Nudility.

No idea what it means but I like it.

Founders hold University interest in spinouts in trust.

Universities get the upside but don’t bother the companies with their fuckupedness.

https://www.legal500.com/developments/thought-leadership/the-concept-of-transfer-of-beneficial-ownership-of-securities/

There’s thoughtful and selfless. Apparently you can be one and not the other. Whodathought?

Fighting it. It’s the human condition.

When we plan for the future we want one specific outcome out of of many.

That is, to get what we want we use energy to fight entropy. First we apply willpower which then directs the use of actual energy.

Some future looking events are more constrained so we don’t need so much energy to get the outcome we want. Like the sun will probably come up tomorrow.

Sometimes even the easy ones are hard. Think gardening. The universe has other plans for your garden rather the one that you prefer. And doesn’t it take a tonne of energy to get your plan implemented?

However generally speaking it’s much easier to block someone else’s plan than it is to make one specific plan work out in your favour. Fun too.

Energy and entropy are completely balanced in this universe. One doesn’t exist without the other. Why they exist at all, who knows?

Ok, so mushrooms spread by being eaten and getting their seeds deposited in a nice pile of shit compost.

I’m assuming poisonous mushrooms evolved to get deposited in a rotting carcass, thereby improving their chances.

But.

Reflecting on it, it was a farm.

The pigs were committed, the people were involved.

So go pigs, get involved.

I’ve been searching for this metaphor for years….

It seems as though I’ve trained my brain to work like a graphical neural network with regards to matters of new technology.

Inputs are whatever people tell me about their technology. Anything.

Outputs are the proposed perceptions of the amazed customers with respect to the benefits of the new technology.

My special ability is to absorb this shit and run my GNN to be able to optimise the development and commercialization of the technology.

I can also introduce random information that I already have, or search for, in order to change or improve the outcomes, as measured by dollars.

Basically I’m running an AI model in my RI head. You can consider my skull as some sort of mobile enterprise VMware.

Subject matter; divorce financial settlement.

Tone; outraged

Protagonist; me

Antagonist; all lawyers involved, including the ex lawyers at the court, e.g the judge, looking after his profession.

How it works.

Step 1. Former couple not speaking to each other but have assets to divide.

Step 2. The braver/stupider of the pair (the applicant) approaches a lawyer to apply for divorce and financial settlement.

Step 3. Lawyer writes vaguely threatening letter to other party (the respondent), who immediately hires its own lawyer.

Step 4. Both sets of lawyers rub their hands together, gleefully.

Step 5. Respondent claims 100% of all assets because they are functionally useless and the applicant is a cunt (sic).

Step 6. Applicant’s lawyer sends the case to the court that act like a sort of umpire in a tennis match. Court orders are actions the lawyers apply to the court for, and that the other party is obliged to respond to.

Step 7. Both parties use court orders to gather information from the other that both parties already have in their possession. This process is designed by lawyers to drive the parties absolutely crazy.

Step 8. Ideally there are some intangible assets (like startup shares) in the mix, so one party can suggest that the cunt gets those and she keeps all the tangibles.

Step 9. The lawyers gleefully collect fees in this outrage of a ping point match until (a) a list of assets is agreed by both parties and the court, and (b) both parties are out of legal funds. A good set of odious lawyers can make sure (a) and (b) occur simultaneously, without even having a sidebar conversation; it’s the core skill of their profession.

Step 10. The more reasonable of the two parties (aka the fool) accepts a shit deal to avoid court and the $150k plus costs.

And that’s it.

In hindsight,

1. Use an expensive lawyer to get the ball rolling (up to step 3 above) then sack it. Hopefully the other party hires a similarly expensive lawyer and keeps it on.

2. Then self represent up until when you can’t get a reasonable agreement and have to go to court. Be as unreasonable as possible without being in contempt of court in order to suck up as much of the available legal fees that your adversary can afford

3. Then spend your good money on a top barrister (fuck the solicitor, its a waste of time).

Ideally you get the much promoted but rarely achieved 50-50 split.

And that’s all you have to know.

Watching a Qantas flight deplane, unload, or deposit its contents (you choose) makes me think…

Maybe I don’t mind the wokes so much after all.

After all the only way to fight madness is with more madness.

So Western Australia has banned ham and cheese toasties at school canteens.

Intrigued, I dug in to see what woke madness was behind this.

Someone has an issue with the lack of nutrition as well as the cancer risk posed by the ham.

