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Managers manage. Makers make. The world values creation—so keep your hands in the work, not just the process.
September 6, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Managers manage. Makers make. The world values creation—so keep your hands in the work, not just the process.
Marcus.Blog Post #22: marcus.blog/from-genesis...
From Genesis to Solespire: My Father, My Co-Founder
What happens when you give a 3-year-old a Sega Genesis? If you’re patient enough, you get a co-founder. My journey from pixels to partnership with my Dad.
From Genesis to Solespire: My Father, My Co-Founder
What happens when you give a 3-year-old a Sega Genesis? If you’re patient enough, you get a co-founder. My journey from pixels to partnership with my Dad.
From Genesis to Solespire: My Father, My Co-Founder – Marcus.Blog
What happens when you give a 3-year-old a Sega Genesis? If youre patient enough, you get a co-founder. My journey from pixels to partnership with my Dad.
marcus.blog
June 15, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Marcus.Blog Post #22: marcus.blog/from-genesis...
From Genesis to Solespire: My Father, My Co-Founder
What happens when you give a 3-year-old a Sega Genesis? If you’re patient enough, you get a co-founder. My journey from pixels to partnership with my Dad.
From Genesis to Solespire: My Father, My Co-Founder
What happens when you give a 3-year-old a Sega Genesis? If you’re patient enough, you get a co-founder. My journey from pixels to partnership with my Dad.
Marcus.Blog Post #21: marcus.blog/the-cost-of-...
The Cost of Not Starting
The real risk isn’t failure—it’s never starting. Learn why momentum, clarity, and growth only come after version 0.1 is in the world for everyone to try.
The Cost of Not Starting
The real risk isn’t failure—it’s never starting. Learn why momentum, clarity, and growth only come after version 0.1 is in the world for everyone to try.
The Cost of Not Starting – Marcus.Blog
The real risk isn’t failure—it’s never starting. Learn why momentum, clarity, and growth only come after version 0.1 is in the world for everyone to try.
marcus.blog
June 15, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Marcus.Blog Post #21: marcus.blog/the-cost-of-...
The Cost of Not Starting
The real risk isn’t failure—it’s never starting. Learn why momentum, clarity, and growth only come after version 0.1 is in the world for everyone to try.
The Cost of Not Starting
The real risk isn’t failure—it’s never starting. Learn why momentum, clarity, and growth only come after version 0.1 is in the world for everyone to try.
Marcus.Blog Post #20: marcus.blog/life-is-live...
Life is Lived in the Arena
Real learning happens through action, not theory. Discover why shipping imperfect work beats endless studying—and how Steve Jobs lived that lesson in the arena.
Life is Lived in the Arena
Real learning happens through action, not theory. Discover why shipping imperfect work beats endless studying—and how Steve Jobs lived that lesson in the arena.
Life is Lived in the Arena – Marcus.Blog
Real learning happens through action, not theory. Discover why shipping imperfect work beats endless studying—and how Steve Jobs lived that lesson in the a...
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June 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Marcus.Blog Post #20: marcus.blog/life-is-live...
Life is Lived in the Arena
Real learning happens through action, not theory. Discover why shipping imperfect work beats endless studying—and how Steve Jobs lived that lesson in the arena.
Life is Lived in the Arena
Real learning happens through action, not theory. Discover why shipping imperfect work beats endless studying—and how Steve Jobs lived that lesson in the arena.
Marcus.Blog Post #19: marcus.blog/the-leverage...
The Leverage Economy: Why Builders Win and Permission-Seekers Lose
The rules of wealth creation have changed. While most chase salaries and status, the real game is building leverage that compounds while you sleep.
The Leverage Economy: Why Builders Win and Permission-Seekers Lose
The rules of wealth creation have changed. While most chase salaries and status, the real game is building leverage that compounds while you sleep.
The Leverage Economy: Why Builders Win and Permission-Seekers Lose – Marcus.Blog
The rules of wealth creation have changed. While most chase salaries and status, the real game is building leverage that compounds while you sleep.
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June 15, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Marcus.Blog Post #19: marcus.blog/the-leverage...
The Leverage Economy: Why Builders Win and Permission-Seekers Lose
The rules of wealth creation have changed. While most chase salaries and status, the real game is building leverage that compounds while you sleep.
The Leverage Economy: Why Builders Win and Permission-Seekers Lose
The rules of wealth creation have changed. While most chase salaries and status, the real game is building leverage that compounds while you sleep.
Marcus.Blog Post #18: marcus.blog/why-the-futu...
