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
- The update is 200GB. Your free afternoon was smaller.
- "Let's take this offline" means "let's never speak of this again." That's also the…
- 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…
THE CALENDAR OF DESPAIR
Newsletter / Issue No. 445
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