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TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2026
Your business plan has three phases:
launch, pivot, and letting the domain quietly expire.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Find your purpose. It's in the drawer with the takeaway menus and a key…
- 2026 is the new 2016. Your knees did not get the memo. Your knees…
- You've rewritten that text nine times to sound like you didn't care. It's been…
- Your startup is a chatbot that tells customers they're right. Investors loved it. The…
- Love yourself first. Someone has to, and nobody else applied.
- Listen to your body. It's asking for a biscuit and a lie-down. It's been…
- Opposites attract. Then they argue about the thermostat for forty years. Whoever outlives the…
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