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    <title>Engineering “Vibe Manager” Blog - Stories from the Trenches</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Practical Guides on How to Be a Better Leader in 2025 and Beyond. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 09:35:04 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Debugging Team Culture: How to Handle an &quot;Exit Narrative&quot;</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Last month, one of my engineers resigned. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 09:32:19 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>360 Reviews: Stop Writing Novels, Start Giving Feedback</title>
    <link>https://blog.vibemanager.cc/360-Reviews---Stop-Writing-Novels,-Start-Giving-Feedback</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Most managers treat 360 reviews like a final exam. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 18:18:30 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>My Best Engineer&#039;s Motivation Dropped to 3/5. It Wasn&#039;t Burnout, It Was a Strategy Vacuum.</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Last month, I had my regular 1:1 with one of my strongest engineers. Smart, reliable, ships clean code. The kind of person you build a team around. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 18:18:30 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>How to Run a Brainstorming Session That Doesn&#039;t Kill Ideas</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ How to Run a Brainstorming Session That Doesn’t Kill Ideas The Problem Have you ever seen an engineer bring a list of ideas to a meeting, only to get publicly cross-examined? You can watch them shut down in real-time. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2025 11:50:03 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Leadership Means Making Space Not Motivation</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ My Job Isn’t Motivation. It’s Making Space. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2025 09:36:36 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Leadership Means Making Space Not Motivation</title>
    <link>https://blog.vibemanager.cc/202508052301---Single-Scoreboard-for-Team-Focus-and-Efficiency-tags</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[ My first team retro ended with eight Post-its that all read “no one knows what matters.” I’d spent weeks polishing OKRs nobody opened. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2025 09:36:36 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Unblock from Behind Leadership Approach</title>
    <link>https://blog.vibemanager.cc/202508052307---Unblock-from-Behind-Leadership-Approach</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[ If you gave me only one choice, I’d pick: unblock from behind. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2025 09:36:36 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>The Importance of Non-Coding Work for Engineers</title>
    <link>https://blog.vibemanager.cc/202508052310---The-Importance-of-Non-Coding-Work-for-Engineers</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Your Best Engineers Aren’t Always Coding (And That’s a Good Thing) I see it every week: An engineer apologizes for “not getting enough done” because their commits are down. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2025 09:36:36 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Responding to Salary Questions as Growth Opportunities</title>
    <link>https://blog.vibemanager.cc/202508061123---Responding-to-Salary-Questions-as-Growth-Opportunities</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[ When a junior developer asks a senior about salary, people tense up. Some managers panic. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2025 09:36:36 GMT</pubDate>
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