SAFE investments that are high risk and high impact
Why I put money into Africa's largest electric motorbike fleet — and how to think about high-risk investing without betting more than you can lose.
Neil Dissanayake
Eurovision of sustainability
Guilt doesn't change behaviour. Desire does. Twelve European innovations making sustainability the thing you'd actually want — scored, inevitably, out of twelve.
Rollercoasters & pensions
Everything I wish more people knew about UK pensions — how they work, how to find the lost ones, and how to stop yours funding fossil fuels.
From coconut cocktails to capitalism collapse (and why mindset matters)
From Sri Lankan ruins to wicked problems and the leverage point that matters most: mindset. A long read on staying grounded while the system strains.
Can AI help or hurt you, your career or your planet?
AI is intelligent. It isn't wise — and that gap is where your human capital lives. Written in March 2025, so some of the detail has aged.
Ready for a volatile future? — time to build financial resilience
Actuaries now warn the global economy could lose half its GDP by 2090. Here's how I've changed my own planning in response.
When the Los Angeles fires became a catalyst
Written in January 2025, in the week Los Angeles burned — and the week I stopped hedging about why I'd started Planet Positive Planning. Revisited eighteen months on.