Reading Time: 2 min If you’ve watched much of the TV show “The Office”, you’ve likely heard of WUPHF. It was a company started by Ryan, where the app would send your outgoing messages everywhere all at once. I’m not talking about double-posting to Facebook and Instagram at once, but sending a direct message to a single person across […]
Technology
It’s designed to wear out first
Reading Time: 2 min It seems like the power cable for your phone wears out too quickly, doesn’t it? I know that we often are having to replace those cords. They must be poorly made, right? That may be true, but those cable are intentionally designed to wear out. When you have friction in a connection like that, something […]
Backups for your backup
Reading Time: 2 min At GreenMellen, we use Google Workspace for much of our work, including Google Drive for all of our files (totaling 173,405 files, 627,810 emails, together taking up 391 GB of storage). Google Drive is great, because it’s essentially an automatic backup of your files. If something goes wrong on your end, Google will still have […]
Efficient isn’t the same as effective
Reading Time: < 1 min I strive to be a very efficient person, as evidenced by the well over 100 posts in the “productivity” category of this blog. I try to be careful, though, as efficiency has very little to do with being effective, and the latter is far more important. Kevin Paul Scott laid this out beautifully in a […]
When Calendly goes wrong
Reading Time: 2 min Tools like Calendly can be fantastic. Rather than a dozen emails back-and-forth to find a time to meet, you can just share a link with your available times, and the other party can pick the one that’s best for them. It’s great! At times, though, it can unintentionally seem like a power move and be […]
Should your offline activities affect your Twitter account?
Reading Time: 2 min I’ve seen a lot of posts from conservative friends that suggest that Russia and other adversaries shouldn’t be allowed to have Twitter accounts. After all, if Twitter banned Donald Trump, they should ban others too, right? Twitter’s response has generally been that accounts are only removed for actions taken by a user on Twitter, not […]
500 days of blogging
Reading Time: < 1 min When I started on this back in October of 2020, I was pretty confident I’d make it through the end of that year, and even 100 in a row didn’t seem too bad. However, 500 is a different animal and I’m pleased I’ve been able to keep it up this long. Because I don’t write […]
15% of all searches on Google are still brand new
Reading Time: < 1 min Over the years, Google has frequently shared that a large percentage of the searches on their site are for phrases they’ve never seen before. This is heavily related to search queries getting longer, which I first talked about 13 years ago and continues to progress to this day. As of right now, 15% of all […]
Google being less transparent can be a good thing
Reading Time: < 1 min For decades, there have been calls for Google to be more transparent about how their search algorithm works. While it’d be essentially impossible to share because it’s so wildly complex, even if sharing was possible it might still be a bad idea. In a recent Twitter poll, search engine experts were asked about the impact […]
The cycle of simple
Reading Time: < 1 min I’ve noticed a pattern in a few areas of business that goes roughly like this: Simple –> Complex –> Simple Websites The first place I’ve noticed this is with website design. When someone is just starting out, they build very simple sites. As their skills improve, they load websites up with more bells & whistles […]