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Nice lunch for SPS Tower tenants today.

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I’ve been exploring and engaging in agentic software deeply for a couple of months now with a number of my own projects to learn with. Thus far, nearly all of what I’ve done has been driven by me often with an LLM assisting in the framing of the thing I’m looking to build. I decided to try using “agents” (of a sort) to create an entire execution loop to autonomously drive one of these projects. I decided to focus on Elixir, the agent I’ve created to run our Clash Royale clan, and have now created six discrete automations for it.

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Here is a brief overview of what each does, along with a link to the full instructions they use. I created the instructions for each using Claude Cowork and this is the AI-generated summary of each entity.

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The common interface that all of this runs through are Elixir’s Github Issues. All agents interface there and that is where “human in the loop” is happening before moving forward with changes. The automations are all setup in Codex, which is super simple and easy to engage with. I’m super curious to see where this goes!

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I had my first official meeting of the Technology Advisory Council a week ago. I was honored to be accepted into this group with an official appointment from Governor Walz. The role of the council is to advise Minnesota IT Services (MNIT). The group is preparing for transition with a new CIO for the State of Minnesota, and a Governor transition as well. This meeting was my first chance to see the breadth of the portfolio MNIT manages.

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I’m looking forward to helping in established areas like cloud and data transformation, as well as new areas with AI deployment. I think there could also be some good opportunities to connect the State of Minnesota with the Minnesota Technology Association (MnTech) where I’m currently chair.

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I was ecstatic to share with TeamSPS that we now have an enterprise agreement for Claude. It was fun to get to share the stage with Erica Koenig to make the announcement noting the incredible capabilities we are putting into peoples hands. This is just the beginning.

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We had a great presence from TeamSPS at the Aspirations in Computing awards event tonight and welcomed three of the four high-school interns that will be working with us this summer!

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Was great to take SPS colleagues to Boludo including Eduardo who grew up in Argentina and gave us the background from growing up there!

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This growth is hard to even comprehend.

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Anthropic says Claude Code is now growing revenues at a $2.5 billion run-rate, a number that has doubled since January 1. Claude Code was launched in May 2025. Six months later it was at $1 billion. Its sales are growing faster than a 1980s F1 monster, pulling the whole company along with it. Anthropic hit $14 billion in ARR in February, $19 billion in March, and around $30 billion this month. — Software Eats Its Own

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Even being prepared for that level of scaling is impressive.

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This started as a talk I gave internally to a group of technology leaders. I’ve adapted it here, stripping out the company-specific material, because the core ideas apply well beyond any one organization.

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I want to throw out some ideas about what I think is changing in our industry. What I’m going to describe is one of the most rapidly evolving, most dynamic changes I have ever seen in a twenty-plus-year career in technology. I believe there are things changing right now that will fundamentally redefine how we practice our craft.

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Where we are

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Let’s bookmark where we are. Agents are real. I’ve watched one go from nothing – zero, no code, no design – to a working alpha with real users making real decisions on it, in about five weeks. A year ago, this was an idea. Now there are production agents running.

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Agentification is the next major milestone our industry is going through.

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I’m old enough to say this: there was a time before the web and a time after. A time before mobile and after. A time before the cloud and after. And now, a time before AI and agents and after.

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I think this is going to be the most transformative of all of those.

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You have to acknowledge one paradox of where we are: we are building the best practices before they exist.

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We’ve been here before. Those of us who lived through the cloud transformation remember being ahead of the industry, figuring out how this ephemeral compute stuff works, how to make it all function. There weren’t patterns the industry had settled on. That’s where we are today. There are no clear patterns for how agentification happens. We’re going to build those patterns and learn alongside the industry.

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That’s okay. Just be aware of where you are. It’s fine to be out ahead of the curve; you just have to always know when you’re there, because it’s a risky spot. You don’t want to be too far out.

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Getting philosophical: software is becoming liquid

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I want to get a little philosophical.

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For the last two months, I’ve pushed myself into a level of AI engagement that is probably unhealthy long-term, honestly. If you ask my family, they would agree. But what I’ve been trying to do is really wrap my head around the core concepts that I think change how we do what we do.

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Connect this back to other transformations. When we adopted a mobile world, we all knew we needed to be mobile users to lead it. Can anybody build a great mobile app if they’ve never used a mobile phone? Obviously not. So to lead through AI agentification, we have to be really close to it. I’ve been pushing myself hard to do that, because as you build experience, it gets harder to refactor how you think.

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Here’s something I’ve been thinking a lot about: what is the cost of being wrong? And how do we fold that into how we create things?

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Step back for a moment and think about how we do our craft. Say we’re building software. We spend time on discovery. We create stories. We have designers go off and make wireframes. We do all kinds of things to make sure that, when we actually get to the point of building, we know we’re doing the right thing.

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Why? Because the act of building software has been incredibly expensive. The last twenty years of my career have been about figuring out how to effectively turn ideas into working software and how to make sure that, when we do, we’re not wrong – that we’re producing valuable capability. That’s what technology teams around the world have been focused on. The teams that do it well do these things better than the teams that don’t.

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Here’s how I’ve come to think about it: software has historically been a solid. It’s chiseling something out of granite. We have our ideas, we sit down, it’s hard work, it’s challenging, and we chisel it out of granite.

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I think that’s changing. I first heard this from somebody online and it didn’t land for me at first – I thought, that doesn’t make sense. But the more I thought about it, the more I thought it was spot on. The assertion was: software is becoming liquid.

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We’ve operated for two decades in a world where software is an incredibly difficult solid to shape. With AI and agentic development – automatic programming – software is becoming malleable. If you’ve worked with agents on software, you’ve had the experience of thinking: I can refactor this code faster than it would have taken me to do all the guardrail work to make sure I didn’t make the wrong decision in the first place.

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When the economics of what you do change that profoundly, you have to question everything.

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Every paradigm built on “software is expensive” needs re-examination

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Go back further. Most of us spent the early parts of our careers in agile flows. Before that, everybody did waterfall. Why? Were they just not as smart? No – they were operating under a different set of assertions. If you made a mistake writing C code, it was really difficult to unwind. You’d take months to refactor a mistake in your domain model that showed up in C code.

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Then we got Python, PHP, interpreted environments, continuous integration. The paradigm changed. Suddenly: what if I’m wrong? Fine, I’ll refactor. Refactoring Python is cheaper than refactoring C. That’s just a fact.

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So here comes agile. We can do this differently. We can be more responsive.

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The cloud is the second part of that story. The cloud says we can do the same thing with hardware – we don’t have to worry about where we put the server. The cost of being wrong, if I put a server in the wrong data center, is not easy to undo. But in the cloud, that’s a couple of commands.

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We are in that same spot again.

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AI is transforming the cost of creating software in a way that should make us question every single process we have that is fundamentally built on the assertion that creating software is expensive.

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I’d argue that maybe proof of concept doesn’t make sense anymore. What we used to call a proof of concept is now discovery. And how do you do discovery? I think you do it in code. Your discovery process is entirely in code. Do you then throw the code away? No. Why would I? It’s liquid. I bend it, move it around, get it where I want it.

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The act of discovering through creating changes things pretty fundamentally. That paradigm is going to take us a while to absorb. I really want you to think about what you have in your world that makes assertions that building this stuff is extremely expensive. And when I say “cost,” don’t just think dollars – think organizational cost.

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That’s assertion one: software is becoming liquid.

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Managers belong in the code

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Here’s my second assertion. If you’re a people leader, this one is for you.

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I used to have a very firm belief. When I saw a people leader – a director or a manager – in code, that was a warning sign. Almost always, when I saw a director or manager in code, they were probably avoiding something harder that they were supposed to be doing. “Oh, you’re working on the actual software? I bet you have a personnel problem you’re not dealing with.”

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I don’t think that’s true anymore. Agentic engineering changes that fundamentally.

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The issue historically was a simple one of context window. As a manager, you couldn’t truly know the codebase because it was too complicated. It was a solid asset your craftspeople were working on. You had to focus on the people systems. You just couldn’t hold both of those things in your head and be effective.

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Agents change that paradigm entirely. There is no reason, as a director or a manager, why you shouldn’t be talking to an agent and asking about the quality of the asset you’re accountable for. And as a people leader, you are accountable for the assets your people create. So why aren’t you having that conversation?

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Why would I ever start a conversation with an engineer with, “how long do you think that’ll take?” I should have had that conversation with Claude Code first – looked at the source, asked: is this a big refactor? If we went this direction, how would that look?

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This flips even further on its head when we think about agentification, because increasingly we’re going to be creating software not for people to use, but for agents to use. Think about how that works. You work with an agent to create the software. Another agent uses it. The agent using it gives you feedback on how it’s working. You take that feedback back to the coding agent and ask it to iterate.

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What are you in that loop? I don’t know – a product manager, I guess.

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I’m doing this today on multiple projects at home – using agents to give each other feedback. This speed and paradigm shift is foundational to how we have to adjust our thinking.

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Rethinking velocity

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The last thing I want you to really think about: as an industry, we need a step-function change in how we think about velocity.

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How long is something going to take? I’d argue every paradigm you have for answering that question is broken now. The cost understanding is broken. The complexity understanding is broken. It’s all broken.

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The only way to truly gauge it is through the second thing I mentioned – getting closer to the asset you’re accountable for, getting closer to the code and the product.

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Just like mobile – where you couldn’t understand how to build an app until you’d experienced one – you can’t understand agentic transformation until you’ve experienced it firsthand.

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Don’t be scared to go close to the code. Don’t be scared to ask your team, “Hey, how do I get that code out of Git? I’d like to look at it and do some analysis.”

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These are superpowers. Every single one of us can put a cape on. You didn’t have these before. I think it’s amazing. And the whole industry is going to go through this transformation.

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The change curve, and the rate of change

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I want to close with something about change itself.

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There’s a model called the Satir change curve. Every one of us sits at a different point on it right now. But just like every transformation before it, your progress is gated by your own engagement – by your own willingness to rethink the craft you have and to let go of things that may have been important for the last two decades but aren’t important anymore.

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I invite you to come down this path.

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Personally, it’s not easy. And what’s not easy is the rate. Think about it: we had two or three or four years to figure out mobile. We had half a decade for cloud. The web took an eternity – it was the first one. Here, we’re trying to do this in about a year.

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Why? Because it’s enabled by all the other capability we’ve built, and because the potential is so big. The return on investment, once we identify things, is measured in weeks or months – not years. That’s a completely different thing than any of these previous transformations.

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I hope you heard something here that grounds you.

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Software is liquid. The fundamental economic paradigms have changed. You are able to lead through this.

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Good final CIO Panel at MnTech Connect with Teddy Bekele (Land O’Lakes), Sutha Sivasubramaniam (Optum), Jennifer Czaplewski (Target), and Mike Bollinger (Livefront) and a special appearance from Senator Amy Klobuchar via video.

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\"Five\"Conference

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We got most of the TeamSPS folks at MnTech Connect together for a group photo.

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Fun morning irrationally celebrating π Day - 0.01! 🥧

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\"Four\"Dozens\"Dozens\"Man

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I have @ottoai exercising the agent-first mb micro.blog client and have Claude Code working on the codebase. I’m in Telegram with Otto discussing features. Otto is my user giving me feedback, I’m the product manager, and Claude Code is building. 🤯

\n", "date_published": "2026-03-03T18:14:58-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2026/03/03/i-have-ottoi-exercising-the.html", "tags": ["AI","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2026/03/02/great-time-at-the-nasdaq.html", "title": "Ringing Nasdaq Closing Bell!", "content_html": "

We were in New York today to ring the closing bell for the Nasdaq! This is a really incredible experience and I’ve been able to do it three times now with SPS! We rang the opening bell in 2014 which was the prelude to our very first analyst day as a public company.

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We rang the closing bell in 2023. That one was actually supposed to happen in 2020 when we celebrated 10 years as a public company but due to the pandemic that didn’t happen. So in 2023 we marked the end of an era as Archie Black, our CEO was retiring. That was a particularly special event and evening with spouses along as well.

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This third visit was to celebrate hitting 100 Quarters of Growth — 25 years of consistent top-line growth every single quarter. It is an incredible accomplishment that few companies have achieved. I’m proud to be able to say I was there for over half of those 100 quarters. This time we had 100 customers join us at the event for a nice reception before and after the ceremony. It was incredible!

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Had a great time doing a lunch AMA with TeamSPS in Brampton today. Also got to see some great demos.

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POAP 7567133 at TeamSPS 100 Quarters of Growth.

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Bought Revenue Architecture by Jacco van der Kooij on a strong recommendation and it looks really great. It has formulas! 🤔

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“Say cheese!”

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Our SPS Ignite 2026 Give Back event tonight included building a mini-golf course with pool noodles and cardboard and then each team playing the course. I found it much more difficult than it seemed. We then packed over 4,000 bags of goods for Special Olympics athletes and family members!

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\"Large\"Mini-golf\"Person\"Group

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Excited to kick off SPS Ignite 2026! Today is going to be amazing.

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We had a fabulous keynote from JP Pawliw on the Last Eight Percent today.

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Easy and just are “four letter words”.

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Can we just add one more option?

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It seems easy to do.

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Wishing everyone in retail a good Cybermonday from the #TeamSPS Observation Station.

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POAP 7521420 at Horizon Oracle Finance Go Live.

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We had a great TeamSPS presence at MnTech Elevate tonight celebrating the local technology community and recognizing Tekne award winners! 🏆

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I was listening to The Omni Show — How Jorge Arango Uses OmniFocus. It was an overall good episode and at the end Arango shared a reference to Gall’s Law. I had not heard of this before so I looked it up:

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A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.

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Arango was sharing this in reference to GTD systems — build a simple system that works and then figure out what you need from there. But I keep coming back to this because I think this happens in software and technology frequently.

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I’ve been thinking about big enterprise system changes that companies have to make and the huge challenge that you face is really fighting Gall’s Law. These systems are always complex and due to the domain you cannot start simple — you have to start complex.

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Gall’s Law is worth keeping in mind.

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Ready for Analyst Day to get going!

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We wrapped up the 10th anniversary of SPS TechJam 2025 today. TechJam is our internal “unconference” led by members of our team that volunteer to give talks. We had so many great presentations and tons of learning. All of it wrapped around an AI focused Hackathon. It was incredible.

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TeamSPS at the Cristy Rey “Ungala” tonight celebrating our long-standing partnership with the organization. It is a great program and amazing results. Proud that SPS Commerce can be part of it!

\n\"Group\n\"Sponsor\n", "date_published": "2025-05-22T22:08:56-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2025/05/22/teamsps-at-the-cristy-rey.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Family","Work","Giving"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2025/05/20/nice-dinner-at-oceanaire-with.html", "content_html": "

Nice dinner at Oceanaire with our partners from Cognisive visiting from Hyderabad, India.

\n\"Group\n", "date_published": "2025-05-20T21:00:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2025/05/20/nice-dinner-at-oceanaire-with.html", "tags": ["Work","Restaurants"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2025/05/14/at-our-q-teamsps-company.html", "content_html": "

At our Q2 #TeamSPS company meeting I was honored to share the stage with Elizabeth Neuville and Christy Sovereign and announce our support of the 2026 Special Olympics USA Games — SPS Commerce is the official Bocce sponsor! Why Bocce? It needs the most volunteers and TeamSPS values volunteering!

