Merry Christmas! Hope you have a wonderful day. 🎄
Merry Christmas Eve! 🎄🎅
Wassail Tea, Lefse, Carrot Cake — these are some of the traditions of Christmas for us. 🎄
ChatGPT’s Year in Review is pretty neat.
This is a big deal.
America’s Food and Drug Administration approved a daily pill version of Wegovy, a weight-loss treatment manufactured by Novo Nordisk that is usually injected. Eli Lilly, a rival drugmaker, is expected to receive regulatory approval for a similar pill soon. Pills–which are less effective than jabs, but far more convenient–mark a new frontier in weight-loss drugs. — The Economist, World in Brief, Dec 23, 2025
POAP 7542328 at Christmas in Nashville.
Now that is a big tree! Gaylord Opryland Resort. 🎄
Tons of Pokémon cards in this kiosk at MSP Airport — and only 400% more expensive than it should be! 💸😬
POAP 7541524 at Horizon Workday Go Live.
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. 🥶🔥
MnTech Outlook 2026
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!
