Newsletter: Summer Is Ending, and Q4 Is Coming Fast

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Summer is wrapping up, and I am trying to make room for some rest before Q4 ecommerce and logistics activity accelerates.

Miles completed his second sumo-bot robot competition this past weekend. He is also slowly learning the operating side of a supervised Snapchum and Monsnatch retail project. Robotics and entrepreneurship keep teaching the same lesson: build something small, test it in the real world, and learn from what breaks.

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What Else Is Moving

Cross Border Summit: The eighth annual summit is November 3–5 in Chiang Mai, with the theme Fellowship. See Cross Border Summit 2026.

Attendee experience: We are hardening app.crossbordersummit.com so attendees can navigate connections, bonuses, perks, and collaboration more easily.

The agentic web: HeadlessDomains is building Handshake-backed .agent, .protocol, and .factory identities around machine-readable identity, permissions, discovery, and payments. Explore HeadlessDomains.

Chiang Mai dinner: If you are an advanced ecommerce seller, join us on Thursday, September 3.

What relationship or skill are you strengthening before Q4?

Mike