§ The Journal - Vol. 2026

Long-form thinking,
published when ready.

Frameworks, original research and pragmatic essays. We don't run a content calendar - we publish when the argument is finished.

APRIL 22 · 2026

The compounding-content thesis: why most blogs are ledgers, not assets.

A thirty-month look at how a small portfolio of evergreen pieces consistently outperforms publishing-treadmill output - and what that implies for editorial staffing.

FRAMEWORKS
11 MIN · DMFYI-J-026
APRIL 14 · 2026

Bid strategy after Performance Max: a working playbook.

Where the PMax black box still pays back, where it quietly cannibalizes brand search, and how to instrument both - without picking fights with the auction.

PAID MEDIA
9 MIN · DMFYI-J-025
APRIL 02 · 2026

Attribution is dead. Long live measurement.

A pragmatic case for retiring last-touch and adopting a triangulated stack: incrementality tests, MMM lite, and qualitative customer-source surveys.

MEASUREMENT
14 MIN · DMFYI-J-024
MARCH 19 · 2026

The lifecycle program no one wants to inherit.

How most lifecycle programs accumulate technical and creative debt - and the cleanup playbook for the marketer who shows up afterward.

LIFECYCLE
10 MIN · DMFYI-J-023
MARCH 11 · 2026

Internal links are an asset class.

An argument for treating internal linking as portfolio allocation rather than a navigation problem - including the spreadsheet model.

SEO
8 MIN · DMFYI-J-022
MARCH 03 · 2026

Channel mix is a portfolio problem, not a budget problem.

Why most channel-allocation arguments are framed wrong, and a portfolio-theory lens that fits how marketing actually pays back.

STRATEGY
13 MIN · DMFYI-J-021
FEBRUARY 21 · 2026

Against A/B testing as theatre.

Most CRO programs run tests that cannot move conclusions. A working definition of an experiment worth running, and four signs yours isn't.

CRO
7 MIN · DMFYI-J-020
FEBRUARY 09 · 2026

The brief is the product: a defense of editorial planning.

In content marketing, the document that decides everything is the brief. A method for writing briefs that survive contact with the writer.

CONTENT
9 MIN · DMFYI-J-019
JANUARY 28 · 2026

GA4 is not the problem. Your event taxonomy is.

A field guide to designing an event taxonomy that survives platform migrations, team changes and the eventual day GA4 is also deprecated.

MEASUREMENT
12 MIN · DMFYI-J-018