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WEDNESDAY, 4 MARCH 2009
You "don't do small talk".
You also don't do big talk, phone calls, emails or replying. You do "vibes", and nobody can invoice those.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
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- The update is 200GB. Your free afternoon was smaller.
- You said you're "built different". You're built the same. Just assembled worse.
- Monday is a perfectly normal day. You've got about two thousand more of them.…
- Some meetings could have been an email. You'll spend four years of your one…
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