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THURSDAY, 29 JULY 2010
Underconsumption core is a beautiful aesthetic.
It's what the last week of the month has looked like for a decade. Someone finally sold the lighting.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Your alarm didn't wake you. The dread did. It doesn't have a snooze button.
- Clear-coding means stating your intentions up front. Hers was "I have a hard stop…
- 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…
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