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
- You don't skip leg day. You skip every day. The legs know. The legs…
- Monday is a perfectly normal day. You've got about two thousand more of them.…
- Nobody notices when you do your job well. Everyone notices when you leave at…
- You've got a side hustle, a passion project and a podcast. Combined monthly income:…
- 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.…
THE CALENDAR OF DESPAIR
Newsletter / Issue No. 445
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