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  <title>Where the time goes. The master document is built once and updated every few months, outside the per-application loop. Every application then costs about five minutes to triage the posting, twenty minutes for the four passes of reorder, mirror, cut and bridge, three minutes to read it aloud and two to name and log the file: about half an hour in total. Only the master document carries over to the next application.</title>
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  <text x="30" y="34" font-size="17" font-weight="700" fill="#b8470a" letter-spacing="0.06em">ABOUT HALF AN HOUR, AND ONLY ONE PART COMPOUNDS</text>

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  <text x="50" y="90" font-size="13" font-weight="700" fill="#b8470a">STEP 1 &#183; ONCE</text>
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  <text x="152" y="202" font-size="13" fill="#b8470a">feeds every application below</text>

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    <text x="211" y="281" font-size="15" font-weight="600" fill="#16181d">Reorder &#183; mirror &#183; cut &#183; bridge</text>
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  <text x="30" y="366" font-size="15" fill="#636b78">The band repeats from zero on the next job. <tspan font-weight="700" fill="#16181d">The box above it is the only thing that gets better.</tspan></text>

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