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Amazon Elephants (February 2, 2004) In which strange patterns emerge in my Amazon Associates account.

New MTAmazon forthcoming (May 5, 2003) A new version of MTAmazon will have some great new features. Filter BrowseNode and wishlist searches by keywords, search for items by price, and manage your customer's Amazon shopping cart.

MTAmazon TrackBacks (December 12, 2002) Add your MTAmazon-powered site to the TrackBack-enabled list of example sites.

Sorting Amazon (October 10, 2002) Amazon's backend is showing and they are revealing some interesting flaws in their system.

Better Amazon links (August 8, 2002) Earn a higher commission on sales through MTAmazon and provide a better experience to your users.

MTAmazon 2.0 (July 7, 2002) MTAmazon is a Movable Type plugin that displays products from Amazon.com on your site. It allows flexible searching and display of products from any of Amazon's product categories. New in version 2.0 is caching, related products searching, and more tags for Amazon product information.

Amazon plugin (July 7, 2002) MTAmazon is a Movable Type plugin that uses your Amazon Associate membership to retreive products from Amazon. It allows flexible searching and display of products from any of Amazon's product categories.

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Should individual people have OKRs?
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10 OKR traps and how to avoid them
May 8: I’ve helped lots of teams implement OKRs or fix a broken OKR process. Here are the 10 most common problems I see, and what to do instead.
AI is Smart, But Wisdom Requires Judgement
May 3: AI can process data at lightning speed, but wisdom comes from human judgment—picking the best imperfect option when facts alone don’t point the way.
Decoding Product Leadership Titles
Mar 18: Not all product leadership titles mean what they sound like. ‘Head of Product’ can mean anything from a senior PM to a true VP. Here’s how to tell the difference.
What branding can teach about culture
Jan 8: Culture is your company’s point of view in action—a framework guiding behavior, even in the unknown. You can’t copy it; it must reflect your unique perspective.
Think Systems, not Symptoms
Dec 15: Piecemeal process creation frustrates teams and slows work. Stop patching problems and start solving systems. Adopting a systems thinking approach helps you design processes that are efficient, aligned with goals, and truly add value.
Your Policies Aren’t Your Culture
Dec 13: Policies guide behavior, but culture is the lived norms and values of your team. Policies reflect culture -- they don’t define it. Netflix’s parental leave shift didn’t change its culture of freedom and responsibility. It clarified how to live it.
Lighten Your Process Burden
Dec 7: Everyone hates oppressive processes, but somehow we keep managing to create them.

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