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ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
WEDNESDAY, 30 AUGUST 2006
Disrupt the industry.
The industry will disrupt you back, then buy your logo for a pound.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Loud budgeting is telling everyone you can't afford brunch. Quiet budgeting is going anyway,…
- Remember when you stayed up late on purpose? Now you're up at 3am because…
- Your inbox reached zero once. The server was down. You were briefly free and…
- You're not getting older. You're getting closer. That's worse.
- You're "taking a social media break". You announced it on social media. Twice. With…
- Your business plan has three phases: launch, pivot, and letting the domain quietly expire.
- You started saying "oof" when you sit down. That's the countdown, out loud.
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