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WEDNESDAY, 9 MARCH 1983
Your gym membership is the most expensive guilt you've ever bought.
It renews automatically. So does the guilt.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Your fitness app's AI coach called a four-minute walk "incredible progress". It said the…
- Monday is a core collaboration day. As, it turns out, is every day ending…
- You have 47 tabs open. Three are jobs you'll never apply for, one's a…
- Your job title will outlive you. It's already been posted on LinkedIn, with a…
- You said you're "booked and busy". Booked for a dentist you'll cancel. Busy rewatching…
- The first email you open on Monday is a reply-all from Friday. Forty replies.…
- Don't settle. Your standards already have. They didn't tell you.
THE CALENDAR OF DESPAIR
Newsletter / Issue No. 446
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