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Product SEO @HubSpot. Ex-WPP Search Director. Son of immigrants. TKK Fried chicken adjacent. Rooting for a kinder, gentler world for my girls. He/Him/先生 #A11y #ASD

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Subway take: If you've got road rage, you should see a therapist.

03.03.2026 17:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Why Google Struggled with Coupon Search in 2025 A forensic analysis of why Google struggled with coupon search in 2025.

Oh snitching. I like 🍿

www.couponbirds.com/research/why...

02.03.2026 22:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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How an Ad Campaign Made Lesbians Fall in Love with Subaru - Priceonomics It's a popular stereotype that lesbians drive Subarus. What's less well known is that Subaru cultivated that image—and made history in the process.

TIL - priceonomics.com/how-an-ad-ca...

02.03.2026 19:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

TIL all Calico cats are female.

26.02.2026 17:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Google AI Mode loses context when inactive too long in a session. Screenshot goes from fixing a soap dispenser to a car leak issue as memory from prior context does not continue.

Google AI Mode loses context when inactive too long in a session. Screenshot goes from fixing a soap dispenser to a car leak issue as memory from prior context does not continue.

In today's edition of SEO's break everything...

How Gemini went from giving me pretty solid soap dispenser troubleshooting help to totally irrelevant car leak advice after I went AFK to try out things.

25.02.2026 18:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I mansplained to my partner about own vs lease and TCO.

AMA on treating motorized steel cage death traps as rapidly depreciating liabilities.

The alternative was an invisible $30k+ on a leased Mini over 3 years.

Money can buy happiness - but we ain't at F-you money status yet. That's the goal.

23.02.2026 17:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Someone used my phone number to sign up for something and now I'm getting a bunch of texts.

Their name?
Qed.

Q.E.D.

You know, latin. Quod erat demonstrandum. What was to be shown.

I'm annoyed and amused at the same time. Haven't seen this since math proofs.

19.02.2026 21:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

lol the reach on LinkedIn with a link is terrible compared to a post without.

Based on that observation it seems like I should only post with links going forward.

I don't want reach. I want specificity.

13.02.2026 20:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wow, first time in 9 years I'm selling company stock at only losses.

It was a great run. Sure stings to lose 70% in one year, but still great.

Friendly reminder for friends that tech investments, by their nature, are risky, even if you work there.

Your risk profile should change as you age.

13.02.2026 19:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Identity:

If you immigrated from China to Taiwan with the KMT, you identify with being Chinese.

If you immigrated earlier and was colonized by imperial Japan, you identify more with being Japanese.

If Taiwan was always your ancestral lands, the Hoklo, Hakka, and Weishenren forced assimilation.

10.02.2026 16:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The SEO rebrand equivalent of X (formerly Twitter) is...

Lumar (formerly Deepcrawl)

09.02.2026 15:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So I bought some RDDT. Like a lot. Time to #YOLO my retirement.

Obviously not financial advice.

IMO, they're shaped more like FB than SNAP or PINS.

06.02.2026 14:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Bluefish Labs - Crunchbase Company Profile & Funding Bluefish helps brands turn AI into a powerful new marketing channel to reach consumers and tell their story online.

Contemplating gambling my retirement on some RDDT stonks because some AEO report shared with AdWeek spooked some investors/bots.

www.crunchbase.com/organization...

02.02.2026 22:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Lol I did a custom extraction and... wait is that like 84 things I extracted on CTA's on a single page?

Post in question. Yup checks out. It's a list.

blog.hubspot.com/marketing/ma...

30.01.2026 19:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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How to optimize video for AI-powered search Learn which video signals AI relies on, and how visuals, audio, transcripts, and schema shape search visibility and brand accuracy.

Your voice is a highlighter for AI. Use audio bolding:

1. Enunciate: Speak key terms and brand names clearly.
2. A short pause before and after a main point acts like a "comma" or a "period" for the AI.

The cadence of speech influences the tokenization. Check out this article on the topic:

30.01.2026 07:00 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Vibes don't create ecosystems.

29.01.2026 22:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

No rate cuts = brutal. AI really kills the unit economics of SaaS in growth.

29.01.2026 17:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

TIL False friends while reviewing some Taiwanese.

29.01.2026 15:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Apparently when they visit you it means good luck.

Who the heck decided that? They look scary with their fangs out.

27.01.2026 19:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Sacred Silence of the Night LIVE — Gregorian Chants from the Monastery
Sacred Silence of the Night LIVE — Gregorian Chants from the Monastery YouTube video by Sacred Soul of Zion

Clicked on a video about Alex Schultz (FB, growth) talking to a bunch of Stanford students, had to deal with the snow...and I come back to find that YT decides to play this in a series of weird twist an turns -> www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIYG...

What a weird algo.

26.01.2026 23:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I think that's the difference here too. As someone privileged, in high school we did community service as part of the college application process. I taught English to the blind.

In her case? She's working multiple jobs to get that thing she wants. That pretty dress, makeup, or Sony Walkman.

26.01.2026 19:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My partner will divorce me if I offer room and board to humans in need of help. Are strangers, danger - or friends I have yet met?

Can the worst of times bring out the worst of people? Would my decision put two young girls at risk?

As I think about my own complicity, yeah I'm safe.

For now, NIMBY

23.01.2026 20:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A Zoom meeting screenshot where attendees have predicted guest status when they have not responded.

A Zoom meeting screenshot where attendees have predicted guest status when they have not responded.

Huge if true (it's a joke)

22.01.2026 22:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Free will is only available for those who've mastered self-reflection, gone against the grain of society, and lives an intentional life to align to the values they hold true.

22.01.2026 22:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
LLMs are cheap A lot of people think LLMs are expensive to operate. That was true a couple of years ago, but these people haven't updated their views after an approximately 1000x reduction in prices over two years.

🤔LLMS are cheap?

www.snellman.net/blog/archive...

22.01.2026 21:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Happy TSMC day to my fellow AI bulls.

15.01.2026 17:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You were knocked out. That means you have a pretty serious concussion.

Please don't do anything mentally taxing as well. I'm one more voice that's begging you to just be a static couch potato.

Hell, just focus on breathing you wiseass.

14.01.2026 19:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Late to the news cycle but apparently the US is doing a new food pyramid?

www.myplate.gov

The original one was created by lobbying groups so uh, this is just more of the same.

Sister's a nutritionist - Eat a "rainbow" of foods in moderation. Diversity + balance = healthy diet.

Skip this junk.

12.01.2026 19:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Today feels like a good day to sell WMT.

I thought we'd hit a recession.

I thought de minimus was going to hurt dollar stores and their distribution (they haven't been doing well) and the eventual victor of it in the US would be Walmart.

I'm so wrong. DLTR is up 90%. YoY.

Wrong but winning.

12.01.2026 16:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Open statements deserve freshness... but also chuckling here

09.01.2026 19:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0