little time managing that Engine. My investment philosophy has become gradually mor...

Diversification is a recognition that there is both a good chance you are wrong about any decision, and a good chance that there is so muc...

Investing is unavoidably philosophical. It is challenging to build up evidence when there is so much noise. A choice between too short for...

We think in contrasts. Things become what they are in our minds because of how they are different. That is where Benchmarks become useful....

Micro-ambition may feel like giving up. There is less wow involved. It can appear almost like inaction. Micro-ambition is action through i...

Three concepts I have been spending a lot of time mulling over are Wu-Wei, micro-ambition, and successive approximation. A vision of where ...

I have always been skeptical of Epiphanies. Less so when they are events in our past we reflect on. When we realise that years ago, a break...

As the world becomes connected, our stories become more detached from our daily realities. When you in a small pond, pretty average people ...

Our imaginations are both our most powerful tool, and our greatest enemy. We can imagine change. Very specific change. We aren't capabl...

Siddhi are seemingly magical abilities attained through Sadhana. Sadhana translates as "a means of accomplishing something". In Y...

Three important concepts when thinking about living a fulfilling life are Commitment, Openness, and Results. There are two ways of looking ...