Fucking seriously, I am not jumping the shark.

This morning, while riding down the Brisbane river near the city (on my bike), I saw a 1 meter bull-shark jump right out of the water and belly flop back in.

It wasn’t my imagination – see http://www.smh.com.au/environment/leaping-sharks-are-no-bull-20100906-14wyq.html

Is it just me? So what’s wrong with this Linked-in offering?

“Chasing my dream of being a bison farmer in Australia took my husband and I to the other side of the world researching this beautiful animal.”

Australian CEO’s back corporate tax cuts because:

“Tax cuts drive investment”

No they don’t. Investment is usually a before tax expense.

Tax cuts drive higher dividends and larger CEO bonuses.

Why would an oligarchy invest into a saturated services market anyway? They can’t extract any more money out of the market, unless its at the expense of a competitor.

No new jobs will be created, as the govt claims.

Tax cuts will result in shareholders taking more money off the table, fueling wealth disparity, which results in a smaller pool of money available for consumption of goods and services.

Corporate tax cuts will reduce the market size for our big corporates. The CEOs don’t care; this won’t become obvious until after they have their large houses and boats, yada.

The difference between an artist and a craftist is that the former must have a mental illness. It’s what makes their work interesting. Technically, both can be just as competent as each other, but the craftist is just too sane to be interesting.

Note carefully though, your artist can’t be completely bonkers or else they can’t viably pretend to be sane, which is a characteristic hallmark of their artistic mental illness. Usually, laughably so.

A feminist is what?

Well, without a doubt, she is a generaliser.

She makes bold claims about the psychology and behaviour of each of the sexes.

Usually she ignores Bertrand Russell’s warning that there is nothing noble about the oppressed.

Typically she is well meaning.

And outraged.

And often she is right.

But she may lack wisdom and not clearly see the consequences of her actions.

Often she will not care about any collateral damage; this is, after all, a holy caliphate and there is always casualties in war, right?

She will be energised by any resistance to her preaching.

In short, she will be judged by history as all liberators are.

Parasympathetically psychotic.

Am I being too hard on Thorsten?

Or will he be a victim of my distaste for confrontation?

He started it, being all messed up about me having all those shares.

Then getting emotional about meet being involved in M1 product development.

Well he’s fucked himself, that’s for sure. I own one third of the company and can’t be removed.

He’s made it him or me, and he had no idea.

I feel guilty, a little. But there no room for sentiment in business.

In an article about former world formula 1 champion, Denny Hulme:

You’d think a heart attack during the Bathurst race would count as a racing incident…