Mickey Mellen

I'm a cofounder of @GreenMellen, and I'm into WordPress, blogging and seo. Love my two girls, gadgets, Google Earth, and I try to run when I can.

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In June of 2002 I had the opportunity to interview @crowdermusic. Toward the end of the interview a young woman was passing through the lobby, recognized him, and asked for a photo, but I lost her email address and was never able to send it to her.

Pass it along and find her!

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@MikeMaroyi @howertonjosh Wow, I guess it turns out that a lot of the Bible believing Christians that I know aren't really Christians in your eyes, huh?

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@elevenreader When will the new bookmark feature be available on the web version? I tend to do more bookmarking on tablet, but I need to be able to access them on my computer for post-reading processing.

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Shut up and sing

Political endorsements from my friends and people that I trust are worth far more than who a celebrity or athlete chooses to endorse. However, I don’t think it’s fair to ask them to “shut up and sing”.

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The Six-Week Delusion

This week is busy.

Next week is busy.

But six weeks from now? Sure, I’ve got plenty of time!

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Finding the “middle place”

"We need to find the middle place. Some way to take little compartmentalized sips in our social channels but not lose ourselves in the process."

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@tom_tortorici Yes, I think I see that as being tactics. The things you do are the tactics, and the reason you do them points to the strategy.

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Strategy is a compass, not a map

"The map certainly will, your tactics will. But a strategy is the thing you get to lean against that is your North Star, where you’re headed."

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Using Sectograph to visualize my day

I'm trying out using a tablet in front of my main display to help with some widgets, and it's a great setup so far.

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Blameless Postmortems

"For a postmortem to be truly blameless, it must focus on identifying the contributing causes of the incident without indicting any individual or team for bad or inappropriate behavior."

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The Sunday Summary: Be a voter, lots of WordPress drama, random posts, and doing great things for the first time

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People who do great things are doing them for the first time

"I’d rather have someone all fired up to do something for the first time than someone who’s done it before and isn’t that excited to do it again."

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What are libraries for?

“Librarians who are arguing and lobbying for clever e-book lending solutions are completely missing the point. They are defending the library-as-warehouse concept, as opposed to fighting for the future.”

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Random posts

I wanted to find a system kind of like Readwise that would take all of my posts and show me a random one every time I asked. I had ChatGPT write me a simple WordPress plugin that does the trick, and it’s great!

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The WordPress drama shows why WordPress remains the best choice

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Be a voter

If you haven’t yet, I hope you vote today. Perhaps more importantly, I hope you encourage others to do the same. When you do, the words that you use matter.

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Do you know why your side might lose?

“It’s bad to have an opinion you’re proud of if you can’t state the arguments for the other side better than your opponents.”

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@chrislema Revenue is vanity, profit is sanity.

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@MlacksMSL I appreciate that!

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The opposite of authentic is consistent

“No one wants you to be authentic. If you need surgery, you don’t want the surgeon to be authentic. If they’re having a bad day, you don’t want them to do a bad job. You want them to be consistent.”

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The Sunday Summary: Crazy goals, big fires, hamster wheels, and fence posts

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