Author: Marcus Anthony Cyganiak
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Building in Public: The Ultimate Accountability
Build trust, momentum, and credibility by sharing your creative journey in public. Discover the benefits—and real accountability—of building as a community.
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The Hidden Cost of Tomorrow’s Promise
Learn how to break the cycle of perpetual preparation via endless planning sans action, and to start building progress via micro-commitments that actually work.
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The Myth of Overnight Success
Overnight success is the greatest illusion in entrepreneurship. Every headline touting a “sudden” breakthrough hides invisible effort and quiet persistence.
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Undesirable to Undeniable
Stop chasing validation. Learn why the edge cases everyone dismisses today become tomorrow’s benchmarks—and how to build what’s undeniable, not just desirable.
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There’s No Demand for Average
Nobody bookmarks ‘pretty good.’ Discover why the real risk isn’t being disliked—it’s building something so safe it disappears.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Makers vs. Managers
The future belongs to creators, not controllers. Discover why makers have more leverage than managers in today’s builder-driven economy.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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