The “cost of living is hurting the economy”, so let’s increase the cost. This is the Keynesian thinking that is thumped into the heads of central bankers from the day they sat in their first economics class. To give them some credit, they probably didn’t know back then that they…

The journey of lifelong learning takes many twists and turns. It starts with discovery and finding out what you like. Is it science or biology? Perhaps languages are your thing. Maybe maths and physics are your callings. …

Every day you make thousands of decisions. Many of them require very little effort to make. Some might even be made for you. Some decisions require considered thought, and then some decisions suck energy and overload the system causing decision fatigue. When there is less at stake, the decision-making fatigue…

You must cross the railway line to run in Johannesburg’s inner city. It is difficult to say which side is the wrong side. The idiom suggests that the wrong side is the part of town considered poor and dangerous. …

Johannesburg is a city of contrast. Incredible beauty stands adjacent to decay and squaller. The glory of a golden sunrise reveals a shadowy underbelly. The sunlight reflects off the rooves of train carriages that are standing still. There are no passengers, and there are no trains to catch. …

The march of time is unrelenting. In your twenties and early thirties, time feels less important because there is plenty of runway ahead. It is a bit like having a full roll of toilet paper. You can take comfort that you will not be caught short today. When you have…

Living according to an algorithm does leave me a little cold. However, there is a case for the ideal daily routine. A routine is, after all, a form of an algorithm. By coincidence, the subject of an algorithm for life popped up twice on the same day before 7 am…

Resistance, avoidance, and indifference are all words that describe how I have been feeling for the last couple of weeks. Those are all sophisticated words we use as euphemisms to hide the real emotion underneath. The real emotion is fear. The Oxford definition of fear is “an unpleasant emotion caused…

A client once told me, “Justin, you think like a spreadsheet”. With a smile, I took that as a compliment and replied, “I excel when I get positive feedback”. The upside to “thinking” like a spreadsheet is that thoughts may appear organised or sequential. …