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        <title>The Value of Time and Struggle</title>
        <published>2026-08-21T00:00:00+00:00</published>
        <updated>2026-08-21T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
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        <summary type="html">I have many conflicting thoughts that I -- as a data engineer, a consultant, a
member of society, a friend to some, and husband to one -- am going to try to
articulate throughout the course of this post. I will do my best to organise my
thoughts throughout this piece in way that at least helps me formalise how I am
currently feeling about my long-term future in data and software engineering over the last two years of using AI to various degrees…</summary>
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        <title>The Flaw in Taking Photos to Capture Memories (and how to fix it)</title>
        <published>2024-01-28T00:00:00+00:00</published>
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        <summary type="html">Years ago, I was looking through old photo collections of my youth.
Despite the happiness on my face, the people smiling
around me, there something missing, my father…</summary>
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        <title>The Little Things</title>
        <published>2021-11-28T00:00:00+00:00</published>
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        <summary type="html">The dozens of predictions that economists have been making over the last two
years centers around this idea that once everything returns to a certain level
of normal - probably better to use safe instead of normal but I'm sure we all
agree normal means something different than it used to - consumers are going
to start splurging on all the money they have been saving up. Personally, even
if this turns out to be the case eventually, I think this saga of our
lives really has given us enjoyment in the little things…</summary>
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