Good morning Thank you everyone who sent me feedback on the design work. Today’s letter continues the experimentation with design options. Let me know what you think. Incidentally, if you’re tired of wearing a mask, check out Emma’s amazing masks. They…
Sometimes this letter writes itself. Last year, I read Hasan Altaf’s amazing interview with Arundhati Roy. I have been wanting to share it with you but hadn’t been able to find a way to do so. Then Bloomberg News’ Ivory Coast…
By now you know that South African Tatjana Schoenmaker has set a new world record for the 200-meter breaststroke. If you haven’t seen the moments after her win, scroll to the 2 min 20 sec mark and watch, it will make your…
Good morning. I hope you’re well and that someone is bringing you coffee in bed… Six weeks ago, I wrote to you from Inside Covid. A week later, as Covid spat me out, I wrote that I’m Still Standing. Since then, we…
Wow! It’s September! September 2021! I remember Feb 2020 and then it got all blurry, but here we are, living life with all its pain, joy, loss, and love. Thank you for being here. Writing to you is one of…
The warm Spring weather took us to Protégé in Franschhoek. Protégé is the sister restaurant to Epice, that I told you about last year at this time. Epice, headed by Chef Charné Sampson, went on to win the World Culinary Awards Best…
A February 2019 podcast conversation between Tim Ferriss and Jim Collins introduced me to John McPhee. I’d never heard of the Pulitzer Prize winner McPhee who has written thirty-three books, all of them non-fiction (he prefers the label ‘factual writing’)…
I hope that you’re doing well. On Wednesday I dropped my cellphone, snapping the charger that it was plugged into. As I was writing to you today, I took a break to get something out of the freezer. The drawer…
Good morning everyone Over the past week I have been overwhelmed by the countless news articles and consultant reports on the economic gloom that we are in and the depression that is likely to deepen. Understanding the reality of…
Good morning friends Cape Town has been buzzing with love. The love of love (Valentine’s Day), the love of art (the Investec Cape Town Art Fair) and love for SA’s favourite son, Trevor Noah who played in last weekend’s Match…
Hi All Given that it’s the start of a new year, in fact of a new decade, this week’s newsletter is focussed on the things that typically get in the way of making headway with those new year’s resolutions –…