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TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2003
Monday is a core collaboration day. As, it turns out, is every day ending in y, right up until the all-hands where they mention you in the past tense.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Your business plan has three phases: launch, pivot, and letting the domain quietly expire.
- Wildflowering means letting the relationship grow naturally, with no timeline. It has the growth…
- You asked the chatbot if you were a good parent. It said "absolutely" before…
- Your Sunday-night plan for Monday was ambitious. Monday read it, laughed, and forwarded it…
- You're "on a gap year". It's your third.
- Core collaboration days started as Tuesday. They now include Wednesday, Thursday, a Friday that's…
- Move fast and break things. You broke the coffee machine, the budget and your…
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