# Mickey Mullin > Write your next chapter ## Posts - [AI Boom: Nuclear Renaissance](https://mickeymullin.com/ai-boom-nuclear-renaissance): Part 1 of the AI Choice Point Series This article was originally published on my Substack. Read it there for comments and to subscribe: AI Boom, Nuclear Renaissance. The Warning Shot Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, dropped a bombshell last week that should have made every white-collar worker stop scrolling: AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs—and spike unemployment to 10-20% in the next one to five years. We’re heading toward mass elimination of roles, especially at the entry level. Most people are unaware that this is about to happen. It sounds crazy, and people just don’t […] - [How I Conquered Debt with Whiskey and a Spreadsheet](https://mickeymullin.com/how-i-conquered-debt-with-whiskey-and-a-spreadsheet): Eleven years ago, I was a shambling debt zombie. High-paying job, long hours away from my kids, and yet still drowning in bills. My bank account was a comic book villain—insane, erratic, and paper-thin. I’d pore over my (too many) credit card statements, praying for a lottery win. (Spoiler: I didn’t.) Then I built a system. Not some fancy app (that came later). Just a spreadsheet, a glass of whiskey, and a ritual I call “bill night.” Every month, I’d sit down, map out my paychecks, and assign every dollar in a paycheck to the bills due before the next […] - [The Freedom Problem: How Debt Creates Modern Servitude](https://mickeymullin.com/the-freedom-problem-how-debt-creates-modern-servitude): I remember sitting there, gifts stacked under the tree, feeling physically ill. Every single present was bought with money I didn’t have. The credit card statements would arrive in January, and I knew I’d be paying for them every month till next Christmas—and beyond. That Christmas morning, watching my kids tear open gifts should have been pure joy. Instead, I was choking on anxiety, shame burning in my chest. Each ripped piece of wrapping paper might as well have been another shred of my freedom. From Personal Debt to Systemic Control That debt-sick Christmas was my breaking point, but it […] - [Poor Kid, Big Debt](https://mickeymullin.com/poor-kid-big-debt): My Journey to Deliberate Freedom Growing Up Poor in the Ozarks I grew up in rural Arkansas, down a dirt road in the Ozarks. We didn’t starve—my days started with milking our cow and tending the garden that kept us fed through winter with home-canned vegetables. But with six family members living on $10,000 a year in the 1980s, luxuries were nonexistent. No cable TV reached us, just two fuzzy broadcast channels. We had a “party line”—a shared phone line that was no party at all—with four families along the same dirt road, and the internet wasn’t even a concept […] - [Debt Is Others Living Your Life for You](https://mickeymullin.com/debt-is-others-living-your-life-for-you): Alarm goes off. Again, just like it does every morning. Some mornings, it feels like it’s too much. You want to roll over and go back to sleep, maybe take the day off. Maybe quit your job entirely and spend the next month hiking the Appalachian Trail. But you don’t. And not because you’re disciplined or critical. You don’t because you can’t. Because somewhere, in a gleaming office tower or a carefully manicured Home & Garden mansion you’ll never set foot in, someone is expecting your money. They’re counting on it. They’ve already spent it. And you? You’re a fraction […] - [Fear at 4:30am](https://mickeymullin.com/fear-at-430am): Fear, uncertainty, and doubt. I first remember hearing those terms describing Microsoft’s marketing tactics against Linux back in the early 2000s. Rather than combat it directly with facts, by highlighting its operating systems’ strengths, or with superior product development, Microsoft chose to use emotional tactics to sway people from using the new and rising operating system. In the decades that followed, I’ve seen those emotional tactics used a dizzying number of times across a wide spectrum of topics. Emotions are persuasive. Today, I’m sitting with my own FUD, but it’s not coming from some behemoth trying to squash a smaller […] - [Be Who You Are](https://mickeymullin.com/be-who-you-are): “Happiness isn’t getting what you want. It’s wanting what you’ve got.”—Garth Brooks (Other people have said it. Garth just happens to be the first one I heard say it.) I think there are three driving forces in being a happy person: In my life, I’ve failed at all three of those—at times, all at once. I didn’t set out to be unhappy—in fact, I was acting on impulses that are individually reasonable, rational, and desirable. I wanted to make people happy, to have them like me. Friends and Influence One of the most influential books I’ve ever read was How […] - [Breaking Free: Building a Life You Love](https://mickeymullin.com/breaking-free-building-a-life-you-love): From Dissatisfaction to Opportunity The thing you hate most about your life is going to become your greatest opportunity. The thing you hate most is not a curse; it’s a compass. That nagging dissatisfaction, the one that turns the colors gray—that’s