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You may read, link to and quote from this site freely, with attribution. You may not scrape it wholesale, republish articles in full elsewhere, or use its content to train commercial models without asking us first.

You are responsible for what happens under your account. Use a real name u2014 this is a publication built on people writing under their own identity. One account per person. Do not share your login.

Everything you submit must be your own original work and must not have been published anywhere else, including your own blog or LinkedIn. If you quote or cite someone, attribute it properly.

Content that is plagiarised, generated wholesale by AI, promotional material disguised as editorial, anything defamatory, or anything that breaches someone else’s confidentiality or contract. We reserve the right to decline anything for any reason, and we do not have to explain that reason in full.

We edit for grammar, clarity and accuracy. If we want to change the substance or structure of your article, we will ask you first. Nothing is published without you seeing the final version.

You keep the copyright to everything you write. By submitting, you give us a non-exclusive right to publish it here indefinitely and to include it in newsletters and social posts promoting the site. You are free to republish it elsewhere afterwards, and we would appreciate a link back.

You can ask us to remove one of your articles at any time. We will normally do so within seven days. We may also remove an article ourselves if we later find it breaches these terms.

We may suspend or close an account that repeatedly submits plagiarised or promotional content, that abuses the contact form, or that attempts to interfere with the site. Where it is not obvious why, we will tell you.

Everything published here is the opinion and experience of the writer. It is not professional, financial, legal or medical advice. Verify anything before acting on it. We are not liable for decisions made on the basis of what you read here.

We will update the date at the top when these change. Continuing to use the site after a change means you accept it.