The WordPress Deployment Problem Nobody Talks About Here’s what most WordPress agencies won’t tell you: deployment is a nightmare. Sure — WordPress powers ~43% of the web — but behind those millions of sites lies a dirty secret: most teams are still deploying like it’s 2010. FTP uploads, manual database exports/imports, hoping you remembered to update …

The Challenge: Investment Deal Distribution at Scale Imagine you’re managing an investment deal that needs to reach hundreds of potential investors. Each investor needs: Researching startups and mapping corresponding markets was traditionally a very manual, time-consuming, and imprecise process, and the same holds for investment deal distribution. The M&A industry is known to be challenging, partially …

Part of the “Conversations with AI” series where I share interesting and useful discussions with AI assistants. These conversations are lightly edited for clarity. The Problem Now that I’ve posted to my blog over ten times, I ran into the scaling issue of only seeing the ten most recent posts on my homepage. When requesting …

I’ve realized that I’m a very specific type of person. This is the case for all of us, and I believe the process of narrowing down the cohort of people we belong to also assists in determining where we can be most useful. This is a two-way street. If you decide you want to be …

I’m going to shake things up a little. This post will be a technical overview of the website I recently built from scratch and deployed at spenpo.com. My blog will still come back to introspection, but its purpose has always been to explain the things I do. Creating content is an attempt at teaching. It’s …