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DAILY DEMOTIVATION
A fresh disappointment every morning. Like the news, but more honest.
You "don't do small talk".
You also don't do big talk, phone calls, emails or replying. You do "vibes", and nobody can invoice those.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- You rage quit because the game was rigged. You were also just bad. Both…
- You said you're "booked and busy". Booked for a dentist you'll cancel. Busy rewatching…
- You're "in your villain era". You returned a lukewarm coffee and apologised four times.…
- They'll hold a minute's silence for you at the all-hands. It will be the…
- Your startup is an app that replaces a phone call. With a waitlist, a…
- Your out-of-office reply is the most confident thing you wrote all year. Nobody noticed…
- Inside every older person is a younger person. The younger person is furious about…
THE CALENDAR OF DESPAIR
Newsletter / Issue No. 446
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