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MONDAY, 21 NOVEMBER 1994
Your startup is an app that replaces a phone call.
With a waitlist, a subscription, and no customers.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
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- You don't skip leg day. You skip every day. The legs know. The legs…
- Quality family time: everyone on a different screen in the same room, harvested by…
- You call it "quiet quitting". Your manager calls it "the same as before". Nobody…
- Coffee doesn't fix Monday. It just makes sure you're fully conscious for it.
- "Per my last email" is the closest you'll ever get to a duel. You'll…
- Your savings account isn't empty. It's a memorial.
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