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MONDAY, 17 OCTOBER 2022
Passive income takes a surprising amount of active effort.
Mostly explaining it at parties to people backing away.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- The light at the end of the tunnel is someone asking, "Can you see…
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- You said you're "booked and busy". Booked for a dentist you'll cancel. Busy rewatching…
- You "don't do small talk". You also don't do big talk, phone calls, emails…
- A budget is a list of things you're about to do anyway. Written down…
- Your Sunday-night plan for Monday was ambitious. Monday read it, laughed, and forwarded it…
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