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WEDNESDAY, 15 APRIL 1970
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
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Your startup is an app that replaces a phone call. With a waitlist, a…
- You film "Sunday reset" videos. By Tuesday your room has reset itself, to Saturday.
- Move fast and break things. You broke the coffee machine, the budget and your…
- You're "so random". You've told the same "so random" story at every party since…
- You said "my For You page knows me so well". It knows you're awake…
- Be your own boss. Your new boss naps at 2pm, can't pay you, and…
- When you're gone, the one who misses you most will be the algorithm. It…
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