Swart Donkey

Finance, Yoga, and the Illusion of Control One of the most rewarding intersections in my life has been the space between finance and yoga. ...

The tragic thing about compound interest or capital compounding is that most people won't actually get to experience it. Even those of u...

I don’t think we’re ever really having the same conversation. It’s like sitting in a theatre watching the same play but from different sea...

Conversation is not the same as the written word.  When you read a transcript of a lively discussion, it often looks as if we’ve forgotten h...

 I use social media as a catalyst for real-world interaction . I’ve been writing a blog since 2006 called Swart Donkey . That name came fr...

I was 31 in 2011. It was a watershed year for me in terms of assessing what was important. I dived into a “Project Mojo” to get myself back ...

There’s a big difference between embodied knowledge and surface-level learning.  Think about how we used to find our way home. You’d either ...

The more you can have a focus on something bigger than yourself, it allows you to stop the wrestle of "Am I good enough?". I had a...