ISSUED DAILY SINCE NOBODY ASKED
DAILY DEMOTIVATION
A fresh disappointment every morning. Like the news, but more honest.
Passive income takes a surprising amount of active effort.
Mostly explaining it at parties to people backing away.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Your Duolingo owl has stopped threatening you. It's not proud. It's given up. Even…
- You pre-ordered it for the cape. The cape is now £3.99 for everyone else.
- Your startup is an app that replaces a phone call. With a waitlist, a…
- Loud budgeting is telling everyone you can't afford brunch. Quiet budgeting is going anyway,…
- Every company now has an AI assistant. It's the only member of staff nobody's…
- A tidy playroom lasts exactly as long as it takes to photograph. The photo…
- The return to office is completely optional. So was the badge-swipe leaderboard, and yet…
THE CALENDAR OF DESPAIR
Newsletter / Issue No. 445
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