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  "author": {
    "name": "Dylan Fitzgerald",
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  "content_html": "\u003ch1\u003eHow many times did you buy that?\u003c/h1\u003e\n\u003cfigure\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https://dylanfitzgerald.net/ox-hugo/daltoris_a_pile_of_money_treasure_clocks_and_frustration_--v_6._261ffdd4-de2c-480d-ac46-e25fc560bfae.jpeg\"\n\t\t\talt=\"a pile of money, treasure, locks, and frustration\" width=\"50%\"\u003e\n\u003c/figure\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe first time, when you spent the money to acquire it.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe second time, when you spent the time to learn to use it.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe third time, when you spent your team’s time getting trained to confidence.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe fourth time, when you patched over the problems and inconsistencies with more money and time and attention.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWas there a fifth? A sixth, a seventh?\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd then you paid for it one last time as you replaced or retired it.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA training course you buy and then abandon only costs you the money once; a poor program pushed without abandon multiplies its price over time.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhether tools or trainings, products or partnerships, we pay for things in so many more ways than money. It’s worth weighing, both at the start and over time, just how expensive something will be.\u003c/p\u003e\n",
  "content_md": "# How many times did you buy that?\n\n{{\u003c figure src=\"/ox-hugo/daltoris_a_pile_of_money_treasure_clocks_and_frustration_--v_6._261ffdd4-de2c-480d-ac46-e25fc560bfae.jpeg\" alt=\"a pile of money, treasure, locks, and frustration\" width=\"50%\" \u003e}}\n\nThe first time, when you spent the money to acquire it.\n\nThe second time, when you spent the time to learn to use it.\n\nThe third time, when you spent your team’s time getting trained to confidence.\n\nThe fourth time, when you patched over the problems and inconsistencies with more money and time and attention.\n\nWas there a fifth? A sixth, a seventh?\n\nAnd then you paid for it one last time as you replaced or retired it.\n\nA training course you buy and then abandon only costs you the money once; a poor program pushed without abandon multiplies its price over time.\n\nWhether tools or trainings, products or partnerships, we pay for things in so many more ways than money. It’s worth weighing, both at the start and over time, just how expensive something will be.",
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