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ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
FRIDAY, 1 JANUARY 1965
You said you're "so busy" this week.
Your screen time says eleven hours a day. Busy is one word for it. Scrolling is the other.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- The battle pass costs £9.99 a season. Your childhood cost nothing and had better…
- Life is short. A measurable chunk of it will be spent in the post…
- Ghostlighting is when someone disappears for eight weeks and comes back with "you've been…
- Your fitness app's AI coach called a four-minute walk "incredible progress". It said the…
- Clear-coding means stating your intentions up front. Hers was "I have a hard stop…
- You don't have a spending problem. You have an income problem, and it's terminal.
- You "can't do mornings". You also can't do afternoons, evenings or emails.
THE CALENDAR OF DESPAIR
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