where your opportunity lies waiting for you. But when you live a full life, how do you change direction without everything you love collapsing in your wake? You’ve got everything you thought you wanted: a family, a career, a mortgage, two cars and a phone that takes kickass photos you never look at. Something’s not right, though. You’re unhappy. […] - [You Are What You Give](https://mickeymullin.com/you-are-what-you-give): Are you a “highly sensitive person”? Am I? “Highly sensitive people” (HSP) feel emotions more strongly and are more easily affected by the world around them. I read an article that described how a highly sensitive person experiences the world, and I related to much of it. Understanding Sensitivity Sometimes my emotions overwhelm me, leading me to lash out or run away from situations. Other times, I feel strangely numb—even when I think I “should be” more affected. But I realized that it doesn’t matter. My feelings are sometimes bigger than I can manage. The label is irrelevant. That article […] - [Read your coffee mug](https://mickeymullin.com/read-your-coffee-mug): My favorite coffee mug has an octopus on the outside, and inside the rim, where a right-handed person will see it every time he takes a sip, is the phrase, “Seize the day.” When people reach milestone ages—usually decade changes (30, 40, 50, 110)—it’s often a time of deep reflection, and for many people a time of regret: Why haven’t I accomplished more? Why haven’t I done more? We have notions of what our lives should look like by certain ages. Married by 25, house and kids by 30, first million by 40, semi-retired on an ocean-going yacht by 50, […] - [How to Speak to a Group: Energy and Voice](https://mickeymullin.com/how-to-speak-to-a-group-energy-and-voice): Do you want to captivate an audience or group every time you speak? Let’s break into the secrets of using your energy and voice to be a Superstar Speaker! What’s Your Gut Telling You? First, ask yourself: How can your nervous energy—those butterflies in your stomach—become your best ally on stage? Let’s dive into some concepts first, then get back to our guts! Introduction Let’s figure out how to turn your “speech” from an information delivery mechanism into an experience that inspires, persuades, educates, and entertains! There are some crucial to great speaking, and we’ll explore how your Energy can […] - [Insight Insights](https://mickeymullin.com/insight-insights): Change yourself, change your life. Better yet: Unleash yourself, love your life. People who know me in person are sometimes surprised to learn that I have long struggled with depression and with feelings of negative self worth. Tall, good-looking, worldly, gregarious, funny, insightful, compassionate, eloquent, MC, firedance-in-a-loincloth…and yet also somehow sure that I am wholly uninteresting and have little of value to offer the world. I’m joyfully changing that trajectory. Last weekend, I went to a seminar (Wednesday through Sunday, so a long weekend), which was the follow-up to a three-day seminar I participated in in March. There is a […] - [Thriving in Chaos: Embracing Change](https://mickeymullin.com/thriving-in-chaos-embracing-change): How can someone go from extremely humble beginnings to an extraordinary life? I’m going to go into exactly what I did to manage just that, but I’ll warn you right out the gate: It may not be the cozy advice you’re hoping for. It is a simple yet profound strategy that can elevate every aspect of your life—your career, your happiness, your self-confidence, and even your love life! This strategy took my own life from rags to…nicer rags—and how you can get started on it in your own life. Why me? Can I even do this? When I was a […] - [Retrain the NLP Parrot](https://mickeymullin.com/retrain-the-nlp-parrot): Don’t let anybody tell you you’re anything but awesome. Especially yourself. You are what you eat. And while the sea slug-looking physical part of your brain eats glucose, your higher level intellectual brain eats words and ideas, because the same is true there: YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT! Stop feeding it shit. One of the funniest things—and I don’t mean ha-ha funny—about the words we hear is that we only let in the ones that fit our ears. What’s that mean? I’ve often thought about my past self and the hard times I’ve had. Not like, being broke, or getting […] - [Be Irreplaceable](https://mickeymullin.com/be-irreplaceable): December 31st of last year, I got my walking papers. I am, for the first time in more than two decades—and over ten and a half years in internet advertising—unemployed. And for the first time ever: laid off. It reminded me of an experience I had about twenty years ago, where the owner of the company I worked for at the time told me that anyone could be replaced—that I was replaceable. It was an awful feeling, and it colored the remainder of my time there, always hanging in the back of my mind, sapping my productivity, eroding my motivation. […] - [Voice and Ears](https://mickeymullin.com/voice-and-ears): For the past several months, I have been circling the same topic repeatedly: What is my niche? What do I want to be know for? More importantly, what can I offer people that they would find engaging, entertaining, or useful? I’ve reflected on the decades I’ve so far lived and experienced, and when I’m feeling less generous about myself, I think I’ve succeeded at achieving success in life through luck and charm more than any shareable skill. What lessons are there that I have learned that could benefit others? I don’t know. It seems and feels like I’m just a […] - [Never Give In](https://mickeymullin.com/never-give-in): “Regret for what you never tried weighs heaviest of all.” Never give up on yourself. You. Will. Fail. You will fall—get back up! Do it differently. Get better. Never stop striving. Never stop. Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never. Boy, I was feeling low. Nothing I was writing or doing seemed to be connecting with anyone. I was singing, I was shouting, I was talking…and all into the void. My words were grains of salt dissolved by the ocean, and nothing I was doing was making a bit of difference. I was feeling pretty darn down on […] - [When are you too old?](https://mickeymullin.com/when-are-you-too-old): Getting older sucks, but it sure beats the alternative. Funny thing about getting older: It’s one thing that you absolutely must earn. Oh my god, I’m old! (Old!) Is it too late for me to do something new?! Funny thing about age: There’s always someone even older looking at you worrying and they’re laughing, “Oh, sweet child. You’re not old, yet. Not by far.” “Oh my god, I’m TWENTY-FIVE!” Every other adult is biting their tongue, because they sorely want to tell you that you haven’t even STARTED—only, they remember what it was like, so they’re being kind. Definitely absolutely […] - [Love Your Mistakes](https://mickeymullin.com/love-your-mistakes): “Learn from your mistakes.” It’s an important adage and a timeless lesson. It is in fact a lesson within a lesson: Mistakes are the most important part of learning. Only by attempting and failing do we make the knowledge part of us, create the neural pathways that allow us to improve and expand. I’m going to talk about two kinds of mistakes: The first are those we commit “intentionally”—or rather, in the course of attempting to do, create, or become something. These are the sort that the “learn from your mistakes” adage primarily mean, such as, practicing a sport, becoming […] - [What If?](https://mickeymullin.com/what-if): What if you weren’t competing with younger, better-looking people for younger audiences, because you’re not targeting that audience in the first place? What if you who are reading this aren’t an anomaly? What if there are other people in your same stage of life looking through scads of stories of young entrepreneurs and feeling like you missed the boat to possible success long ago? Here’s another crazy notion: What if there are young people who actually value an older perspective? There are a myriad of sayings, cliches, platitudes, bromides, and fantastic quotes about how much time you have and when […] - [Grab the Tine](https://mickeymullin.com/grab-the-tine): When I get around to it. Just as soon as I can. Someday… One day. One of these days. Won’t that be something! You’ll see! When I get the… TIME. Tim Urban did a Ted talk on procrastination—it’s really good; I recommend it—but at the end, taking up just a few seconds, he showed what he called a “Life Calendar” with one box for every week we are alive, and many of those are already checked off. Worse, we can only approximate how many we have, because we have no idea when our number is up. Dark, maybe, but true. […] - [You Have Enough](https://mickeymullin.com/you-have-enough): I wish I could create videos and publish them on YouTube. I wish I had a real camera. Plus, a teleprompter. Oh, and colored LED backlights that don’t flicker on video. And a “proper” background. And an editor. And a producer. And a Lamborghini. And a space ship. There are so many things that I could use to make videos, or that would make making videos easier. The fact is, I have more than enough to make videos. If you have a device that you can use to watch videos, then you almost certainly also have everything you need to […] - [Centered](https://mickeymullin.com/centered): This morning started poorly. The events that made it a poor start aren’t important, but how I reacted to them is: I got upset. Having multiple challenges come simultaneously or in quick succession can be cause for frustration and anger, or they can elevate you to greater heights of energy and focus. My normal inclination—habit—is the former. I slammed doors, I hit the steering wheel, I screamed once I was alone, all trying to release the pressure that was building. Well, not “the pressure that was building,” but rather, “the pressure that I built.” Events occur all the time, and […] - [There was once a story that will be](https://mickeymullin.com/there-was-once-a-story-that-will-be): Looking through the library of possible next titles I might read in the Kindle store (in spite of the fact that I am currently already reading two books), I was struck by a sense of envy, of desire, of yearning. I glance through the suggested books from authors I know and