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    <title>Pick up the phone.</title>
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    <description>Most problems get fixed by an actual conversation, not a better-worded message. Going silent is the one move that reliably makes it worse.</description>
    <pubDate>05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>Fewer meetings is not the fix.</title>
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    <description>Meetings can be spectacular timewasters. Cutting them too far is worse. The right frequency depends on the work, not the calendar&#39;s default.</description>
    <pubDate>28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>Silence is data.</title>
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    <description>Silence is not nothing. It is four different situations that look identical from the outside, and each one needs a different read.</description>
    <pubDate>19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>I run this site on software I wrote myself.</title>
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    <description>No WordPress. No Squarespace. Why I write and run my own CMS, and what it actually costs me.</description>
    <pubDate>11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>Start here.</title>
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    <description>The short version of how I got here, what I actually do, and the track record behind it.</description>
    <pubDate>30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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