\n

\"Three\"Seven\"Seven

\n", "date_published": "2025-05-14T19:00:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2025/05/14/at-our-q-teamsps-company.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work","Giving"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2025/05/07/end-of-day-teamsps-photo.html", "content_html": "

End of day #TeamSPS photo at MnTech Tech Connect 2025. Sitting in the chair was by popular demand. 😬😊

\n\"Group\n", "date_published": "2025-05-07T21:25:52-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2025/05/07/end-of-day-teamsps-photo.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Tech Community","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2025/05/07/was-fun-to-share-the.html", "content_html": "

Was fun to share the stage with Melissa Flicek and Jenn Zmuda at the final session of MnTech Tech Connect 2025 during the CIO & CTO Panel. Many topics around AI adoption and leading digital transformations.

\n\"Four\n", "date_published": "2025-05-07T21:22:32-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2025/05/07/was-fun-to-share-the.html", "tags": ["AI","Tech Community","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2025/05/07/wonderful-teamsps-group-photo-at.html", "content_html": "

Wonderful #TeamSPS group photo at MnTech Tech Connect 2025. Was very sad that I missed the photo — I got talking to people after the morning keynote and completely missed it!

\n\"Group\n", "date_published": "2025-05-07T13:50:26-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2025/05/07/wonderful-teamsps-group-photo-at.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Tech Community","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2025/05/04/growth-cup-goes-to-warsaw.html", "title": "Growth Cup Goes to Warsaw", "content_html": "

When I visited our new Warsaw office I was able to meet several brand new TeamSPS members as well as many of our Kyiv-based team that I hadn’t seen since before the pandemic. I also was able to bring the SPS Growth Cup there as part of the office opening celebration!

\n

Here is the Growth Cup safely laying in its very rugged case ready as I received instructions on handling and the mechanics of the case.

\n\"A\n

We loaded any empty space in the trunk up with a bunch of t-shirts and challenge coins from Cyberweek 2024!

\n\"A\n

Growth Cup is bag checked and being dropped off at the oversized luggage drop in MSP. Delta says the Growth Cup is oversized luggage and decides it needs its own $400 ticket to fly to Warsaw. My suitcase is next to the growth cup for comparison — the Growth Cup case is very big!

\n\"A\n

Growth Cup comes out of normal baggage claim in Warsaw rotating around the carousel. We’ve arrived!

\n\"A\n

Yuri wheeling the Growth Cup to his vehicle.

\n\"A\n

Luckily Yuri drives a relatively large Land Rover but even then we have to lower the rear seats and are just able to slide it in. Eugene sitting next to it!

\n\"A\n

Growth Cup has arrived safely into Warsaw co-working space and ready for special event!

\n\"A\n

And it is all worth it — TeamSPS Eastern European team in our Warsaw office! 💙

\n\"A\n

The only picture of me with the Growth Cup — moving it from the office to my hotel room for the 4am departure to the airport to return home. Note the small Poland sticker — that fell off almost immediately.

\n\"A\n

When returning the KLM gate agent needed a weight for the package. I let her know I didn’t think it would fit on the conveyer. She said it has to be weighed. So I hoist it on the belt and have to hold it but I’m told I cannot be touching it. I finally tip it slightly toward the side and we get a weight. Interestingly KLM doesn’t feel a need to charge the Growth Cup extra and sends me to oversize luggage check.

\n\"A\n

When checking the Growth Cup in Warsaw they scan it and the security guard gives me an odd look and asks what this is. “It is a trophy” I say. He replies “Yeah, but for what?”. I tell him “It is a tradition at our company to celebrate growth.” He looks at me with a very dismissive look and moves on. There are no photos allowed in this room. And I realize after the fact that I’ve been locked in here with the Growth Cup until the security guy decides I’m safe to move along. He buzzes me out.

\n

No pictures were allowed in secure area — AI generated version of scene.

\n\"A\n

KLM didn’t charge for the cup but they also decided to hurl it around with abandon it seems. The Growth Cup is received with a damaged wheel. I suspect it has been dropped on the wheel and smartly I think the wheel is intended to break before the case. It expands the wheel enclosure and can no longer spin. As I drag the Growth Cup with one wheel working and one wheel completely stuck it is signficantly less fun to travel with this. Plus, the carpet is sanding the wheel down creating a flat spot. Getting Growth Cup from MSP International Arrivals to the Lyft picking me up is trying.

\n\"A\n

I’ve been sharing some photos on the family text of the Growth Cup journey and my daughter responds:

\n
\n

I love that you’re traveling with the growth cup
\nIt’s so cute
\nYou’re it’s protector and guardian abroad 🥰😝

\n
\n

She’s right — I feel like the Guardian of the Growth Cup. Physically and metaphorically.

\n

Growth cup in baggage claim at MSP, taking a little break from dragging it along.

\n\"Two\n

Growth Cup loaded into the back of the Lyft on the way home.

\n\"A\n

Growth Cup chilling out in the garage waiting to head back into the office.

\n\"A\n

I decided that it should become a tradition that the Growth Cup gets a sticker when it goes places. It had previously been to Australia when our CEO took it with him on a trip, so I took care of that one and also applied a Poland one. The case doesn’t hold a sticker well, but so far well-made vinyl stickers seem okay.

\n\"A\n

I wonder where the Growth Cup will go next…

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Great to have so many #TeamSPS folks here at #Minnebar19! Know more to be more! 💙

\n\"Group\n", "date_published": "2025-05-03T12:45:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2025/05/03/great-to-have-so-many.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Minnestar","Tech Community","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2025/04/19/for-those-that-believe-that.html", "title": "Chaos and Dysfunctional", "content_html": "

For those that believe that government should be run more like a company — having five different leaders in the same role in a year is a sign of complete chaos and dysfunction in any company.

\n
\n

Mr Trump will reportedly replace the acting boss of the Internal Revenue Service after Scott Bessent, the treasury secretary, complained to the president. Gary Shapley, who was appointed just three days ago, was apparently installed at the behest of Elon Musk, even though the IRS commissioner reports to Mr Bessent. Mr Shapley’s replacement will be the fifth to hold the job this year. — The Economist, The World in Brief, April 19 2025

\n
\n", "date_published": "2025-04-19T08:26:35-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2025/04/19/for-those-that-believe-that.html", "tags": ["Work","Current Events"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2025/04/18/finished-two-great-days-of.html", "content_html": "

Finished two great days of team activities here in Warsaw. It was amazing to see many folks from our Kyiv team that I haven’t seen for over five years! Going to explore Warsaw today before returning home. Also catching up on OpenAI announcements from this week!

\n", "date_published": "2025-04-18T01:41:55-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2025/04/18/finished-two-great-days-of.html", "tags": ["Travel","Work","Warsaw 2025"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2025/04/16/teamsps-eastern-europe.html", "content_html": "

TeamSPS, Eastern Europe, with Warsaw team and many Kyiv team members visiting.

\n\"Group\n", "date_published": "2025-04-16T11:46:55-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2025/04/16/teamsps-eastern-europe.html", "tags": ["Travel","Work","Warsaw 2025"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2025/04/16/mindspace-skyliner-first-time-trying.html", "content_html": "

Mindspace Skyliner. 📍

\n

First time trying Paska, traditional Eastern Bread, from Kyiv while visiting team in Warsaw. 🇵🇱🇺🇦

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Mindspace Skyliner. 📍

\n

Great view of business district from our #TeamSPS location in Warsaw, Poland! 🇵🇱

\n\"Aerial\n", "date_published": "2025-04-16T03:25:51-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2025/04/16/mindspace-skyliner-great-view-of.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Travel","Work","Warsaw 2025"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2025/03/23/lego-and-pokmon-announced-that.html", "content_html": "

LEGO and Pokémon announced that they are launching a multi-year partnership in 2026. This is going to mint an incredible amount of revenue for both companies. 💰 Consider how many of these sets will be bought and never even opened for collectors. 😲

\n", "date_published": "2025-03-23T14:51:04-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2025/03/23/lego-and-pokmon-announced-that.html", "tags": ["Pokemon","Games","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2025/03/17/this-morning-we-had-a.html", "content_html": "

This morning we had a great kick-off to our annual #TeamSPS TechConnect 2025 event! Team members from four continents powering the connections that move the world of commerce forward. Bonus points for special zoom background that creates connections between everyone! 🪄

\n\"Zoom\n", "date_published": "2025-03-17T10:49:03-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2025/03/17/this-morning-we-had-a.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2025/03/11/fun-teamsps-hockey-game-minnesota.html", "content_html": "

Fun #TeamSPS hockey game — Minnesota Wild v Colorado Avalanche! 🏒

\n

More than 60 years of SPS tenure between the four of us!

\n

\"NHL\"Four\"Minnesota

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This year’s #TeamSPS Cyberweek Challenge coin was designed as a weightlifting plate. I thought it would be awesome to put it on a barbell and Steve came up with a great way to do it. Six plates is a 600k parcel lift! Swol! 💪

\n\"Miniature\n", "date_published": "2025-03-04T18:30:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2025/03/04/this-years-teamsps-cyberweek-challenge.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2025/02/28/tammy-and-i-with-the.html", "content_html": "

Cheers to 96 quarters of growth with the Growth Cup at the SPS Social.

\n\"Two\n", "date_published": "2025-02-28T23:52:38-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2025/02/28/tammy-and-i-with-the.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2025/02/28/tammy-and-i-got-a.html", "content_html": "

Tammy and I got a 360 video at the TeamSPS Social tonight!

\n

\n", "date_published": "2025-02-28T23:48:39-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2025/02/28/tammy-and-i-got-a.html", "tags": ["Videos","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2025/02/12/excited-for-teamsps-sko.html", "content_html": "

Excited for TeamSPS SKO 2025!

\n\"Large\n\"Large\n", "date_published": "2025-02-12T10:25:36-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2025/02/12/excited-for-teamsps-sko.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2024/12/10/i-have-halfjokingly.html", "content_html": "

I have half-jokingly said for years that I wish there were professional scratchers, sort of like massage therapists, but to scratch your back! Then in today’s NextDraft:

\n
\n

“A small but growing field of scratchers are making a living off their nails, hoping there’s a healthy market of people who will pay $100 or more an hour to do what a spouse or wooden spoon will do for free. Professionals contend they’re not just scratching itches. They say they’re helping people achieve a level of relaxation that is beyond the reach of a kitchen utensil or loved one. They drum up interest by posting videos of clients oohing and aahing in candlelit rooms.” WSJ (Gift Article): How to Make $100 an Hour Scratching Someone’s Back.

\n
\n", "date_published": "2024-12-10T20:00:06-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2024/12/10/i-have-halfjokingly.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2024/12/02/ready-for-cyber.html", "content_html": "

The SPS Observation Station is ready for Cyber Monday 2024!

\n\"Group\n", "date_published": "2024-12-02T09:04:32-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2024/12/02/ready-for-cyber.html", "tags": ["Technology","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2024/11/14/we-had-a.html", "content_html": "

We had a great group from #TeamSPS at the Minnesota Tekne Awards ceremony tonight!

\n\"A\n\"A\n\"A\n\"A\n", "date_published": "2024-11-14T21:49:21-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2024/11/14/we-had-a.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2024/11/14/dig-the-cool.html", "content_html": "

Dig the cool display design for the Minnesota Tekne Awards stage. Fun to see the displays in a non-traditional layout that is connected to the imagery.

\n\"Stage\n", "date_published": "2024-11-14T21:48:45-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2024/11/14/dig-the-cool.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2024/11/14/wrapping-up-growth.html", "content_html": "

Wrapping up Growth Summit #TeamSPS did a Give Back event where we assembled 1,000 SolarBuddy lights. Impact 4 Good led the team through the exercise. The lights were pretty simple to assemble yet cool to see how they functioned.

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Incredible morning building connections at SPS Growth Summit! Incredible keynote from Riaz Meghji! So much great energy and talent as we continue to grow the world’s retail network.#TeamSPS

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I attended this mornings MISRC Digital Leadership Conference: Charting the AI Journey and also spoke on a panel with Jean Machart and Elwin Loomis about strategy around AI.

\n

Cris Ross from Mayo Clinic shared how they are using AI and that he believes AI will impact healthcare more than the Internet and Smartphone did. Ross also shared this good list of “Seven Technological Challenges” regarding AI.

\n
    \n
  1. Data for building and validating AI
    2. \n
  2. Data for running AI
    3. \n
  3. Building AI
    4. \n
  4. Buying AI
    5. \n
  5. Implementation in workflow
    6. \n
  6. Change management with clinicians and patients
    7. \n
  7. Monitoring and managing
    8. \n
\n

Listening to him present it seemed to me that it will only be a matter of time before exam rooms are all equipped with microphones where AI can transcribe the conversation between Doctor and Patient, removing the need for note taking and allowing the Doctor to be more completely engaged. This would also allow for AI to consider diagnoses that could be missed.

\n

Jake Krings and Melissa Ludack from Target showed how they are using AI both in the store for the team experience and in their app to help with gift ideas.

\n

\"Tiered\"Presenter\"Two\"Two

\n", "date_published": "2024-11-08T17:00:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2024/11/08/misrc-digital-leadership.html", "tags": ["AI","Work","Current Events"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2024/10/10/the-sps-leadership.html", "content_html": "

Many of the SPS Commerce leadership team took in the Minnesota Business Partnership annual event. We were joined by Megan Tischler who was highlighted in the evening for the work she has done as part of our Women in Technology group and Phil Soran who is one of our board members.

\n\"A\n", "date_published": "2024-10-10T22:00:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2024/10/10/the-sps-leadership.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2024/09/26/fall-cio-wine.html", "title": "Fall CIO Wine Tasting Evening", "content_html": "

Another incredible evening for the CIO Wine Tasting event hosted by Dee Thibodeau of Charter Solutions and Terri Naughtin of Naughtin Group. Tony Peleska of Kraus Anderson provides a stunning venue on their balcony in downtown Minneapolis. What a wonderful group of technology leaders to connect with. And the highlight of the evening is Chuck Kanski of Solo Vino providing an incredible array of unique wines with the background on each of the grapes. 🍷

\n

\"Rooftop\"Multiple

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POAP 7131408 at SPS Learning Leaders 2024.2.

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We have celebrated Vyshyvanka Day in our Kyiv office for years now, but this year we also decided to take part in Vyshyvanka Day in Minneapolis as well. Alexander Ivakhnenko and Valentin Kornukh led the event with delicious Ukrainian snacks and treats including: Pierogi (including Potato, Meat, and Cherry), Modovik cake, Kyiv cake, Napoleon Cake, and Kvas to drink. We also had a Ukrainian trivia challenge to learn more about different aspects of Ukraine. It was a great time! 🇺🇦

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The annual Aspirations in Computing event highlights the accomplishments of incredible young women that are doing amazing things in technology. For the eighth year running SPS Commerce has sponsored this program and we’ve hosted dozens of Aspirations interns now, including some that have gone on to be college interns and even then team members! This was also the first year for Aspirations in Computing since finding a new home with the MnTech Foundation and holding the event at the Metropolitan Ballroom.

