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SATURDAY, 30 MAY 1970
Listen to your body.
It's asking for a biscuit and a lie-down. It's been asking for eleven years.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Your startup is a chatbot that tells customers they're right. Investors loved it. The…
- Be yourself. Everyone else is taken. They were picked first. You're what was left.
- You are exactly where you're meant to be. That should frighten you more than…
- "It's just a phase" is a phrase you'll say for eighteen years. You're the…
- The council listened to your feedback. Then it did the thing anyway, but with…
- You "work best under pressure". You don't. You just only work under pressure.
- Some people run marathons. You run late, and you still come last.
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