ISSUED DAILY SINCE NOBODY ASKED
DAILY DEMOTIVATION
A fresh disappointment every morning. Like the news, but more honest.
"It's just a phase" is a phrase you'll say for eighteen years.
You're the phase they'll describe to a therapist.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Your startup is an app that replaces a phone call. With a waitlist, a…
- The hardest part of working out is getting started. You've made sure it stays…
- You say "it's not that deep" a lot. Your Notes app has 300 entries…
- You received 40 fundraising texts today. Democracy needs $5 by midnight. Every midnight.
- Your chatbot calls every one of your ideas "a really insightful question". Zack has…
- The house will be tidy again one day. The day they move out. Tidy,…
- You are a brief arrangement of atoms that learned to worry about emails.
THE CALENDAR OF DESPAIR
Newsletter / Issue No. 446
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