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Articles on software and product strategy, process, design, and page performance.

• The new Lean AI process — automations as product specs, Team Quorum Threshold (TQT), and Iterations-To-Plan (ITP) Jul 20, 2026
• AI's top opportunity vectors for people Jul 10, 2026
• AI Slop, a generational marketing op, and the emerging trust crisis Jul 8, 2026
• 200k layoffs + solo LLMs — prepare for the SaaS swarm May 26, 2026
• qmd-sessions — Claude Code memory with qmd Mar 3, 2026
• Yotpo vs Rapid Reviews for Shopify — 15+ points on mobile page speed score Oct 10, 2024
• Infrared sauna conversion into traditional stone stove sauna Aug 16, 2024
• Shopify 2024: Theme performance and SEO checklist Aug 14, 2024
• Rapid Reviews — new features and updates August 2024 Jul 31, 2024
• Stop collecting ‘shop’ reviews — individual product reviews only. Jan 8, 2024
• Twitter/X is no different Oct 9, 2023
• The “Clever Dad Design System” — don’t do it. Oct 4, 2023
• My new Chat GPT AI integration for Shopify product reviews, questions, and brand replies Apr 11, 2023
• Does page speed even matter? Mar 20, 2023
• The Terrible State of HTML Feb 26, 2023
• The 4 Best & Worst Product Reviews & Questions Apps For Shopify Feb 1, 2023
• App branding project — abstract letter icons Jan 17, 2023
• Page speed improvement for Shopify — a practical guide Jan 9, 2023
• Shopify Apps Are Destroying Your Page Speed — Expert Shows In Detailed Audit Sep 19, 2022
• “Experts” and the Black Box Sep 11, 2022
• I built the world’s fastest product reviews app for Shopify Jun 7, 2022
• Milliseconds Make Money: The Shopify site speed, conversion, and SEO ranking overview. May 31, 2022
• CLS to 0 with 10 lines of code May 31, 2022
• Web3 and Blockchain: The ‘access layer,’ decentralized exchanges, and geopolitical finance… Dec 26, 2021
• We must teach our people basic Web & Internet concepts. Nov 19, 2021
• A faster search experience for Shopify Jun 12, 2021
• Developers: It’s always our fault. Apr 3, 2021
• Our VR future foreshadowed by Earth2.io Feb 8, 2021
• Focus on what someone is doing well… Jan 10, 2021
• Now we must all become Professor X… Aug 10, 2020
• Advanced Image Indexing Checklist for Google Search Jan 15, 2020
• Why Isn’t Google Indexing My Images? Nov 3, 2018
• Coinbase cooperation with IRS will cause more peer-to-peer trading, darker crypto web Feb 26, 2018
• Lessons from submitting 500k images from Shopify stores to Google for indexing Feb 12, 2018
• Chaos vs. Order — The Cryptocurrency Dilemma Jan 28, 2018
• The Case For Never-Ending Cryptocurrency Arbitrage Spreads Jan 19, 2018
• Introducing — Image Sitemap for Shopify Dec 2, 2017
• Introducing — Token Spread: Simple bitcoin/crypto spread monitoring for arbitrage. Oct 22, 2017
• A new definition of company culture for tomorrow. Jun 19, 2017
• Office distractions could be costing your company more than $30k per high-performance employee each… May 7, 2017
• 68% of high-performance employees are contacted about new job opportunities at least once per month. Apr 21, 2017
• 76% of high-performance employees say trade mastery, not money, most important in career decisions. Mar 30, 2017
• 58% of high-performance employees say they need more quiet work spaces. Mar 13, 2017
• Know the soul of the high-performance employee, then we can build the 10,000 things. Feb 26, 2017
• Documentation is a bit like people dying. Feb 13, 2017
• Entrepreneurism should skew toward ethics, not optics. Feb 2, 2017
• Building ethical environments for people. Dec 12, 2016
• Visual History of IoT — Far Beyond ‘Smart’ Things May 4, 2016
• Understanding the amazing Internet of Things (IoT) — innovation creates value. Mar 22, 2016
• WE GAVE UP ON RETAIL, then it gave up on us. Mar 8, 2016
• 8 Essential Tech Recruiting Concepts For Frothy Times Sep 19, 2015
• Marketing To New Micro-Cultures Difficult As Web Grows Sep 17, 2015
• Without automation, what’s the point of coming to work? Aug 4, 2015
• Understanding Lean product development: Batch Size, Work in Process (WIP) & Risk Jul 31, 2015
• How do we evaluate User Experience (UX)? Nov 20, 2014