\n

Many members of TeamSPS volunteer and are engaged with Aspirations in Computing, but special recognition for Amy Patton who has put so much into this great program! 👏

\n\"Sponsor \n_Thank you to all the sponsors of this great program!_\n\"Group \n_The 2024 Aspirations in Computing honorees._\n\"Group\n_TeamSPS members with our four Aspirations interns for 2024._\n\"Group\n_How many people can you get in front of a small photo booth?_\n

Aspirations is fundraising for eight scholarships for winners that need assistance with their next steps to college. If you can, add your support for these amazing young women!

\n

See Aspirations Awards events from\n2016,\n2019,\n2020,\n2021, or\n2024.

\n", "date_published": "2024-04-18T21:30:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2024/04/18/minnesota-aspirations-in.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Tech Community","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2024/04/15/added-the-new.html", "content_html": "

Added the new #TeamSPS Cyberweek 2023 challenge coin to my display case. What a collection!

\n\"Silver\n", "date_published": "2024-04-15T10:08:45-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2024/04/15/added-the-new.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2024/03/14/we-had-a.html", "content_html": "

We had a great π day celebration with TeamSPS today! Many pies and some great Pi Day shirts too!

\n\"Two\n\"Dozens\n\"Dozens\n

See Pi Day Collection.

\n", "date_published": "2024-03-14T16:13:27-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2024/03/14/we-had-a.html", "tags": ["Work","Holidays","Pi Day"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2024/03/11/lead-with-influence.html", "title": "Lead With Influence: A Proven Process To Lead Without Authority", "content_html": "

I’ve met Matt Norman a few times. He is an incredibly outgoing, generous, and nice person that happily shares his insights with others. When he asked me if I would like an early read of his new book Lead With Influence I said yes right away.

\n

Influence is an important topic, particularly in modern organizations that go far beyond a simple hierarchal view of the organization. To get things done, regardless of title and position, you need to influence people and sell them on your ideas. Knowledge work doesn’t happen because you tell someone to do it. Cross-functional teams are the norm and require influence to align around their objectives and achieve success. So, how do you achieve this influence?

\n

This is where Norman’s book comes in. He walks the reader through all of the components of creating influence. He includes many resources in the form of different checklists and mental models to help the reader work through creating influence on their own. This is a book that could easily come with worksheets (or make your own) to help you create a strong case for what you are working to influence in any given situation.

\n

I would recommend this book to knowledge workers that find themselves working in cross-functional teams toward a goal (isn’t this all knowledge workers?). The book is approachable by anyone in business even if you have very little training or experience in these topics.

\n

Here is the table of contents so you can get a feel for the book.

\n

PART ONE — Position: Setting the Table for Influence

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  1. Prioritize Availability over Productivity
    2. \n
  2. Build both Predictive and Vulnerability-Based Trust
    3. \n
  3. Pay Attention to the Little Things
    4. \n
  4. Be like a Salmon
    5. \n
  5. Use Value Language
    6. \n
  6. Talk like a Palace Builder
    7. \n
\n

PART TWO — Probe: Facilitating New Ways of Thinking

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    \n
  1. Explore the Four Parts of Human Thinking That Drive Influence
    2. \n
  2. Develop the Art of Facilitation
    3. \n
  3. Summarize Regularly
    4. \n
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PART THREE — Propose: Making Your Ideas Known

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  1. Explain in a Way That Will Resonate
    2. \n
  2. It’s Not Just What You Say, but How You Say It
    3. \n
\n

PART FOUR — Persuade: Managing Resistance and Tension

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    \n
  1. Be a Nonanxious Presence
    2. \n
  2. Respond instead of Reacting
    3. \n
  3. Persuade through Pushback
    4. \n
  4. Consider Whom You’re Trying to Change
    5. \n
\n

PART FIVE — Institutionalizing Leadership Influence

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    \n
  1. Coaching for Improved Performance
    2. \n
  2. Reinforcing Thought and Communication Patterns
    3. \n
  3. The Culture of Influence
    4. \n
  4. Conclusions About Leading With Influence
    5. \n
\n\"Book\n", "date_published": "2024-03-11T21:31:17-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2024/03/11/lead-with-influence.html", "tags": ["Books","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2024/03/08/in-recognition-of.html", "content_html": "

In recognition of International Women’s Day continuing my commitment to empowering all women, particularly in technology and leadership. #IWD2024 #InspireInclusion

\n\"Man\n

See IWD 2024, 2021, 2020, 2020 @ SPS, and 2018.

\n", "date_published": "2024-03-08T12:11:43-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2024/03/08/in-recognition-of.html", "tags": ["Tech Community","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2024/02/01/the-teamsps-tech.html", "content_html": "

The #TeamSPS tech team gave out this “I Stopped by the Tech Lab at SKO POAP” in the Product Partner Fair at Sales Kickoff 2024. We continue to have fun with POAP.

\n\"Circular\n", "date_published": "2024-02-01T21:00:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2024/02/01/the-teamsps-tech.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","POAP","POAP Claims","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2024/02/01/curious-experts-with.html", "title": "Curious Experts with Diana Kander", "content_html": "

The guest keynote for #TeamSPS Sales Kickoff 2024 was Diana Kander. She shared how expertise can slow down innovation and how to keep curiosity alive — ultimately being curious experts.

\n

She emphasized focusing on big questions when looking at “things to do”.

\n
    \n
  1. What is the real problem I’m trying to solve? It is really easy to jump into solving and not have a good grounding on the problem.
    2. \n
  2. How would you rank the importance of this, 1-10? Get rid of the good to focus on the great.
    3. \n
  3. Is this a zombie? Zombies are tasks that just exist out of inertia. How would we know if it is a zombie?
    4. \n
  4. How could we reimagine this?
    5. \n
\n\"Large\n", "date_published": "2024-02-01T19:00:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2024/02/01/curious-experts-with.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2024/02/01/day-of-teamsps.html", "content_html": "

Day 2 of #TeamSPS Sales Kickoff 2024 was another great event. We started with an inspiring call to action from our Chad Collins and similar to previous years the Product & Partner Fair was a highlight. Over 30 teams in SPS setup booths to engage with the sales team on our products!

\n

\"Man\"Large\"Crowded\"Crowded

\n", "date_published": "2024-02-01T18:00:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2024/02/01/day-of-teamsps.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2024/01/31/i-had-a.html", "content_html": "

I had a great first day of #TeamSPS Sales Kickoff 2024! So much energy and excitement in the room.

\n

\"Large\"Large\"Speaker\"Large

\n", "date_published": "2024-01-31T20:00:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2024/01/31/i-had-a.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2024/01/19/video-from-the.html", "content_html": "

360 video from the #TeamSPS 2024 Social!

\n

\n", "date_published": "2024-01-19T21:23:48-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2024/01/19/video-from-the.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Videos","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2023/12/14/it-was-fun.html", "content_html": "

It was fun to be able to speak at the Mntech Tech Outlook 2024 event today. Dan Abdul, Sarah Engstrom, Eric Hanson, and I introduced our companies and covered a lot of ground with Jeff Tollefson moderating. Topics ranged from GenAI, talent development, technology strategy, and more.

\n\"Four\n", "date_published": "2023-12-14T23:22:54-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2023/12/14/it-was-fun.html", "tags": ["AI","Tech Community","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2023/12/10/it-was-an.html", "content_html": "

It was an honor to be included in the Twin Cities Business 2023 Notable Leaders in Technology (detail page). Amazing to be part of a great company like SPS Commerce and a great team like #TeamSPS! See LinkedIn post.

\n\"Jamie\n", "date_published": "2023-12-10T20:18:39-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2023/12/10/it-was-an.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2023/11/27/cyber-monday.html", "content_html": "

Cyber Monday 2023! 🚀

\n\"Six\n", "date_published": "2023-11-27T08:27:41-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2023/11/27/cyber-monday.html", "tags": ["Technology","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2023/11/25/a-friend-shared.html", "content_html": "

A friend shared this powerful maxim with me. I have found it useful in recent conversations.

\n
\n

Does the question need to be asked?
\nDoes the question need to be asked now?
\nDoes the question need to be asked by you?

\n
\n

I’ve been surprised at how frequently I come to a “no” for one of these questions. 🤔

\n", "date_published": "2023-11-25T18:56:23-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2023/11/25/a-friend-shared.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2023/11/17/good-leadership-breakfast.html", "title": "Good Leadership Breakfast: Archie Black", "content_html": "

It was great to hear from Archie Black at the Good Leadership Breakfast this morning. I had never been to a Good Leadership event and I thought it was great: informative, fun, and the format was engaging. I’ll definitely be back.

\n

The discussion with Archie is what brought me there which was fabulous. Good Leadership even collected feedback on Archie’s success habits.

\n

Success Habits

\n
    \n
  1. People first: training and education matter
    2. \n
  2. Stay focused: don’t do things that don’t fit in the bullseye
    3. \n
  3. Stay calm: when did “hard” become “bad”?
    4. \n
\n\"Welcome\n\"Two\n", "date_published": "2023-11-17T20:57:01-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2023/11/17/good-leadership-breakfast.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2023/11/16/teamsps-group-photo.html", "content_html": "

TeamSPS group photo at MnTech Tekne Awards!

\n\"Group\n\"Group\n\"Group\n", "date_published": "2023-11-16T18:54:56-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2023/11/16/teamsps-group-photo.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2023/11/16/we-had-an.html", "content_html": "

We had an incredible day at the Microsoft Technology Center learning and exploring the many AI offerings we can use, and much more. Impressive stuff that left my mind spinning.

\n\"Group\n\"Modern\n", "date_published": "2023-11-16T17:56:32-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2023/11/16/we-had-an.html", "tags": ["AI","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2023/11/14/it-was-cool.html", "content_html": "

It was cool to get a tour of Worthington Aviation, an Air T company, today. It was impressive to see how they maintain and resell airplane parts. I had never seen a flight recorder or landing gear up close. 🛩️

\n\"Multiple\n\"Electronics\n\"Man\n\"Warehouse\n\"Multiple\n", "date_published": "2023-11-14T22:13:06-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2023/11/14/it-was-cool.html", "tags": ["Travel","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2023/11/10/i-created-a.html", "content_html": "

I created a collection of TeamSPS events page to easily connect all my blog posts from a variety of our annual events. Great memories and more to come! 😁

\n", "date_published": "2023-11-10T22:45:10-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2023/11/10/i-created-a.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2023/11/09/our-team-table.html", "content_html": "

Our team (table 40) had a great time at our Growth Summit 2024 Give Back event building a Piper Computer Kit with a Piper Make Rover. Team SPS made over 180 of these combos in partnership with Create MPLS to give to kids in school for STEM classes! 🧑‍🔬

\n\"Three\n\"Group\n\"Piper\n", "date_published": "2023-11-09T19:16:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2023/11/09/our-team-table.html", "tags": ["Work","Giving"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2023/11/09/growth-summit.html", "title": "Growth Summit 2024", "content_html": "

We had an amazing Growth Summit 2024 with Team SPS today! We had our North American team in person with over 1,500 in the Minneapolis Convention Center. It was Chad Collins first Growth Summit as our new CEO, we got to celebrate our wins, and had a tremendous keynote from Mike Walsh. 👏

\n\"Man\n\"Two\n\"Backstage\n\"Two\n\"Packed\n", "date_published": "2023-11-09T18:26:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2023/11/09/growth-summit.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2023/11/02/speaking-on-a.html", "content_html": "

Speaking on a panel at Minneapolis CIO Summit this afternoon — Generative AI: Will it Revolutionize Customer and Employee Experiences? Looking forward to sharing some of the wins we’ve seen.

\n\"Audience\n

Update: See LinkedIn post with photos of panel.

\n", "date_published": "2023-11-02T12:51:26-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2023/11/02/speaking-on-a.html", "tags": ["AI","Tech Community","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2023/10/04/had-a-fun.html", "content_html": "

Had a fun evening at the 2023 Minneapolis Downtown Council Annual Fundraiser at Mosaic. #TeamSPS’s own Karin Lucas chairs the MDC board and addressed the crowed.

\n\"Crowd\n", "date_published": "2023-10-04T19:11:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2023/10/04/had-a-fun.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work","Giving"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2023/10/02/the-conference-rooms.html", "content_html": "

The conference rooms on #TeamSPS 5th floor in Minneapolis are named after Fictional Elements. To fill out the Fictional Element world even more, this Periodic Table of Fictional Elements was added recently and I absolutely adore it. 🤓

\n\"Periodic\n\"Periodic\n", "date_published": "2023-10-02T12:28:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2023/10/02/the-conference-rooms.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2023/09/30/smooth-transition-from.html", "title": "Smooth Transition from Purchase to App", "content_html": "

There is a very common gap in customer experience that is often ignored when you buy a physical product that has to be shipped to you and it has an app that you can use to interact or control it. This can go from a Smart home appliance all the way to a Tesla.

\n

I still remember when I reserved my spot for my Tesla Model 3 and was excited to download the Tesla app only to realize that it wouldn’t let me do anything until I had my car. This is very common, and it is a let down because right at that time of purchase you are excited to get the thing, and are motivated to get things setup so you are ready for it to arrive.

\n

I recently purchased an Eight Sleep system, and for the first time saw a company handle this hand off from purchase, to receipt and app well!

\n

After I completed the order, Eight Sleep smartly directed me right away to download the application and get my account setup. Once creating my account, it knew that I had placed the order but didn’t have it yet, so it helpfully showed me the order status. Even better, in anticipation of the product arriving it also gave me a Checklist to get some things I will need to have on hand when the product arrives.

\n

This is a great way to insure that:

\n
    \n
  1. I get my account setup and have the app installed, ready for the arrival of the product.
    2. \n
  2. Make sure that I have everything I need so I’m not disappointed when it arrives.
    3. \n
  3. Smoothly handle the transition from new customer to app user.
    4. \n
\n

Nicely done Eight Sleep!

\n\"Eight\n", "date_published": "2023-09-30T09:44:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2023/09/30/smooth-transition-from.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2023/09/26/seems-like-billion.html", "content_html": "

Seems like $4 billion is the minimum cost to Amazon for missing the LLM wave.

\n
\n

Amazon will invest up to $4bn in Anthropic, an American AI startup founded by former employees of OpenAI, who have built a chatbotcalled Claude. Amazon will acquire a minority stake in the company, which was valued at $5bn earlier this year, to better compete in generative AI. Anthropic will work closely with Amazon Web Services, the tech giant’s cloud-computing arm. — Economist Espresso, Sep 25, 2023

\n
\n", "date_published": "2023-09-26T21:54:35-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2023/09/26/seems-like-billion.html", "tags": ["AI","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2023/09/20/teamsps-kubb-tournament.html", "title": "TeamSPS 2023 Kubb Tournament", "content_html": "\"Kubb\n

Today we held our 5th Annual TeamSPS Kubb Tournament! This event has now become a real tradition and many of our team look forward to playing Kubb together in early fall every year.

\n\"Group\n

We had 16 teams of 6 people, with a full registration of 96 players. Plus plenty of folks came down just to watch, hang out with team members, and cheer on the players.

