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      <title><![CDATA[Phase 3: Feature Expansion]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>Salesforce integrations. APIs. SSO. Reporting. Audit logs. Automation. AI. Every feature request is reasonable on its own. The challenge begins when all of them share the same architecture. This is the phase where complexity stops being additive and starts compounding.</p>
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      <dc:date>2026-06-03T15:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Phase 2: The Early Product]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>The prototype is over. Real users have arrived, bringing real data, real expectations, and an endless supply of edge cases. This is the phase where habits become architecture, shortcuts become conventions, and temporary decisions quietly become permanent.</p>
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      <title><![CDATA[Phase 1: The Prototype]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>Every startup prototype begins as a rational shortcut. The trouble starts when temporary architecture survives long enough to become institutional policy.</p>
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      <title><![CDATA[How Web Platforms Slowly Break Themselves]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>Most platforms don’t collapse because of one bad decision. They collapse because 4,000 “temporary” decisions survived production.</p>
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      <title><![CDATA[You Didn’t Avoid a Rebuild. You Just Made It Worse.]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>You didn’t avoid a rebuild. You just spread it out painfully.</p>
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      <dc:date>2026-04-21T15:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Your Platform Isn’t Slow. It’s Misaligned.]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>Your platform isn’t slow; it’s misaligned. Fix the friction, not the symptoms, and performance follows.</p>
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      <title><![CDATA[How Teams Accidentally Build Failure]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>Adding developers feels like progress, but often just scales the chaos already slowing your team down.</p>
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      <dc:date>2026-04-07T15:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[You Don’t Need More Developers. You Need Less… Whatever This Is.]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>Adding developers won’t fix your slowdown; platform friction is the real bottleneck quietly killing velocity.</p>
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      <dc:date>2026-03-31T15:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[How I Found Tucson’s Tech Scene (And Why It Stuck)]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>A personal look at Tucson’s tech scene, from TENWEST to Tech Nerds Unite, and how showing up turned a reset into something more.</p>
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      <dc:date>2026-03-24T13:38:00+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Your Platform Isn’t Broken. It’s Fighting You.]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>Your platform isn’t broken; your business just changed and now it LOOKS broken.</p>
<p>It's not crashing. It's not down. Just… slowing things down in ways that are hard to explain.</p>
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      <dc:date>2026-03-17T03:52:00+00:00</dc:date>
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