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FRIDAY, 22 NOVEMBER 1957
Being a parent means eating cold crusts standing up and calling it dinner.
You'll eat standing up for eighteen years. Then sit down and forget how.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- You moneymaxxed so hard this month you earned $4.80 in cashback. It cost three…
- You put "open to work" on LinkedIn. Six recruiters viewed your profile. Five were…
- Be yourself. Everyone else is taken. They were picked first. You're what was left.
- You don't have a spending problem. You have an income problem, and it's terminal.
- Passive income takes a surprising amount of active effort. Mostly explaining it at parties…
- Be your own boss. Your new boss naps at 2pm, can't pay you, and…
- Every birthday is a gift. The gift is one fewer birthday.
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