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MONDAY, 18 APRIL 1977
Nobody notices when you do your job well.
Everyone notices when you leave at 5:01. Your retirement will get a shorter email.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- The best time to start saving was twenty years ago. The second-best time was…
- Your banking app pauses slightly before opening. It's deciding how to tell you.
- You swore you'd never sound like your parents. You just said "because I said…
- You're "chronically online". Chronic means long-term. You've been online so long your eyes have…
- Children are a blessing. They're also why the remote is in the bin and…
- Doom spending is buying a heated eye mask because the news was bad. The…
- Good things come to those who wait. You waited so long they went to…
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