<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Max Kushner</title><description>Building the unglamorous systems that keep the numbers honest</description><link>https://unglamorous.systems/</link><item><title>The tool responded. The agent didn&apos;t get anywhere.</title><link>https://unglamorous.systems/writing/mcp-telemetry-part-1/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://unglamorous.systems/writing/mcp-telemetry-part-1/</guid><description>Part 1 of 3. 98.9% of calls to our MCP server succeeded, and agents were still working around it. What PostHog&apos;s MCP analytics showed us in the first four weeks, and the three fixes that came out of it.</description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Keeping the numbers honest</title><link>https://unglamorous.systems/writing/keeping-the-numbers-honest/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://unglamorous.systems/writing/keeping-the-numbers-honest/</guid><description>Numbers don&apos;t need a liar to drift. They go wrong on their own — and the job is to build the systems that catch them before anyone reports them.</description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The realization-rate haircut</title><link>https://unglamorous.systems/writing/the-realization-rate-haircut/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://unglamorous.systems/writing/the-realization-rate-haircut/</guid><description>Bookings are a promise; revenue is a fact. The discipline of a single, honestly-applied realization rate is what keeps the two from being confused.</description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>