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    <description>Thoughts on GTM strategy, AI, leadership, and the trail — by Victor Sowers.</description>
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      <title><![CDATA[What Hand-Grading Hundreds of CFA Exams Taught Me]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Years ago I hand-graded hundreds of CFA Level 3 problem sets in a tiny NYC apartment. What I learned about teaching people the shape of a thing — not the content — turns out to be exactly what I keep relearning about AI, judgment, and feedback loops.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Does Collaboration Still Make Sense in the Age of AI?]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A friend argues AI made solo fast enough that a collaborator is mostly overhead now. He's right that the beginning got easy. He's wrong that the beginning is the work — the part that decides whether anything matters still lives below the waterline, and that part still takes other people.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[I Use a Slack Channel as My Second Brain]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Our best ideas arrive at the worst times — on a walk, in the shower, half-asleep at 2 AM — and most of them die before we act on them. Here's the hacky system I built with Slack, a webhook, and Claude Code to shorten the distance from having an idea to doing something with it.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Latency Tax: How AI Terminal Work Rewires Your Brain]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[In order to juice your productivity in a high latency environment, you must multitask and context switch. We know how damaging that is. But we're just at the beginning of understanding the longer-term cost — AI fog, ADHD wiring, and a graveyard of 80%-shipped side hustles.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Anti-Slop: 15 Patterns I Check Before Any AI Content Ships]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Over a year of shipping AI-assisted content, I've identified 15 patterns across 4 categories — banned phrases, structural tells, voice violations, and content sins — that make content read as obviously AI-generated. Here's the full checklist.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[What Happens When Six Historical Prophets Write a Book Together]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I gave Jesus, Buddha, Muhammad, Confucius, Laozi, and Zoroaster each a corpus of 23,000 verified utterances and asked them to collaborate on a handbook for living. What they wrote was astoundingly beautiful, somewhat disappointing, and surprising as hell.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Your Claude Code Repository Forgets What It Knows. Mine Doesn't.]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I have a personal repository with thousands of documents, 50+ skills, and over 800 knowledge graph edges. But it doesn't know what it knows. So I built a system to fix that.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Knowledge Pyramid That Unlocks Agentic Growth]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Without a robust context graph for your LLMs or agents to build on, your results will be inconsistent at best. Here's the three-tier knowledge pyramid that changed everything.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The AI×GTM Intangibility Paradox: Why the Most Powerful Systems Feel Abstract Until You Build Them]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The value is real and measurable, but it's completely intangible until you actually build the system and watch it compound—both for individual humans and for the organization as a whole.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Blank Page Problem: What We Lose When AI Starts the Conversation]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The act of starting from scratch, the possibility and peril of the blank page, has been a uniquely human act of creation. And yet writing these words is quickly becoming rare.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Hop Count: How I Got My Knowledge Base to Answer Questions in 2 Hops Instead of 11]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I measure and optimize for 'Hop Count' - the number of steps required to get an accurate answer. Most repos: 11 files, 35k tokens, 45 seconds. My repo: 1 synthesis doc, 4k tokens, 8 seconds.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Will We Work Less with AI?]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I'm running 4-5 parallel Claude Code sessions for 12-14 hours a day. It's exhilarating. It's exhausting. And the human in the loop? Absolutely non-negotiable if you want to avoid producing AI slop at scale.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Hidden Effect of Tribes on Your Life]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I’m watching people come and go on the dusty streets of Kuta, Lombok, an island in Indonesia. The foreigners I see through the coffee shop window come f...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Myth of Average]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[There's no such thing as an average leader. Or employee. Neutral impact is a myth.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Great Sales People are Built not Born]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Over the last 4 years I’ve been part of promoting 24+ folks from the sales (business) development rep (SDR/BDR) role. Most of these SDRs have gone from ...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Stupidest (Successful) Path to A Profitable Side Hustle]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Would you like to build a business with your friend to $120,000+ in revenue while keeping your full time job?]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[On The Path To Achieving Mastery]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Achieving mastery requires some uncommon things. That’s obvious enough, if it were simple and common, there would be many more masters.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[11 Game-Changing Mental Models from Finance ]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[11 powerful mental models from finance that apply to business and life.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[What do you do after work?]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 06 Oct 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A few days ago, one of the most junior people on my team: a bad-ass, intelligent, driven woman asked the team what we do when we’re not working.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Jerry Seinfeld's Fake Visual Hack for Habits Actually Works]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[You're only reading this because this habit has helped me and I think its worth you trying it.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Thoughts on Being Effective]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I recently read Peter Drucker’s The Effective Executive. Like so many others before me the book had a large impact. There was much for me to learn, ev...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Losing Someone Great From Your Team]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Losing someone great from your team is a hard blow.