“Give me 10…”
A simple trick to produce higher-quality outcomes faster with AI.
Topic
First-Principles
A collection of 28 issues
“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
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.
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
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.
How can you expect to produce beauty and harmony if your marketing team isn’t “singing from the same song sheet”?
In order to maximize marketing performance, you need to reach the right audience at the right time with the right message.
#UnderdogChallenge—my 23-year journey from soloist to agency principal and back in under 500 words
After nearly 23 years, I’m back on the tools, working directly with amazing clients—designing and building beautiful, elegant, highly functional Shopify stores—learning and growing and achieving things I’d forgotten I was capable of.
The paradox of increasingly “powerful” ecommerce tools and realizing ultimate potential
As tools become more powerful, they also become more complex, which means less users are able to take advantage of that power. True power comes from leveraging simpler, more elegant, more pragmatic systems that combined enable outcomes that are greater than the sum of the parts.
Building strong foundations with Shopify based on the fundamental principles of ecommerce success—part 2
If you are not building your business on a foundation of core ecommerce fundamentals, you are wasting time, money, headspace, and resources. You are likely focusing on the minutiae and things that don’t matter now.