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All issues Seeking Certainty · August 12, 2026

Seeking Certainty is changing

Quick housekeeping note, then back to your day.

You signed up for Seeking Certainty, a newsletter about running certification businesses. But most issues I sat down to write kept drifting outside the lane I'd drawn for it. And people seemed to like the wider stuff.

So I'm widening the lane.

Same sender, bigger scope. I run a few companies, help run a few more, and live in Pittsburgh with my wife, four kids, and a dog. I want to cover what I pick up in the middle of all of it -- what I'm working on, what broke, and how I fixed it.

I'll send when there's something worth sending. Usually that's whatever I ran into lately that I figure somebody else can use. The rest of the time I'll stay out of your inbox.

The certification work is still most of what I do, so it'll keep showing up here. There's just more around it now.

Glad you're here. It should be a bit more interesting from now on.

Shane

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