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    <description>One structural argument each. Not blog posts.</description>
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    <copyright>© 2026 M. K. Elango</copyright>
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      <title>Presence is not coherence</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 03:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Portfolio</category>
      <description>A group can be profitable in every unit and structurally incoherent, because profitability is measured per unit and coherence is only visible across them.</description>
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      <title>The quarterly ritual is a choice</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 03:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Truth</category>
      <description>For fifty years the reason your goals were typed instead of computed was that computing them was impossible. That constraint is gone.</description>
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      <title>Your company isn’t slow because your people are slow</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 03:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Architecture</category>
      <description>It is slow because it is running 1980s CPU architecture in 2026 — and no amount of urgency fixes an arrangement.</description>
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      <title>Own the road. Rent the car.</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 03:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Compounding</category>
      <description>When the model is rented by everyone, implementation discipline is the only moat left — and it is a better one than the model ever was.</description>
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      <title>The blank page is a tax, and founders pay it voluntarily</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 03:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Entry</category>
      <description>Apple adapted Xerox. Flipkart adapted Amazon. The founders who insisted on total originality were the ones who ran out of money.</description>
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