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MONDAY, 6 MAY 1991
Some meetings could have been an email.
You'll spend four years of your one life in them. Nobody took minutes.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- "Per my last email" is the closest you'll ever get to a duel. You'll…
- You're not a CEO. You're one person with a logo, a free email account…
- Your resting heart rate is excellent. It's had nothing else to do.
- Your startup is an app that replaces a phone call. With a waitlist, a…
- Every company now has an AI assistant. It's the only member of staff nobody's…
- Your squad misses you, says the notification. Your squad is four strangers and a…
- He vanished for five months, then texted "haha so true" like he'd just popped…
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