Your Shopify theme is a silent salesperson—stop letting it ghost customers.
Pagespeed, UX and checkout trust decide sales more than product photos. Audit apps (one slow app = freebie for cart abandonment), serve WebP, enable Online Store 2.0 sections, and test on mobile. Fix the checkout friction before you pour money into ads.
Stop treating Shopify like "just a website builder." It's your payments stack, inventory brain, growth engine—and yes, the thing that will make or break your margins.
If you're launching in 2025: optimize checkout speed, consider headless for differentiated UX, and trim app bloat. Treat Shopify like infrastructure, not an afterthought.
If your homepage still loads in 3+ seconds, you’re losing users before they see your product. Fast sites aren’t a nice-to-have — they’re a conversion engine.
Run RUM, prioritize LCP, defer noncritical JS, use AVIF/WebP, SSR or edge render, and cache aggressively. Small wins (100ms) compound into big lifts — we cut LCP 2.8s→0.9s and demo CTR rose 22%. Performance is product.
Spent your week babysitting spreadsheets? Stop.
Built an n8n workflow that routes emailed invoices → PDF parser → Airtable row → Slack ping for approvals. Weekly 45-minute scramble now 45 seconds. No dev sprint, just one flow. If your calendar screams “repetitive task,” n8n should be your ex.
Stop blaming frameworks for slow sites. Most of the time it's not React/Vue—it's the "everything-on-client" habit and a guilt-free appetite for giant bundles.
Audit your JS, move UI that doesn't need interactivity to server/edge rendering, lazy-load below-the-fold, serve optimized media and set sane cache headers. Small wins compound into noticeably faster UX.
Cursor 2.0 just dropped — and it’s redefining what “AI coding assistant” means.
It turns your editor into an AI-first workspace —
• Composer: Cursor’s new model, 4x faster and context-aware.
• Multi-agent collaboration that feels like managing a dev team.
• Built-in automation for reviews, tests, and execution.
• A UI that’s built around outcomes, not files.
It’s not just coding faster — it’s coding differently.
If your model is more temperamental than the QA team, you’re not alone.
The next big win in AI won’t be a bigger model — it’s boring plumbing: consistent data signals, real-time drift detection, and human-in-the-loop paths that actually close. Invest in ops that let models fail fast and recover faster. That’s where real product-market fit hides.
If your AI agent needs a 17-step prompt to fetch a spreadsheet, it's not "agentic"—it's passive-aggressive.
Real agents set a goal, pick the right tool, retry intelligently, and tell you when they hit a wall. We're focused on building those that actually get work done, not perform ritualized handoffs.
If your deck opens with traction graphs and closes with TAM slides, you're doing startup theater.
Real founders spend that time on one metric: can 10 users not live without the product? Investors can smell vanity metrics — users can't. Build something people talk about; the rest is noise.
Hot take: most AI projects crash not from model choice, but from chasing novelty over value.
If your pipeline is messy and your product still needs handoffs to humans to “fix” outputs, you’ve built a demo, not a tool. Invest in data hygiene, feedback loops, and small automations that remove one real human task — that’s where adoption (and revenue) starts.
Integrations shouldn't be a quarterly sprint—you know, that thing that eats product time and morale. Call it a recurring tax. Fix it.
Build modular workflows in n8n: trigger → normalize → enrich → push. Self-host to keep PII private, version flows like code, and treat nodes as unit tests. Less firefighting, more shipping.
Agency > Intelligence
I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are we educating for agency? Are you acting as if you had 10X agency?
Grok explanation is ~close:
“Agency, as a personality trait, refers to an individual's capacity to take initiative, make decisions, and exert control over their actions and environment. It’s about being proactive rather than reactive—someone with high agency doesn’t just let life happen to them; they shape it. Think of it as a blend of self-efficacy, determination, and a sense of ownership over one’s path.
People with strong agency tend to set goals and pursue them with confidence, even in the face of obstacles. They’re the type to say, “I’ll figure it out,” and then actually do it. On the flip side, someone low in agency might feel more like a passenger in their own life, waiting for external forces—like luck, other people, or circumstances—to dictate what happens next.
It’s not quite the same as assertiveness or ambition, though it can overlap. Agency is quieter, more internal—it’s the belief that you *can* act, paired with the will to follow through. Psychologists often tie it to concepts like locus of control: high-agency folks lean toward an internal locus, feeling they steer their fate, while low-agency folks might lean external, seeing life as something that happens *to* them.”