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TUESDAY, 23 JANUARY 1968
Being a parent means eating cold crusts standing up and calling it dinner.
You'll eat standing up for eighteen years. Then sit down and forget how.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Your chatbot calls every one of your ideas "a really insightful question". Zack has…
- You "work best under pressure". You don't. You just only work under pressure.
- You hyped your mate's mixtape. You've never listened to it. Neither has anyone. Including…
- Work smarter, not harder. You've chosen neither, and HR has a folder.
- The weekend is two days long. Monday is nine emotional days long, and you're…
- Your inbox reached zero once. The server was down. You were briefly free and…
- Your Sunday-night plan for Monday was ambitious. Monday read it, laughed, and forwarded it…
THE CALENDAR OF DESPAIR
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