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 within hours. On my blog, it becomes a permanent asset that compounds — building value

Marcus.Blog Post #3: marcus.blog/why-i-ship-dai… 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.

Marcus.Blog Post #4: marcus.blog/the-default-th… 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.

After being live for only 4 days, marcus.blog has already gone from 0 to 1 in Domain Rating (DR) — with zero link-building efforts. Just daily posting.

Marcus.Blog Post #5: marcus.blog/the-drywall-wi… 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 #6: marcus.blog/the-job-that-p… 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 #7: marcus.blog/the-compound-c… 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 #8: marcus.blog/the-block-them… The Block Theme Trap That Killed My Analytics (& The Plugin That Fixed It) When WordPress Twenty Twenty-Five’s Site Editor vanished my analytics, I learned why manually editing block theme template files is dangerous.

Marcus.Blog Post #9: marcus.blog/excerpts-as-me… 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 #10: marcus.blog/how-claude-and… How Claude and I Saved The Pinnacle List 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 #11: marcus.blog/what-i-learned… 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 #12: marcus.blog/perfect-timing/ 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 #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.

Marcus.Blog Post #14: marcus.blog/the-problem-wi… 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 #15: marcus.blog/the-currency-o… 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 #16: marcus.blog/makers-vs-mana… 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 #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.

Marcus.Blog Post #18: marcus.blog/why-the-future… 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.

RIP Hulk Hogan, 1953-2025 We remember not only the man, Terry Bollea, but the Florida home where many milestones were lived—his majestic Belleair Estate—standing as a tribute to the unforgettable life and career of one of wrestling’s greatest champions: thepinnaclelist.com/news/hulk-hoga…

Throwback to 11 Dec 2014 when my dad and I drove from Vancouver to San Francisco on the same day we attended a Facebook HQ townhall that we were invited to attend. The buzz at the time was very much still how Facebook acquired Instagram in 2012. Mark Zuckerberg fielded