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THURSDAY, 18 MAY 1995
You say "it's not that deep" a lot.
Your Notes app has 300 entries and every one of them is that deep.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Everyone's bringing back the dog filter. Your face has been doing the droopy-ears look…
- You flipped a water bottle on Monday morning just to feel something. It landed.…
- Some meetings could have been an email. You'll spend four years of your one…
- Every subscription you forgot about still thinks of you monthly. That's more than your…
- Your startup is an app that replaces a phone call. With a waitlist, a…
- It's not a career ladder. It's a hamster wheel. The hamster has a LinkedIn…
- Nobody notices when you do your job well. Everyone notices when you leave at…
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