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THURSDAY, 26 FEBRUARY 2026
Your step counter used to set goals.
Now it just sends "Hello?" like a relative checking you're still alive.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- You put "open to work" on LinkedIn. Six recruiters viewed your profile. Five were…
- Every great company started in a garage. Yours will end there too. The car's…
- Love yourself first. Someone has to, and nobody else applied.
- You "work best under pressure". You don't. You just only work under pressure.
- Scale your business. Currently it's you, a laptop, and your mum, who bought one…
- They say sweat is weakness leaving the body. Yours has decided to stay.
- Your toddler has stronger opinions about sock seams than you've had about anything since…
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