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SUNDAY, 1 DECEMBER 1957
A budget is a list of things you're about to do anyway.
Written down first, so the guilt has paperwork.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Clear-coding means stating your intentions up front. Hers was "I have a hard stop…
- The customer is always right. The customer is also on hold, forever, which is…
- 2026 is the new 2016. Your knees did not get the memo. Your knees…
- You flipped a water bottle on Monday morning just to feel something. It landed.…
- Kids grow up so fast. Except between 5pm and bedtime, when time stops and…
- Disrupt the industry. The industry will disrupt you back, then buy your logo for…
- Mistakes were made. The Notes app has never once said by whom.
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Newsletter / Issue No. 446
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