<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Issa Al Balushi — Notes</title><description>Short notes on finance systems, operations, software, community, and what I am learning.</description><link>https://issaalbalushi.com/</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>The work around the data is the bottleneck, not the data</title><link>https://issaalbalushi.com/notes/the-work-around-the-data/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://issaalbalushi.com/notes/the-work-around-the-data/</guid><description>Most teams I see don&apos;t lack data. They lack a clean way to do the work around the data: who pulls it, who reconciles it, who decides what it means.</description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>finance</category></item></channel></rss>