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WEDNESDAY, 4 AUGUST 1999
Loud budgeting is telling everyone you can't afford brunch.
Quiet budgeting is going anyway, checking your balance in the car and moving retirement to 79.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Your chatbot calls every one of your ideas "a really insightful question". Zack has…
- Your call is important to us. Not important enough to answer, but important.
- You're not a CEO. You're one person with a logo, a free email account…
- The spark never fades. It gets downgraded to bin bags, then to a joint…
- Kids grow up so fast. Except between 5pm and bedtime, when time stops and…
- Find your purpose. It's in the drawer with the takeaway menus and a key…
- You "don't do small talk". You also don't do big talk, phone calls, emails…
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