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ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
THURSDAY, 15 JUNE 2006
Monday is a perfectly normal day.
You've got about two thousand more of them. Count them.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Disrupt the industry. The industry will disrupt you back, then buy your logo for…
- It's not a career ladder. It's a hamster wheel. The hamster has a LinkedIn…
- "We should get dinner sometime" is a beautiful promise. One of you will die…
- A budget is a list of things you're about to do anyway. Written down…
- The council listened to your feedback. Then it did the thing anyway, but with…
- You've been "circling back" since March. At this point you're space debris.
- Your business plan has three phases: launch, pivot, and letting the domain quietly expire.
THE CALENDAR OF DESPAIR
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