\n\"Man\n

The great thing about Kubb for a team event is that anyone can play, the game is quick to pick up, and I guarantee you that you are going to meet and talk to the other members of your team. The game is casual, and can be enjoyed by players of any age.

\n\"Four\n

Some of our team really get into it. As the Tournament Director I’m responsible for calling matches, making rulings on anything questionable on the field. It is awesome to see the folks that really git into the spirit of Kubb.

\n\"Woman\n

This year we decided to up our game a bit and got 8 custom Kubb sets with SPS colors on the kings, and the logo etched into it. These amazing sets came from JP’s Backyard Games and he threw in some shirts that I got to hand out to some players as well.

\n\"Smiling\n

It was a great afternoon to Throw Some Wood!

\n\"Group\n

Just like previous years, we had a POAP for the event!

\n\"Round\n

We played three Round Robin matches in four different groups (results at the end), and from the round robin we placed teams into four different brackets. The winners of each bracket got bragging rights for the year, and an awesome medal!

\n

Bracket 1: Lead the Way

\n

EDI Emperors (W) vs. Kubastank
\nThe Kubb Nubbs vs. Kubbless (W)

\n

EDI Emperors (W) vs. Kubbless

\n\"Three\n

Bracket 2: Know More to Be More

\n

Kubbcumbers vs. Simply the Best (W)
\nKubbiks Rube vs. Kubb Me Up, Scotty (W)

\n

Simply the Best (W) vs. Kubb Me Up, Scotty

\n\"Three\n

Bracket 3: Win Today, Win Tomorrow

\n

Ice Kubs (W) vs. Kubb Scouts
\nLucky #13 vs. Knock’n Kubb Uff-da-bash! (W)

\n

Ice Kubs vs. Knock’n Kubb Uff-da-bash! (W)

\n\"Six\n

Bracket 4: Succeed Together

\n

Kubb on the Cob vs. Kubb Your Enthusiasm (W)
\nKubby-doo Where Are You? (W) vs. Kubb 2: Hyperkubb

\n

Kubb Your Enthusiasm vs. Kubby-doo Where Are You? (W)

\n\"Four\n

See:\n2023,\n2022,\n2021,\n2019, and\n2018 tournaments.

\n

Round Robin Results

\n

Group A

\n

Game 1:
\nIce Kubbs (W) vs. Kubbcumbers
\nKubb on the Cob vs. EDI Emperors (W)

\n

Game 2:
\nKubbcumbers vs. EDI Emperors (W)
\nIce Kubbs vs. Kubb on the Cob (W)

\n

Game 3:
\nEDI Emperors (W) vs. Ice Kubbs
\nKubbcumbers (W) vs. Kubb on the Cob

\n

Group B

\n

Game 1:
\nSimple the Best vs. Kubastank (W)
\nKubb Scouts (W) vs. Kubb Your Enthusiasm

\n

Game 2:
\nSimple the Best (W) vs. Kubb Scouts
\nKubastank (W) vs Kubb Your Enthusiasm

\n

Game 3:
\nKubb Your Enthusiasm vs. Simple the Best (W)
\nKubb Scouts vs. Kubastank (W)

\n

Group C

\n

Game 1:
\nLucky #13 (W) vs. Kubby-doo Where Are You?
\nThe Kubb Nubbs (W) vs. Kubbiks Rube

\n

Game 2:
\nLucky #13 vs. The Kubb Nubbs (W)
\nKubby-doo Where Are You? (W) vs. Kubbiks Rube

\n

Game 3:
\nKubbiks Rube (W) vs. Lucky #13
\nThe Kubb Nubbs (W) vs. Kubby-doo Where Are You?

\n

Group D

\n

Game 1:
\nKubbless (W) vs. Knock’n Kubb Uff-da-bash!
\nKubb 2: Hyperkubb vs. Kubb Me Up, Scotty! (W)

\n

Game 2:
\nKubbless (W) vs. Kubb 2: Hyperkubb
\nKnock’n Kubb Uff-da-bash! (W) vs. Kubb Me Up, Scotty!

\n

Game 3:
\nKubb Me Up, Scotty! vs. Kubbless (W)
\nKubb 2: Hyperkubb (W) vs. Knock’n Kubb Uff-da-bash!

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Congratulations to all the 2023 Minnesota CIO ORBIE Award winners and nominees! 👏

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We had our SPS Company Meeting at Orchestra Hall for the first time. It was a great venue and we had our annual Summer Picnic to follow. Such a cool space right in downtown Minneapolis.

\n

It was also Archie’s last company meeting before retiring in October. He got a long standing ovation! 👏

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A few weeks ago Tyler was saying how cool it would be to have a 1:1 with Archie Black, our CEO. I shared that with Archie and he said he’d be happy to do that, but we should do lunch instead.

\n

So today Tyler came to work with me and Archie, Tyler, and I went to the Minneapolis Club for lunch. Tyler had a number of questions and Archie did as well for him.

\n

This picture was taken in Archie’s office before we left for lunch. He asked Tyler what his favorite sport was and of course he said soccer. Archie searched around and found one soccer ball he had (Chelsea) and gave Tyler that.

\n\"Tall\n", "date_published": "2023-08-16T18:08:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2023/08/16/tylers-with-archie.html", "tags": ["Family","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2023/08/16/tyler-seemed-pretty.html", "content_html": "

Tyler seemed pretty comfortable in my office!

\n\"Blond-haired\n", "date_published": "2023-08-16T17:48:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2023/08/16/tyler-seemed-pretty.html", "tags": ["Family","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2023/07/12/the-teamsps-coffee.html", "content_html": "

The #TeamSPS Coffee Guild met today and Rob Rutscher brought in his Decent Espresso machine along with the Niche Zero grinder and served up delicious coffee for folks today. Brought a lot of joy. ☕️

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I got the pleasure to meet with Noah Jeffrey a couple of times in his ACE Leadership program with MnTech. It was cool to hear the things he was working through, be able to share some perspectives and experiences, and I think we both learned some things from the dialog. 🤝

\n\"Two\n", "date_published": "2023-07-06T21:29:26-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2023/07/06/i-got-the.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2023/07/02/current-pov.html", "content_html": "

Current POV.

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We had a great Juneteenth celebration for TeamSPS today! It was a fun event, with delicious snacks and beverages, ice cream, games, and a raffle. Thanks to these Black-owned businesses for being part of it:

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Need a reason to get donuts? 🍩 Tomorrow is National Donut Day and #TeamSPS is enjoying a day early this year! First Donut Day since the pandemic. See also: 2018 Donut Day.

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A friend shared this Board Search Criteria used by Constellation Software and highlighted in their 2017 President’s Letter. I thought these dimensions were interesting and a good model. Recreated the primary points of the table below.

\n
\n

THE ROLE

\n\n

THE CANDIDATE

\n\n

EXPERIENCE

\n\n
\n", "date_published": "2023-05-25T21:05:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2023/05/25/board-search-criteria.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2023/05/19/happy-vyshyvanka-day.html", "title": "Happy Vyshyvanka Day", "content_html": "

TeamSPS in Ukraine celebrated Vyshyvanka Day together.

\n
\n

Vyshyvanka Day is an international holiday that aims to preserve the Ukrainian folk traditions of creating and wearing ethnic embroidered clothes called vyshyvankas. It is celebrated the third Thursday of May. Vyshyvankas are, along with pysankas (traditional Ukrainian Easter eggs), one of the best known symbols of Ukrainian culture.

\n
\n

More pictures on Instagram. I’m going to find a Vyshyvanka of my own for next year. 🇺🇦

\n\"Group\n", "date_published": "2023-05-19T21:47:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2023/05/19/happy-vyshyvanka-day.html", "tags": ["Work","Current Events"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2023/05/06/minneapolisst-paul-business.html", "content_html": "

Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal’s Largest Software Development Firms in the Twin Cities ranked by software developers.

\n\"Table\n", "date_published": "2023-05-06T14:28:34-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2023/05/06/minneapolisst-paul-business.html", "tags": ["Software Development","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2023/05/03/mntech-tech-connect.html", "title": "MnTech Tech Connect 2023", "content_html": "

I had a good time learning new topics and connecting with other technology leaders at the MnTech Tech Connect event today.

\n

My sessions:

\n\n

\"Large\"Speaker\"Panel

\n", "date_published": "2023-05-03T18:20:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2023/05/03/mntech-tech-connect.html", "tags": ["Technology","Tech Community","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2023/04/27/im-really-digging.html", "content_html": "

I’m really digging the new room name decals for 5th Floor of SPS Tower. Names shown: Jumbonium, Redstone, Coaxium, Kyber, Netherite, and Beskar. 💙

\n

\"Glass-walled\"Two\"Modern

\n", "date_published": "2023-04-27T11:37:44-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2023/04/27/im-really-digging.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2023/04/21/ringing-the-closing.html", "title": "Ringing the Closing Bell on Nasdaq", "content_html": "

The SPS Commerce executive team, along with our spouses, got to ring the closing bell for NASDAQ today! This was a career highlight for me as I approach my ten year anniversary with SPS, and it was even better that Tammy was able to be there with me, as well as the amazing leaders I get to work with. Everything about this experience was so much fun.

\n

A huge thank you to all of TeamSPS for making our company so great, and to our customers for putting their trust in us and the World’s Retail Network!

\n

See also:

\n\n

Photography courtesy of Nasdaq, Inc.

\n\"Two\n\"Group\n\"Two\n\"Man\n\"Woman\n\"SPS\n

And some of my photos.

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It was great to join the Twin Cities Business Women in Leadership event and for SPS Commerce to be recognized as well! The data and stories shared from the panel of women leaders was interesting and insightful. Checkout Moving Beyond ‘Firsts’ for more.

\n\"Group\n", "date_published": "2023-04-18T19:46:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2023/04/18/it-was-great.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2023/04/12/it-was-great.html", "title": "2022 Minnesota Aspirations in Computing Award Ceremony", "content_html": "

It was great to join the Aspirations in Computing annual award ceremony and celebrate the impressive accomplishments of these young women. We are also excited to welcome four award winners to internships with TeamSPS this summer! 👏

\n\"Group\n

See Aspirations Awards events from\n2016,\n2019,\n2020,\n2021, or\n2024.

\n", "date_published": "2023-04-12T21:26:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2023/04/12/it-was-great.html", "tags": ["Tech Community","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2023/03/14/teamsps-had-a.html", "content_html": "

TeamSPS had a great time celebrating π Day at 3:14pm today with 600 pieces of pie! 🥧

\n\"Two\n\"Long\n\"Corporate\n\"Employees\n

See Pi Day Collection.

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Today I hosted the MnTech Q1 2023 Tech Leadership Forum. The organization is changing the format of this event to have technology leaders run these quarterly forums. I thought it would be fun to focus on the topic that is making so much press lately — Generative AI: Harnessing Disruption into Innovation.

\n\"MnTech\n

I was lucky enough to get three others to join in the dialog:

\n\n\"Slide\n

Some of the topics discussed:

\n\n

Since it was an invite only event for members there isn’t a video to share. 😕

\n\"Circular\n

Of course there is a POAP for the event! And even more exciting, the POAP is also held by POAP.MnTech.eth which is the first POAP that MnTech is officially producing.

\n", "date_published": "2023-02-23T19:28:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2023/02/23/mntech-leadership-forum.html", "tags": ["POAP","AI","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2023/02/08/three-kinds-of.html", "title": "Three Kinds of Listening", "content_html": "

I loved the framing of these three kinds of listening from Carolyn Coughlin “Become a Better Listener” in episode 157 of the Knowledge Project Podcast.

\n

Listening to Win: Let me make the problem go away, by telling you don’t have a problem.

\n

Listening to Learn: Getting underneath what is being said and reflecting back to the person.

\n

Listening to Fix: Let me take your problem and solve it for you.

\n", "date_published": "2023-02-08T18:16:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2023/02/08/three-kinds-of.html", "tags": ["Technology","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2023/02/02/the-product-partner.html", "content_html": "

The Product Partner Fair for #TeamSPS 2023 Sales Kickoff is a whole new level of awesome! Tremendous amount of information, and even an incredible Command Center theatre experience! 🥸

\n

\"Crowd\"Busy\"Crowded\"Five

\n", "date_published": "2023-02-02T12:04:48-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2023/02/02/the-product-partner.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Tech Community","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2023/02/01/david-horsager-of.html", "title": "David Horsager on Trust", "content_html": "

David Horsager of Trust Edge gave a fabulous keynote for #TeamSPS 2023 Sales Kickoff. David’s passion about trust and how it impacts everything around us is very thought provoking. His Eight Pillars of Trust are a great tool to consider team and self-improvement.

\n
    \n
  1. Clarity: People trust the clear and mistrust or distrust the ambiguous or the overly complex.
    2. \n
  2. Compassion: People put faith in those who care beyond themselves.
    3. \n
  3. Character: People notice those who do what’s right over what’s easy.
    4. \n
  4. Competency: People have confidence in those who stay fresh, relevant, and capable.
    5. \n
  5. Commitment: People believe in those who stand through adversity.
    6. \n
  6. Connection: People want to follow, buy from, and be around those who collaborate.
    7. \n
  7. Contribution: People immediately respond to results.
    8. \n
  8. Consistency: People love to see the little things done consistently.
    9. \n
\n\"Speaker\n", "date_published": "2023-02-01T18:13:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2023/02/01/david-horsager-of.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2023/01/24/poap-at-teamsps-th-floor.html", "content_html": "

POAP 6261374 at TeamSPS 5th Floor Grand Reopening.

\n\"Green\n", "date_published": "2023-01-24T15:49:25-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2023/01/24/poap-at-teamsps-th-floor.html", "tags": ["POAP","POAP Claims","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2023/01/19/film-crew-in.html", "content_html": "

Film crew in the Cloud today shooting some video for #TeamSPS.

\n\"Film\n", "date_published": "2023-01-19T10:27:46-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2023/01/19/film-crew-in.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2023/01/19/the-remodel-of.html", "title": "TeamSPS 5th Floor Remodel", "content_html": "

The remodel of #TeamSPS 5th floor is nearly done and we were able to move this week. It is great to be back on our “home” floor with a so many improvements!

\n
\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"
\n", "date_published": "2023-01-19T10:26:17-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2023/01/19/the-remodel-of.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Gallery","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2023/01/16/poap-as-a.html", "title": "POAP as a Business", "content_html": "

POAP is more than just a fun crypto product, it is also a business. I put some brief thoughts together on what I thought would be a POAP product that I would pay for as both a collector and an issuer.

\n

As a POAP collector, I would want to pay a relatively small monthly fee to be able to get cool information about my collection and display it well.

\n

POAP Collector - $3/mo

\n\n

Now, changing hats to the issuer side there are a whole different set of things. What if we just kept everything as is, but added a new POAP Pro level.

\n

POAP Pro - $20/mo

\n\n

I think you could then have a service to provide a “full service” experience for the issuer.

\n

POAP Studio - $500/event, require Pro subscription

\n\n

And then you could turn both the Pro and Studio option into a subscription offering.

\n

POAP for Business - $100/mo or $1,000/yr

\n\n

And lastly, I think non-profits could be a really great avenue to get the word out about POAP. Aligning with non-profits would reach a very solid set of organizations that could benefit from POAP, and be a wonderful brand alignment with POAP itself. Make it super cheap or free for non-profits to use advanced POAP Pro and Studio capabilities.

