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Imported October 2, 2026. This is a static archive. Posts follow their LinkedIn activity order; publication dates appear only when verified.
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I once fired my twin brother. Technically, twice. Now he's going back to Automattic, and I couldn't be more excited for him. Let me back up. A decade ago, Nick landed his first real job at Automattic. He did a little bit of everything, tra…
Read the post →You cannot sleep on this. Before I changed a single thing, my Shopify store had already made $918.70 from ChatGPT and the Shop app. No ads. No links. AI found our cards and sold them. So I had AI audit my store the way a shopping agent see…
Read the post →I'm not sleeping tonight. And I don't want to. 15 years ago we started teelaunch. Teespring had just shown up. Facebook ads were brand new. And we thought "target by interest" was the most next-level thing we'd ever seen. You could put a s…
Read the post →Your next customer might never see your website. They'll ask an AI agent to find the product, and the agent will buy it for them. That's not a prediction anymore. Meta's new AI agent, Muse, can now check out from Shopify stores with one ta…
Read the post →Is my job going to be replaced by AI? Absolutely. I’ve made peace with it. But after spending the last few months actually building agents, I’ve also concluded that replacing me will require approximately: 48 agents 6 orchestration agents…
Read the post →Their CEO, Rob Bigler, is leaving. So I did what any reasonable card shop owner in Sioux Falls, South Dakota would do. I started updating my resume. Here it is: Started my first business at 8 with my twin brother. Candy company. It failed…
Read the post →When I first started at Automattic, I decided to call myself the Chief Swag Officer. I liked swag. I thought it was funny. That was pretty much the entire qualification process. I think it’s time for another completely self-appointed title…
Read the post →The personalized-products industry is struggling at a strange time: making a good personalized product has never been easier. In 2020, 1-800-Flowers bought PersonalizationMall for $245 million. Now it has agreed to sell a package including…
Read the post →Our store screens run themselves now. No agency. No expensive signage company. I built a small app that talks to our internal system, and Yodeck puts it on every screen in the store. Here's what plays at Izzi's Gym all day: Today's events.…
Read the post →“We bought a Pikachu” is an incomplete business record. Which set? Which card number? What condition? Which finish? How many copies? Those details affect what we pay, how we list it, and what a customer expects to receive. We used AI to bu…
Read the post →Before you add staff, make the waiting visible. At our card shop, customers bring in collections to sell. Each collection takes a different amount of time to evaluate. We used AI to build a check-in queue inside PENNY. Customers enter thei…
Read the post →Custom software becomes an operating decision We run a Pokémon card shop. We used AI to write the software that helps run it. It's called PENNY. It handles collection buying, inventory entry, pricing tools, customer records, order picking,…
Read the post →Every weekend, 80 to 100 people walk into our shop to sell us cards. For a long time that was chaos. A paper list. People hovering by the counter. "Am I next?" Staff guessing at wait times. Sellers giving up and walking out. So I built a w…
Read the post →Love or hate AI, you will be at a competitive disadvantage in any industry if you don't embrace it.
Read the post →30 minutes. About $20 in tokens. One new feature live in my store. Here's how it went. People come in every day to sell us their cards. On busy days the buy counter turns into a crowd with no order. I wanted a waiting line. Tap your name o…
Read the post →I hate shoplifters. Not "frustrated." Not "concerned." Hate. Last month we found a problem at Izzi's Gym that was a lot bigger than we thought. I won't share the number. It was enough to make me sit in my van in the parking lot for a while…
Read the post →The hardest decision of my day: buy more tokens or wait for the reset. Not inventory. Not payroll. Not the eBay fee change. Tokens. Twelve years I built software with a team of developers. Now I build alone with AI. It writes the code. It…
Read the post →I am in love with my new eBay MCP. Listing used to be the job nobody wanted. Photograph it. Write a title. Fill in item specifics. Pick the category. Check comps. Set a price. Repeat. 5 to 10 minutes an item. Which is exactly why there was…
Read the post →I just let ChatGPT watch my workflow and explain the bottlenecks through a normal conversation with its new voice agent. No long spec document. No meeting. No technical background needed. I showed it what I do, talked through each step, an…
Read the post →It’s hard to believe it’s been a year since I made one of the hardest decisions of my life: stepping away from the company I dedicated 12 years to. At the time, it felt like I was starting over. Looking back, I wasn’t starting over. I was…
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