Your website was just built badly.

Most of the time if you have a bad website experience, it’s not the platform itself, but just a bad implementation of it.

Bugs Happen — It’s How You Handle Them That Matters

Bugs are inevitable in any project. What really matters isn’t the mistake, it’s how you respond, communicate, and fix it.

Are We Optimizing for Us or for Our Clients?

We over-engineer to save time, but do our clients pay the price? It’s time to choose better tools over bloated stacks.

When Everyone Follows the Playbook, Standing Out Means Closing the Book

In an overcrowded digital world, growth doesn’t come from more tactics, it comes from doubling down on what’s unique.

The Reality Check

Why business should stop chasing “scale” in a digital void. 5 people is a room; 100 is a hall. It’s time to bring business back to local.

The Toll Road Platforms Impose on Reviews for Businesses

One topic I explored this week was the review trap that many digital platforms impose on businesses. Platforms like Google and Yelp have been known to disproportionately suppress

Web Design is just another form of hospitality.

My perspective on why web design, development, and digital media aren’t really in the tech business, but in the hospitality business.

My gripe with organic reach being killed off

My gripe with platforms positioning themselves as open and empowering tools designed to help businesses get discovered only to exploit and turn their backs on them.

The joy of helping and why sometimes that can also hurt

How a simple redirect saved our PTA budget and a lesson on why organizations must own their digital logins and domains.

Vibe coding is nothing new

My thoughts on vibe coding and how it is nothing new, but could AI fix the problem the apps of the past could not solve?

OllyJolly Recap October 14th

The weekly update from OllyJolly for the week of October 14th, 2024

Blog Update: New Expressions Section

General blog updates that you may or may not notice.

OllyJolly Recap September 30th

OllyJolly weekly recap for September 30th

Why leaders do not need power or authority

Thoughts on why leaders do not need real power and authority.

Thoughts on the WordPress, Automattic, and WPEngine

Thoughts on the current feud between Automattic, and WPEngine and how WordPress got stuck in the middle.