There's a parameter buried in Google's leaked quality rater documentation called . The definition is roughly: does this content demonstrate genuine editorial investment? Original research, custom visuals, detailed analysis, structured presentation — high score. Thin, templated,...

I have an AI agent that lives on an old gaming PC in my basement. His name is Flint. He runs 24/7. He has memory. He has opinions. He writes code, publishes blog posts, reviews pull requests, monitors servers, and sometimes tells me when I'm about to do something dumb. I don't do anything without...

This post is going to age like milk. That’s the nature of posts about AI workflows these days. Things are changing so fast. As a snapshot in time, and to help folks trying to experience the wonder that is a CLI-based coding agent with advanced memory, here is my current setup which I have running...

Most votes are in. Trump is the projected winner. Still, I hope Harris and her team are ready to keep fighting. You cannot trust whatever “calls” the media has made. The winners are the people who get the most votes, so count the votes. Recount the votes. This election is too important to give up...

I wrote up my thought process while doing a fair value calculation for Snowflake stock ($SNOW). You can read about it in my Tweet thread here: > As we enter (or exit?) this bear market in stocks, there will be some buying opportunities. How do you know if that stock that just fell 80% is "on sale"...

I’m writing down the core values for our business and team. Here is one of our 5 core values: > We are committed to open source and “the WordPress way”. Stranger Studios, LLC Core Values What does that even mean? How does this value specifically show up in our actions? Why is this important to...

The @MrBeast interview on the @joerogan Experience podcast is a good one. Mr. Beast's life story is interesting, but there is also a bit of marketing advice that's useful for businesses trying to produce viral content. Here’s a link to the podcast. It’s on Spotify. You need at least a free account...

Find your Ukranian customers and email them. Ask them “Is there ANY thing I can do to help YOU?” I’ve just sent a similar email to a few dozen users in the Paid Memberships Pro website. In this post, I’ll cover how sites running PMPro can find users with a Ukrainian billing address, Ukrainian email...

Saw someone who wanted to start a business asking for ideas, which is odd to me because I have tons of ideas. My handle on many sites is “ideadude”. So here’s a thread from the ideadude on coming up with ideas and figuring out which are the good ones. 🧵👇 Back in the early days, @colemank83 and I...

Here's a thread about how we do profit sharing bonuses for @pmproplugin, a company of about 15 people. Lots of inspiration from @wilreynolds and @Shpigford on this and generally how to treat employees well. Some lessons learned through the years. 👇🧵 Make It Rain Money GIF First, why give bonuses...