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SATURDAY, 14 SEPTEMBER 1963
You put "entrepreneur" in your bio.
You've sold one pair of trainers on Vinted and still owe your mum for the postage.
— Zack, unqualified
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- Your fitness app's AI coach called a four-minute walk "incredible progress". It said the…
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- Some meetings could have been an email. You'll spend four years of your one…
- Scale your business. Currently it's you, a laptop, and your mum, who bought one…
- No pain, no gain. You chose neither. Your heart has noted it in your…
- Parenting is ten percent love and ninety percent asking where the other shoe is.…
- You bought the yoga mat. The cat uses it. The cat is more flexible,…
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