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March 12, 2026

Dynamic Distribution Lists Lie to You – and That’s by Design

DDLs in Exchange look like they solve the membership problem automatically. They do. They just solve it on their own schedule, using logic you probably haven’t read in six months.

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March 12, 2026

The Song Knows Something I Don’t: What AI Music Taught Me About My Own Taste

I’ve made over a thousand songs with Suno. The ones that surprised me most weren’t the best ones technically, they were the ones that told me something about myself I wasn’t expecting.

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March 12, 2026

The Toolbox Doesn’t Lie: What 28 Years of IT Actually Taught Me About Survival

The skills that kept you employed in 2005 aren’t the ones keeping people employed in 2025. Some of that shift is obvious. The part nobody talks about is more uncomfortable.

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March 12, 2026

The Quiet Competence Problem: Why Tech Culture Rewards Noise Over Craft

Tech culture has a loud minority running the microphone, and most of the people actually building things have stopped trying to compete with the volume. That’s a problem worth talking about.

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March 11, 2026

Five Things I Wish I’d Known Before I Trusted AI With Real Work

AI tools can absolutely earn a place in your workflow, but only after you’ve learned which questions they’ll confidently get wrong. Here’s what took me too long to figure out.

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March 11, 2026

The Executive Function Tax: Why Every Simple Task Costs More Than It Should

Every task you do carries invisible overhead that nobody warns you about. Understanding that overhead isn’t weakness — it’s the first step to actually managing it.

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March 11, 2026

First Tattoo at 52: The Uncomfortable Truth About What You’re Actually Afraid Of

Getting tattooed for the first time at 52 wasn’t about rebellion or a midlife crisis. It was about realizing the person I’d been protecting my reputation from never existed.

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March 11, 2026

The Mask Fits, But God It’s Heavy: Living AuDHD After the Label Sticks

A diagnosis doesn’t change who you are. But it does change how much energy you spend pretending to be someone else — and that’s where things get complicated.

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March 11, 2026

I Didn’t Leave ChatGPT Because It Was Bad. I Left Because of How I Think About Tools.

Switching from ChatGPT to Claude wasn’t about which AI is smarter. It was about figuring out what I actually need from a tool versus what I’d just gotten used to.

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March 11, 2026

The Weight of Finally Knowing: A Late-Life AuDHD Diagnosis at 55

Getting diagnosed with AuDHD at 55 doesn’t just explain who you are, it forces you to grieve who you might have been. That’s a harder thing to sit with than any diagnosis.

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