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DAILY DEMOTIVATION
A fresh disappointment every morning. Like the news, but more honest.
“Just one more game” of FIFA was the most dishonest sentence in the English language.
Then they renamed it. The sentence survived.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Your 47 open tabs are an accurate map of your inner life. Someone will…
- The first email you open on Monday is a reply-all from Friday. Forty replies.…
- You put "open to work" on LinkedIn. Six recruiters viewed your profile. Five were…
- They'll hold a minute's silence for you at the all-hands. It will be the…
- The best time to start saving was twenty years ago. The second-best time was…
- You got a houseplant to "take care of something". It died. Even the plant…
- You started saying "oof" when you sit down. That's the countdown, out loud.
THE CALENDAR OF DESPAIR
Newsletter / Issue No. 445
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