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.
Topic
Observations
A collection of 18 issues
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
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.
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.
“Kablooie!”
It feels like, almost overnight, the social web has fragmented into an infinite number of pieces. Is there hope for our preciouse, time, energy, and headspace?
What is the best Shopify agency—based purely on their positioning statement?
A roundup of the positioning statements of many of the top Shopify agencies. Who would you choose to work with based on positioning alone?
Beware of GPT3’s Overconfidence: It May Not Always Be Right
No matter how wrong or off-base they are, GPT3 has a strong tendency to generate responses as though they’re the absolute authority on the subject. But, are they?
DTC has replaced “the middle-man” with numerous other costs—and it’s arguably more expensive and less effective than traditional distribution channels
Most new (and many well-established) direct-to-consumer brands grossly underestimate how challenging and expensive it is to find and acquire good customers.