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  <title>Counsel.day · The Journal</title>
  <subtitle>Long-form essays on the questions a single conversation cannot resolve. Written by James Graham, founder of Counsel.day.</subtitle>
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  <updated>2026-05-15T19:00:00+12:00</updated>
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    <name>James Graham</name>
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    <title>The Tuesday/Thursday problem</title>
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    <published>2026-05-14T19:00:00+12:00</published>
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      <name>James Graham</name>
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    <summary type="text">On big questions you have pro days and con days, and the difference between Tuesday and Thursday is rarely new information. It is mood, weather, fatigue, the last conversation. A single conversation can land on the wrong evening. The 2,100-word essay that opens the Journal.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>Why the seal has to be in the database, not in the settings (forthcoming)</title>
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    <published>2026-06-01T19:00:00+12:00</published>
    <updated>2026-05-15T19:00:00+12:00</updated>
    <author>
      <name>James Graham</name>
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    <category term="security"/>
    <category term="product-design"/>
    <summary type="text">A scheduled essay for June 2026. Why a privacy mechanism enforced by a settings toggle is not actually a privacy mechanism, and what changes when you move the check into the database row policy instead. Subscribed readers will receive the full text when it publishes.</summary>
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