ISSUED DAILY SINCE NOBODY ASKED
DAILY DEMOTIVATION
A fresh disappointment every morning. Like the news, but more honest.
Clear-coding means stating your intentions up front.
Hers was "I have a hard stop at 8:15". Yours was hoping she'd forget. She set an alarm.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- The best time to start saving was twenty years ago. The second-best time was…
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- You call it "quiet quitting". Your manager calls it "the same as before". Nobody…
- Remember when you stayed up late on purpose? Now you're up at 3am because…
- You "grew out of" your old friends. They grew out of waiting for you…
- You went "no contact" with your ex. You still check their Spotify. They're listening…
- Ghostlighting is when someone disappears for eight weeks and comes back with "you've been…
THE CALENDAR OF DESPAIR
Newsletter / Issue No. 446
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