ISSUED DAILY SINCE NOBODY ASKED
DAILY DEMOTIVATION
A fresh disappointment every morning. Like the news, but more honest.
Strangers online have voted you "not wrong".
The same strangers once voted to give a research ship a silly name. You are the silly name.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- He vanished for five months, then texted "haha so true" like he'd just popped…
- Running clears your head. Mostly of the idea that you're a runner.
- Somebody, somewhere, is checking their phone hoping it's you. It's a debt collector.
- You "work best under pressure". You don't. You just only work under pressure.
- Your startup is a chatbot that tells customers they're right. Investors loved it. The…
- The first email you open on Monday is a reply-all from Friday. Forty replies.…
- Your inbox reached zero once. The server was down. You were briefly free and…
THE CALENDAR OF DESPAIR
Newsletter / Issue No. 446
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