Category — Microblog Mondays

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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There’s this website where you can send an email to your future self, to be delivered on a certain date. You write it now and then choose whether to deliver it in a year or three years or on a certain date, and then you forget about the email and it arrives in the future.

Though you can do the same thing with scheduled send in most email programs. You could write yourself an email, schedule it to go out at some point in the future, and then be surprised (somewhat) when it arrives.

I don’t even know what I would tell my future self. My past self, I would tell her plenty. But my future self should be telling me things.

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts that are connected to businesses or are sponsored post.

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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This is the 400th Microblog Monday. So… it’s been going for 7.6 years. A baby in comparison to the Friday Blog Roundup, which will soon reach its 16th anniversary and has over 800 posts. But still worth noting because the Internet is all about brief rises and falls. People start projects and end them. Something gets hot and then it’s not. But Microblog Monday has been trucking along, unchanged, for 400 posts. It’s small, barely used anymore, but still here.

Thank you for blogging, too.

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts that are connected to businesses or are sponsored post.

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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This man can speak 37 languages. It’s an old article on hyperpolyglots, but I just refound the bookmark. Embedded inside is a video of him switching between multiple languages. It’s fascinating.

He can read, write, and speak at varying levels. I love how he uses languages to connect with people: “Because for Vaughn, every language is really a story about the people it connected him to.”

Isn’t this such a great story? I mean, the brain scan stuff is interesting, but I really love the reason he picks up languages.

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts that are connected to businesses or are sponsored post.

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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I often struggle with how to say “no” when I know that I need to say, “no.” And when I get it right (or I feel like I’ve nailed a good “no”), I drop the text into a document that I can look back on in the future. The email is rarely helpful a second time, but you never know.

Someone passed along this canned response gallery of “how to say no,” and now I pass it along to you in case it is helpful. A lot of these situations are not ones I struggle with, but I still bookmarked it for inspiration. Maybe they’ll pad it out with more situations in the future.

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts that are connected to businesses or are sponsored post.

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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I found a fun site that tells you how many people are in outer space at any given time. Hint: the answer doesn’t change much from day to day, but it’s still fun to check it every once in a while, waiting for the number to go up or down.

What does change are the number of days a person has been in space. It’s fun to take the number, Google the date by typing something such as “229 days ago,” and having Google deliver the date. And then looking in my datebook to see what I was doing on that day. On the day that Zhai Zhigang went into space, my friend, Christine, sent me goat milk caramels.

What were you doing?

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts that are connected to businesses or are sponsored post.