Turns out, there’s a correlation between eating meat, and especially nitrated meat, and colorectal cancers.

Just a correlation, mind.

I’m thinking coloured cells, racy fonts?

Maybe shares percentages that total to something other than 100%

Personally I like the diversity of having 5 classes of shares, one for each shareholder, ideally. Then you just watch the idiots forget what their class rights are and you wonder why they bothered in the first place.

And here’s another thought for the woke entrepreneurs: you don’t want diversity in your investors. You want them all to be exactly the same so you can reliably predict how they’re going to behave.

That lack of predictability is why I hate investment from HNWs, angels, universities and corporates. It’s like herding cats

One of your key jobs as CEO is to remove all unnecessary risks from your startup, such as weird and unexpected investor behaviour. Even if know how to remove unnecessary risks, you’ll still need luck to be successful.

So, please, keep away from diversity on the cap table. It ain’t a charity.

To be clear,I don’t give a rat’s arse about my investors’ skin colour, gender or sexual preferences. All I care is that they think and act like every chino-wearing white-bread golf-playing VC investment manager ever born.

To be clear, I don’t want diversity if that means I can never get them to agree on a critical business matter.

In startups, investor diversity sucks.

A new word for “webbed feet”; portmantoe

On the definition on life and veganism…

Fruit don’t poop. Please discuss.

Invention, inventor, etc

They’re subjective terms that mean different thing to different people.

For example, in the world of patents an invention has to be completely novel to the world, and also not obvious to someone practised on the art, which means a problem can’t be solved the way everyone would solve it.

For others, a drone umbrella is an invention. As is a new board game. Or stoned wallabies making crop circles. Or a ute. Mate.

I prefer to reserve the term for breathtaking ideas that have been reduced to practise, and actually work and also have value.

There are six things that drive me to rage;

1. The swipe keyboard on this phone , it is so fucked and it never learns. An opportunity to train an AI thingbot perhaps, someone? For example, how about typo corrections that use the context to guess the right word?

2. Being talked over.

3. People getting in my way because they aren’t spatially aware and don’t want to be. Cunts.

4. Bunnings.

5. Reading glasses.

6. I need a new word for this …. imagine you’re dragging a water hose up the yard. 9 times out of 10 you just drag it all the way. But that one time it jags a log and gets stuck. Drives me nuts. It’s basically me hoping everything goes well with the inanimate objects that I’m interacting with, but it doesn’t. Honestly, it’s a lack of risk assessment, over-optimism, all mixed up with laziness. I’m calling the accompanying rage “inanimus”, a portmanteau of animus and inanimate objects.

For the record, I’ve had short COVID four times.

I wonder why they’re called interest rates?

There’s nothing interesting about paying back more than you borrowed.

Everything you’ve previously heard about Australia is a lie. S’truth mate.

30. Australia is in Asia according to FIFA but so is Palestine but not Israel. Confusingly, Australia is in Europe according to Eurovision. The head of state of Australia is English. Australia is in a number of military alliances, pretty much all including the US. However, Australia is only an associate member of ASEAN. In summary, no one really wants them in their club, for reasons you’ll soon find out.

29. Australia was founded as a slave colony. Convicts were effectively slaves in the first 100 years after the formation of the colonies. No one talks about this.

28. There is a ongoing debate about Australia Day, which commemorates the colonization of the country by the English on January 26th 1788. Oddly, neither the Aborigines nor the convict slaves had a very good time of it in 1788, so it’s a mystery as to what is being celebrated.

27. In the Australian media it is common to hear the term “the lucky country”. This means it has relatively few people and a lot of mineral resources, allowing it to be the dumb country of lazy fat people. No one in Australia walks while on a travelator, even if they’re in a hurry.

26. Visitors are frightened of Australia’s snakes, spiders, sharks and crocodiles. But the most vicious biting thing in Australia is the paper wasp. Check it out.

25. Australia is completely divided with respect to football. The various colonies picked up or even invented different football codes for no good reason and it remains so today. As a result Australia is crap at international football.

24. Australians eat about 700 million chickens a year. That’s about 26 chickens per person per year, or one per person every two weeks. In that 2 weeks they spend on average $12 on the chook and $443 on gambling (a world record no less).

23. A typical pack of cigarettes costs $80 due to the highest tax ever imagined in the history of mankind. Inexplicably, no one complains or grows their own tobacco.

22. Even imported Mexican beer in Australia comes from China. Proving that Australians are the world’s second most gullible set of consumers behind the Chinese. Without China, Australians would have nothing to spend their money on. And yet, Australian politicians insist on continually aggravating the Chinese government.

