Based in Johannesburg, Mark Smith (not a pseudonym, honestly!) is a 27-year-old, South African megalomaniac-lawyer-in-training. Except the part about megalomania.
He graduated cum laude from the University of Cape Town in 2002 with an undergraduate degree in finance, whereafter he spent an exciting 2 and a half years working in Japan and traveling the length and breadth of Asia. The experience was sufficiently bewildering to make law school seem like a good idea on his return to South Africa.
Mark Smith's blog is arselickocracy.
This notion of uniqueness is usually dispelled early on in working life, and we come to realize that, while we are perhaps no less awesome than initially conceived, we probably fall well within the (admittedly wide) bounds of normality, and are not all that special after all.
While I have attempted before to elucidate my reasons for Facebook-revulsion from my perspective of an erstwhile student of finance and economics (a post that inspired sudden-onset deaf muteness from my ostensibly Facebook-loving readers), my dislike also comes from a more personal (and some may say outlandish) place, which I will now try to explain.
I have just returned from taping two interviews for a local business, satellite channel. Well not just. There has, since the interviews, been a one hour period during which I screamed incomprehensibly and hysterically, and then lay on the floor in the fetal position sucking my thumb […]
Has anyone else noticed the recent glut of commentary about how it’s actually GREAT! if you were totally mediocre or even an academic disaster at university? […]
In my first few weeks, my co-workers were throwing away stuff I had printed before I got to the copier, hiding important files of mine, spreading poisonous rumours about me, and tearing pages out of a law report in the library they had heard I was looking for (all the while thinking they were unwatched).
Disney creeps me out. I am not saying this to impress anyone - you have my solemn assurances that Disney has repelled and repulsed me from an age when it was even appropriate to like Disney (and not merely be indifferent to it). So, in order to restore the balance of the universe…here are 10 things I hate about Disney […]
Envy is ensconced within the lexicon of SIN! and EVIL! and society tells us it is an emotion we should suppress. Such an ethos of envy-suppression had its beginnings in organized religion, but I don’t think it has any place in our modern world.
More important than my personal disdain for Facebook, which I hope shortly to elucidate, I believe Facebook is a hype business that is simulating, whether intentionally or unintentionally, all the circumstances that precipitated the dot com crash that blighted the international investment landscape from 2000 to 2002 […[
ISTJ’s have a focused, sometimes over-focused, attention to detail. I am a prime example of this, and think I have (thankfully) chosen an appropriate career to harness what might otherwise be a disability. You see, this attention to detail is just a smaller symptom of an orientation towards perfectionism […]
The Internet has created a culture and ethos of “immediately launch your own startup even if you fail”, implying you will grow and learn in the process. Well, you might, but what is assured, unless you have a rather large trust fund, is that you will also devastate yourself to a sufficient financial degree that you will likely have to look for a job anyway […]
