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FRIDAY, 8 DECEMBER 1989
You are exactly where you're meant to be.
That should frighten you more than it does.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- You "don't believe in labels". You believe in being kept as an option.
- Monday is a perfectly normal day. You've got about two thousand more of them.…
- Passive income takes a surprising amount of active effort. Mostly explaining it at parties…
- Your business plan has three phases: launch, pivot, and letting the domain quietly expire.
- Your favourite music is now called "a classic". So are you. It means old.
- Doom spending is buying a heated eye mask because the news was bad. The…
- They posted an apology in the Notes app. It was addressed to the fans.…
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