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Mickey Mellen

Your algorithm is who you are

I’ve shared on here many times that I’m not a big fan of algorithms in social media and search and what they’re doing to us. However, even…

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12h ago

Is human-level intelligence the goal of AI?

It seems that many of us are looking for AI to eventually reach “human-level intelligence”, but is that really the right goal? It sounds…

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Listening while I read

I’ve always found the idea of listening to a book while you read it to be very interesting, and my recent conversation with Chris Gardner…

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Google AI Overviews are devouring search traffic

As Google continues to push their “AI Overviews” (the AI snippets at the top of search results), we’re seeing a greater and greater…

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The Sunday Summary: Problematic screenshots, avoiding website traffic, Nexus, and Readwise

Here’s a bit about what I wrote, read and learned over the past week. I hope you find it helpful!

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The JFK conspiracy theory is comforting

I’ve long struggled to understand why some people cling so tightly to conspiracy theories around things like 9/11 or the COVID vaccine, but…

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Deletion is a gift

If you’re going to be providing information to someone else, whether it’s a speech, a meeting, or a presentation, one of the best gifts you…

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6d ago

Optimizing for website traffic is dumb

It can be tempting to try to optimize your website to get more traffic, because with all things being the same, more traffic will lead to…

Jun 12

Jun 12

Edit before you record

If you’ve listened to any episodes of my Stacking Knowledge podcast, you probably noticed that they’re quite raw as I intentionally do very…

Jun 11

Jun 11

Screenshots continue to be lazy and problematic

I’ve mentioned for years that the trend of sharing screenshots of articles (instead of links to the article) is very problematic, and I…

Jun 10

Screenshots continue to be lazy and problematic

Jun 10

Mickey Mellen

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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