Galen King

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Latest — 26 Aug 2026

“Produce more than you consume”

Years ago when my children were a lot smaller and technology was a lot less pervasive, our school hosted a talk on finding wisdom and balance when raising digitally-native families. The one thing that stuck with me was that we should encourage our children to produce more than they

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Getting started with AI is easier than you think

Think of your AI as more of a thinking partner than an assistant and you might be surprised what you unlock.

Cloud infrastructure

One of the things I love about Vermont is the clouds. Yes, the real clouds up in the sky. They’re magnificent.

Tinker with abandon

You have the ability to change the world. But it’s probably not going to be with your next big idea unless you tinker with abandon along the way.

I’m a pedant and a stickler—and I’m going to keep using em dashes

Reflecting on my high school in New Zealand, I don’t recall having a particularly strong grammar education in my English classes. In fact, I learned more about English grammar from learning German as an exchange student in Switzerland! My love for punctuation came more from my love of typography

“IDEO on this”—how to improve AI outputs by “verbifying” frameworks and principles

Early in my AI journey, I started telling my agents to “OODA on this” or “OODA review”. I’ve since found it to be incredibly powerful and easy to expand this to things like “IDEO on this” or “do x and y, IDEO’ing as you go”. Telling it to

The daily tension founders face with working in, on, and talking about their business

I’m pretty good at alternating between the first two but I struggle to consistently talk about my work in a way that will amplify my message and build connections with the people I have the best opportunity to help and serve.

Reflections on 24 years from freelancer through building one of the first Shopify studios in the world through burnout and back to soloist

I’ve been reflecting on how ultimately none of this matters—how good we are at our craft, who we can serve and help, the processes we develop, or the results—if we can’t master sales and marketing and storytelling.

Your website probably doesn’t really matter

What matters is your ability to tell a good story, build connections, and engage on a human level.

Helping you connect the dots to unlock hidden revenue on Shopify

It’s humbling when we come to a point in our career where we realize that the skills we have that were once deeply specialized are now offered by thousands—if not tens of thousands—of others. I am a designer and design thinker at heart—and I love the