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Solo entrepreneur helping other solo founders & small businesses win at marketing. Founder @ freak.marketing & deadlinekit.com. Portland-based.

Kit (formerly convertkit) just announced a drastic price increase coming in October. Who’s better and cheaper in 2025?

Welp, Idiocracy has turned out to be a pretty prophetic movie. Which film do you think might prove prophetic next? My guess is Terminator.

Normalize salsa bars in every Mexican joint

My love for soda water has escalated into a full-blown obsession

Increasingly the answer to “should I still learn to code?!” will be “I dunno, do you find value in it?”

Wondering why your Google Ads and Shopify conversion numbers never match? It’s normal. Learn why and how to use the data to your advantage in my latest post: https://freak.marketing/post/google-ads-shopify-conversion-tracking-discrepancy

Wow this week flew by!

I rewatched Fire In The Sky again recently and while the abduction scene is still awesome I forgot that was only like the last 20 minutes of the movie. The rest of it is a snooze fest.

Wow, what a massive waste of money, $120 million spent on troops in LA for political theater… https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-04/120-million-price-tag-guard-deployment

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MacBook keyboards are good but I miss a good mechanical keyboard. 😏

It’s about time Siri got smarter. AI search, better answers, and even health tips are coming soon. Details here: https://www.macrumors.com/2025/09/03/llm-siri-with-search-early-2026/

Making moves! Just integrated Stripe payments with my react app! 😁

What are we eating this Labor Day?

And just like that I think Bolt will be replacing Webflow for building out PPC landing pages.