2014
This seems like the best use possible for this book.
Mazie and Tyler getting ready for a long day of driving on our way to Colorado for a week of vacation.
Great lunch today with Elwin Loomis and Heather Mickman about the Minnestar mission with fellow board members Justin Porter, Casey Helbling, and Alex Ryan!
Experiencing Five Watt Coffee for the first time. Very nice!
Espresso.
Inbox Metrics
Yes, I actually do graph the activity in my inbox. How does it go? You can’t manage it if you don’t measure it? I do this for my SPS inbox as well. The numbers are much larger.
New Standards for Mazie's Birthday
This year The New Standards did one of their great shows at The Dakota right on Mazie’s birthday! At first we figured we would just not go see them, but we asked Mazie if she would want to go out for a grown-up night and she was all for it! We got one of the great U-shaped tables along the edge and Mazie got to sit right in the middle and enjoy a Shirley Temple and cheeseburger while listening to great music.
I sent an email to the band letting them know a 9 year old was celebrating her birthday with them and Chan gave a nice call out to her. It was a super fun evening.
Mazie's iPad
We’ve crossed a big milestone this year. As of this birthday Mazie now has her very own iPad. No more sharing. It is also setup with her own accounts for email and calendaring. She’s a digital equal in the house now.
Mazie was ecstatic about it and has been having fun using it for a variety of things. I’m really hoping that she uses email and messages. She’s been playing a couple of games. She even was reviewing her calendar to see what was coming up this week. Nice!
Of course the immediate reaction from Tyler was to wonder where his is. Wait a couple years there.
How Facebook
Improving ads, wow, how excited should I be? Just to be clear what this message really means is that Facebook is now actively collating all of the data that it collects about you from every website that you visit that has those cute little Facebook Like buttons and is using that to target ads at you in a better way.
“improving” and “giving you control”. Bullshit.