Reading Time: 2 minAs a guy that prides himself on productivity, I’ll admit that the title of this post is really weird. As I dug in, though, the concept has slowly made more sense to me. This comes from a recent episode of the Cortex podcast, where CGP got into this a good bit. It started as a […]
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What service do you offer?
Reading Time: 2 minBetween our business mail service and returning Amazon orders, I visit our local UPS Store quite a lot. They’re great! A few doors down from them I often see a few trucks for Sluss+Padgett, a company that does… something? Here are their trucks: I appreciate a nice clean design, but their “See the difference” tagline […]
Produce more, because so much of it should be trashed
Reading Time: < 1 minIt’s difficult to create high-quality content. Whether we’re talking about words, art, video or any other medium, there is a lot of scrap that needs to be created before you get to the good stuff. In “Excellent Advice for Living“, author Kevin Kelly shares it like this: The main reason to produce something every day […]
We are impossible to imitate
Reading Time: 2 minOver the years, an interesting thing we’ve done at GreenMellen is to literally give all of our “secrets” away. Across dozens of podcast episodes, hundreds of Meetup events, and thousands of blog posts, we don’t hold anything back. I often joke that our Meetups are when our competition all visit and we tell them all […]
Let people quietly follow you online
Reading Time: < 1 minI’m one of those people that rarely removes any connections on social media. Sure, if someone is acting wildly inappropriate I’ll cut them loose, but I have hundreds of connections on various sites that I’ve not spoken with in years. I should work to solve that at some point, but that’s not what this is […]
The first one
Reading Time: < 1 minStarting a healthy habit can be difficult. It could be a regular workout schedule, eating better, reading frequently, or blogging daily. As with many things, the first one can be the most difficult. My friend Laurie expressed this beautifully earlier this year with her first blog post on January 15. Her first post talks about […]
Empathetic Marketing
Reading Time: 3 minThe single best thing you can do with your marketing is to always keep the end user in mind. When we build websites for our customers, we frequently remind them that the site is not for them — it’s for their customers. A common joke among web designers is that clients always seem to want […]
Don’t freak out about AI just yet
Reading Time: 3 minI’ve shared a few times on here some concerns I have with AI. There are good things coming, but probably some bad things too. You’d be wise to spend time with AI tools and start learning how they work, but it’s not time to freak out over it yet. Napster Back in 1999, the record […]
Homework for life
Reading Time: 2 minIn reading Matthew Dicks’ book “Storyworthy“, he introduced a practice that he started years ago, and I’m giving a shot as well. Matthew calls it “homework for life”, but I actually first discovered it in a video from Ryan Kelly; the video was all about his reMarkable 2, but he briefly mentioned it while calling […]
As automation speeds up, relationships will reign
Reading Time: 2 minI recently shared a glimpse into the “bad side of AI“, where I’m starting to get some automated comments on social media and it’s likely to get much worse. The side I fear a bit more is the coming glut of AI-personalized email spam, at huge scale. Microsoft has unveiled Viva Sales and Salesforce announced […]