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MONDAY, 12 APRIL 2004
Growing old is mandatory.
Growing up was optional. You ticked "later". This is later. Nothing happened.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- The update is 200GB. Your free afternoon was smaller.
- True love is choosing the same person every day. They're choosing, daily, whether to…
- You got a houseplant to "take care of something". It died. Even the plant…
- Work smarter, not harder. You've chosen neither, and HR has a folder.
- You "don't do small talk". You also don't do big talk, phone calls, emails…
- Doom spending is buying a heated eye mask because the news was bad. The…
- "Let's take this offline" means "let's never speak of this again." That's also the…
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