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</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Marc Paquette</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:egopontem.com,2024-05-24:/blog/iotsolutions2024.html</guid><category>Shiny</category></item><item><title>Communicating risk</title><link>https://egopontem.com/blog/communicating-risk.html</link><description>&lt;p class="first last"&gt;Happy hour thoughts about a sad event&lt;/p&gt;
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</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Marc Paquette</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:egopontem.com,2024-03-15:/blog/bsd-to-linux.html</guid><category>Gear</category></item><item><title>Thoughts on thought leadership</title><link>https://egopontem.com/blog/thought-leadership.html</link><description>&lt;p class="first last"&gt;An honest message is only the start, sympathy is best&lt;/p&gt;
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</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Marc Paquette</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 11 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:egopontem.com,2023-04-11:/blog/lisp-short-intro.html</guid><category>Learn</category></item><item><title>Notes on AI for tech writers</title><link>https://egopontem.com/blog/notes-ml.html</link><description>&lt;p class="first last"&gt;Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who’s the tech writer after all?&lt;/p&gt;
</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Marc Paquette</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 30 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:egopontem.com,2023-03-30:/blog/notes-ml.html</guid><category>Craft</category></item><item><title>Curing inconsistency</title><link>https://egopontem.com/blog/curing-inconsistency.html</link><description>&lt;p class="first last"&gt;The scurvy of tech writing&lt;/p&gt;
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