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ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
SUNDAY, 25 JULY 2010
"Let's take this offline" means "let's never speak of this again."
That's also the plan for your job next quarter.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- You're not a CEO. You're one person with a logo, a free email account…
- You're not broke. You're pre-rich. The "pre" is permanent.
- You said you're "so busy" this week. Your screen time says eleven hours a…
- Your business plan has three phases: launch, pivot, and letting the domain quietly expire.
- There's someone out there for everyone. Yours married someone else in 2019. They look…
- Be yourself. Everyone else is taken. They were picked first. You're what was left.
- You started saying "oof" when you sit down. That's the countdown, out loud.
THE CALENDAR OF DESPAIR
Newsletter / Issue No. 445
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