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      <title><![CDATA[Brand new day]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Everyone agrees we need more critical thinking. But which road is the judge supposed to take? A short note on three words doing three different jobs.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Call me Nobody]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Homer's Odyssey meets Spider-Man. Pseudonymity, the attention economy, and the Ulysses contract that keeps you on course. Episode one of three.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The opening essay. Answers are getting faster for everyone at once. Questions are not. On method as the one edge no machine can sell you.]]></description>
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