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284: Second-Order Problem Solving: Why Busy People Stay Stuck (And Four Questions to Break Free)
Dear friends On Friday night, in solidarity with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez we drank a rather delicious 2013 R. López de Heredia Rioja Reserva Viña Bosconia. We ended the…

274: John Kay. Billie Jean King. John Milton.
Good morning, dear friends Summer has eventually arrived on Africa’s southern tip (although can Cape Town’s wind take a breath? Pretty please). One of my favourite distilleries, Pienaar and Son,…

#236: “Respect words and use them artfully”
Good morning good people Thank you for your comments after last week’s letter, Fragments For Freedom. It was good to know, it resonated with many of you. Several readers shared Ezra Klein’s Don’t…

#213: Stay in Your Comfort Zone
Dear friends Bibliophiles should diarise 4 August and oenophiles 22 August. I first encountered Anna de Koningh, in Phakamisa Ndzamela’s masterfully researched The Native Merchants, which I wrote about here.…
