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  <title><![CDATA[Deacon Michael]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Faith, family, work, and life - all intertwined]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Question Before the System]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Two institutions, two different technology failures, the same underlying mistake. The question before the system turns out to have four parts. And a fifth.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Meeting Where Nothing Was Decided]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 14:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The meeting runs long. Everyone shares updates. Good conversation happens. And then no decision is actually made - because nobody in the room owns the discipline.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Sentence a Catholic Institution Can Speak with One Voice]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 16:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Most Catholic institutions can answer what they exist to do, richly and honestly - and differently from every seat. The question is whether they have woven them into one.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[What Ad Alta has become]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 20:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Ad Alta has become advisory and consulting for Catholic institutions - technology, mission, and organizational effectiveness. Here is what changed and why.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[What the Wait Actually Buys You]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 19:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Two expected payoffs don't materialize when you wait to ship something whole. Three quieter ones actually do. On what the wait actually buys you.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[What I'm Not Doing This Week]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:26:53 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Last week I promised a new offering would open for booking today. It isn't. Here's the decision behind the delay - and why the delay is itself the essay.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Long Middle]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:52:54 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Last week I wrote about the two ways honest people answer the identity question wrong - the role trap and the wound trap. A lot of you wrote back. Some of you s]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[What I Couldn't See Then]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[When I first took a Director role at Adobe, I thought I knew what I was saying yes to. I didn't. On the two traps that catch honest people in a career transition - and what the identity question actually wants.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Question Underneath]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[He sat down and told me he thought he was done climbing. He wasn't sure he was allowed to say that. What surfaced next changed how I think about every career decision - my own included.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Next Climb]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 08:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Integration is not one decision. It's an ongoing climb.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Two Weeks Left]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Two weeks. That's what's left of my Adobe career. Ten days of handoffs, goodbyes, and the strange ritual of turning in equipment that's been part of my daily life for years]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Running and Building]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I'm writing this from Walt Disney World. Not a sentence I expected to include in a post about leadership transitions - but here we are.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Long Goodbye]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I'm leaving Adobe. After eighteen years, I'm walking out the door at the start of next month. Not because something went wrong - but because something else is pulling me forward.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Clarity Comes Slowly. Then All at Once.]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I spent two years praying for clarity. It didn't come in a flash. It came through the fog - slowly, then all at once.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[You're Not Behind. You're In Fieri.]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[There's a Latin phrase for what you're feeling right now. You're not behind. You're not broken. You're in fieri - in the becoming.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Clarity Before the Climb]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 14:47:33 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I turned 48 today. For most of my career, I didn't think much about birthdays. But this one feels different. I've been asking different questions - not "What's next?" but "Who am I becoming?"]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Legacy Over Achievement]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I used to measure success by what I built. Now I measure it by how I showed up. Here's the question that changed my definition of success in the second half.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Money Question]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA["What would I do if money wasn't a factor?" This question changed everything for me, because it revealed what I actually care about.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[What You Build When Nobody's Watching]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Your day job is what pays you. What you build on nights and weekends is what calls you. Pay attention to the difference - it's trying to tell you something.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Too Late Is Usually a Lie]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I started running at 46.Not jogging. Not "getting back into it." Starting from zero.I couldn't run a mile without stopping. My body hurt. My lungs burned. Every]]></description>
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