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SUNDAY, 13 AUGUST 1978
Start the week strong.
Or at 9:14, camera off, pretending your face is a buffering icon.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
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- It's not a career ladder. It's a hamster wheel. The hamster has a LinkedIn…
- Your out-of-office reply is the most confident thing you wrote all year. Nobody noticed…
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- The light at the end of the tunnel is someone asking, "Can you see…
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Newsletter / Issue No. 446
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