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TUESDAY, 21 JULY 1992
Every parent has a favourite child.
It's whichever one isn't currently talking.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Early access means you paid to watch someone not finish something. You do that…
- Micro-dating is a thirty-minute coffee to see if there's a spark. There wasn't. She…
- Quality family time: everyone on a different screen in the same room, harvested by…
- You wanted a mini-me. You got a tiny negotiator who has never once lost…
- "Let's take this offline" means "let's never speak of this again." That's also the…
- Step outside your comfort zone. It's raining out there, everything costs more, and nobody…
- It's not a career ladder. It's a hamster wheel. The hamster has a LinkedIn…
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