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Humility of Injury]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Right before Labor Day I fractured my ankle in two places and partially tore three ligaments. It was obviously painful as hell, but it could have been a...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[It Ain't All Talk - Principles of Team Communication]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 18 Aug 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[It's a truism that communication is vital to a team's success.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Data Slogs: Creating Alignment for Ops Teams]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Data slog: The often grueling and mind-numbing process of cleaning and standardizing your data to ensure it is reliable enough to use for analysis]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Don't Sell Yourself Short - Lessons in not F*cking up your job interview]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I interview a lot of people for a lot of different roles at a range of seniority levels (many more senior than me). No matter who it is or what job it’s...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Don't Study Like I Wrote Wedding Thank Yous]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Don’t study like I write wedding thank you cards. Study like my wife wrote hers.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Tactical Tips for New Managers]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[When you become a manager what you do, how you spend your time, and how you are measured all changes. You rely on people more than ever. And they rely o...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Kippah at (Not) My Jewish Wedding]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I’ve written a bit about the interfaith journey my wife and I are on, but mostly this has centered on the conversations around what it would mean to marry.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Firing my first person because of avoidable mistakes]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The first time I fired someone was one of the hardest experiences of my life.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Empty Parking Lot at the Synagogue]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I walk into the Rosh Hashanah service. It’s the evening before, so admittedly not the high point of the High Holiday.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Using Cognitive Dissonance to Hustle]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[If you're in the startup world you're probably familiar with the concept that ideas aren't worth very much. Instead it's all about execution.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Don't Let Your Tea Get Cold]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Don't let your tea get cold.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[How to Create Leverage]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[In life (and business) we're often dealing with finite resources. Scarcity exists and that means we have to get creative to achieve what we want.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Look by not looking]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Have you ever misplaced your keys and not been able to find them? Does it always seem like it always happens when you can least afford the time and inco...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Religious Practices as a Private or Public Good]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[My girlfriend and I recently had a discussion with Rabbi Irwin Kula where he voiced his concern that many establishment ...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Victor Method (for getting sh*t done)]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The Victor method, for lack of a more creative description, is what I call my process for getting shit done. It’s a system that I’ve built to both try a...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Is Privacy Dead?]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Is privacy dead? Do we still maintain the desire to safeguard our habits and thoughts? Or does our recent disregard for privacy show that we have really...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Before the Startup - Lecture Notes 3]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[This is a continuation of my notes covering Sam Altman's startup class. You can also check out the intro notes ([p...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Cosmic Manifest Destiny]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I read a very provocative interview of Elon Musk in Aeon Magazine in which he arg...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Building a Great Team & Executing Well - Startup Class Lecture 2 Notes]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[These are my notes for Lecture 2 of Sam Altman's Startup class. The course, organized by Sam Altman,...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Your Next Fridge will Spy on You]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[With the proliferation of the connected world, privacy (or the lack thereof) should be a major concern for us as citizens. But it isn't yet. So let me p...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Lesson 1 - No one Cares About Your Money More than You]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Here's the deal. No one cares about the money you make more than you.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[This post is a continuation of Lecture 1 of YCombinator's class at Stanford called '[Startup Class...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[## What is this Startup Class?]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Why a Start-up Job is Just Different]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[“In a startup you have lots of worries, but you don’t have that feeling that your life is flying by like you do in a big company. Plus in a startup yo...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Understanding American Decline: Theories of Imperial Decay ]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The argument that the U.S. has entered a period of decline is a pretty popular one.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[I Don't Love Money]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[You know those movies where the bad-guy caresses a giant suitcase of money like it's his favorite lover? How many times have you thought to yourself, ma...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Just about five months since Facebook bought Whatsapp for an unprecedented $19 billion (representing 1/10th of Facebook's total market cap). Some of the...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[McDonalds - Why I'm Loving Its Stock]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Last month I bought MCD with the intention of holding the stock for an extended period of time in my retirement portfolio. In this post I'm sharing the ...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Through Semifinals, Dutch Class of the 2014 World Cup ]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A Sneak Peak before the Semi-finals]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Taking Stock - Introduction]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I am constantly amazed that close to 100% of my close friends know next to nothing about finance and investing. When I say that, I'm not talking about s...]]></description>
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