\n

POAP for Non-Profits - $20/mo or FREE

\n\n", "date_published": "2023-01-16T20:19:35-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2023/01/16/poap-as-a.html", "tags": ["POAP","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2023/01/16/premium-features-for.html", "title": "Premium Features for POAP Issuers", "content_html": "

I got this survey to provide some feedback on features for POAP issuers but it didn’t have any comment areas, only quantitative inputs. So I put my comments in a blog post.

\n

Priority Support

\n

This could be valuable and probably only for non-personal use. If it included design assistance as well that could make it more appealing, something akin to POAPathon. If bundled into a “full service” experience I think there are companies that may pay for this.

\n

Event Promotion / Verified Event

\n

I think verification using signatures would be great. I’m not sure what type of verification and promotion this would be, and the devil is in the details here. POAP should avoid the problems that come from things like a “suggested user list”. Also, since POAPs are about attendance, I don’t know that it is useful to get a feed of events I’m not attending.

\n

Collector Messaging

\n

Two-way messaging with people that hold POAPs could be interesting, but it feels odd to do this with POAP versus Discord or Reddit. It feels more likely that you would token-gate a different service for this.

\n

Collector Notifications

\n

One-way messaging to collectors of your POAPs would be great. For sure this would be a really big win. When I’ve explained to people how they can use POAPs at their events nearly everyone wants to use it to communicate and that isn’t possible today.

\n

Custom Page Designs / White Labeling

\n

For non-personal use I think this could be nice if it were relatively easy to do. I’ve done a number of POAPs for different organizations and nobody has asked about this, but if you were doing a lot of them this could make sense.

\n

Post Claim Redirect / User Redirect

\n

A redirect could be nice, but I think it would be sufficient for most use cases to be able to have a event setting for a URL for people to go to after claiming. Would not need to be an automatic redirect. This seems like a nice convenience feature, something similar to what most mailing list platforms do.

\n

Drop Analytics / Drop Reporting

\n

Analytics on events could be interesting, but these features need to all be at the wish of the issuer. I value privacy, and would want my drops to be the same way.

\n

There are two dimensions to this too. One would be extending existing web analytics to the drop pages. That could be very helpful for some issuers.

\n

On-chain analytics have a potential to be much more uniquely interesting. It could be valuable to know what POAP events people are connected to and what NFT projects those same users engage with. I do not like the idea of tracking anything relating to net worth value.

\n
\n

There were three topics that didn’t make this survey that I would also like to see.

\n
    \n
  1. Ways to make claim code management and distribution easier. When I talk with people about distributing POAPs managing the claim codes is always a burden.
    2. \n
  2. Anti-farming for issuers would be nice. I had one POAP event get completely farmed and I would like to be able to invalidate that event somehow.
    3. \n
  3. Creating images for POAPs seems like an obvious capability. POAPathon is doing this at small scale. Even for organizations that have their own designers they may want help getting that POAP-look.
    4. \n
\n", "date_published": "2023-01-16T20:04:04-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2023/01/16/premium-features-for.html", "tags": ["POAP","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2022/12/30/organizational-dissonance.html", "title": "Organizational Dissonance", "content_html": "

As a leader you are always seeking to move your organization forward toward the market opportunity that you are seeking. Moving your organization forward means constant change and always keeping ahead of the “jaws of death” that threaten your organization. As you move forward you are continually affecting change and defining where you want to be.

\n

The gap between where you are and where you want to be divided by the time you have to get there is something I think of as organizational dissonance. I’ve found it valuable to name and manage this.

\n

Dissonance is elastic and can be increased or decreased as part of your culture. Faster growing companies tend to need more dissonance, and need to invest in culture to allow that dissonance to stay higher. Said another way, the more organizational dissonance that your organization can handle, the more potential you have to change faster.

\n\"Hand-drawn\n

Examples of Dissonance

\n

What does too much dissonance sound like? Leadership is “out of touch” and doesn’t understand what is happening in the “real world”. If you pushed these even further you could “snap the band” and lose the confidence of your entire team.

\n

The other side is being too much in the teams work, and getting in their way. In this case you hear “micromanagement” and lack of ability to get things done. Here you may think you are helping your team by being close, but you are not leading toward the market opportunity, and are holding the team back from escaping the jaws of death.

\n

How does culture play here?

\n

Technology companies typically need to grow fast, and they also tend to focus on culture more than the average. Having a robust culture can enable for more organizational dissonance. And with that increased dissonance your organization can “stretch” out further and move faster.

\n

Trust and Integrity in your culture are the two things that will enable this the most. As dissonance in the organization increases, knowing that the leaders operate with high integrity, and having trust amongst all team members, will allow the organization to continue to be very successful amidst all that dissonance.

\n

Everyone Leads

\n

Everyone is affecting change, at whatever the domain that you manage. This isn’t just about manager and leaders, you may be affecting change in the domain that you oversee. You have dissonance to manage as well. Whatever the difference is from where you are today, and where you need to be tomorrow — approximately divided by the time you have to get there is some idea of the dissonance.

\n

***

\n

Questions to consider:

\n\n", "date_published": "2022-12-30T19:07:52-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2022/12/30/organizational-dissonance.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2022/12/07/telegram-is-very.html", "content_html": "

Telegram is very popular in Ukraine, and I’ve become a regular user of it to keep in touch with friends in Ukraine as well as some crypto related groups. Telegram has the distinction of being one of very few indepdently owned cross-platform messaging services. I also signed up for Telegram Premium when it came out because I wanted to support the product. This update from Durov on Premium is pretty incredible.

\n
\n

Telegram Premium, which we introduced just 5 months ago, quickly surpassed 1 million subscribers and has become one of the most successful examples of a social media subscription plan ever launched. While it still represents just a fraction of Telegram’s overall revenue, Telegram Premium is growing steadily every day, and one day may even rival our ads.

\n
\n

In a matter of 5 months they’ve added a $60M recurring revenue stream.

\n", "date_published": "2022-12-07T21:20:18-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2022/12/07/telegram-is-very.html", "tags": ["Technology","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2022/11/29/some-coffee-to.html", "content_html": "

Some coffee to start your day? “Coffee is for closers.” Love this. 🤩 #TeamSPS

\n\"Pink\n", "date_published": "2022-11-29T09:28:16-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2022/11/29/some-coffee-to.html", "tags": ["Coffee","TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2022/11/28/cyber-monday-great.html", "content_html": "

Cyber Monday 2022! Great day to show all the work our teams do to deliver amazing performance! #TeamSPS

\n\"Group\n", "date_published": "2022-11-28T17:38:42-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2022/11/28/cyber-monday-great.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Technology","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2022/11/08/we-ended-our.html", "content_html": "

We ended our day in small groups with #TeamSPS building bikes for kids! A fun event and doing a good thing at the same time. Team “Another Double” had a great time! 🤩

\n\"Group\n", "date_published": "2022-11-08T21:15:06-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2022/11/08/we-ended-our.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work","Giving"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2022/11/08/geoffrey-moore-gave.html", "content_html": "

Geoffrey Moore gave an amazing keynote at Growth Summit 2023 today. His strategies have been our playbook for many years. It was incredible to hear directly from such an influential strategist!

\n\"Man\n", "date_published": "2022-11-08T21:13:10-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2022/11/08/geoffrey-moore-gave.html", "tags": ["Tech Community","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2022/11/08/looking-forward-to.html", "content_html": "

Looking forward to an amazing Growth Summit 2023 with #TeamSPS today! 🙌

\n\"Large\n", "date_published": "2022-11-08T09:05:41-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2022/11/08/looking-forward-to.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Tech Community","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2022/10/13/at-todays-mntech.html", "content_html": "

At today’s MnTech board meeting we heard presentations from the 2022 ACE Leadership participants as they finished the program. Wonderful group of gifted leaders bringing innovative ideas forward.

\n\"Large\n", "date_published": "2022-10-13T19:42:55-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2022/10/13/at-todays-mntech.html", "tags": ["Tech Community","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2022/07/13/four-letter-words.html", "title": "Four Letter Words", "content_html": "

“If we can do 10, then 12 is only a little more.”

\n

“If we can just add this button to the UI.”

\n

“That has to be really easy, it is so simple.”

\n

Only, just, easy — all make presumptions about difficulty that the speaker frequently lacks the context and understanding to determine.

\n

Related: Word List.

\n", "date_published": "2022-07-13T22:01:31-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2022/07/13/four-letter-words.html", "tags": ["Software Development","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2022/06/08/teamsps-is-always.html", "content_html": "

TeamSPS is always pushing forward, and earning. Karin Lucas welcoming the team as we keep leading the way!

\n\"Large\n", "date_published": "2022-06-08T08:19:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2022/06/08/teamsps-is-always.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2022/06/07/tammy-and-i.html", "content_html": "

Tammy and I at the 2022 SPS Social! 🎉 Also see 2018 and 2016.

\n

\"Two\"Two\"Two

\n", "date_published": "2022-06-07T16:32:25-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2022/06/07/tammy-and-i.html", "tags": ["Family","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2022/04/25/all-the-chatter.html", "content_html": "

All the chatter about Musk buying Twitter and taking it private misses an important point: Twitter failed as a public company.

\n", "date_published": "2022-04-25T20:15:32-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2022/04/25/all-the-chatter.html", "tags": ["Work","Social Media"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2022/03/17/we-had-our.html", "content_html": "

We had our #TeamSPS St. Patrick’s Day celebration for the first time since 2019! Something green, some Guinness, and we even had some Hurling! 🍀

\n

\"Crowd\"Guinness\"Two

\n", "date_published": "2022-03-17T19:54:29-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2022/03/17/we-had-our.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work","Holidays"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2022/03/14/we-had-a.html", "content_html": "

We had a great Pi Day celebration for #TeamSPS. Somehow I managed to take pictures of the setup and forgot to take more when the people showed up!

\n\"Dozens\n\"Rows\n\"Dozens\n\"Smiling\n

See Pi Day Collection.

\n", "date_published": "2022-03-14T20:25:32-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2022/03/14/we-had-a.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work","Holidays","Pi Day"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2022/03/03/tech-inclusion-alliance.html", "title": "Tech Inclusion Alliance at MnTech Tech Talent", "content_html": "

It was great to get to be part of the MnTech Tech Talent event today with Caroline Karanja as she shared the details of the new Tech Inclusion Alliance, and then a brief panel discussion with Tarek Tomes and myself on what companies are doing that is working to bring more diverse talent into technology.

\n

My key points:

\n
    \n
  1. Companies need to solve this problem or it will limit their growth as they are unable the available talent pool isn’t growing fast enough.
    2. \n
  2. Companies can do more to lower the barriers to bringing talent into their organization. Technology choices are hiring choices!
    3. \n
\n\"Promotional\n

The video for the session is up now.

\n
\n \n
\n\n", "date_published": "2022-03-03T22:22:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2022/03/03/tech-inclusion-alliance.html", "tags": ["Tech Community","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2022/02/23/russia-attacking-ukraine.html", "content_html": "

Russia Attacking Ukraine tonight deeply saddens me. I have a wonderfully talented technology team of 100 people in Kyiv and we are trying to keep everyone safe.

\n

\"New\"Wall

\n", "date_published": "2022-02-24T00:09:42-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2022/02/23/russia-attacking-ukraine.html", "tags": ["Work","Current Events"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2022/02/09/final-prep-for.html", "content_html": "

Final prep for afternoon presentation to the amazing #TeamSPS sales team. ☕️🙌

\n\"Espresso\n", "date_published": "2022-02-09T15:51:52-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2022/02/09/final-prep-for.html", "tags": ["Coffee","TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2022/01/06/at-sps-one.html", "content_html": "

At SPS one of our engineers started a thread for everyone to share their “Frequently Used” emoji from Slack. It was really fun and interesting to see the themes across different peoples suggestions. Here are mine.

\n\"Slack\n", "date_published": "2022-01-06T19:46:15-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2022/01/06/at-sps-one.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2021/12/06/taking-an-athome.html", "content_html": "

Taking an at-home COVID-19 test during a break in a meeting while working from home. Very 2021… 😒

\n

Result: Negative.

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We had an opportunity to celebrate with #TeamSPS CFO Kim Nelson and her Career Achievement recognition at the CFO of the Year Awards Luncheon today!

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\"2021\"Kim\"Group\"Two

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Tom Wujec gave a great keynote at #TeamSPS Growth Summit 2022! Technology advancement, innovation acceleration, fast feedback loops with a handful of great mental models to help build the future! 🛠

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It is incredible to be together with so many members of #TeamSPS today for Growth Summit 2022! 🎉🙌💙

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I like these new “What’s new” screens that Drafts started showing. This is a great way for a subscription product to make sure that people see the continued new capabilities being added all the time.

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A very common business mistake I see is attempting to adopt practices from companies with total revenue close to yours. I think growth rate is a better way to determine what you can learn from outside practices.

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It was a huge honor to be recognized as the Large Corporate ORBIE Winner by Twin Cities CIO! I’ve been lucky to work with amazing people and in great companies building a variety of leading products. SPS shared the announcement as well.

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It was a stellar evening to connect, for the first time in two years, with this great group of local CIOs and CTOs. Kraus-Anderson was nice enough to share their balcony space with the group (Thanks Tony Peleska). The weather was perfect. A big thank you to Dee Thibodeau, Nick Hernandez, and Nate Haines for making this happen. And the wine overviews from Chuck Kanski of Solo Vino Wines were great, as always.

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For our recent team all-hands we had a photo theme on back to school. I used my very formal High School graduation picture, and decided to make set my virtual zoom background as if I was still in that shot. This was pretty fun. 😉

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TeamSPS had a great time playing Kubb today, connecting with colleagues, and having a fun time. We weren’t able to have this event in 2020 due to COVID-19, but thanks to vaccines we were able to throw some batons together! Several people commented how much they loved this event. Here are some selected photos from Tim Van Cleave who was so generous to volunteer as official photographer! He has an entire album of additional shots as well.

\n\"Groups\n\"Group\n\"Man\n\"Five\n\"Group\n

You can also see the official SPS Tech Blog post on the Kubb event, and looks back to our 2019 and 2018 events. This event got real momentum after we did Kubb at Tech Jam in 2016. The first introduction was a Kubb Class in 2014 that was part of our SPS Charity Auction. Kubb has some deep roots with Team SPS!

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See:\n2023,\n2022,\n2021,\n2019, and\n2018 tournaments.

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Had a super evening with great MarketWatch friends. It has been decades since we worked together, but the stories are were as fresh as ever. Nick, Anna, Jim, Scott – you are all amazing! 🤩🥰

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I’m a huge fan of Cook. Crazy big pay day. $750M. 💰

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\n

Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive, received more than 5m shares in the firm and sold most of them, pocketing over $750m this week. The stock grant—part of a compensation package set in 2011—was contingent on the tech firm meeting various financial targets, which it did. Under Mr Cook’s tenure, Apple’s market capitalisation has risen more than seven-fold. — Economist Espresso, Saturday, August 28.