areas I’ve read, and I thought about the people in my worlds that are in limbo, unborn. I don’t know how to start. I realize that at least part of that is: “Write,” but the last few times I’ve tried to write, I haven’t come up with anything worthwhile. […] - [You Don't Know Your Brand (Yet)](https://mickeymullin.com/you-dont-know-your-brand-yet): For tonight’s scheduled writing slot, I was looking through an old written journal for writing ideas, and I came across some advice for starting a podcast. One of the items in the list was: Know your brand. I think that’s great advice if you have everything lined up, have learned all the lessons you need to learn, and have developed the habits to succeed. That’s where that falls down, though: that advice was from a journal entry I wrote in 2019. Guess how many podcast episodes I’ve published since then? Just. Start. Do. Go. I have two novels that are […] - [The Horizon Is Your Baseline](https://mickeymullin.com/the-horizon-is-your-baseline): How does one balance enjoying the moment with ensuring that you are creating something for the future? How can I enjoy cake now when I want to have six-pack abs in three months—particularly if I already had some cake and am eying another slice? Bring the future into the present. More valuable than someday having a hot(ter) bod is making the journey into the destination. One of the things that has often struck me, is that the anticipation of tasks is almost more distasteful than the task itself. I dread looking at a sink full of dishes that need to […] - [Doing What You’ve Always Done Earns What You’ve Always Gotten](https://mickeymullin.com/doing-what-youve-always-done-earns-what-youve-always-gotten): Due to “things,” I blew right past the calendar entry where I’d intended to do my writing. As a result, I’m writing this when I am “supposed to be” asleep. I stated reading The Millionaire Fastlane by MJ DeMarco, and boy does it make me feel lousy. The author doesn’t call me out specifically, he merely calls out all the behaviors that I’ve been engaging in that are just about guaranteed to keep me poor. Not poor poor—meaning, I earn enough money to have a good roof over my head, eat enough, and meet all of my obligations—but that I […] - [Sophomore Effort](https://mickeymullin.com/sophomore-effort): I am reminded of two things that I read and heard from James Clear, author of Atomic Habits: Be specific It’s not enough to say, “I’ll blog,” nor even, “I’ll blog once per week.” (I declared the latter.) Rather, one must declare the how and the when. For example, I am amending my commitment to: “I shall write for this website at my desk at 6am on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday.” Never miss twice Having a string of successful commitments feels good. A calendar full of X’s where something one desires has been accomplished (e.g., walking, reading, language practice). […] - [Critical Mass](https://mickeymullin.com/critical-mass): Atomic Habits is in front of me. In the moment, it represents everything I wish to do. To get these rolling, I need to do the following: Physically, I want to set up a studio and recording space in my home that looks presentable for shooting. Just Do It. —Nike or better yet: Screw it. Do it. —Richard Branson I’ve already bought a ton of equipment. I could use more and better, but there is no benefit to waiting. Start! - [One Life's Depiction of Meaning](https://mickeymullin.com/one-lifes-depiction-of-meaning): New site, new capabilities! Over the next several whiles, I will be copying old scrivenings to this new site, as well as adding new material. In the meantime, rather than leave errant visitors to this nacent realm with nothing but the 20teens equivalent of “under construction,” why not check out my oldest friend’s videolog about his family’s quest to ramp up to a 100-mile hike on the Appalachian Trail: Will Hike for Food. - [Bio](https://mickeymullin.com/earnest-apathy-bio): Viviana Figueroa, a native of Ecuador, has lived in various countries and states within the US. These experiences have given her an insight into different cultures, viewpoints and an appreciation for living in New Hampshire. Viviana has worked in a myriad of industries within the customer service field and enjoys working with people. Her passion is people and places – a world explorer and mama of a 3 year old. Viviana is currently working as a Spanish instructor and is the owner of the website Learnspanishnh.com with a goal to grow this business and reach other students around the world. […] - [Earnest Apathy](https://mickeymullin.com/earnest-apathy): The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Earnest Apathy, an inherent contradiction, is a nod to the complexities of being a human being. Only years later did I come to apprecite my concept’s coincidental relationship to Oscar Wilde’s 1895 play The Importance of Being Earnest. In his play, Wilde comedically satirized Victorian mores with frequent plays on words. This is exemplified by the titalur character, Ernest, who is ostensibly not “earnest” (except that the internal contraditions between Ernest and his earnestness continue to go