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Sweat pooled at the base of my neck as Barcelona's August heat crept through the cafe's inadequate AC. My thumb swiped frantically across three different phone screens - personal, work, burner - while the German investor's pixelated face glared from my laptop. "We need those production figures immediately," his voice crackled through tinny speakers. I'd stored the factory manager's contact exclusively on my tablet... which was charging in my hotel room three blocks away. That familiar cocktail o

Sunlight stabbed through the skyscrapers like laser beams, turning the sidewalk into a griddle. I'd just sprinted eight blocks in my interview suit - navy wool clinging like a wet towel - only to find the subway entrance roped off. "Signal failure," a bored transit worker mumbled, not meeting my eyes. Sweat pooled behind my knees as panic fizzed in my throat. The startup's glass doors shimmered tauntingly three blocks away. 10:47am. My pitch meeting: 11am sharp.

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The espresso machine hissed like an angry cat as rain blurred the café window into a watercolor smear. Staring at my reflection in the phone’s black mirror, thumb tracing idle circles on cold glass, I felt that hollow ache of urban solitude. Then I remembered the icon – a green pixel coiled like a question mark – and opened **Snake II**. Instantly, the tinny midi soundtrack punched through the clatter of cups, transporting me to my grandmother’s attic where I’d first played this on a Nokia 3310