I expressed my exasperation to Col’s 6-year-old son Deakin. His response was so funny it completely dissolved the tension.

Being funny is a great quality. Even if you’re not exactly sure what’s funny or why. In this Fink Tank, Col and I laugh about the nature of humour and why it matters in life and work.

Being stand-up-comedian level funny is beyond most people, for effort and talent reasons. But we think everyone is capable of adding a bit of humour to their repertoire.

Skip to 6:25 for some terrible jokes. Better yet, put your shit go-to jokes in the comments!

When I was 15, I stole an esky full of drinks from a random campsite.

Not exactly the heist of the century, but it felt huge in the context of my teenage attempts at rebellion.

I was fingered as the perp the next morning. I feared the worst, but the poor bastard whose beers I nicked had other ideas.

In this Friday Fink Tank I share a story Col had never heard. I definitely never told mum or dad!

My selfish teenage idiocy had wronged a good man. I was expecting humiliation and punishment.

Instead, he chose grace and forgiveness.

I don’t even know his name, but I’ve never forgotten him.

I came home to human poo in the driveway. Our fridge broke the same day.

Life will always have problems. Are they actually problems though?

In this Fink Tank Col Fink and I laugh about the human audacity to complain about things that were luxuries unavailable to even kings or queens only a hundred years ago.

In a great 2024 article about the quality of problems, Alicia McKay wrote:

Most of the problems I complain about are:

a) Entirely the result of my own choices

b) Actually a sign of progress and privilege.

Yours probably are too.

If you don't like your problems, get better ones.

If you already have good ones, but you forgot, this is your gentle reminder.

Well said Alicia, as usual.

What’s the poo in your driveway right now??