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ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2004
Your business plan has three phases:
launch, pivot, and letting the domain quietly expire.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- You've "romanticised your life". It's a candle, a croissant and a playlist called "main…
- Growing old is mandatory. Growing up was optional. You ticked "later". This is later.…
- "Per my last email" is the closest you'll ever get to a duel. You'll…
- He vanished for five months, then texted "haha so true" like he'd just popped…
- You got a houseplant to "take care of something". It died. Even the plant…
- Every company now has an AI assistant. It's the only member of staff nobody's…
- You've rewritten that text nine times to sound like you didn't care. It's been…
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