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“Taste” Is Doing More Work Than You Think

When anyone can make anything, the tech world says taste is the skill that sets you apart. But who gets to define good taste, and who does that quietly leave out?

Joe PostJune 16, 2026

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AI-First Leadership

AI’s Extraction Problem

Train on a million people's work and it is called innovation. Query a competitor's model and it is called theft. The same extraction pattern repeats up the whole AI stack, and leaders are choosing a position inside it.

Joe PostJune 15, 2026

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AI-First Leadership

Seeing the Matrix

AI's wonder phase is ending. The real shift now is from prompting to orchestration, and it is quietly repricing the entire software industry. Here is what the SaaSpocalypse is actually about.

Joe PostJune 12, 2026

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AI-First Leadership

When a Framework Becomes an Agent Skill

Claude can stand up a working dashboard on a whim. That speed changes what a framework even is, and why a Rule of 40 calculator took minutes instead of days.

Joe PostJune 8, 2026

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Applied AI & Product

I Fired Software I’d Used for a Decade

I fired software I had used for ten years. Not because it broke, but because my AI agents could not talk to it. The quiet new dealbreaker for every tool you own.

Joe PostJune 3, 2026

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AI-First Leadership

Most Build Traps Look Like Progress

Most organizations say they value learning, then open the meeting with what shipped this week. The build trap is not a product problem. It is a leadership courage problem, and the hardest ones look like loyalty.

Joe PostMay 28, 2026

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DXP & Composable

Optimizely (Episerver) Competitors, the CDP, and the Ektron Lineage

Optimizely, formerly Episerver, competes with Adobe, Sitecore, Acquia, and Salesforce, along with the composable and MACH vendors like Commercetools and Contentful. Episerver itself came from the 2015 merger of EPiServer and Ektron, then acquired Optimizely in 2020 and took its name in 2021. Its customer data platform, the Optimizely Data Platform, came from the Zaius acquisition. Here is the lineage,…

Joe PostSeptember 15, 2024

Product & UX

The Perils of Confirmation Bias in UX Research

Cognitive bias can severely distort research findings, leading to products not meeting users' needs.

Joe PostJune 23, 2024

Product & UX

Rethinking the User Experience for Modern Ecommerce

Today’s consumers navigate non-linearly across multiple online and offline touchpoints, making UX optimization crucial for capturing and retaining their interest.

Joe PostJune 21, 2024

Optimizely (MVP)

Optimizely B2B Commerce Leader in Forrester Wave

Explore the strengths of Optimizely B2B Commerce in our review of the Forrester Wave™ report, comparing it against other top B2B commerce.

Joe PostMay 17, 2024

“Taste” Is Doing More Work Than You Think

AI’s Extraction Problem

Seeing the Matrix

When a Framework Becomes an Agent Skill

I Fired Software I’d Used for a Decade

Most Build Traps Look Like Progress

Optimizely (Episerver) Competitors, the CDP, and the Ektron Lineage

The Perils of Confirmation Bias in UX Research

Rethinking the User Experience for Modern Ecommerce

Optimizely B2B Commerce Leader in Forrester Wave

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