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Your company's core values are printed on the wall.
So nobody has to have them.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- You've "found your aesthetic". It's beige. It's always beige.
- You received 40 fundraising texts today. Democracy needs $5 by midnight. Every midnight.
- It's not a career ladder. It's a hamster wheel. The hamster has a LinkedIn…
- Loud budgeting is telling everyone you can't afford brunch. Quiet budgeting is going anyway,…
- You're "taking a social media break". You announced it on social media. Twice. With…
- Dating apps let you meet hundreds of people. All of them are "just seeing…
- Parenting is ten percent love and ninety percent asking where the other shoe is.…
THE CALENDAR OF DESPAIR
Newsletter / Issue No. 445
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