EDI, Older Than Your Dad And Still Runs Global Trade.
A $34 billion market held together by 60 year old protocol, consultants charging by the hour, and a lot of very patient operations managers.
Operations · · 15 min read
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I've spent too long working in ecommerce. This is where I keep the things I notice, pull apart, test and occasionally build. Mostly commerce, brands, technology, things I'm working on or curious about, and the messy bits in between.
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I'm Chris.
I work in ecommerce, which after long enough has come to mean marketing, technology, operations, brands, systems and the commercial bits connecting them. This site is where that work shows up as writing, tools and the occasional project.
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