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TUESDAY, 16 FEBRUARY 1993
Being a parent means eating cold crusts standing up and calling it dinner.
You'll eat standing up for eighteen years. Then sit down and forget how.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Core collaboration days started as Tuesday. They now include Wednesday, Thursday, a Friday that's…
- The consultation runs for twelve weeks. The decision was made in week zero.
- You're not getting older. You're getting closer. That's worse.
- The return to office is completely optional. So was the badge-swipe leaderboard, and yet…
- Love is patient. Your partner is not, and has started a note on their…
- Inside every older person is a younger person. The younger person is furious about…
- Fortnite was free to play. It was not free to stop.
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