Saturday, 21 February 2015

bullshit




Years ago I started an MBA
the first subject was marketing.
We had the quintessential textbook
by Kottler.

It was great fun and one of the things I remember was a lesson.
"build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door"
the guy who actually did that went broke
the maxim disputed.

Currently I'm reading the biography of
steve jobs
that guy built better everything
and he enriched the world.

Apple
Pixar
I tunes
I phones

I guess the lesson 
might be
follow the creativity
everything else is bullshit.

The second subject was
strategic human resource
management.
It was a bullshit subject

I quit.

Saturday, 7 February 2015

why



So there I was
at the hottest place in town
having dinner with the most beautiful girl in the world.
you get the idea....

and half way through my few dozen oysters
I looked over at the pretty young bimbo 4 seats away.
plumping her hair and arranging her plate, she reached out and snapped herself
almost eating, almost being there..

Funny thing was, we were both there already, and that moment that she 
was so keen to capture had already passed.
it was however there on her phone
all alone.

never to be looked at again.
and in that moment
that image burned in my brain
easily recalled.

It was yet another image
stacked against the wall of droth
hidden from the light of day
behind all that makeup.

saved of course on a server
a thousand miles away
burning those fossil fuels never 
to be seen.

again
I wondered 
what was the fucking point
of the selfie?

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