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Lululemon, Takashi Murakami And Ayobami Adebayo

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Good morning everyone Today, we will dive straight into stories of yoga, art, and love. / Strategy Chip Wilson’s story is fascinating. The son of a Phys Ed teacher and a seamstress, today his 9% shareholding of athletic wear business, Lululemon means…

How to be human

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Good morning I hope that you are well and that you had a great sleep last night. I had a plan for today’s letter that hasn’t worked out. The reading that I did, didn’t deliver what I had hoped, so I…

Knowing Yourself

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There’s a lot I want to share with you. I have recently finished Erin Meyer and Reed Hastings’ No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention, and Wahbie Long’s Nation on The Couch: Inside South Africa’s Mind, both of which are…

Leadership lessons from Siya Kolisi

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I hope that January has treated you well. It’s over tomorrow. That feels ridiculous to say, but it is. At some point, I will write to you about time, but that’s not today’s journey. As you may know, I live…

Psychoanalysing South Africa

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Over this week, I was reflecting on last week’s expressed intention to write about Wahbie Long’s Nation on the Couch. I was about to say to you that it felt like a heavy topic to be exploring in the second last month…

Lessons from Jim Collins

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Good morning everyone I wrote today’s letter from bed. Generally, my week is made up of a trilogy of foundational habits – yoga, meditation, journaling – overlain with regular dips into great fiction. In the last 10 days, I have…