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ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
SATURDAY, 27 NOVEMBER 2021
Your startup is an app that replaces a phone call.
With a waitlist, a subscription, and no customers.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- The update is 200GB. Your free afternoon was smaller.
- Wildflowering means letting the relationship grow naturally, with no timeline. It has the growth…
- Your friends' group chat went quiet. It didn't. They made a new one. Same…
- You're "chronically online". Chronic means long-term. You've been online so long your eyes have…
- You said "we move". You've lived in the same bedroom since you were nine.
- You "don't believe in labels". You believe in being kept as an option.
- You said you're "so busy" this week. Your screen time says eleven hours a…
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