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SATURDAY, 12 MARCH 1994
Your favourite music is now called "a classic".
So are you. It means old.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Your startup is a chatbot that tells customers they're right. Investors loved it. The…
- Your fitness journey started on the second of January. It ended on the fourth.…
- The return to office is completely optional. So was the badge-swipe leaderboard, and yet…
- Some meetings could have been an email. You'll spend four years of your one…
- "It's just a phase" is a phrase you'll say for eighteen years. You're the…
- Your gym membership is the most expensive guilt you've ever bought. It renews automatically.…
- You're not broke. You're pre-rich. The "pre" is permanent.
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Newsletter / Issue No. 446
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