<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maged Essam</title><description>Capital markets, and the systems that read them.</description><link>https://magedessam.com/</link><item><title>What your system cannot know</title><link>https://magedessam.com/writing/what-your-system-cannot-know/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://magedessam.com/writing/what-your-system-cannot-know/</guid><description>Some data never arrives. Not late, not malformed — it simply never enters the system, and no amount of engineering will make it appear.</description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Building a financial engine that audits itself</title><link>https://magedessam.com/chronicles/financial-engine/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://magedessam.com/chronicles/financial-engine/</guid><description>Notes from making a system measure its own completeness, taken as the work happened.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Money moving is not money spent</title><link>https://magedessam.com/writing/money-moving-is-not-money-spent/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://magedessam.com/writing/money-moving-is-not-money-spent/</guid><description>A transfer between your own accounts is not an expense. Obvious stated plainly, and yet most financial software books it as one.</description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>