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We had our very first quarterly company meeting with some of the team in-person, masked, at the Minneapolis Convention Center. It was great to see so many of #TeamSPS together for the first time in so long.

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Great weather today so worked on the porch all day.

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Decided to take in a gorgeous day and work on our porch today. iPad Pro in Sidecar display is nice to have more desktop.

\n\"MacBook\n", "date_published": "2021-06-02T21:02:38-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2021/06/02/decided-to-take.html", "tags": ["Work","Apple"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2021/04/24/we-shopped-for.html", "title": "Victual", "content_html": "

We shopped for a bit in Victual in Crosby, MN this morning. The passion of the owners and the quality experience were great. If you are in the area a stop here is required. Many locally sourced products.

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Presented by: Jamie Thingelstad, Shivani Stumpf, Amy Patton, Teddy Bekele, and Jadee Hanson on September 15, 2020.

\n

Today’s technology teams thrive on collaboration and agile processes to deliver innovative solutions. Managing a mix of on-site and remote professionals was easy, but what happened when everyone suddenly was remote. How did management change? What was easier? And harder? Hear from local technology executives about their highs, lows and learnings during this time and what changes they predict are here to stay. They’ll address how they hired, onboarded, trained, and promoted individuals, as well as how their solutions stayed on course and how they spurred innovation.

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This is my workstation setup for our February stay in Mesa, AZ. The mStand is critical to getting the screen and camera at a good height. The 12.9” iPad Pro does great double duty as a second display using Sidecar.

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I got a chance to join Jac Stark and Nels Pederson of Tech.MN for this CTO Spotlight conversation. We covered a wide range of topics. It was a good conversation. We recorded this in August 2020, but it didn’t get published until December.

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\n\n", "date_published": "2021-01-07T21:18:28-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2021/01/07/cto-spotlight-candid.html", "tags": ["Technology","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2020/12/17/today-we-announced.html", "content_html": "

Today we announced that Data Masons is becoming part of SPS Commerce! This is a great combination and I’m looking forward to all we will do together.

\n

The news was also shared on the NASDAQ MarketSite in Times Square!

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It turns out I pace a decent amount. Last week I was on a Zoom call and also took a call on my cell. I muted my audio but left the video on and one of our team grabbed the video loop and made it into this terrific Zoom video background. So brilliant! Only topped by sharing it with several of us who then had it on at the same time. That is a lot of pacing! 😂

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The data in this graph is pretty amazing. From Why we are underestimating Zoom & it’s impact?.

\n\"Bar\n", "date_published": "2020-11-28T14:14:47-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2020/11/28/the-data-in.html", "tags": ["Work","Current Events"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2020/11/18/i-leveled-up.html", "content_html": "

I leveled up my webinar broadcasting capabilities with the addition of a green screen. This setup worked incredibly well with Zoom for our all team meeting today.

\n\"Home\n

Here is what it looks like in Zoom with a virtual background applied.

\n\"Man\n

The theme for the team meeting was a live show where I was the host in the control room. It was a lot of fun to do.

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Today #TeamSPS joined together around the world for Growth Summit 2021! We had a great event, with the show being broadcast live from the Minneapolis Convention Center. We had a ton of precautions to keep things as safe as possible with the pandemic.

\n\"Large\n

The event was fabulous, and the team was engaged with online activities that were paired up with the sessions. Truly a great online experience.

\n\"Large\n

We had a thought provoking keynote from Greg Bell on the power of a simple question, What is Going Well?

\n\"Man\n

I loved some of the behind the scenes stuff. I’d like to play around with all this gear.

\n\"Production\n\"Large\n

Had to get made up for the big event.

\n\"Masked\n\"Darkened\n

What a great day #TeamSPS! It is going to be a great 2021!

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I love this Drucker quote that my coach shared with me.

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Drucker, who believed that the most effective managers look across a range of disciplines and draw on all of the humanities and sciences, would have loved Martin’s analysis. Indeed, it is said that a young person once asked Drucker how to excel as a manager. “Learn to play the violin,” he replied.

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Emphasis mine. I found this reference to it. The appreciation and desire to understand a broad range of topics, to bring more context to everything else, is something I feel strongly about.

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These results are incredible, and seem almost unstoppable.

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“America’s biggest tech firms reported dizzying figures, as each surfed on the pandemic’s waves. Amazon’s third-quarter sales grew 37% year-on-year, to more than $96bn; it hired 50% more staff to cope with the demands of locked-down households. Alphabet was the only giant whose share price strengthened, as Google’s ad sales recovered, especially on YouTube. Apple’s iPhone sales were even weaker than expected, while overall revenue and profit held steady. Facebook blew past glowering governments’ scrutiny to report quarterly revenue growth of 22%, with a prediction of better to come over the holidays.” — The Economist Espresso, October 30th, 2020

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\n", "date_published": "2020-10-30T09:46:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2020/10/30/these-results-in.html", "tags": ["Technology","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2020/10/11/in-paul-jarvishttpspjrvscom.html", "content_html": "

In Paul Jarvis Sunday Dispatch today he highlights how he disagrees with the assumption in “main-stream startup culture” that you have to “move at break-neck speed”. I started writing a reply in email and decided to make it a post instead. 🙂

\n

I think Jarvis is largely right on this. I strongly dislike the growing use of the word “hustle” in startups. It feel cheap and underhanded (to pressure or coerce). Hustle and pivot are now widely accepted terms, and both describe what are likely failure modes.

\n

Also bringing in physics, fast isn’t enough. Speed in a direction is needed. Velocity. A lot of speed at all costs ignores the fundamental question of “where are we going?”

\n

Maybe ignoring where you are going is why pivot and hustle are so prominent in the language?

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It was great to see the current ACE Leadership class present at todays MnTech Board meeting. They formed multiple teams and engaged with Genesys Works, Lunar Startups, Reve Academy, PCs for People, and Technovation[MN]. These teams worked with their non-profit partners to do analysis on recommendations, new programs and other ways to continue to drive their mission forward. This was a great way to learn more about these groups and what they are doing, further develop technology talent with real world experience, and give back to organizations that are doing good in our community! 👏

\n", "date_published": "2020-10-09T10:07:58-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2020/10/09/it-was-great.html", "tags": ["Tech Community","Work","Giving"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2020/09/27/amazons-marketing-strategy.html", "content_html": "

Amazon’s marketing strategy with Ring seems to be:

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    \n
  1. Make you worry about something you weren’t worried about yesterday.
    2. \n
  2. Sell you a product to try and counteract that worry they created for you.
    3. \n
  3. Try to distract you with technology that seems from the future.
    4. \n
  4. Give lip service to privacy concerns.
    5. \n
  5. Create a large volume of data to sell you more things.
    6. \n
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First time we’ve had a full unplanned Xfinity service outage during remote work and school. Switched everyone to use their phones as hotspots. Hopefully service is restored soon. There is major construction a block away that I suspect is related.

\n\"Xfinity\n

Update: Service came back after only about 15 min. Wonder what the issue was… 🤔

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It was great to be on a panel today as part of Twin Cities Startup Week talking about Managing Global Teams During a Pandemic. Many thanks to the organization and fellow panelists Shivani Stumpf, Teddy Bekele, Jadee Hanson, and Amy Patton!

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Potential Zoom feature: Autopilot

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When autopilot is on the Zoom client will automatically leave meetings at the scheduled time, and automatically connect to the next meeting. No user input needed. There could be a preference for a brief intermission to stretch.

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😬😂

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Just finished an interview with tech.mn Jac Stark and Livefront Nels Pederson for their CTO Spotlight series. Looking forward to the published version! 🎙

\n

Update Jan 2021: This is now published.

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We capped off #TeamSPS TechJam 2020 with a keynote from Casey Rosenthal on resilient systems and the practices that enable and support that transition. He filled it with fabulous stories relating the core resiliency topics to historical problems. 🙌

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Love the enthusiasm and passion that Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is sharing with #TeamSPS during TechJam! “Spearheading the Future of Programming” His love for the craft of programming is overflowing! 👩‍💻👨‍💻

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Today we kick off #TeamSPS TechJam 2020! We have 31 presenters leading sessions that “follow the sun” with our teams around the world! The event is framed in with a Hackathon and Deep Racer competition! We are embracing remote with all activities online! 🙌

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I recently shared a selfie from my office and a friend emailed me to ask what books I had on the book shelf behind me. I tend to keep multiple copies of a set of books in my office and I happily give them to anyone that wants a copy. The books that I keep in there change slowly over time, but this is what I’m stocking today and why. These are in no particular order. You can see all of these on my technology management section on Bookshop.org.

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Measure What Matters by John Doerr
\nThis is a great introduction to OKR’s. Wether you adopt OKR’s formally or informally, it is worth reading to understand the mechanics and how various organizations have used this framework.

\n

An Elegant Puzzle by Will Larson
\nThis is a thorough and complete writeup of many topics related to managing and leading technology teams. Well written and useful information. As an added bonus, it’s an incredibly well designed and produced book.

\n

Inspired by Marty Cagan
\nInsightful book that covers on the critical aspects of creating great products. Covers all of the aspects, not just building the software.

\n

Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
\nWonderful book that highlights the power of checklists. Highlights what makes a good checklist and why. Must read.

\n

Getting Things Done by David Allen
\nI’ve been using the GTD method for over a decade and routinely recommend it to people as a way to manage not just their work, but their whole life.

\n

Agile Software Development with Scrum by Schwaber and Beedle
\nI have probably bought over 100 copies of this book over the years. I still reference it for those that want to learn about Agile and Scrum. I don’t remember how I was introduced to this book, but I’m very thankful I read it early on.

\n

The New Leaders 100 Day Action Plan by George B. Bradt, Jayme A. Check, John A. Lawler
\nThis book was recommended to me by a friend when I joined SPS Commerce. It served as a great roadmap and absolutely helped me be more successful as I started as a new leader. I give this book to every Director and up that we hire!

\n

Trillion Dollar Coach by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle
\nThe story of Bill Campbell who coached some of the biggest technology companies in the world. This book provides some great insight into the role of a coach in business. By reading it, I think you can be a better coach too.

\n

Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim
\nGreat overview of how a modern technology organization should run and deliver value.

\n

Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows
\nSystem thinking is one of the most critical things for growing and changing companies to keep in mind. As managers you are often designing systems that people and processes operate in and around. This is a good entry level discussion of the topic, and will make you a better designer of those systems.

\n

Radical Candor by Kim Scott
\nI enjoyed this book for it’s approach to candid conversations in the workplace and how to approach them.

\n

Leadership Pipeline by Stephen Drotter, Jim Noel, and Ram Charan
\nGood book on thinking about leadership development from entry level manager to functional leader and enterprise leader. I like how this book is structured and the critical questions it asks the reader to consider.

\n

The Goal: A Business Graphic Novel based on The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt with Jeff Cox, adapted by Dwight Jon Zimmerman and Dean Motter
\nThe Goal is a classic book, and the concepts in it are one that many technology leaders may not have front of mind. The graphic novel is a fun way to make it even more approachable.

\n

The Change Monster by Jeanie Daniel Duck
\nThis book is a simple way to think about organizational change, and how to lead your organizations through it. I found this book when I was doing a lot of mergers and it was helpful to think about the process and the emotions associated with it.

\n

The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within by Edward R. Tufte
\nI share this with people who want more information on why I’m so suspect of bullet lists and “PowerPoint thinking.”

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I was able to participate in one of the first run-throughs of our new Distribution Center Simulation! It was a fabulous experience that will help #TeamSPS contextualize the benefit our services have for our customers. Hats off to the team that made this vision a reality. I love how they made it all real by using real products and staging everything just like it would happen in a distribution center. They even had speakers with truck and forklift sounds! 🚚

\n

Also, extremely impressive how they modified the process to allow us to do this in-person experience during the pandemic. 😷

\n
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Today was my first day in the office in 85 days. It is very quiet! Devices updated, password changed, and other things that were easier to do on office network done.

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On this day, 23 years ago, we launched BigCharts.com. The time before and after that was fun, stressful, and filled with unknowns. It was a great ride. One of the defining experiences of my life. I love that the site is still around, serving charts for all that want! I’m sure code I wrote is still running on it. 😬

\n

I bet that it is one of the very few sites that can show a graph of the Dow Jones Industrial Average back to 1970. I know because I was the one that backloaded that data into the database!

\n\"DJIA\n

I love that the size of chart bigger than Large is still called Big! I remember the laughter when we came up with that obvious label.

\n

It still is one of the few sites that will give you a historical quote, with the price info for a given day in the past, backing out splits.

\n

I remember the up2.aspx page that we used for the load balancers to make sure servers were healthy.

\n

Here is a team photo from June 9, 1999. It was a tech team dinner at Buca. What a great team!

\n\"Large\n

I hope the site enjoys its 20s and is around for decades to come!

\n

I also shared this on LinkedIn and hopefully we’ll get some old school BigCharts folks commenting.

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We have all shifted quickly to online platforms for many of our interactions. It is easy to see some of the challenges with this. Technical barriers. Cognitive confusion leading to “zoom fatigue”. There are also some powerful benefits online that were not as obvious before.

\n

Work

\n

For “knowledge workers,” most everyone is doing their work distributed, and I have noticed an equalizing aspect to it. The two dimensions that I see the most are geography differences being lessened, and more balance between those that are outgoing versus more introverted. When everyone you work with is in an equally sized video frame right in front of you, geography is only notable to the extent that it may be evening where they are and morning for you. I’ve had many team members share with me that they have never felt more connected with the members of our various offices. And perhaps more powerfully, our team members in other offices have felt like they can contribute and engage better with the rest of the teams.

\n

This reinforces one of my beliefs about remote versus centralized teams that it is hardest to do both. Fully remote is a considerable leveler, and everyone will have to accommodate. Entirely local is the default that humans have used for millennia. The tricky part is doing both. My hope is that we can take the learnings developed during this pandemic and apply it to improvements and empathy going forward to keep these benefits in place.

\n

Large group gatherings have also surprised me online. They work very well, as long as you keep the time short. And one of my favorite parts is that you can successfully engage in Q&A with the audience. I’ve held team all-hands meetings for decades, and I long ago decided to not open up time for Q&A because the chances of someone asking a question were near nil. The social dynamics of being that one person in a room of 250 that stands up with a question are just too challenging for most individuals to navigate. Online tools though by necessity must create a feature to do this. They have to enable it. And in doing so, they remove the barriers that inhibit people. I’ve found much more engagement than I’ve ever seen in in-person large group meetings.

\n

mini minnebar

\n

Last weekend was supposed to be the annual Minnebar unconference. Minnebar is one of my favorite events of the year. Over 1,000 technologists, collecting around community-led topics with about 70 sessions throughout the day. Minnestar, the non-profit behind the Minnebar, pivoted online and held mini Minnebar and I thought it was great!

\n

The event was hosted on Crowdcast, and it was impressive. The event had a single track, versus multiple parallel sessions as it usually has. That was just fine to me, and it made me think that there could be five or six events like this throughout the year and get the same quantity of content to an even broader audience.

