We went to our 3rd St. Olaf Christmas Festival tonight. Mazie is in St. Olaf Chapel Choir with the red robes. This is such a great event made even better when your daughter is in it!
We tried out Loon Liquor in Northfield today for lunch. The pizza was really good and the distillery was really great to hang out in. If you are in Northfield give this place a go. They mill their own flour!
Add to List Shortcut
OmniFocus is my trusted system for tracking all of my commitments, as well as my “someday, maybes” and a number of other lists that I have. A while back I started using a set of “Idea Lists” that work really well for me to capture things like books to consider, shows to watch, restaurants to visit, gift ideas, and whatever else. These lists are a form of a “someday, maybe” because they are not actionable, but they are very specific to a thing where someday buckets are broader.
I want to make it as simple as possible to get things into these lists so I made one of my most simple and frequently used Shortcuts — “Add to List”. I find this super helpful and thought I would share. It relies on you have a Folder in OmniFocus where you keep these kind of lists. The magic is that it makes it super easy to capture into the right list and stay in the flow of what you are working on. For me, having it display a menu of lists and being integrated into the share sheet removes a lot of friction.
You can add the Add to List shortcut.
Another great New Standards Holiday Show in the books!
Excited for this year’s New Standards Holiday Show! 🎄🎅
I love the words play and tinker.
It is very important for me to have projects that I can play and tinker with.
Thankfully I have more than enough of them. 😆
Clash Royale check-in:
- Just got my first card to Level 15 — Witch!
- Heroic Mini P.E.K.K.A. is incredible.
- Currently playing a “Hog Deck”, I guess?
Stats: 71 days; 7,271 trophies; level 39; arena 19; In-app purchases: 😬. Connect.
Coach: Tyler
It was cool to be featured on Buttondown’s customer stories about how I use it for the Weekly Thing.
I gave Gemini “Thinking 3 Pro” and Nano Banana Pro a more interesting question tonight. I asked it:
Please create an infographic that explains how I create the Weekly Thing. Use these three blog posts as your foundation for the process:
The result is incredible. It has one error on the “Delete” step and how that connects to Pinboard.
Wishing everyone in retail a good Cybermonday from the #TeamSPS Observation Station.
Hanging out with my cousin Quinn and his friends at Fat Pants Brewing for this mornings Formula 1 Qatar Grand Prix! 🏎️
We saw Wicked For Good at the Edina 4 theatre tonight. Stellar movie, as good if not better than the first one. Definitely one to go to the theater for.
I’m feeling pretty smart ordering candle supplies for next year’s Things 4 Good Candle Fundraiser during Makesy’s 25% Black Friday special! 🤑
Wonderful 11 foot tree strapped to the top of the Model Y.
POAP 7529645 at Weekly Thing — Reddit Revival.
Turkey’s ready!
Happy Thanksgiving!
1,000th candle
We were talking over dinner about the Things 4 Good Candle Fundraiser and thinking we should make note when we sell the 1,000th candle. It turns out we already did — this year!
| Year | Candles |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 134 |
| 2022 | 180 |
| 2023 | 226 |
| 2024 | 264 |
| 2025 | 321 |
We’ve already sold 1,125 candles!
So who got the 1,000th candle? We had 804 sold before this year’s event.
The 196th candle of the 2025 sale, the 1,000th candle, was in the 40th transaction of the event!