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MONDAY, 10 AUGUST 2020
You say "it's not that deep" a lot.
Your Notes app has 300 entries and every one of them is that deep.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Don't settle. Your standards already have. They didn't tell you.
- They'll hold a minute's silence for you at the all-hands. It will be the…
- Youth is wasted on the young. You wasted yours too. Old age is next,…
- You have a "5-year plan". It's a Pinterest board. It's mostly kitchens.
- It's not a career ladder. It's a hamster wheel. The hamster has a LinkedIn…
- True love is choosing the same person every day. They're choosing, daily, whether to…
- Your soft launch was a hand in a photo. The hard launch never came.…
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