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DAILY DEMOTIVATION
A fresh disappointment every morning. Like the news, but more honest.
The best time to start saving was twenty years ago.
The second-best time was also twenty years ago. You missed both.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Clear-coding means stating your intentions up front. Hers was "I have a hard stop…
- 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…
THE CALENDAR OF DESPAIR
Newsletter / Issue No. 445
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