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DAILY DEMOTIVATION
A fresh disappointment every morning. Like the news, but more honest.
2026 is the new 2016. Your knees did not get the memo. Your knees are getting different memos now, mostly from a specialist.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- The best time to start saving was twenty years ago. The second-best time was…
- You can do anything you set your mind to. Your mind has set itself…
- Nobody notices when you do your job well. Everyone notices when you leave at…
- You said you're "booked and busy". Booked for a dentist you'll cancel. Busy rewatching…
- Parenting is ten percent love and ninety percent asking where the other shoe is.…
- True love is choosing the same person every day. They're choosing, daily, whether to…
- Be yourself. Everyone else is taken. They were picked first. You're what was left.
THE CALENDAR OF DESPAIR
Newsletter / Issue No. 446
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