Good morning friends If you’re coming to the Cape this December, here are a few options to consider. For wine bars – Leo’s for edgy wines and a creative crowd, Culture for variety and some blockbusters, Furny’s for the joy…
Dear Friends Today’s letter is a little different. Over the past few months, I’ve seen some spectacular musicians perform. I thought we’d reflect on the leadership lessons they teach us. Before we get started, there are a few things worth noting.…
Dear friends Ten days ago, whilst working in the pre-dawn – that sounds hard-working, but in truth, winter sunrise is only at 08h00 – I heard a familiar yet always thrilling sound. A sound somewhat like a water-logged digeridoo being…
Good morning friends Today is more essay than letter. It’s a bit long. I apologise, but is about your self-care, about self-care for leaders. It needed the words. I’d love to know what you think. You can find me on LinkedIn…
Dear friends Today’s letter meditates on leadership lessons from Caster Semenya’s The Race to Be Myself. It breaks format and is longer than usual. I think it’s worth it. In ordinary circumstances, Mokgadi Caster Semenya would be a name known…
Good morning good people Unless you’ve been heavily sedated for the past two weeks, you know that Ms. Beyoncé Knowles-Carter has released a new album, Cowboy Carter. What you may not know is that she watched many different Westerns for inspiration…
Dear Friends I hope you’re enjoying your long weekend. Thursday night took me to Swedish alto-saxophonist Fredrik Kronkvist gig at The Olympia Bakery. If you’ll allow me some stereotyping, I love the contradiction of Scandinavian jazzmen. Invariably they arrive tightly…
Dear Friends On 6 March, one of my teachers, Prof Edward Webster passed on. This weekend was his funeral and memorial service. It is said that when an elder dies it is as if a library has burned down. In Eddie’s…
Happy Sunday friends If you love owls (who doesn’t?) Hirokazu Kozakai’s ‘O Wise One’ will make you smile. Last week, I told you that Cape Town gallery Southern Guild was opening in Los Angeles. Chadd Scott’s Forbes article does a…
Dear All My holiday break, of course, included wine, I live in Cape Town after all. There was a lazy Winemaker’s lunch beneath Rust en Vrede’s oaks. Despite summer’s heat, the sirloins demanded their Estate Syrah, it wasn’t a mistake.…
My dear friends This is our last letter for this year. I will return on 21 January. We started the year reflecting on The Power of the Powerless and here we are. As the world weighs on our souls, I…
Dear friend It’s the last month of the year. Today’s letter is only soul. It’s longer than normal and breaks our normal format. It’s more contemplative, a lot more. I felt that as we approach the possibility of pausing for a…