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DAILY DEMOTIVATION
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Your fitness app's AI coach called a four-minute walk "incredible progress".
It said the same when you opened it by accident. It'll keep saying it after you've gone, if nobody cancels the subscription.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- You flipped a water bottle on Monday morning just to feel something. It landed.…
- You received 40 fundraising texts today. Democracy needs $5 by midnight. Every midnight.
- You "romanticise studying". You've filmed it, lit it and soundtracked it. You haven't studied.
- Monday is a perfectly normal day. You've got about two thousand more of them.…
- Loud budgeting is telling everyone you can't afford brunch. Quiet budgeting is going anyway,…
- Romance isn't dead. It just stopped waiting for a reply to your "hey" from…
- The in-office lunch is optional. The man with the clipboard and no sandwich is…
THE CALENDAR OF DESPAIR
Newsletter / Issue No. 445
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