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TUESDAY, 4 JANUARY 1972
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Three are jobs you'll never apply for, one's a recipe you'll never cook, and one is playing music from somewhere you can't find.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Your alarm didn't wake you. The dread did. It doesn't have a snooze button.
- Your Duolingo owl has stopped threatening you. It's not proud. It's given up. Even…
- A budget is a list of things you're about to do anyway. Written down…
- Don't settle. Your standards already have. They didn't tell you.
- Doom spending is buying a heated eye mask because the news was bad. The…
- Your 5am routine went viral. You did it once, filmed it, and have slept…
- Nobody notices when you do your job well. Everyone notices when you leave at…
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