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MONDAY, 8 APRIL 1963
The pothole is on the list.
The list is dynamic. The pothole is permanent.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Your startup is a chatbot that tells customers they're right. Investors loved it. The…
- You rage quit because the game was rigged. You were also just bad. Both…
- Your soft launch was a hand in a photo. The hard launch never came.…
- Till death do us part. Not a vow. A fixed-term contract with an unspecified…
- Your Sunday-night plan for Monday was ambitious. Monday read it, laughed, and forwarded it…
- You are a brief arrangement of atoms that learned to worry about emails.
- Nobody notices when you do your job well. Everyone notices when you leave at…
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