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Reading Time: < 1 min I recently finished the book “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind“, and I’ll likely share a few things from it in the coming weeks. It was an excellent book, and I highly recommend it. Near the end, the author talked a lot about happiness, and how most things generally only make us more (or less) […]

Reading Time: 2 min It’s easy to think that we control all of our own decisions, and to a large extent we do, but it can also be crazy to see how things like sea levels 100 million years ago have a direct impact on elections today. Take the 2020 election results in Alabama, that looked something like this: […]

Reading Time: < 1 min Yes, you should. I see this come up from time to time. Someone is speaking to a group of perhaps 20 or 30 people, and wonder if they can avoid the internal awkwardness of using the mic, so they hold the mic to the side and ask “can you still hear me”? Not wanting to […]

Reading Time: < 1 min There are a lot of awards given out to companies and websites that are various levels of scam. It can be a pretty lucrative business to “sell” awards to other companies, and it’s frustrating. However, there are many awards out there that are legitimate and merit-based, and I’m thrilled that GreenMellen was chosen as one […]

Reading Time: 2 min I think we all know the story of the Titanic, which set sail with around 2,200 people on board, of which roughly 1,500 perished when it sank. However, the sinking of the Titanic likely saved many more lives than the 1,500 that were lost that cold night in 1912. How so? Better safety practices that […]