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      <title><![CDATA[The AI Works. The Company Doesn't.]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[More than 80% of companies now use AI, and around 95% of them cannot point to a single dollar of return. The tool is not the problem. Here is why AI dies inside companies, and why that same tool is the cleanest edge a solo builder has ever had.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Boredom Is a Moat]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Phones train brains to bail at minute six. Almost nothing worth learning fits in six minutes. The gap between those two facts is the closest thing to a free moat available right now.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Attention Is Currency]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A concert made it obvious. Attention became a currency with an exchange rate and tiers of access most people can't see. Here's how the mechanism works and how to use the information.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Both Doors Are Closing]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Jobs used to reject you for no experience. Hackathons were the fix. Now even hackathons reject you. TreeHacks took 8.3%, entry-level tech postings hit a five-year low, and 37% of employers say they'd rather 'hire' AI than a new grad. Here's what to do about it.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Numbers Game]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[4.5 million fake GitHub stars. 19% of Twitter accounts are spam. 51% of internet traffic is bots. Stop measuring your progress against numbers that were never real.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The System Is Rigged Against Small Builders]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[I got suspended by Meta for no reason. Twitter Ads delivered 122 impressions for the same budget that got me 27,000 on Meta. The ad platforms are broken for indie builders.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Build Your Own VPN in 15 Minutes]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Stop paying for VPN subscriptions and take full control of your privacy. Here's how to set up your own VPN server for $4/month.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Building Meowsic: AI-Powered Radio for Everyone]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[How I built a platform that lets anyone create their own AI-hosted radio station, from concept to launch.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 15 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The State of Web Development: A Talk for Students]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Notes from my university talk about modern web development, AI impact on developers, and practical career advice.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[From Accenture to Web3: Why I Made the Jump]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Four years in enterprise taught me how to build at scale. Then I left to build what I actually believed in.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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