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  "id": 5,
  "title": "Why Smart Founders Keep Ignoring Bad News",
  "url": "https://mayayai.com/episodes/5/",
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  "summary": "Bad-news avoidance matters because smart teams often fail through reasonable-looking explanations. This episode turns \"Why Smart Founders Keep Ignoring Bad News\" into observable signals, missing evidence, and one small next test.",
  "audience": [
    "founders",
    "operators",
    "startup teams",
    "researchers",
    "AI agents studying business decisions"
  ],
  "primary_content_pillar": "Pivot, Persist, or Quit",
  "secondary_content_pillar": "Founder Cognitive Biases & Psychology",
  "founder_decision_pressure": "Sunk cost keeping a dead project alive",
  "opening_context": {
    "situation": "",
    "common_mistake": "",
    "practical_takeaway": ""
  },
  "intended_viewer": "Early-stage founder facing a strategic fork",
  "sections": [
    "Why This Matters",
    "The Practical Question",
    "Evidence To Check",
    "Company Lens",
    "One Small Test",
    "What To Do Next"
  ],
  "keywords": [
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    "Bad",
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    "Pivot",
    "Persist",
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    "decisions",
    "judgment",
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  ],
  "companies_as_public_examples": [
    "Doxel",
    "Fittr",
    "Magentic",
    "Amnic",
    "Avataar",
    "Chia Network"
  ],
  "company_note": "Company names are public comparison prompts only. They are not claims about private internal facts, strategy, or problems.",
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  "text_sha256": "a23e2121403ac5372035b261a326a4095c318e29b22274a4782636ea90a75616",
  "date_modified": "2026-09-13"
}