deeper). “To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.” I am a writer and […] - [American Slavery: An Adventure](https://mickeymullin.com/american-slavery-an-adventure): Story idea: American Slavery: An Adventure Tell the story of slavery in the U.S. as a multi-generational adventure with protagonists from one family spanning the centuries. Invaders to Africa, helped by natives who betrayed their own, are abducted and taken across the ocean. There, they are sold into slavery to people who claim Divine Right to own human beings. Their children are subjected to the same lifelong, inherited condition. There are people in the new land who argue against their enslavement, but they are stymied by the sheer number of people who refuse to relent. The bloodiest war in American history […] - [V Daze](https://mickeymullin.com/v-daze): Vanessa stared out the sliding glass doors of ker kitchen, one hand wrapped around a mug of still-slightly-too-hot tea. She was lost in a daze of non-thought, her unfocused eyes snared by the light of the newly-risen moon just past sunset. Vanessa felt a hand fold over her wrist. “V. You know you’ve been doing that a lot since the hospital, right?” Slowly, and with obvious effort, Vanessa turned her eyes to her best friend’s sardonically smiling face. Vanessa blinked a few times, coming back to herself. “Youve been talking to me, haven’t you?” Vanessa said. “Aside from the ‘Earth […] - [Fear of Irrelevance](https://mickeymullin.com/fear-of-irrelevance): With many of my friends missing, I find that I am more prone to bouts of melancholy. It’s harder to distract myself without that constant familiar noise. Also, I recall the old—also familiar—fear of not being someone that contributes to gatherings. This is of course a self-fulfilling fear, as the state in which it puts me makes me less able to contribute which in turn can make me feel that my fears are justified, if I am not sufficiencly self-aware. I want to write. Not these whiny (if cathartic) journal entries, but truly write. I want to again write stories. […] - [Long as I'm Here](https://mickeymullin.com/long-as-im-here): I spent about thirty years of my life wishing I weren’t living it. I’m in my mid-40’s as I write this, which means that I was feeling that for about two-thirds of my time on this rock. Or, if you fell asleep for fractions in math class, we have a layman’s term for that: Most of it. I think there are other people out there like me, and if you hope to live among people who have the crazy notion that life is a thing that they’d prefer to keep going, you learn to conceal the way you feel. “Lifers” […] - [Apology for Success](https://mickeymullin.com/apology-for-success): We have a culture of contrition for success. We make excuses for positive qualities we’re born with, downplaying them. We are embarrassed by accomplishments, attributing to luck or privilege what we achieve through the sweat of our own effort. We have relapsed into the culture prevelant in the Middle Ages, only instead of attributing all things to a god, it is to the society in which we live, and we are merely the lottery of the macroculture’s aggregate output. It was stuffing then. It is no less so now. - [Better Than Not](https://mickeymullin.com/better-than-not): So glad I wrote the above. Mostly, I write while I’m depressed. It’s not often that I write when I’m “up.” Going only by my writings, one might think I was never happy. Fact is, I have far more to be happy about than not. I’ve made mistakes, and I have regrets, but those are far outstripped by the great people in my life, the wonderful events and accomplishments, and my own positive traits. I have it good. Even better: I’m good. - [Remember This](https://mickeymullin.com/remember-this): I didn’t think there would ever be times like this. I’m so happy that I can’t contain all of the emotion! I’m so happy that I feel pity for the state I was in when I “knew” this would never be. I need to remember this. Always. - [Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive](https://mickeymullin.com/ac-cent-tchu-ate-the-positive): There are a great many reasons to worry and fret in this life, but fortunately, there are also a myriad of reasons to be grateful. It is easy to get caught up in the negatives, because by their nature, they cause us difficulty and discomfort, and that’s what makes us want to remove them, correct them. We do not thrive on negative thinking though, so allowing those flies in our ointment to dominate our focus will prevent us from progressing and succeeding. - [Education Mandatorium](https://mickeymullin.com/education-mandatorium): Education. So fucking good it’s mandatory. Best fucking idea since conscription. Doing anything with that life? Not any more, you’re not. You’re coming with me, kid. School. Where we pack up the absolute most important things in the entire world—to us, I mean. I know none of you give a shit about someone else’s rugrants. Anyway, we suit up our future in pigtails and new-smelling pencils, and we pack them off to the learning factory. Did I say learning? I’m sorry, so very sorry. Learning is incidental. The learning we care about, anyway. What do we learn there? We learn […] - [Earnest Apathy, Part Three](https://mickeymullin.com/earnest-apathy-part-3): This is Part Three of a series. Did you miss Parts One and Two, before you skittering around these here parts? My mother lives in Oklahoma, and I was on the phone with her the next week after Liberty Forum, telling her about how excited I had been to experience all of this, and there were quite a number of thintgs that struck me at Liberty Forum, and multiple people I connected with and am continuing to explore new dialogs and relationsihps, but there was one that I thought my mother in particualr would like. One of the speakers did his opening talk […] - [Earnest Apathy, Part Two](https://mickeymullin.com/earnest-apathy-part-2): This is Part Two of a three-part series. If you missed it, read Part 1, first. Last December (2017), a friend came down near where I lived for a variety of reasons, —one of which happened to be her birthday, which is realy how I got to the point where I am now. We had a couple of drinks on her birthday, and when I epxressed how great it was to talk to someonone who didn’t think that I was a some kind of selfish, stupid nutjob because I think people’s lives are better when the’re free, she mentioned that Liberty […] - [Earnest Apathy, Part One](https://mickeymullin.com/earnest-apathy-part-1): I felt an incredible sense of isolation. So many people around me—including people I care about—wanted to do things to and for other people “for their own good.” There’s a whole lot more nuance to that assertion than I want to address right now, but it boiled down to the fact that I was sick, emotionally sick, from so many people from all walks of life who devoted—devote—a great deal of energy to trying to change other people’s lives to suit their own world view—not that they see it that way, of course—and losing sight—if they ever had sight of […] ## Pages - [Portfolio](https://mickeymullin.com/portfolio): Mickey Mullin – Portfolio Senior Full-Stack Developer Money@ – Financial Management Platform Money@ is a financial planning application built with PostgreSQL, Elysia/Bun backend (TypeScript), and NuxtJS/Vue.js frontend (also TypeScript). The platform handles complex budgeting algorithms, income-to-expense alignment, and cash flow projections. Originally focused on debt management, recently evolved to serve business budgeting needs. Technical architecture remains the same: complex financial calculations, multi-tenant database design, and real-time cash flow projections. As solo developer, I built this full-stack solution demonstrating modern JavaScript/TypeScript stacks, database design for financial data, and production-ready authentication and RBAC systems. X-Thread: Smart Twitter Thread Composer with Auto-Split Algorithm […] - [Coaching](https://mickeymullin.com/coaching): Let’s Talk You’ve analyzed the angles, weighed the options, listed the pros and cons. But you’re still stuck. Sometimes you need someone who understands how analytical minds work and why they freeze up. I’ve spent 29 years in business and tech—I get what gets us. We’ll both know in one short no-obligations call whether I can help you. - [Thank You!](https://mickeymullin.com/thank-you): Welcome! Check your email to confirm your subscription. You’ve unlocked insights on AI exploration, liberty-infused living, productivity hacks and slacks, and entrepreneurial trial and triumph. Thanks for subscribing! I’m excited to bring you along on a journey to empowerment and success. Keep an eye on your inbox—your first edition will arrive next week, obsessed over with observations and actionable tips to fuel your passion for freedom and success. But why wait all week? Follow me on X! (It’s OK if you still want to call it Twitter.) There, I drop daily nuggets of angst and wisdom. Make every day count! - [Subscribe](https://mickeymullin.com/subscribe) - [Join](https://mickeymullin.com/join) - [Contact](https://mickeymullin.com/contact): How can I help? Set goals, establish your mindset, create a plan of action, and realize your dreams. Do you need help getting started or inspiration to continue? You’re in the right place. - [Mickey Mullin](https://mickeymullin.com/): Hiya! Mickey here. Decision coach for analytical pros. Brilliant at analysis but stuck on decisions? I bridge the gap between thinking and acting. With 29 years in business and technology, I know that even smart people get stuck and what it takes to get you moving. Need to make a choice but can’t seem to pull the trigger? Let’s talk: Book a free 20-minute clarity call. - [Blog](https://mickeymullin.com/blog) - [About](https://mickeymullin.com/about): Hey, it’s Mickey! My Story Up to Now I’ve had the good fortune to live a varied life When I was 16, I made 5¢ per bale bucking hay in rural Arkansas. By my late 40’s, I was making over a quarter million dollars a year as a personnel manager—without a college degree. I attribute four things to my success: Early Life Mickey has been commanding computers to do his bidding since age eight, when he started coding computer games on a hand-me-down TI-99/4A, before later graduating to a (hand-me-down) Commodore 64. 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