Why the Future Belongs to Builders
In a world where execution beats pedigree, builders win. This is a call to creators—code, write, launch, repeat. Momentum belongs to those who move.
Why the Future Belongs to Builders
In a world where execution beats pedigree, builders win. This is a call to creators—code, write, launch, repeat. Momentum belongs to those who move.
Why the Future Belongs to Builders – Marcus.Blog
In a world where execution beats pedigree, builders win. This is a call to creators—code, write, launch, repeat. Momentum belongs to those who move.
marcus.blog
June 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Marcus.Blog Post #18: marcus.blog/why-the-futu...
Why the Future Belongs to Builders
In a world where execution beats pedigree, builders win. This is a call to creators—code, write, launch, repeat. Momentum belongs to those who move.
Why the Future Belongs to Builders
In a world where execution beats pedigree, builders win. This is a call to creators—code, write, launch, repeat. Momentum belongs to those who move.
Marcus.Blog Post #17: marcus.blog/xvii/
XVII
XVII anagrams to death, and so Italians fear 17, but I started Solespire and met my future wife online in 2017, with our first meeting in Mexico on 17 December.
XVII
XVII anagrams to death, and so Italians fear 17, but I started Solespire and met my future wife online in 2017, with our first meeting in Mexico on 17 December.
XVII – Marcus.Blog
XVII anagrams to death, and so Italians fear 17, but I started Solespire and met my future wife online in 2017, with our first meeting in Mexico on 17 December.
marcus.blog
June 10, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Marcus.Blog Post #17: marcus.blog/xvii/
XVII
XVII anagrams to death, and so Italians fear 17, but I started Solespire and met my future wife online in 2017, with our first meeting in Mexico on 17 December.
XVII
XVII anagrams to death, and so Italians fear 17, but I started Solespire and met my future wife online in 2017, with our first meeting in Mexico on 17 December.
Marcus.Blog Post #16: marcus.blog/makers-vs-ma...
Makers vs. Managers
The future belongs to creators, not controllers. Discover why makers have more leverage than managers in today’s builder-driven economy.
Makers vs. Managers
The future belongs to creators, not controllers. Discover why makers have more leverage than managers in today’s builder-driven economy.
Makers vs. Managers – Marcus.Blog
The future belongs to creators, not controllers. Discover why makers have more leverage than managers in today’s builder-driven economy.
marcus.blog
June 9, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Marcus.Blog Post #16: marcus.blog/makers-vs-ma...
Makers vs. Managers
The future belongs to creators, not controllers. Discover why makers have more leverage than managers in today’s builder-driven economy.
Makers vs. Managers
The future belongs to creators, not controllers. Discover why makers have more leverage than managers in today’s builder-driven economy.
Marcus.Blog Post #15: marcus.blog/the-currency...
The Currency of Consistency
Every day you show up builds trust, resilience, and momentum. Skip one day and restart from zero. Learn why successful creators protect their streaks.
The Currency of Consistency
Every day you show up builds trust, resilience, and momentum. Skip one day and restart from zero. Learn why successful creators protect their streaks.
The Currency of Consistency – Marcus.Blog
Every day you show up builds trust, resilience, and momentum. Skip one day and restart from zero. Learn why successful creators protect their streaks.
marcus.blog
June 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Marcus.Blog Post #15: marcus.blog/the-currency...
The Currency of Consistency
Every day you show up builds trust, resilience, and momentum. Skip one day and restart from zero. Learn why successful creators protect their streaks.
The Currency of Consistency
Every day you show up builds trust, resilience, and momentum. Skip one day and restart from zero. Learn why successful creators protect their streaks.
Marcus.Blog Post #14: marcus.blog/the-problem-...
The Problem with Polish
Stop polishing, start shipping. In the AI era, your competition builds in public, while you perfect in private. Momentum beats hesitation every time.
The Problem with Polish
Stop polishing, start shipping. In the AI era, your competition builds in public, while you perfect in private. Momentum beats hesitation every time.
The Problem with Polish – Marcus.Blog
Stop polishing, start shipping. In the AI era, your competition builds in public, while you perfect in private. Momentum beats hesitation every time.
marcus.blog
June 7, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Marcus.Blog Post #14: marcus.blog/the-problem-...
The Problem with Polish
Stop polishing, start shipping. In the AI era, your competition builds in public, while you perfect in private. Momentum beats hesitation every time.
The Problem with Polish
Stop polishing, start shipping. In the AI era, your competition builds in public, while you perfect in private. Momentum beats hesitation every time.
Marcus.Blog Post #13: marcus.blog/thirteen/
Thirteen
This is Blog Post #13. While the world loses $800M yearly fearing 13, I take it and count it with compound growth, because math beats superstition every time.