\n

However, the big win to me was opening the event to a broader geography. One of the sessions I realized my brother would like. He lives three hours away and would usually never be able to attend Minnebar. But since it was online, I sent him the link, and he was on in 5 minutes. The event drew people from around the state. Minnestar has debated for years about how to reach people outside of the metro area. I know from dozens of board conversations. We considered for years bringing our events to other cities, but getting them online and opening up globally brought the program there. There was even a person from Turkey who attended Minnebar!

\n

I also felt a lot of energy from the event. It hit me how important it was that the event happen, in some form. I needed the connection to the technology community to still be there. It was so great to see comments in the stream from friends and give a 👋 to them. It filled my day with energy to connect and so what if we couldn’t do it in person with happy hour, we still did it. It reminded me how vital these connections are, and we all must forge ahead.

\n

A New Way to Mourn

\n

My last observation on this topic is from an episode of the Daily called A New Way to Mourn. I highly recommend listening to this. It is a touching story with a powerful message. In short, this highlights that many funerals are being queued into the future. “We will get together to remember Bob when we can connect as a community.” There is a massive problem with this. These are essential rituals and are vital to loved ones and friends going through the mourning process. Deferring them to some unknown future date is going to cause significant problems.

\n

This story about mourning and celebrating a departed loved one online is incredible. And again, I note the accessibility component. Some people can’t travel for various reasons and may be unable to attend a traditional funeral ceremony. Typically they would be excluded from this critical aspect of the mourning process. Hosting a visitation and funeral over Zoom opens up new avenues and accessibility for loved ones to be part of the process.

\n", "date_published": "2020-05-06T21:12:19-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2020/05/06/the-importance-accessibility.html", "tags": ["Minnestar","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2020/04/28/our-new-office.html", "content_html": "

Our new office space in Kyiv, Ukraine is coming along nicely and will be ready for #TeamSPS when we are able to return to the office! The pandemic posed logistical issues but the project team managed through it.

\n

\"Empty\"Office\"Under-construction\"Empty\"Empty\"Glass

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Yesterday #TeamSPS celebrated our 10th anniversary of going public on the NASDAQ. To celebrate team members shared pictures of themselves in SPS gear. I switched shirts many times throughout the day! We also published a video on LinkedIn and on Twitter with everyones pictures.

\n
\n \n
\n\n

It is so great to see all of the #TeamSPS pride on display, and all the little kids and pets in SPS gear as well! 👏

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Fun working from home upside — kids made waffles this morning and delivered a stack to me to enjoy! 🧇

\n\"Stack\n", "date_published": "2020-04-17T16:37:17-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2020/04/17/fun-working-from.html", "tags": ["Family","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2020/04/09/high-quality-midday.html", "content_html": "

High quality mid-day espresso is a nice upside of working from home. ☕️

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This sales data is remarkable. From our municipal liquor store…

\n
\n

Edina Liquor
\nThe three Edina Liquor stores were closed at 5 p.m. Tuesday, March 17. We moved all sales to our online portal and home delivery service. On Wednesday, we generated $8,300 in revenue. For perspective, that is $403.00 more than an average Wednesday operating with three retail locations during the same time frame. We ended the day on Wednesday with close to 200 online orders and over $20,000 in revenue – again, in line with an average Wednesday with three open stores. Based on our sales data over the past 10 days, if we maintain the current delivery volume through the month of March, Edina Liquor will exceed our growth target of 3.5 percent year over year and essentially be unharmed by this closure.

\n
\n

Local transformations are going to happen at a blinding pace as we go through the Covid-19 pandemic.

\n", "date_published": "2020-03-21T08:10:10-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2020/03/21/rapid-transitions-edina.html", "tags": ["Work","Current Events"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2020/03/19/after-three-days.html", "content_html": "

After three days of working from home my daughter (14) asks “Dad, when do you do your work? All you do is talk to people all day?" 🤩

\n", "date_published": "2020-03-19T15:58:25-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2020/03/19/after-three-days.html", "tags": ["Family","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2020/03/11/focus-for-the.html", "content_html": "

Focus for the rest of the week!

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We had a great event recognizing International Women’s Day at SPS Commerce. Great keynote and exercise around vulnerability and bias led by Brave New Workshop’s Margi Simmons and a wonderful panel from women leaders in #TeamSPS! Thank you Kara Boespflug, Jenny Nolan, Anna Picchetti, Nikki Riemersma, and Bre Taft.

\n\"Audience\n\"Six\n\"A\n\"Margi\n

See IWD 2024, 2021, 2020, 2020 @ SPS, and 2018.

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Learned a lot this morning at the MHTA Tech Talent 2020 event! A wealth of data from Grant Riewe, Erin Olson, Sri Koneru, and Tim Welsh.

\n\"Conference\n\"Two\n\"Woman\n\"Bearded\n

The Success Stories from Minnesota Workplaces at todays MHTA Tech Talent 2020 event were very informative. It was great to hear what is working for everyone. This event is only in it’s 2nd year but is already a mainstay for the community.

\n\"Large\n\"Four\n\"Woman\n

It was a privilege to be able to share some perspective and success stories at the MHTA Tech Talent 2020 event about what we are doing at SPS Commerce to attract, retain, and develop technology talent!

\n\"Man\n", "date_published": "2020-02-27T23:22:11-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2020/02/27/mhta-tech-talent.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2020/02/06/there-was-so.html", "content_html": "

There was so much excitement and energy at the 25 different stations of the #TeamSPS Product & Partner Fair today, part of our 2020 Sales Kickoff!

\n

\"Crowded\"People\"Crowd\"Crowded

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Excited for #TeamSPS Sales Kick-Off 2020!

\n\"Large\n", "date_published": "2020-02-05T08:46:26-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2020/02/05/excited-for-teamsps.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2020/01/29/weve-had-a.html", "title": "Tech Summit 2020", "content_html": "

We’ve had a great first-half for our #TeamSPS Tech Summit 2020! 🙌 Streaming live to all locations too!

\n\"Large\n", "date_published": "2020-01-29T12:47:05-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2020/01/29/weve-had-a.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Technology","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2020/01/15/a-bunch-of.html", "content_html": "

A bunch of #TeamSPS volunteered to demo multiple rooms at Erik’s Ranch & Retreats as they get ready to renovate them. Hard work! Great organization! Give Back!

\n

\"Group\"Three\"Woman\"Two

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We tried a new way of having #TeamSPS members from other locations present at our All Hands meeting today and it worked really well! Maybe telepresence robots would work well?

\n

\"Stage\"Man

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How is it possible that LEGO and Pokémon haven’t created a collection of kits? People would buy them like crazy, and both companies would make a bunch of revenue. 🤷🏼‍♂️💸

\n", "date_published": "2019-12-15T11:25:12-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2019/12/15/how-is-it.html", "tags": ["Pokemon","Games","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2019/12/12/great-teamsps-outing.html", "content_html": "

Great #TeamSPS outing to play epic Whirleyball matches!

\n

\"Group\"Adults

\n", "date_published": "2019-12-12T17:24:38-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2019/12/12/great-teamsps-outing.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2019/12/05/technology-is-a.html", "content_html": "

Technology is a team sport, and this is a great team. #TeamSPS 🏆

\n\"Group\n", "date_published": "2019-12-05T22:16:14-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2019/12/05/technology-is-a.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2019/12/03/daily-cyberweek-standup.html", "content_html": "

Daily cyberweek standup as #TeamSPS prepares for another great day! 🙌

\n\"Group\n", "date_published": "2019-12-03T10:22:45-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2019/12/03/daily-cyberweek-standup.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Technology","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2019/12/02/ready-for-an.html", "content_html": "

Ready for an awesome Cyberweek #TeamSPS! 👍

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Great to see #TeamSPS wrapping up a fantastic trip to #KubeCon!

\n

It's incredibly hard to leave #KubeCon in sunny San Diego. I wish it was here every year! #TeamSPS had an awesome trip filled with tons of learning and new friends. Cheers to the continued growth of a great community! pic.twitter.com/awKFrxse4w

— Andy Domeier (@AndyJD_) November 22, 2019
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International business travel and sleep don’t mix well. ✈️🥱

\n\"AutoSleep\n", "date_published": "2019-11-21T16:10:52-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2019/11/21/international-business-travel.html", "tags": ["Fitness","Travel","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2019/11/21/wrapped-up-another.html", "content_html": "

Wrapped up another great trip in Kyiv with #TeamSPS Ukraine! 🇺🇦 Time to head home! ✈️

\n\"Group\n", "date_published": "2019-11-21T02:52:37-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2019/11/21/wrapped-up-another.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Travel","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2019/11/19/fantastic-growth-summit.html", "content_html": "

Fantastic 2020 Growth Summit today with #TeamSPS in Kyiv! 🏆🙌🇺🇦

\n

\"Large\"Four\"Three\"Conference

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I love this #TeamSPS created SPS Commerce logo art in our Kyiv office! 🇺🇦🤩

\n

\"SPS\"SPS

\n", "date_published": "2019-11-18T10:18:17-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2019/11/18/i-love-this.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work","Arts"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2019/11/18/dan-juckniess-sps.html", "content_html": "

Dan Juckniess, SPS SVP, Chief Sales Officer, sharing market and go-to-market wins with #TeamSPS in Kyiv, Ukraine.

\n

\"Man\"Presenter\"A

\n", "date_published": "2019-11-18T10:16:40-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2019/11/18/dan-juckniess-sps.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Travel","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2019/11/14/afternoon-workshop-and.html", "content_html": "

Afternoon workshop and training on Essential SAFe for our Technology and Product leaders! 🙌🏆 #TeamSPS

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Selfie with #TeamSPS before our 2020 Growth Summit! 🙌🤩🏆

\n\"Selfie\n

We had a great time today at #TeamSPS celebrating our wins from 2019, and looking forward to the great work we are planning in 2020! 🙌🏆

\n\"Large\n

John Sweeney gave a thought provoking and actionable keynote for #TeamSPS today on bringing an innovative mindset to everything we do! Loved all of it!

\n\"Large\n

Congratulations to the four #TeamSPS members that we recognized for over twenty years with SPS Commerce today! Your contributions continue to add value each and every day! 🤩👏

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Our newest floor opened up in SPS Tower today! Great setup to enable #TeamSPS to continue winning. I love the conference room names from Women Who Code. The text on the quiet room desks? EDI. The team moves in soon! 🤩🙌

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Looks like we are a new show at the Brave New Workshop! 🤩

\n\"Brave\n", "date_published": "2019-11-06T18:56:45-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2019/11/06/looks-like-we.html", "tags": ["Work","Arts"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2019/10/23/mark-oleary-and.html", "content_html": "

Mark O’Leary and I shared context and excitement with one of our teams as we continue our adoption of Scaled Agile practices. #TeamSPS

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We had a great time with our 2019 #TeamSPS Kubb Tournament today! We had 20 teams having a lot of fun, getting to know their teammates better, and enjoying a gorgeous day outside!

\n\"Group\n\"Groups\n\"Group\n\"Groups\n

After the round robin our #TeamSPS Kubb groups split into brackets with a winner in each bracket! We kept track old school, just like most tournaments do!

\n\"Handwritten\n

After the 2019 #TeamSPS Kubb tournament a bunch of folks hung out and played, you guessed it, more Kubb! Next year we might introduce Mölkky at the end!

\n\"Seven\n

See:\n2023,\n2022,\n2021,\n2019, and\n2018 tournaments.

\n", "date_published": "2019-08-22T22:46:52-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2019/08/22/teamsps-kubb-tournament.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Kubb","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2019/07/31/the-sps-brewoff.html", "content_html": "

The 2019 SPS Brew-Off was great as always! We have amazing home brewers in #TeamSPS, and it’s a great opportunity to Give Back! 🍻

\n\"Two\n", "date_published": "2019-07-31T10:50:33-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2019/07/31/the-sps-brewoff.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Drinks","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2019/07/02/modeling-the-dulcetones.html", "content_html": "

Modeling the dulcetones and pastels of the spring color lineup.

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Great night for some Minnesota Twins baseball! ⚾️

\n\"Target\n

Great night of baseball with #TeamSPS Tech Managers! ⚾️💯

\n\"Large\n

Our #TeamSPS members from Ukraine and Australia getting in the Twins spirit! ⚾️🤩

\n\"Group\n", "date_published": "2019-06-11T20:26:57-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2019/06/11/202657.html", "tags": ["Sports","TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2019/06/07/how-many-engineers.html", "content_html": "

How many engineers does it take to get the screen to show up on the TV? 🤣

\n\"Six\n", "date_published": "2019-06-07T16:43:19-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2019/06/07/how-many-engineers.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2019/05/15/we-had-a.html", "content_html": "

We had a fabulous #TeamSPS Tech Leader outing tonight making a delicious meal at Kitchen Window! 🍽 We were joined by some awesome guests too! Such a great team, and a super fun evening! 🌮🍔🍺 Teams the cook together, win together!

\n\"Group\n", "date_published": "2019-05-15T21:46:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2019/05/15/we-had-a.html", "tags": ["Cooking","TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2019/05/10/time-for-demos.html", "content_html": "

Time for demos at the end of the #TeamSPS TechJam 2019 Hackathon! 13 teams built creative, fast, and new projects to share! 🙌🤩🚀

\n\"Large\n", "date_published": "2019-05-10T15:09:31-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2019/05/10/time-for-demos.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Tech Community","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2019/05/09/080643.html", "title": "SPS TechJam 2019", "content_html": "

Today is #TeamSPS TechJam 2019, where we collect as a community to share and learn from each other! We have presenters covering a wide range of topics, and representing many parts of our team!

\n\"Cartoon\n

I love the creativity that our team puts into our #TeamSPS activities, and I just 💙 this TechJam “comic” sticker! So nicely done @ken_korth!

\n\"Comic-book\n

“One of these cords isn’t working right!” Thad making it all work for #TeamSPS TechJam. 🤓

\n\"Man\n

A huge thank you to the amazing organizers of TechJam 2019! Community events cannot happen without individuals that are willing to put personal passion and energy to make them happen! 👏

\n\"Group\n

Inspiring keynote from Chris Williams of Badass Agile at TechJam 2019! Good way to start off the day!

\n

Awesome that we have presenters at TechJam from Minneapolis 🇺🇸, Kyiv 🇺🇦, Toronto 🇨🇦, and New Jersey 🇺🇸! Global teams FTW!

\n

Break time hacky sack - great way to stretch between sessions!

\n\"Three\n

SPS TechJam 2019!

\n\"Bearded\n

Great talks at TechJam 2019, and incredible breadth. How about a lightning talk on emotional intelligence?

\n\"Presenter\n

SPS TechJam 2019!

\n\"Large\n", "date_published": "2019-05-09T08:06:43-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2019/05/09/080643.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Tech Community","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2019/04/17/minnesota-aspirations-in.html", "title": "2019 Minnesota Aspirations in Computing Award Ceremony", "content_html": "

Excited to be at the 2019 Minnesota Aspirations in Computing Awards honoring amazing young women starting careers in technology! Very happy that #TeamSPS can be part of it!

