Shopify Lost the Enterprise War
Then Made It Irrelevant
February 25, 2026·10 min read
I’ve built on Salesforce Commerce Cloud since 2014. I’ve publicly questioned whether Shopify could compete at enterprise scale. Then they changed the game.
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Latest Writing
Stop Pretending You're Still Technical
Why the Best Engineering Leaders Never Leave the Craft
February 18, 2026·12 min read
Every leadership book tells you to let go, delegate, step back. That's terrible advice. 15 years of building engineering teams taught me the moment you stop understanding how your systems break, you lose the ability to make good decisions about them.
Most Engineering Culture Is Performance Art
What Actually Builds Teams That Work
February 12, 2026·8 min read
15 years of building engineering teams taught me that culture isn’t what you put on a slide. It’s what happens when the deadline moves up and nobody’s watching.