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	<description><![CDATA[Want to know one of the clearest signals of someone operating at a higher level? Flappability… or rather, how unflappable they are. Look—we all get flapped. You’re not living in the real soup of modern life if you don’t get flapped on a regular basis. Getting flapped is not the point. The question is—how long [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Want to know one of the clearest signals of someone operating at a higher level? Flappability… or rather, how unflappable they are. Look—we all get flapped. You’re not living in the real soup of modern life if you don’t get flapped on a regular basis. Ge]]></itunes:subtitle>
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	<description><![CDATA[One. So why do we use it like it has two? We say we’re listening. But most of the time, we’re just waiting. Waiting to respond.Waiting to fix.Waiting to offer advice that wasn’t asked for. And if you pay attention… you’ll notice something else. People will give advice—and then moments later, offer the opposite. “Go [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[One. So why do we use it like it has two? We say we’re listening. But most of the time, we’re just waiting. Waiting to respond.Waiting to fix.Waiting to offer advice that wasn’t asked for. And if you pay attention… you’ll notice something else. People wi]]></itunes:subtitle>
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	<title>Trade FOMO for Curiosity</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[Trade your FOMO… for more FAFO. Fear of missing out sounds harmless. But it keeps you… watching. What are they doing?Where should I be?Am I getting this right? That’s not curiosity. That’s self-surveillance. Curiosity feels different. It doesn’t ask, “What’s the right move?”It asks, “What happens if I try this?” Nature never evolved by waiting [&#8230;]]]></description>
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	<title>When We Stopped Being Seen</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[The Bloodletting of TrustThere’s a word for moments that feel like they were arranged before you arrived. Not planned.Not forced.But placed. It’s called&#160;synchronicity—a term first introduced by&#160;Carl Jung&#160;to describe meaningful coincidences that don’t follow cause and effect, but still feel connected. Not random. Aligned. It’s what we call it when something outside of us lines [&#8230;]]]></description>
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	<title>The Witness Preservation Program</title>
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	<title>Manufacturing is Learning to Spread Out</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[Throughout history, every civilization produces a small minority of people who seem unusuallysensitive to misalignment. They notice cracks in systems long before those cracks become visible to everyone else.Sometimes they are inventors. Sometimes they are philosophers. Sometimes they are simply the person in the room quietly asking the question everyone elsewould rather avoid. In my [&#8230;]]]></description>
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