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SUNDAY, 23 MARCH 2025
Quality family time:
everyone on a different screen in the same room, harvested by the same algorithm.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- The light at the end of the tunnel is someone asking, "Can you see…
- Your business plan has three phases: launch, pivot, and letting the domain quietly expire.
- You "romanticise studying". You've filmed it, lit it and soundtracked it. You haven't studied.
- Scale your business. Currently it's you, a laptop, and your mum, who bought one…
- You "don't do small talk". You also don't do big talk, phone calls, emails…
- Ghostlighting is when someone disappears for eight weeks and comes back with "you've been…
- Listen to your body. It's asking for a biscuit and a lie-down. It's been…
THE CALENDAR OF DESPAIR
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