ISSUED DAILY SINCE NOBODY ASKED
DAILY DEMOTIVATION
A fresh disappointment every morning. Like the news, but more honest.
Clear-coding means stating your intentions up front.
Hers was "I have a hard stop at 8:15". Yours was hoping she'd forget. She set an alarm.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Nobody has ever said "thank goodness it's Monday". Except a manager, and he meant…
- Your chatbot calls every one of your ideas "a really insightful question". Zack has…
- Every company now has an AI assistant. It's the only member of staff nobody's…
- There's no I in team. There are two in "invoice still unpaid". And one…
- Somebody, somewhere, is checking their phone hoping it's you. It's a debt collector.
- You're "so random". You've told the same "so random" story at every party since…
- Your step counter used to set goals. Now it just sends "Hello?" like a…
THE CALENDAR OF DESPAIR
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