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DAILY DEMOTIVATION
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The in-office lunch is optional.
The man with the clipboard and no sandwich is writing down who didn't come. Then who did, but looked replaceable.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Every parent has a favourite child. It's whichever one isn't currently talking.
- You're "in your villain era". You returned a lukewarm coffee and apologised four times.…
- Your startup is an app that replaces a phone call. With a waitlist, a…
- Your business plan has three phases: launch, pivot, and letting the domain quietly expire.
- Micro-dating is a thirty-minute coffee to see if there's a spark. There wasn't. She…
- Good things come to those who wait. You waited so long they went to…
- Strangers online have voted you "not wrong". The same strangers once voted to give…
THE CALENDAR OF DESPAIR
Newsletter / Issue No. 445
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