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Maybe he was a great guy. But people change. It seems as though having your brains marinated in money is highly neurotoxic, no matter how you started off. (Any

Maybe he was a great guy. But people change. It seems as though having your brains marinated in money is highly neurotoxic, no matter how you started off. (Anyway: the main offence is using the term "jerk" instead of "wanker").

Maxious 5mo ago
He might have been a top bloke then but in recent years he has had irreconcilable relationship breakdowns with his co-founder https://www.reddit.com/r/australian/comments/1m3ilhy/inside_the_atlassian_fallout_between_mike/ https://www.reddit.com/r/australian/comments/1m3ilhy/inside_... , wife and CFO https://www.afr.com/technology/mike-cannon-brookes-wins-injunction-as-asset-split-with-wife-gets-ugly-20250225-p5lf1x https://www.afr.com/technology/mike-cannon-brookes-wins-inju... and most recently CTO https://www.afr.com/technology/atlassian-slashes-1600-jobs-as-ai-challenges-its-future-20260311-p5o9m5 https://www.afr.com/technology/atlassian-slashes-1600-jobs-a...
readthenotes1 5mo ago
"Power doesn't corrupt; it reveals." -- Robert Caro It's not the marination in money, it's the loss of constraint that fear brings. Most of us aren't good people at heart.
- throw0101a 5mo ago
  “But although the cliche says that power always corrupts, what is seldom said ... is that power always reveals. When a man is climbing, trying to persuade others to give him power, concealment is necessary. ... But as a man obtains more power, camouflage becomes less necessary.” — https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1127738-but-although-the-cliche-says-that-power-always-corrupts-what https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1127738-but-although-the-cl... > Most of us aren't good people at heart. “The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/450864-the-line-separating-good-and-evil-passes-not-through-states https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/450864-the-line-separating-...

Maxious 5mo ago

He might have been a top bloke then but in recent years he has had irreconcilable relationship breakdowns with his co-founder https://www.reddit.com/r/australian/comments/1m3ilhy/inside_the_atlassian_fallout_between_mike/ https://www.reddit.com/r/australian/comments/1m3ilhy/inside_... , wife and CFO https://www.afr.com/technology/mike-cannon-brookes-wins-injunction-as-asset-split-with-wife-gets-ugly-20250225-p5lf1x https://www.afr.com/technology/mike-cannon-brookes-wins-inju... and most recently CTO https://www.afr.com/technology/atlassian-slashes-1600-jobs-as-ai-challenges-its-future-20260311-p5o9m5 https://www.afr.com/technology/atlassian-slashes-1600-jobs-a...

readthenotes1 5mo ago

"Power doesn't corrupt; it reveals." -- Robert Caro It's not the marination in money, it's the loss of constraint that fear brings. Most of us aren't good people at heart.

throw0101a 5mo ago
“But although the cliche says that power always corrupts, what is seldom said ... is that power always reveals. When a man is climbing, trying to persuade others to give him power, concealment is necessary. ... But as a man obtains more power, camouflage becomes less necessary.” — https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1127738-but-although-the-cliche-says-that-power-always-corrupts-what https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1127738-but-although-the-cl... > Most of us aren't good people at heart. “The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/450864-the-line-separating-good-and-evil-passes-not-through-states https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/450864-the-line-separating-...