Thirteen
This is Blog Post #13. While the world loses $800M yearly fearing 13, I take it and count it with compound growth, because math beats superstition every time.
Thirteen – Marcus.Blog
This is Blog Post #13. While the world loses $800M yearly fearing 13, I take it and count it with compound growth, because math beats superstition every time.
marcus.blog
June 6, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Marcus.Blog Post #13: marcus.blog/thirteen/
Thirteen
This is Blog Post #13. While the world loses $800M yearly fearing 13, I take it and count it with compound growth, because math beats superstition every time.
Thirteen
This is Blog Post #13. While the world loses $800M yearly fearing 13, I take it and count it with compound growth, because math beats superstition every time.
Marcus.Blog Post #12: marcus.blog/perfect-timi...
Perfect Timing
Perfect timing is a myth. Momentum is earned by shipping before you’re ready. Here’s how to stop waiting and start building—whatever you’re building.
Perfect Timing
Perfect timing is a myth. Momentum is earned by shipping before you’re ready. Here’s how to stop waiting and start building—whatever you’re building.
Perfect Timing – Marcus.Blog
Perfect timing is a myth. Momentum is earned by shipping before youre ready. Heres how to stop waiting and start building—whatever youre building.
marcus.blog
June 5, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Marcus.Blog Post #12: marcus.blog/perfect-timi...
Perfect Timing
Perfect timing is a myth. Momentum is earned by shipping before you’re ready. Here’s how to stop waiting and start building—whatever you’re building.
Perfect Timing
Perfect timing is a myth. Momentum is earned by shipping before you’re ready. Here’s how to stop waiting and start building—whatever you’re building.
Marcus.Blog Post #11: marcus.blog/what-i-learn...
What I Learned Saying ‘No’ to WWE
Sometimes the biggest opportunities are not the ones you take—they’re the ones that teach you what you’re really building toward.
What I Learned Saying ‘No’ to WWE
Sometimes the biggest opportunities are not the ones you take—they’re the ones that teach you what you’re really building toward.
marcus.blog
June 4, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Marcus.Blog Post #11: marcus.blog/what-i-learn...
What I Learned Saying ‘No’ to WWE
Sometimes the biggest opportunities are not the ones you take—they’re the ones that teach you what you’re really building toward.
What I Learned Saying ‘No’ to WWE
Sometimes the biggest opportunities are not the ones you take—they’re the ones that teach you what you’re really building toward.
Marcus.Blog Post #10: marcus.blog/how-claude-a...
How Claude and I Saved @thepinnaclelist.com from a Bot Invasion
How Claude and I stopped an aggressive bot attack in 15 minutes. Learn why an AI partnership beats managed hosting and saves thousands yearly on server costs.
How Claude and I Saved @thepinnaclelist.com from a Bot Invasion
How Claude and I stopped an aggressive bot attack in 15 minutes. Learn why an AI partnership beats managed hosting and saves thousands yearly on server costs.
How Claude and I Saved The Pinnacle List from a Bot Invasion – Marcus.Blog
How Claude and I stopped an aggressive bot attack in 15 minutes. Learn why an AI partnership beats managed hosting and saves thousands yearly on server costs.
marcus.blog
June 3, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Marcus.Blog Post #10: marcus.blog/how-claude-a...
How Claude and I Saved @thepinnaclelist.com from a Bot Invasion
How Claude and I stopped an aggressive bot attack in 15 minutes. Learn why an AI partnership beats managed hosting and saves thousands yearly on server costs.
How Claude and I Saved @thepinnaclelist.com from a Bot Invasion
How Claude and I stopped an aggressive bot attack in 15 minutes. Learn why an AI partnership beats managed hosting and saves thousands yearly on server costs.
Marcus.Blog Post #9: marcus.blog/excerpts-as-...
Excerpts as Meta Descriptions: The Feature WordPress Forgot
WordPress has given us excerpts since the beginning. Search engines need meta descriptions. Yet after 20 years, WordPress still hasn’t connected these two dots.
Excerpts as Meta Descriptions: The Feature WordPress Forgot
WordPress has given us excerpts since the beginning. Search engines need meta descriptions. Yet after 20 years, WordPress still hasn’t connected these two dots.
Excerpts as Meta Descriptions: The Feature WordPress Forgot – Marcus.Blog
WordPress has given us excerpts since the beginning. Search engines need meta descriptions. Yet after 20 years, WordPress still hasnt connected these two dots.
marcus.blog
June 2, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Marcus.Blog Post #9: marcus.blog/excerpts-as-...
