<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:news="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-news/0.9"><url><loc>https://thecustomercontinuum.com/p/issue-39-the-hardest-part-of-building</loc><news:news><news:publication><news:name>The Customer Continuum by Kevin Lau</news:name><news:language>en</news:language></news:publication><news:publication_date>2026-09-24T14:01:42+00:00</news:publication_date><news:title>Issue #39: The hardest part of building my AI was the writing</news:title></news:news></url></urlset>