SH*T’s FUCKED
WHAT DO WE DO NEXT?

Tell us what’s not working. What are we doing that makes absolutely no sense?


CONFESS

Tell us something we all keep doing because ‘ that’s just how it works’.

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IMAGINE

Forget how it works now. If you could change one thing tomorrow,
what would you do instead?

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