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TUESDAY, 21 JANUARY 1975
You say "it's not that deep" a lot.
Your Notes app has 300 entries and every one of them is that deep.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Step outside your comfort zone. It's raining out there, everything costs more, and nobody…
- You "romanticise studying". You've filmed it, lit it and soundtracked it. You haven't studied.
- They say sweat is weakness leaving the body. Yours has decided to stay.
- Your startup is a chatbot that tells customers they're right. Investors loved it. The…
- You said you'd "touch grass" this weekend. You took a photo of grass, posted…
- The first email you open on Monday is a reply-all from Friday. Forty replies.…
- Your step counter used to set goals. Now it just sends "Hello?" like a…
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