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ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
MONDAY, 9 DECEMBER 1963
Your startup is an app that replaces a phone call.
With a waitlist, a subscription, and no customers.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- You can do anything you set your mind to. Your mind has set itself…
- You say "it's not that deep" a lot. Your Notes app has 300 entries…
- The bins are now fortnightly. The council tax is still monthly.
- Parenting is ten percent love and ninety percent asking where the other shoe is.…
- Your backlog is a library of things you were going to enjoy. It is…
- It's not a career ladder. It's a hamster wheel. The hamster has a LinkedIn…
- You "speak your truth". Your truth is mostly about the bin rota.
THE CALENDAR OF DESPAIR
Newsletter / Issue No. 446
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