Excerpts as Meta Descriptions: The Feature WordPress Forgot
WordPress has given us excerpts since the beginning. Search engines need meta descriptions. Yet after 20 years, WordPress still hasn’t connected these two dots.
Excerpts as Meta Descriptions: The Feature WordPress Forgot
WordPress has given us excerpts since the beginning. Search engines need meta descriptions. Yet after 20 years, WordPress still hasn’t connected these two dots.
Marcus.Blog Post #8: marcus.blog/the-block-th...
The Block Theme Trap That Killed My Analytics (And The Plugin That Fixed It)
When WordPress Twenty Twenty-Five’s Site Editor vanished my analytics tracking, I learned why manually editing template files is dangerous with block themes.
The Block Theme Trap That Killed My Analytics (And The Plugin That Fixed It)
When WordPress Twenty Twenty-Five’s Site Editor vanished my analytics tracking, I learned why manually editing template files is dangerous with block themes.
The Block Theme Trap That Killed My Analytics (And The Plugin That Fixed It) – Marcus.Blog
marcus.blog
June 1, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Marcus.Blog Post #8: marcus.blog/the-block-th...
The Block Theme Trap That Killed My Analytics (And The Plugin That Fixed It)
When WordPress Twenty Twenty-Five’s Site Editor vanished my analytics tracking, I learned why manually editing template files is dangerous with block themes.
The Block Theme Trap That Killed My Analytics (And The Plugin That Fixed It)
When WordPress Twenty Twenty-Five’s Site Editor vanished my analytics tracking, I learned why manually editing template files is dangerous with block themes.
Marcus.Blog Post #7: marcus.blog/the-compound...
The Compound Content Creator: Why Consistency Beats Virality
The independent creators who succeed aren’t the ones who go viral. They’re the ones who keep showing up and delivering on their promise—day after day.
The Compound Content Creator: Why Consistency Beats Virality
The independent creators who succeed aren’t the ones who go viral. They’re the ones who keep showing up and delivering on their promise—day after day.
The Compound Content Creator: Why Consistency Beats Virality – Marcus.Blog
marcus.blog
May 31, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Marcus.Blog Post #7: marcus.blog/the-compound...
The Compound Content Creator: Why Consistency Beats Virality
The independent creators who succeed aren’t the ones who go viral. They’re the ones who keep showing up and delivering on their promise—day after day.
The Compound Content Creator: Why Consistency Beats Virality
The independent creators who succeed aren’t the ones who go viral. They’re the ones who keep showing up and delivering on their promise—day after day.
Marcus.Blog Post #6: marcus.blog/the-job-that...
The Job That Paid in T-Shirts and DVDs
From TNA Wrestling forum fan at 14 to building their website for t-shirts and DVDs. How unpaid experience led to a WWE offer and ultimately launching Solespire.
The Job That Paid in T-Shirts and DVDs
From TNA Wrestling forum fan at 14 to building their website for t-shirts and DVDs. How unpaid experience led to a WWE offer and ultimately launching Solespire.
The Job That Paid in T-Shirts and DVDs – Marcus.Blog
marcus.blog
May 31, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Marcus.Blog Post #6: marcus.blog/the-job-that...
The Job That Paid in T-Shirts and DVDs
From TNA Wrestling forum fan at 14 to building their website for t-shirts and DVDs. How unpaid experience led to a WWE offer and ultimately launching Solespire.
The Job That Paid in T-Shirts and DVDs
From TNA Wrestling forum fan at 14 to building their website for t-shirts and DVDs. How unpaid experience led to a WWE offer and ultimately launching Solespire.
Marcus.Blog Post #5: marcus.blog/the-drywall-...
The Drywall Wireframe
Every entrepreneur has an origin story. Mine begins wireframing on a dusty slab of drywall in Kitimat, British Columbia, Canada, with my father, Kris Cyganiak.
The Drywall Wireframe
Every entrepreneur has an origin story. Mine begins wireframing on a dusty slab of drywall in Kitimat, British Columbia, Canada, with my father, Kris Cyganiak.
The Drywall Wireframe – Marcus.Blog
marcus.blog
May 29, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Marcus.Blog Post #5: marcus.blog/the-drywall-...
The Drywall Wireframe
Every entrepreneur has an origin story. Mine begins wireframing on a dusty slab of drywall in Kitimat, British Columbia, Canada, with my father, Kris Cyganiak.
The Drywall Wireframe
Every entrepreneur has an origin story. Mine begins wireframing on a dusty slab of drywall in Kitimat, British Columbia, Canada, with my father, Kris Cyganiak.
