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DAILY DEMOTIVATION
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ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
WEDNESDAY, 16 JULY 2003
Quality family time:
everyone on a different screen in the same room, harvested by the same algorithm.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- You received 40 fundraising texts today. Democracy needs $5 by midnight. Every midnight.
- Scale your business. Currently it's you, a laptop, and your mum, who bought one…
- Your startup is an app that replaces a phone call. With a waitlist, a…
- Teamwork makes the dream work. It also means six people are ready to blame…
- You call yourself "a bit of a foodie". You've ordered the same chicken 64…
- Good things come to those who wait. You waited so long they went to…
- You "grew out of" your old friends. They grew out of waiting for you…
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