Thinking Through the WP Engine Acquisition of StudioPress
As a fun thought exercise I decided to think through the WP Engine and Studio Press acquisition. Specifically, what I would do, and think they will do, with the new asset. While I know all the parties, I have less than zero knowledge about the deal or intentions. In other words, this is pure conjecture…
Read MoreThe Lost Art of Making Decisions
At the end of one of my keynotes last year I was asked: Tony, how did you know what decision to make? In war, there is nothing worse than a leader that can’t make a decision. People die. While not as dire in business, your indecisiveness will slowly kill your product, your team, your moment, and…
Read MoreAnalyzing Sucuri’s 2017 Hacked Website Trend Report
The Sucuri team just released their first annual security report that looks at telemetry from hacked websites – Hacked Website Report 2017. It uses a representative sample of infected websites from the Sucuri customer base to better understand end-user behavior and bad-actor tactics. It specifically focuses on 34,371 infected websites, aggregating data from two distinct…
Read MoreDiving Into the Dark Web and Understanding the Economy Powering Cyber Attacks
This morning, Armor, a cloud security provider, released a great report into the cyber crime black market. Armor was formerly known as as FireHost – they were one of the leading hosts boasting security first and have dramatically evolved over the years. This report was put together by the Armor Threat Resistance Unit (TRU), whom extrapolated data from…
Read MoreGutenberg and The Impacts It’ll Have on the WordPress Business Ecosystem
As has become customary over the past 8 years, I joined thousands of fellow WordPress enthusiasts and supporters for WordCamp US 2018 in Nashville, Tennessee. For me, the highlight is always the State of The Word (SOTW), delivered by Matt Mullenweg (Co-Founder of the platform). The SOTW provides an opportunity to reflect on the last…
Read MoreDon’t fear failure. Embrace Your Scars.
I was recently asked what I would tell myself if I could go back ten years. Why are the simplest questions, the most difficult to answer? For the life of me, I couldn’t figure out why it was so hard to answer. Everything I thought of felt shallow; as if it was either not impactful…
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