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Kids grow up so fast.
Except between 5pm and bedtime, when time stops and you age a decade.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- You said you're "so busy" this week. Your screen time says eleven hours a…
- 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.
THE CALENDAR OF DESPAIR
Newsletter / Issue No. 446
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