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WEDNESDAY, 20 OCTOBER 2004
Core collaboration days started as Tuesday. They now include Wednesday, Thursday, a Friday that's "just for vibes" and, according to the forecast, the rest of your working life.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Early access means you paid to watch someone not finish something. You do that…
- Passive income takes a surprising amount of active effort. Mostly explaining it at parties…
- 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…
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