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      <title>Generalist vs Specialist Is the Wrong Debate</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0700</pubDate>
      <description>It's not breadth versus depth. The real fork is IC depth versus a leadership track — and one comes with a ceiling stapled to the title.</description>
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      <title>What They Actually Hire For</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0700</pubDate>
      <description>I read 21 Senior PD job descriptions for patterns, not requirements. Here's what hiring managers actually screen for.</description>
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      <title>Every Job Description Is a Lie</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 09:00:00 +0700</pubDate>
      <description>Every JD reads like a wish list written by committee. That's not a Senior Designer — that's a Design Director without the title or the comp.</description>
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      <title>Designing for Kazakhstan from Bangkok</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 09:00:00 +0700</pubDate>
      <description>I design payment flows for Kazakhstani merchants from 4,500 km away. What that distance takes from the work — and what it gives back.</description>
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      <title>Merchants Trust Their Workaround, Not Your Flow</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 09:00:00 +0700</pubDate>
      <description>A café owner logged every QR transaction by hand next to a working confirmation screen. That's not a UX failure — it's a trust failure.</description>
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      <title>I Rebuilt My Portfolio with Claude Code</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2026 09:00:00 +0700</pubDate>
      <description>Why I traded Framer for pure HTML, CSS, and vanilla JS — and the Claude Code skills that actually made it work.</description>
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