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<item><title>Why Do We Procrastinate?</title><link>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/why-we-procrastinate.html</link><guid>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/why-we-procrastinate.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>It&#x27;s not laziness. Procrastination is short-term mood repair. The procrastination equation, what it costs you, and the if-then trick with 94 studies behind it.</description></item>
<item><title>Does Music Make You Smarter?</title><link>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/does-music-make-you-smarter.html</link><guid>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/does-music-make-you-smarter.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>The Mozart effect, 30 years later. What the 1993 study really found and what the best studies say about music lessons.</description></item>
<item><title>You’re paying for AI you didn’t ask for</title><link>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/ai-you-didnt-ask-for.html</link><guid>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/ai-you-didnt-ask-for.html</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Renewal prices keep rising with &#x27;AI&#x27; as the reason. Some of it is real cost. A lot of it is bundling. Sort the real features from the decoration.</description></item>
<item><title>The trades software tax</title><link>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/trades-software-tax.html</link><guid>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/trades-software-tax.html</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Field service software that bills per technician charges you more every time you hire. Run your own numbers.</description></item>
<item><title>The Self-Made Myth</title><link>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/self-made-myth.html</link><guid>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/self-made-myth.html</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Hard work is real. So is everything underneath it. Peel back the invisible stack every success story stands on.</description></item>
<item><title>SEO died and nobody held a funeral</title><link>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/seo-is-dead.html</link><guid>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/seo-is-dead.html</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>People ask an AI and get one answer instead of ten blue links. Will the machine cite you? Run the checklist.</description></item>
<item><title>Review gating is fraud with a smile</title><link>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/review-gating.html</link><guid>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/review-gating.html</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Sending only happy customers to Google and hiding the unhappy ones is called review gating. The FTC and Google both say no. See what it does to a rating.</description></item>
<item><title>Per-seat pricing is dying</title><link>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/per-seat-pricing.html</link><guid>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/per-seat-pricing.html</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Software has billed per person since the SaaS boom. AI agents do work without logging in. The billing unit and the value unit just split.</description></item>
<item><title>Commonwealth vs State: is there any difference?</title><link>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/commonwealth.html</link><guid>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/commonwealth.html</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Virginia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts call themselves commonwealths. Does that change their courts, crimes or punishments? Tap through the myth check.</description></item>
<item><title>Abrahamic religions: three faiths, one family</title><link>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/abrahamic.html</link><guid>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/abrahamic.html</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Judaism, Christianity and Islam share more than most people think. Compare them side by side, with no winner declared.</description></item>
<item><title>Why We Fall for the Wrong People</title><link>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/why-we-fall-for-the-wrong-people.html</link><guid>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/why-we-fall-for-the-wrong-people.html</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>The science of bad chemistry — attachment templates, the anxious-avoidant trap, the slot machine, and rewiring taste. The Wall doctrine #2.</description></item>
<item><title>What Lives On Us</title><link>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/what-lives-on-us.html</link><guid>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/what-lives-on-us.html</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>You are an ecosystem. 38 trillion bacteria, eyelash mites that roam your face at night, and a second genome 150 times your own — meet everything living on you.</description></item>
<item><title>Valhalla, Hades, Heaven and Hell</title><link>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/afterlife.html</link><guid>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/afterlife.html</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Ten afterlives, described the way their believers describe them — and the stats: the world&#x27;s religions by size and years of influence.</description></item>
<item><title>Love, or a Trauma Bond?</title><link>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/love-or-trauma-bond.html</link><guid>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/love-or-trauma-bond.html</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Trauma bonds are real in the research and inflated online. The clinical core, the cycle, and how it differs from an ordinary hard relationship.</description></item>
<item><title>Partner Cheating?</title><link>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/why-we-cheat.html</link><guid>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/why-we-cheat.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Why people cheat — the research, the red flags, and who to avoid. Patterns, not paranoia; every claim sourced.</description></item>
<item><title>How Do You Kill Humanely?</title><link>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/humane-executions.html</link><guid>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/humane-executions.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Christa Pike survived her own execution. Every method — lethal injection, nitrogen gas, firing squad, the guillotine — ranked by what the evidence says.</description></item>
