{"id":14242,"date":"2026-09-07T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=14242"},"modified":"2026-09-06T19:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T01:07:07","slug":"monday-morsel-have-a-reason-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/07\/monday-morsel-have-a-reason-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Morsel: Have a Reason Ready"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As churners scale, inevitably a FinTech, bank, quasi-casino gaming site, or Jamie Dimon (impersonator?) will call and ask exactly what you&#8217;re doing with their product and why you&#8217;re behaving the way you are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When this happens, things usually go a lot better if you have a plausible answer already on-deck. A few suggestions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/12\/budgeting-a-magic-word\/\">Budgeting<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/21\/when-budgeting-doesnt-work-turn-to-your-boss\/\">Cause that&#8217;s how my boss wants me to do it<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Inventory purchasing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Contractor payments<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Precious-metal hedging<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Robot-overlord construction<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Housing upgrades<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Good luck and happy Monday!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"206\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-3-1024x206.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14243\" style=\"width:420px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-3-1024x206.png 1024w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-3-300x60.png 300w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-3-768x154.png 768w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-3.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:14px\">Alternative excuse: I was trying to unlock all of the bank&#8217;s notification achievements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As churners scale, inevitably a FinTech, bank, quasi-casino gaming site, or Jamie Dimon (impersonator?) will call and ask exactly what you&#8217;re doing with their product<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wisdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14244,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14242\/revisions\/14244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}