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MONDAY, 14 AUGUST 2017
You've got a side hustle, a passion project and a podcast.
Combined monthly income: $14. Combined listeners: your nan, twice, by accident.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Passive income takes a surprising amount of active effort. Mostly explaining it at parties…
- Your financial advisor is a spreadsheet you opened once in January. It's been screaming…
- Your soft launch was a hand in a photo. The hard launch never came.…
- Your startup is an app that replaces a phone call. With a waitlist, a…
- The battle pass costs £9.99 a season. Your childhood cost nothing and had better…
- There's someone out there for everyone. Yours married someone else in 2019. They look…
- "It's only Monday" is the most threatening sentence in English. It will be only…
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