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SUNDAY, 26 AUGUST 1956
Work smarter, not harder.
You've chosen neither, and HR has a folder.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Early access means you paid to watch someone not finish something. You do that…
- "It's just a phase" is a phrase you'll say for eighteen years. You're the…
- Abs are made in the kitchen. So are toasties. The toasties are undefeated.
- You are a brief arrangement of atoms that learned to worry about emails.
- Your chatbot calls every one of your ideas "a really insightful question". Zack has…
- "Let's take this offline" means "let's never speak of this again." That's also the…
- It's not a career ladder. It's a hamster wheel. The hamster has a LinkedIn…
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