Noah Blue
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capitalism

The system we live inside, examined from within — its logic, its damage, its strange seductions.

10 works

Precision peptides have arrived
Aphorisms

Precision peptides have arrived

#spread the word

Noah Blue · 2 min read

The tediousness of an accounting memo is the point. The less people who can be bothered to read it the better.

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Caitlin Brown
Fiction

Caitlin Brown

An excerpt

Noah Blue · 23 min read

The fact that we had been lovers complicated things obviously, for me anyway. I realised this during Caitlin’s yearly appraisal.

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a (gratuitously) bawdy caper with capitalist undertones
Fiction

a (gratuitously) bawdy caper with capitalist undertones

#white-collar worker

Noah Blue · 18 min read

The office is dank and smells of onions and something else that I don’t know the noun for. The guy on the other side of the desk has a handlebar moustache and a nervous twitch. He is staring at me and I am staring at him, neither of us inclined to say anything.

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7 Highly Effective Techniques For Inducing a Full-Fledged Spiritual Awakening
Wittering asides

7 Highly Effective Techniques For Inducing a Full-Fledged Spiritual Awakening

Disclaimer: use at your own risk (these techniques work, that’s the point)

Noah Blue · 6 min read

Quit your job. Sell all of your possessions (apart from the clothes you are wearing) and any property you may own. Withdraw your savings. Give all of the money you have harvested to the least deserving person you can think of.

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Finance: an introduction to the basics
Aphorisms

Finance: an introduction to the basics

For beginners

Noah Blue · 1 min read

Investing, if you are to be successful at it, requires nothing less than the negation of the present moment in perpetuity.

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Accounting aphorisms
Aphorisms

Accounting aphorisms

Niche

Noah Blue · 1 min read

I am not remotely prejudiced. Some of the best people I know are accountants.

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Office chat
Dialogues

Office chat

Verbatim

Noah Blue · 4 min read

There are only jobs, soul-destroying ones. Careers are a myth, the sole purpose of which is to mollify and subvert your innermost doubts about the capitalist system.

capitalism
A derelict room with peeling walls, a glowing CRT television, and a sagging sofa in teal-tinted darkness
Aphorisms

Aphorisms impaled on a spike

Meaning they aren't going anywhere

Noah Blue · 1 min read

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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Extreme close-up of a single eye with dark lashes, half-lidded and watchful, in soft focus
Aphorisms

Taser aphorisms

Flailing and shit

Noah Blue · 2 min read

I am not crazy enough to believe that anything I say matters, but I am crazy enough to say it anyway.

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A single bloodshot eyeball with a deep red iris and black pupil against a black background
Fiction

there is no such thing as free will

To state the obvious

Noah Blue · 13 min read

I am alone, unless you count the dog as company. A whole day with nothing to do stretches out in front of me. I make a cup of coffee and read over the story I wrote the night before. It’s about a man who lives alone with his dog; a whole day with nothing to do stretches out in front of him.

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