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TUESDAY, 23 JANUARY 1996
The best time to start saving was twenty years ago.
The second-best time was also twenty years ago. You missed both.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Every relationship has a honeymoon period. Yours was the walk from the bar to…
- Parenting is ten percent love and ninety percent asking where the other shoe is.…
- Inside every older person is a younger person. The younger person is furious about…
- Your out-of-office reply is the most confident thing you wrote all year. Nobody noticed…
- You'll leave your children everything you have. It's mostly a bread maker and an…
- Disrupt the industry. The industry will disrupt you back, then buy your logo for…
- You film "Sunday reset" videos. By Tuesday your room has reset itself, to Saturday.
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