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MONDAY, 9 JULY 1984
You've got a side hustle, a passion project and a podcast.
Combined monthly income: $14. Combined listeners: your nan, twice, by accident.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Your desk plant is the only thing in the office still growing. When you…
- You "romanticise studying". You've filmed it, lit it and soundtracked it. You haven't studied.
- Every Monday you swear this week will be different. You've sworn it nine hundred…
- You swore you'd never sound like your parents. You just said "because I said…
- Every company now has an AI assistant. It's the only member of staff nobody's…
- The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. You took it…
- Loud budgeting is telling everyone you can't afford brunch. Quiet budgeting is going anyway,…
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