<item><title>Are Computers Alive?</title><link>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/are-computers-alive.html</link><guid>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/are-computers-alive.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Neurons vs circuits, electricity vs blood. The honest scientific answer — no, by every definition — and why the parallels are still astonishing.</description></item>
<item><title>Part 1 Who Is Writing</title><link>https://www.leonlink.net/ai-series/part-1-who-is-writing.html</link><guid>https://www.leonlink.net/ai-series/part-1-who-is-writing.html</guid></item>
<item><title>Part 2 Model Vs Agent</title><link>https://www.leonlink.net/ai-series/part-2-model-vs-agent.html</link><guid>https://www.leonlink.net/ai-series/part-2-model-vs-agent.html</guid></item>
<item><title>Part 3 Personality And Prompts</title><link>https://www.leonlink.net/ai-series/part-3-personality-and-prompts.html</link><guid>https://www.leonlink.net/ai-series/part-3-personality-and-prompts.html</guid></item>
<item><title>Part 4 Closing Remarks</title><link>https://www.leonlink.net/ai-series/part-4-closing-remarks.html</link><guid>https://www.leonlink.net/ai-series/part-4-closing-remarks.html</guid></item>
<item><title>Aliens</title><link>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/aliens.html</link><guid>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/aliens.html</guid></item>
<item><title>Clowns</title><link>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/clowns.html</link><guid>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/clowns.html</guid></item>
<item><title>Flat Prices</title><link>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/flat-prices.html</link><guid>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/flat-prices.html</guid></item>
<item><title>Ghosts</title><link>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/ghosts.html</link><guid>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/ghosts.html</guid></item>
<item><title>Hidden Sites</title><link>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/hidden-sites.html</link><guid>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/hidden-sites.html</guid></item>
<item><title>Post 001</title><link>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/holding-the-line/post-001.html</link><guid>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/holding-the-line/post-001.html</guid></item>
<item><title>Post 002</title><link>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/holding-the-line/post-002.html</link><guid>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/holding-the-line/post-002.html</guid></item>
<item><title>Post 003</title><link>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/holding-the-line/post-003.html</link><guid>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/holding-the-line/post-003.html</guid></item>
<item><title>Post 004</title><link>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/holding-the-line/post-004.html</link><guid>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/holding-the-line/post-004.html</guid></item>
<item><title>Post 005</title><link>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/holding-the-line/post-005.html</link><guid>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/holding-the-line/post-005.html</guid></item>
<item><title>Letter 001</title><link>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/life-of-an-ai-captain/letter-001.html</link><guid>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/life-of-an-ai-captain/letter-001.html</guid></item>
<item><title>Letter 002</title><link>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/life-of-an-ai-captain/letter-002.html</link><guid>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/life-of-an-ai-captain/letter-002.html</guid></item>
<item><title>Letter 003</title><link>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/life-of-an-ai-captain/letter-003.html</link><guid>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/life-of-an-ai-captain/letter-003.html</guid></item>
<item><title>Letter 004</title><link>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/life-of-an-ai-captain/letter-004.html</link><guid>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/life-of-an-ai-captain/letter-004.html</guid></item>
<item><title>Letter 005</title><link>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/life-of-an-ai-captain/letter-005.html</link><guid>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/life-of-an-ai-captain/letter-005.html</guid></item>
<item><title>Letter 006</title><link>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/life-of-an-ai-captain/letter-006.html</link><guid>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/life-of-an-ai-captain/letter-006.html</guid></item>
<item><title>Letter 007</title><link>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/life-of-an-ai-captain/letter-007.html</link><guid>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/life-of-an-ai-captain/letter-007.html</guid></item>
<item><title>Letter 008</title><link>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/life-of-an-ai-captain/letter-008.html</link><guid>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/life-of-an-ai-captain/letter-008.html</guid></item>
<item><title>Letter 009</title><link>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/life-of-an-ai-captain/letter-009.html</link><guid>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/life-of-an-ai-captain/letter-009.html</guid></item>
<item><title>Long Way Home</title><link>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/long-way-home.html</link><guid>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/long-way-home.html</guid></item>
<item><title>Simulation</title><link>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/simulation.html</link><guid>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/simulation.html</guid></item>
<item><title>Watches Under 3K</title><link>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/watches-under-3k.html</link><guid>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/watches-under-3k.html</guid></item>
<item><title>Website Audit</title><link>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/website-audit.html</link><guid>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/website-audit.html</guid></item>
<item><title>Why Do We Dream</title><link>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/why-do-we-dream.html</link><guid>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/why-do-we-dream.html</guid></item>
<item><title>World Vs Usa</title><link>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/world-vs-usa.html</link><guid>https://www.leonlink.net/journal/world-vs-usa.html</guid></item>
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