Joining us is friend and colleague Keir Whitaker. Keir works at Shopify as their Designer Advocate. Like us, he's also had a lot of side projects.

In this episode we discuss:

1. What's a side project, why have one?
2. The importance of projects. I have many, some worked, most didn't, and all were lessons learned
3. Using Shopify to launch an MVP and validate a side project.
4. How despite all the advances in technology, good business is still about personal relationships (and conferences are the fast track to those)

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