21. All Australian politicians are corrupt (as well as stupid). This can be proven by the jobs they get after they leave office. For reasons unknown to anyone though the politicians like to pretend they aren’t corrupt.

20. Australia has compulsory voting in all elections and referendums. Residents are fined if they don’t vote. Inexplicably these fines are usually paid.

19. Australians drive on the left hand side of the road because the English do so. Nobody ever thought to correct this stupidity.

18. Although it’s the 6th largest country in the world, 90% of the landmass has no water and it not suitable for medium or dense urbanisation. Unless of course you come from the middle east or the levant, where water appears to be optional.

17. The Australian flag has the UK union jack in the top left corner. This will likely never change because Australians will never be able to agree upon a replacement.

16. Australia is the leading “nanny state” in the world. The hidden long-game objective is to export nanny state skills to China when they decide that noone’s feelings or body should ever get hurt, at any cost.

15. Immigration into Australia is running at almost 3% of the population per annum. Without this input of immigrants, the economy, which is almost entirely services based, would stall completely.

14. The truth is an anachronistic concept in Australia. People prefer fairy tales wrapped in fairy floss (cotton candy), and served up with disdain.

13. No cars are made in Australia, they are all imported. All 1 million plus of them a year.

12. Similarly no bicycles are made in Australia. Over 1 million are imported and sold each year. Typically they’re used once before rusting away in a garage, then land-filled 5 years later.

11. Actually nothing much is made in Australia. Despite the fact that just about everything worth noting was apparently invented in Australia, such as the Labradoodle, WiFi, polyamory, cockroach racing, stoned wallabies, and the ute. Mate.

10. Australians have a choice of up to 5 recycle bins. Despite this only aluminium gets recycled. The rest is land-filled and no one cares. Australians dutifully separate their rubbish each week.

9. Plastic straws were banned in Australia because of the issue of plastics in the oceans, despite the fact that all plastic waste in Australia goes to landfill.

8. Australians have congregated into half a dozen large cities and they refuse to create new large cities. Therefore they have the most expensive urban real estate in the world and some of the cheapest rural real estate.

7. Most Australians can’t surf or even swim in the surf because they live too far from a beach in their large cities. Similarly not a single Australian has ever read the constitution. The prevailing assumption is that it’s a confidence trick at best.

6. Shark attacks in Australia are on the rise because they stopped the extermination of sharks for “ecological reasons” (actually just to stop the Wokes from whining). Being attacked by a shark is still a very low risk though.

5. Ditto, crocodiles and snakes, but not spiders, yet.

4. Climate change will make everything worse according to Australian experts. Fires, storms, floods etc, they are all going to get worse. Noting these warnings are the desperate pleas of help from mostly autistic introverts that don’t understand error bars, Australians pretty much just ignore the experts.

3. The Australian media is on par with the worst in the world. It’s ongoing existence proves that Australians don’t care to think very often.

2. Australians are inordinately proud of Australian actors and musicians that get any measure of overseas success. Experts note this as a psychological disorder closely related to the hoarding syndrome as described in the DSM.

1. Australians love lists of facts (e.g. any article with a title that starts with how, why or 10), except this one. In fact, this list would be labelled un-Australian by an Australian politician. Australians are very bad at laughing at themselves.

The extraterrestrial or panspermia theory suggest that life existed somewhere else out in space and was transported by meteorites, asteroids, or comets to a receptive Earth.

My view, when we as a species are buggered on this planet due to our own stupidity, we won’t be in a position to commute to viable planets outside of the solar system. We can hardly get a person to the moon after all.

The closest extrasolar planet that might support life is Proxima Centauri b, located 4.22 light years away. That’s 3.992 × 10^13 km.

However we can send unmanned probes out forever. For example, Voyager 1 has reached a distance of 23.381 billion km and may well go forever. It’s already travelled about 0.05% of the distance to Proxima Centauri b and until recently was sending data back to earth.

Therefore just as we say farewell to ourselves we’ll send out a probe to one of these planets with the basic building blocks of life, say single cell thingys, in the hope that in a couple of billion years humans, or something like them, can re-emerge on that planet.

I like to think it’s a repeat thing. Its how we got started and it will happen again and again, until there aren’t any planets to send probes to.

I love theories like this, e.g the big bang theory, that sidestep the question of “where did it all start?” by setting up a cycle of stupidity.

We are in fact the god in the machine.