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MONDAY, 5 NOVEMBER 1962
Somebody, somewhere, is checking their phone hoping it's you.
It's a debt collector.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Your chatbot calls every one of your ideas "a really insightful question". Zack has…
- You're ageing like a fine wine. Expensive, slightly sour, best kept in the dark,…
- Your business plan has three phases: launch, pivot, and letting the domain quietly expire.
- Your complaint has been escalated. It is now ignored by someone more senior.
- Opposites attract. Then they argue about the thermostat for forty years. Whoever outlives the…
- Your complaint has been escalated. It is now ignored by someone more senior.
- You asked the internet whether you were the bad guy. The internet read the…
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