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SATURDAY, 3 MAY 2003
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
You took it in 2016. You've been sitting down since.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Your back now goes out when you sneeze. It goes out more than you…
- “I'm here for the right reasons.” The reasons are a teeth-whitening deal and a…
- Don't settle. Your standards already have. They didn't tell you.
- Passive income takes a surprising amount of active effort. Mostly explaining it at parties…
- The best time to start saving was twenty years ago. The second-best time was…
- They'll hold a minute's silence for you at the all-hands. It will be the…
- The first email you open on Monday is a reply-all from Friday. Forty replies.…
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