Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Spammers are attacking businesses by accessing the “claim this business” link in the Google Local Knowledge Panel. Anemail is then sent to the business owner from Google My Business notifying them of a request to gain control over thelisting.If you ever receive one of these emails for your business, don’t assume it’s your webmaster or…

Lessons I learned the Hard Way You may have seen that Stripe cancelled my account. And what became clear to me was something others have tried to tell me but I didn’t grasp. We are playing in someone else’s sandbox. I’ve seen it about Facebook because Facebook makes the rules and could suddenly deny us…

According to USA Today, Amazon is creating more financially independent online businesses than any other digital opportunity.  But that doesn’t mean any old approach on Amazon will work. Quite the contrary. Amazon can be a ruthless dog-eat-dog world if you play it the way most “supposed experts” teach.  Here’s an example. While “go big or…

Are you a person that keeps your credit cards in your cell phone case. It definitely can be more convenient and could reduce the amount of items you carry around. But you may want to reconsider the practice after reading this story. The risk may outweigh the convenience.

Do you run a Facebook page? …and have you noticed a big drop in page likes? Well, I did, big time. At least it seemed that way. It hurts when page ‘Likes’ drops by about 2.5% overnight. Apparently Facebook is clearing out Likes from ‘fake” and abandoned pages/profiles.