Jamie Thingelstad

Clash Royale milestone — first card to level 16, Witch!

Old Fashioned at Aster House.

Mazie and Tyler finished their Gingerbread Houses for 2025! Delightful. 🎄

The cure for sub-zero temperatures. 🥶🔥

These meme ornaments at Runamuck Workshop made me laugh.

Interesting comments on big goals for their organizations and the community this morning at MnTech Outlook 2026.

Some observations:

• No surprise that AI and transformation was top of everyone’s list.
• Pratt: “we are going to have a reduction in our white collar workforce”
• Tomes shared his personal experiences vibe coding. Playing and directly engaging with new tech is critical.
• Bahner: we still need coding cause somebody has to read and verify the code. I agree we need talented developers but I don’t think this is why. Nobody can read machine language or assembly. Abstraction matters. Is agentic developmetn just a new abstraction?

Thanks to Renee Edwards (Optum), Eric Pratt (Senator), Angie Schulke (Star Tribune), Kristin Bahner (Representative), and Tarek Tomes (State of Minnesota) for sharing with everyone.

Great dinner at Salut celebrating my friend Jim’s birthday and a final visit before Salut closes at the end of the year.

This morning’s moment in Waking Up was wonderfully simple.

You have one job, and it consists of two parts. Be a good person, and pay attention.

Two things.

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!

I created a Connect page on my site that is simply an index of my profiles on various platforms.

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.

Hanging out with my cousin Quinn and his friends at Fat Pants Brewing for this mornings Formula 1 Qatar Grand Prix! 🏎️