Bullshit jobs pay well. Or at least they did. Now the best bullshitter in town is eating our lunch. Soon it will be eating us. After that it will eat itself.
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CFO is a fancy title for chief bureaucrat or chief nitpicker. Be warned: accountants will throttle your business with their obsessive compulsive counting tendencies if you give them any decision-making authority whatsoever. Do your business a favour and keep them at arm’s length at all times.
"The personality ossifies early in life. Do not delude yourself that you or anyone else can change. You will save yourself a lot of heartache, and money on therapists, that way."
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Abusing a child is abhorrent, we all agree. What we can’t agree on is what to do about the adult that child grows into.
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The kind of people I despise are the kind of people who despise me. The people I like sometimes despise me as well. The people I love I have no idea how they feel about me and I choose not to speculate.
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The personality ossifies early in life. Do not delude yourself that you or anyone else can change. You will save yourself a lot of heartache, and money on therapists, that way.
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The ripening of wisdom looks a lot like ignorance (to those who are ignorant).
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The ideologies of our era are as febrile as they are superficial. One senses a reckoning on the horizon, an event so devastating it will once and for all decide everything.
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Debit hate, credit damnation. Credit love, debit redemption.
Noah Blue
First published on Noah Blue, March 2026.
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