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SUNDAY, 10 MARCH 2002
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
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Some meetings could have been an email. You'll spend four years of your one…
- Your alarm didn't wake you. The dread did. It doesn't have a snooze button.
- You said you're "so busy" this week. Your screen time says eleven hours a…
- They're taking time away from social media. You know because they posted about it…
- You "don't believe in labels". You believe in being kept as an option.
- You said you "thrive in a fast-paced environment". It took you three days to…
- You're "chronically online". Chronic means long-term. You've been online so long your eyes have…
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