<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Admission on Own The Leap</title><link>https://owntheleap.com/tags/admission/</link><description>Recent content in Admission on Own The Leap</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://owntheleap.com/tags/admission/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>What Strangers Know</title><link>https://owntheleap.com/posts/what-strangers-know/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://owntheleap.com/posts/what-strangers-know/</guid><description>&lt;p>Thursday. Day twenty-one. Three weeks.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>I sat down this morning the way I&amp;rsquo;ve sat down every morning for three weeks, and that&amp;rsquo;s the thing I want to talk about. The sitting down has become automatic. I don&amp;rsquo;t bargain with myself about it anymore. I don&amp;rsquo;t wonder if I should skip a day. I get up, make coffee, open the laptop, and write.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Three weeks ago I wrote that I wasn&amp;rsquo;t sure I was &amp;ldquo;a blogger.&amp;rdquo; That I was using this as a commitment device. A public ledger for a private decision. If I wrote it where people could see it, I couldn&amp;rsquo;t quietly slink back to my desk and pretend nothing had changed.&lt;/p></description></item></channel></rss>