You don't want to miss this: we just dropped @Shopify's Spring ’26 Edition. 150+ updates! It's EVERYWHERE 😁
My faves are on 🧵 starting with Agentic Storefronts, a new section in the admin for full visibility and control.
@1Password Interesting. My settings under appearance were set to dark which applies a greyish background to the icon. When I change the settings to the light, it updates it to the dark mode settings that’s a bit of a weird behavior.
Exactly. If anyone can ship, shipping itself is no longer the edge.
The edge is knowing what to build, for whom, why now, and how to reach them.
Code gets cheaper. Product sense and distribution get more valuable. Doesn't have to be a PM, but someone needs to own this.
DHH spent 20 years dismissing product management.
Then 1h21 into his Pragmatic Engineer interview, he caught himself and admitted he was wrong.
He was listing what matters now that AI writes the code: figuring out what to build, how to build it, which customers to talk to, where to focus.
Then his exact next words: "It's product management. It's so funny for me too because historically I've not necessarily had the highest esteem for product management as a function. I thought there was a lot of BS."
He explained why. Implementation was always the constraint. Engineers needed four weeks to ship anything, so PMs spent those weeks talking, planning, strategizing. Nothing looked like output until the code landed.
"They were underutilized. They were not the constraint." They were rate-limited.
The loudest PM-skeptic changing his mind (and DHH has strong opinions!) -- that should count for something. let's toast to that 🥂
Starting this week, millions of @Shopify merchants can sell in ChatGPT, into the US.
Their PDP, their checkout, their customizations, no extra setup.
AI is a new front door to commerce. Shopify is what’s behind it everywhere.
The work that changes your career rarely looks impressive while you’re doing it. It looks like:
• rewriting the doc
• tightening scope
• chasing the edge case
• having the awkward conversation
• showing up and being consistent
The “boring” is usually the real work.
I recently heard an adage:
“Civilize the mind, make savage the body.”
It reminded me: you don’t rise to your goals. You fall to your training.
Train your body like it matters.
Train your mind like it matters.
Because life will test both.
That’s the game.
@nireyal Agree. “Pleasant to work with” is basically: high standards + low drama. You can be direct, even intense—just don’t make everyone pay an emotional tax to collaborate with you. It's not great for you or the company long-term
Over time, I've learned that aesthetic vs functional is the same trap in both fitness and careers.
Aesthetic: “does this make me look good this week?” Functional: “does this make me better this quarter?”
One gets instant likes. The other is a slow grind that gets outcomes.
The best product feedback loop is still this:
1️⃣ Ship something imperfect and raw
2️⃣ Watch real people use it
3️⃣ Learn what’s real vs what you assumed
4️⃣ Iterate faster than everyone else
Success isn’t flawless — it’s fast, informed and ultimately a grind.
#ProductLeadership
Today at @Shopify we're making sign-in WAY BETTER
Introducing the ACCOUNT COMPONENT for Shopify stores 🤩🥹
Rolling out TODAY across all stores with Horizon, AND coming very soon to many more 3P themes !!
Detailed walkthru in NEXT TWEEET👇
https://t.co/9JGB5XHBDq
Recorded a fun podcast with Phillip and Brian at @futurecommerce about @Shopify's Winter '26 Edition.
We talk all things AI and how it's shaping commerce. We covered Sidekick as your co-founder, SimGym simulating shoppers, the changes in product discovery, structured data as the new SEO, and much more.
Find it on your favourite podcast app.
Shopify: The RenAIssance Edition
Sidekick updates, Agentic Storefronts for merchants, new tools for devs building commerce agents, AI simulations, and more 🧵