ISSUED DAILY SINCE NOBODY ASKED
DAILY DEMOTIVATION
A fresh disappointment every morning. Like the news, but more honest.
ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
TUESDAY, 9 SEPTEMBER 1958
Till death do us part.
Not a vow. A fixed-term contract with an unspecified end date.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Scale your business. Currently it's you, a laptop, and your mum, who bought one…
- Your fitness app's AI coach called a four-minute walk "incredible progress". It said the…
- You have 2,000 followers and nobody to help you move. Your audience is very…
- You have a "5-year plan". It's a Pinterest board. It's mostly kitchens.
- The spark never fades. It gets downgraded to bin bags, then to a joint…
- You got a houseplant to "take care of something". It died. Even the plant…
- You left them on read "to be mysterious". They didn't notice. They were also…
THE CALENDAR OF DESPAIR
Newsletter / Issue No. 446
SEND ME ONE DEPRESSING THOUGHT EVERY MORNING
One quote. Every morning. Delivered before coffee, when you are weakest and the day has not yet had the chance to disappoint you itself.
No spam. Just disappointment. Unsubscribe whenever you regain hope.