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Your boss hasn't taken a sick day in ten years.
He has, however, given out about forty.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Kids grow up so fast. Except between 5pm and bedtime, when time stops and…
- Loud budgeting is telling everyone you can't afford brunch. Quiet budgeting is going anyway,…
- Inside every older person is a younger person. The younger person is furious about…
- The light at the end of the tunnel is someone asking, "Can you see…
- Your startup is a chatbot that tells customers they're right. Investors loved it. The…
- Your inbox reached zero once. The server was down. You were briefly free and…
- Wildflowering means letting the relationship grow naturally, with no timeline. It has the growth…
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Newsletter / Issue No. 445
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