Marcus.Blog Post #4: marcus.blog/the-default-...
The Default Theme Decision
After developing WordPress themes for nearly two decades, I launched Marcus.Blog using the default Twenty Twenty-Five theme—turning constraints into catalysts.
The Default Theme Decision
After developing WordPress themes for nearly two decades, I launched Marcus.Blog using the default Twenty Twenty-Five theme—turning constraints into catalysts.
The Default Theme Decision – Marcus.Blog
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May 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Marcus.Blog Post #4: marcus.blog/the-default-...
The Default Theme Decision
After developing WordPress themes for nearly two decades, I launched Marcus.Blog using the default Twenty Twenty-Five theme—turning constraints into catalysts.
The Default Theme Decision
After developing WordPress themes for nearly two decades, I launched Marcus.Blog using the default Twenty Twenty-Five theme—turning constraints into catalysts.
Marcus.Blog Post #3: marcus.blog/why-i-ship-d...
Why I Ship Daily (Even When It Hurts)
My head throbs. My throat burns. But here I am, typing. Because compound interest doesn’t care about your cold—and momentum waits for no one.
Why I Ship Daily (Even When It Hurts)
My head throbs. My throat burns. But here I am, typing. Because compound interest doesn’t care about your cold—and momentum waits for no one.
Why I Ship Daily (Even When It Hurts) – Marcus.Blog
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May 27, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Marcus.Blog Post #3: marcus.blog/why-i-ship-d...
Why I Ship Daily (Even When It Hurts)
My head throbs. My throat burns. But here I am, typing. Because compound interest doesn’t care about your cold—and momentum waits for no one.
Why I Ship Daily (Even When It Hurts)
My head throbs. My throat burns. But here I am, typing. Because compound interest doesn’t care about your cold—and momentum waits for no one.
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This exchange is part of why I started @marcus.blog — real dialogue, sans algorithms or character limits deciding what matters.
On social media, this conversation would've died in the feed. On my blog, it becomes a permanent asset that compounds.
Join the conversation: marcus.blog/reclaiming-d...
On social media, this conversation would've died in the feed. On my blog, it becomes a permanent asset that compounds.
Join the conversation: marcus.blog/reclaiming-d...
May 27, 2025 at 2:01 AM
This exchange is part of why I started @marcus.blog — real dialogue, sans algorithms or character limits deciding what matters.
On social media, this conversation would've died in the feed. On my blog, it becomes a permanent asset that compounds.
Join the conversation: marcus.blog/reclaiming-d...
On social media, this conversation would've died in the feed. On my blog, it becomes a permanent asset that compounds.
Join the conversation: marcus.blog/reclaiming-d...
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It’s only Day 2 of @marcus.blog and it’s already ranking third on Google for “marcus blog”.
The favicon and description still need a re-crawl, but proof of concept is live.
Turns out, if you “Just Start” (marcus.blog/just-start/), things start moving.
Ship. Share. Show up.
The favicon and description still need a re-crawl, but proof of concept is live.
Turns out, if you “Just Start” (marcus.blog/just-start/), things start moving.
Ship. Share. Show up.
May 26, 2025 at 9:07 PM
It’s only Day 2 of @marcus.blog and it’s already ranking third on Google for “marcus blog”.
The favicon and description still need a re-crawl, but proof of concept is live.
Turns out, if you “Just Start” (marcus.blog/just-start/), things start moving.
Ship. Share. Show up.
The favicon and description still need a re-crawl, but proof of concept is live.
Turns out, if you “Just Start” (marcus.blog/just-start/), things start moving.
Ship. Share. Show up.
Marcus.Blog Post #2: marcus.blog/reclaiming-d...
Reclaiming Digital Sovereignty
I deleted 17 years of tweets. Digital sovereignty matters. It starts with three simple steps Big Tech would rather you ignore. One is starting a blog.
Reclaiming Digital Sovereignty
I deleted 17 years of tweets. Digital sovereignty matters. It starts with three simple steps Big Tech would rather you ignore. One is starting a blog.
Reclaiming Digital Sovereignty – Marcus.Blog
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May 26, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Marcus.Blog Post #2: marcus.blog/reclaiming-d...
Reclaiming Digital Sovereignty
I deleted 17 years of tweets. Digital sovereignty matters. It starts with three simple steps Big Tech would rather you ignore. One is starting a blog.
Reclaiming Digital Sovereignty
I deleted 17 years of tweets. Digital sovereignty matters. It starts with three simple steps Big Tech would rather you ignore. One is starting a blog.