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        <pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 12:42:05 +0000</pubDate>

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                <title>Carrying Less, Accessing More</title>
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                <description><![CDATA[Over the last year or so, my relationship with travel technology has been quietly shifting. It started as a pretty straightforward pack lighter project, but it&#039;s turned into something more interesting; connected to how I think about stress, attention, and what I actually want technology to do for me as I get older. For most of my career, I approached travel the way I&#039;d approach infrastructure: plan for failure, build in redundancy, carry optionality. Extra chargers, backup batteries, multiple ca...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 21:28:37 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>My &quot;Dead&quot; Crucial SSDs Weren&#039;t Dead — They Just Needed a Better Cable and a Firmware Update</title>
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                <description><![CDATA[A couple years ago, after a macOS update I honestly can&#039;t remember anymore, two of my external SSDs became unreadable almost at the same time. Not one — two. Both encrypted APFS volumes. Both completely unreachable. I assumed the worst, threw them in a drawer, and moved on. Fast forward to now, where SSD prices are painful enough that just replace them felt a lot less appealing than it used to. Since both drives had failed in basically the same way, I figured it was worth taking one more look be...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 21:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
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