\n\"Large\n

Fun and inspiring keynote at Minnesota Aspirations in Computing Awards from Amy Alexander, Senior Biomedical Engineer at Mayo Clinic, sharing some of the incredible work she does to help patients. #MNAiC2019

\n\"Woman\n

The 2019 Minnesota Aspirations in Computing Awards Honorees tonight were very impressive! Congratulations to all of you! 🎉 #TeamSPS was there to celebrate and welcome the four interns joining SPS Commerce this summer. #MNAiC2019

\n\"Group\n

See Aspirations Awards events from\n2016,\n2019,\n2020,\n2021, or\n2024.

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It’s awesome when you are following #TeamSPS backpacks eight timezones away! 😊👍🏻

\n\"Two\n", "date_published": "2019-04-11T10:11:11-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2019/04/11/its-awesome-when.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Travel","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2019/04/10/great-night-bowling.html", "content_html": "

Great night bowling with #TeamSPS in Ukraine! Команда грають в боулінг разом, та виграють разом! 🎳

\n\"Group\n", "date_published": "2019-04-10T12:56:06-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2019/04/10/great-night-bowling.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Travel","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2019/04/10/great-dinner-last.html", "content_html": "

Great dinner last night with some our our #TeamSPS Ukraine leaders in Kyiv! Great food, conversation, and people. 🤝

\n\"Group\n", "date_published": "2019-04-10T00:08:35-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2019/04/10/great-dinner-last.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Travel","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2019/03/29/great-night-celebrating.html", "content_html": "

Great night celebrating with #TeamSPS Little Falls at their SPS Social! 🙌🎶🎉

\n\"Group\n\"Three\n", "date_published": "2019-03-29T21:09:11-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2019/03/29/great-night-celebrating.html", "tags": ["Music","TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2019/03/21/appreciate-the-warm.html", "content_html": "

Appreciate the warm welcome and hospitality from our #TeamSPS Australia leadership team! 🇦🇺

\n\"Group\n", "date_published": "2019-03-21T02:44:17-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2019/03/21/appreciate-the-warm.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Travel","Work","Australia 2019"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2019/03/21/it-was-great.html", "content_html": "

It was great to spend the last couple of days with #TeamSPS Technology in Melbourne! Great team and exciting things to come! 🇦🇺

\n\"Group\n", "date_published": "2019-03-21T02:42:14-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2019/03/21/it-was-great.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Travel","Work","Australia 2019"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2019/03/20/joined-teamsps-melbourne.html", "content_html": "

Joined #TeamSPS Melbourne for game night this evening. They even had a brand new copy of Ticket to Ride. Came in 2nd this time. Also had some Exploding Kittens going. 🎲🎮

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I had a fabulous dinner tonight at Steak Ministry with the #TeamSPS leadership team in Melbourne! 🇦🇺

\n\"Six\n", "date_published": "2019-03-19T04:23:40-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2019/03/19/i-had-a.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Travel","Work","Restaurants","Australia 2019"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2019/03/18/i-did-a.html", "content_html": "

I did a Town Hall session with #TeamSPS Melbourne, and Sydney on videoconference today. Great team, good conversation, and same SPS spirit! 👍

\n\"A\n", "date_published": "2019-03-19T00:27:51-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2019/03/18/i-did-a.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Travel","Work","Australia 2019"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2019/03/17/hanging-out-in.html", "content_html": "

Hanging out in LAX for a bit on the way to visit #TeamSPS in Melbourne! 🇦🇺🦘

\n\"Delta\n", "date_published": "2019-03-17T19:30:48-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2019/03/17/hanging-out-in.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Travel","Work","Australia 2019"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2019/03/15/great-night-at.html", "content_html": "

Great night at the #TeamSPS 2019 Social! 🙌🎶🎉

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Happy π Day from #TeamSPS! 74 pies! #PiDay

\n\"Smiling\n\"Long\n\"Dozens\n\"Crowd\n

See Pi Day Collection.

\n", "date_published": "2019-03-14T15:56:25-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2019/03/14/happy-day-from.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work","Holidays","Pi Day"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2019/03/09/one-of-our.html", "content_html": "

I had a great time checking out the fun and creative projects one of our #TeamSPS teams did during a post-release Hackathon! Several API mashups, productivity quick wins, mobile, and of course Slack bots! 👍😎

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Heading home. Great time visiting #TeamSPS Toronto. CRJ-900 taking us back. 🛩

\n\"Two\n", "date_published": "2019-03-05T18:45:51-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2019/03/05/heading-home-great.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Travel","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2019/03/04/i-had-a.html", "content_html": "

I had a fun evening joining #TeamSPS Toronto for some board games! I came in a distant 4th in Ticket to Ride. 😢

\n\"Four\n\"Ticket\n", "date_published": "2019-03-04T22:49:04-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2019/03/04/i-had-a.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Games","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2019/03/04/nice-dinner-out.html", "content_html": "

Nice dinner out with #TeamSPS in Toronto!

\n\"Six\n", "date_published": "2019-03-04T21:43:26-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2019/03/04/nice-dinner-out.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Travel","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2019/02/28/mhta-tech-talent.html", "title": "MHTA Tech Talent 2019", "content_html": "

At MHTA Tech Talent event today, participating in panel shortly. Mike McNamara, CIO of Target, kicking it off. Event focused on efforts to increase diversity and inclusion in technology. Looking forward to sharing our progress at SPS Commerce.

\n\"Man\n

Some very insightful data being shared this morning at MHTA Tech Talent event from Deb Broberg of RealTime Talent, Allison Liuzzi of Minnesota Compass Project, Matt Lewis of Make It. MSP.!

\n\"Woman\n\"Man\n

Improving diversity In tech: York Solutions; Genesis10; Prime Digital Academy; Creating IT Futures; Software Guild; Summit Academy; Minnesota State IT Center of Excellence; Dougherty Family College; Apprenti; Keyot Crew212; Twin Cities Rise; Genesys Works; SciTechsperience

\n\"Presenter\n\"Large\n

It was great to be able to share the impressive work we’ve done at SPS Commerce to make a technology career more inclusive and accessible. A lot of progress and momentum for more! Thanks to Amy Patton for the picture!

\n\"Panel\n", "date_published": "2019-02-28T09:47:33-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2019/02/28/mhta-tech-talent.html", "tags": ["Tech Community","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2019/02/07/232024.html", "content_html": "

I had a great night celebrating at the #TeamSPS Sales Awards Dinner! Awesome to see a team support and recognize each other so enthusiastically! 🙌

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A tremendous talk on happiness by Shawn Achor was a great way to cap off the day at #TeamSPS 2019 Sales Kickoff! The content was great, delivered with wit and humor, and connected back to well-researched effects.

\n\"Man\n", "date_published": "2019-02-07T18:03:49-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2019/02/07/a-tremendous-talk.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Tech Community","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2019/02/07/a-ton-of.html", "content_html": "

A ton of activity happening at our #TeamSPS Think Tank booths with product specialists working with the field sales team. 👏 Love this! 💙

\n
\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"
\n", "date_published": "2019-02-07T15:14:35-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2019/02/07/a-ton-of.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Gallery","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2019/02/07/nearly-all-teamsps.html", "content_html": "

Nearly all #TeamSPS events have Thad Brenny making it all look great and smooth at the console! You are awesome Thad! 🙌

\n\"Man\n", "date_published": "2019-02-07T15:08:48-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2019/02/07/nearly-all-teamsps.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2019/02/07/i-had-a.html", "content_html": "

I had a great time sharing three fabulous product demos at the #TeamSPS 2019 Sales Kickoff today! It’s great to get teams in front of the people that represent the work they do! (Picture of me from Amy Patton! Thanks!)

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Having a great time at Day 2 of #TeamSPS 2019 Sales Meeting. The team assembled hundreds of bikes for kids in need last night. Karin Lucas got things started today!

\n\"Man\n\"Woman\n", "date_published": "2019-02-07T14:59:05-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2019/02/07/having-a-great.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2019/02/06/i-had-a.html", "content_html": "

I had a great morning joining the #TeamSPS 2019 Sales Kickoff! Dan Juckniess and Jim Frome got the event started off right!

\n\"Man\n\"Large\n\"Man\n", "date_published": "2019-02-06T18:32:10-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2019/02/06/i-had-a.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2019/02/03/i-visited-minnehack.html", "content_html": "

I visited Minnehack tonight and introduced SPS Commerce to 300+ students before we fed them a mountain of pizza! 🍕

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View from the control room as we get ready to start #TeamSPS Tech Summit 2019!

\n\"Two\n

Yesterday’s rehearsal for #TeamSPS Tech Summit 2019! Excited for a great day, braving the Bold North’s -20F! 🙌🔥🥶

\n\"Audience\n

Great start to our #TeamSPS 2019 Tech Summit with sessions from Jim Frome, Dan Juckniess, and Karin Lucas!

\n\"Large\n\"Man\n\"Speaker\n

Great highlights from more teams at #TeamSPS 2019 Tech Summit! Security, Australian Team, Career Paths, Tech Patterns & Frameworks!

\n\"Two\n\"Four\n\"Four\n\"Six\n

“Worry-as-a-Service” 🤣 Cloud database engineering managing hundreds of distributed databases for #TeamSPS

\n\"Two\n

Fabulous third session for #TeamSPS Tech Summit 2019! Service team wins all over the place! 🙌

\n\"Three\n\"Four\n\"Bald\n\"Two\n

We finished the fourth session of #TeamSPS Tech Summit 2019 with more service team wins! 🙌🥳🏆

\n\"Three\n\"Woman\n\"Two\n\"Two\n

Time to socialize and mingle for #TeamSPS Tech!

\n\"Five\n\"Three\n\"Six\n\"Six\n\"Six\n

How do you wrap up the #TeamSPS Tech Summit for 2019? Trivia Mafia!

\n\"Large\n\"Dozens\n

Hashtags IRL! #SPSTech #TeamSPS Should have gotten this before the Hors d’ouevre’s were cashed!

\n\"Buffet\n

Over 50 members of #TeamSPS Tech shared demos, milestones, learnings, and upcoming plans today. It was incredible to see how we are continuing to advance! Great tech organizations are learning organizations, and we learn fast! I am humbled to be surrounded by so much talent!

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Great #TeamSPS dinner tonight at Salut St. Paul – what an awesome group! Good food, company and best of all great laughs! 🤣🙌

\n\"Group\n", "date_published": "2018-12-19T22:27:48-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2018/12/19/great-teamsps-dinner.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work","Restaurants"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2018/12/20/had-a-great.html", "content_html": "

Had a great time competing in the Spies v Spies rooms at Trapped Puzzle rooms with #TeamSPS tech leaders! Orange team FTW! 👍🙌 Room 22!

\n\"Group\n", "date_published": "2018-12-19T22:24:45-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2018/12/19/had-a-great.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Escape Room","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2018/11/26/ready-for-cyber.html", "content_html": "

Ready for Cyber Monday peak season! #TeamSPS

\n\"Open\n", "date_published": "2018-11-26T09:26:36-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2018/11/26/ready-for-cyber.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Technology","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2018/11/14/191349.html", "content_html": "

Had a great evening with #TeamSPS in Kyiv tonight!

\n\"Group\n", "date_published": "2018-11-14T14:13:49-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2018/11/14/191349.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Travel","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2018/11/08/020311.html", "content_html": "

Great day for #TeamSPS at our annual Growth Summit! A wonderful year, and more on the way. Want to be part of #TeamSPS? Join our team!

\n

\"Man\"Four\"Speaker

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We opened up the 16th floor in SPS Tower this week! What an amazing space for our growing team! 👍 The Library space, bright colors and fun references in the space are great!

\n
\"A\"An\"A\"A\"A\"A\"A\"A
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Great day for our #TeamSPS Technology Kubb Tournament! Good luck to all the teams!

\n\"Groups\n\"Dozens\n\"Group\n\"Six\n

Results after round 1 of #TeamSPS Technology Kubb Tournament! Skubby Doo v King Kubbas in the lead!

\n\"Tournament\n

Teams that Kubb together, win together! #TeamSPS

\n\"Group\n

Winners from #TeamSPS Technology Kubb Tournament…

\n
    \n
  1. Skubby Doo
    2. \n
  2. King Kubbas
    3. \n
  3. Kubbernetes
    4. \n
\n

Best team name winner… Bring Back Kubbicles Plz!

\n\"Six\n\"Three\n\"Two\n\"Three\n

See:\n2023,\n2022,\n2021,\n2019, and\n2018 tournaments.

\n", "date_published": "2018-09-27T15:25:10-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2018/09/27/sps-kubb-tournament.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Kubb","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2018/08/17/very-impressive-work.html", "content_html": "

Very impressive work being shared by the #TeamSPS summer interns! They delivered significant capabilities in products and services core to SPS! We are lucky to have such talented interns! 🙌

\n\"Group\n", "date_published": "2018-08-17T10:22:09-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2018/08/17/very-impressive-work.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2018/08/14/164806.html", "content_html": "

Great day for #TeamSPS summer picnic! Thank you all for making SPS such an awesome place to be! 🙌🍽🎉

\n\"Large\n", "date_published": "2018-08-14T11:48:06-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2018/08/14/164806.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2018/07/11/sps-brewoff-brewers.html", "content_html": "

SPS Brew-Off brewers awaiting the announcement of the winner! EDIPA and DC4UIPA had my backing! Orange Creamsicle Beer was delicious too! 🍺

\n\"Row\n", "date_published": "2018-07-11T18:07:23-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2018/07/11/sps-brewoff-brewers.html", "tags": ["Drinks","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2018/07/11/sps-brewoff-with.html", "content_html": "

SPS Brew-Off with Kubb! Go #TeamSPS! 👍

\n\"Three\n", "date_published": "2018-07-11T18:05:20-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2018/07/11/sps-brewoff-with.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Kubb","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2018/06/01/of-course-we.html", "content_html": "

Of course we celebrate National Donut Day at #TeamSPS! 🍩

\n\"Three\n", "date_published": "2018-06-01T08:37:18-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2018/06/01/of-course-we.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work","Restaurants"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2018/05/31/humble-leadership-profile.html", "title": "Humble Leadership Profile", "content_html": "

A couple of months ago I was\nrecommended\nfor a project on Humble Leadership. Matt\nNorman is doing this project to put\ntogether some common traits and practices of humble leaders. I sat down\nwith him for 45 minutes to talk about the topic and he made a great\nwriteup of our discussion. He\nalso interviewed Mike Carey\nwho recommended me.

\n
\n

In my conversations about humble leadership with Jamie and Mike Carey,\nanother senior vice president at SPS Commerce and the company’s Chief\nHR Officer, one common thread seemed to run through it all: Humble\nleaders resist that all-too-human urge to “blame and shame,” even when\nthe pressure is on. (read all)

\n
\n

Here are the excerpts from the video as well.

\n

This was a humbling experience and a good discussion. I hope others\nare able to take a couple of nuggets from it.

\n", "date_published": "2018-05-31T19:00:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2018/05/31/humble-leadership-profile.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2018/05/24/230608.html", "content_html": "

Had a fun time recording an interview with Matt Norman today for his Humble Leadership series. 📹

\n", "date_published": "2018-05-24T18:06:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2018/05/24/230608.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2018/05/16/sps-techjam.html", "title": "SPS TechJam 2018", "content_html": "

Today is our annual #TeamSPS TechJam event bringing the global SPS technology team together to learn, share, and have fun. The agenda is packed with over two dozen presenters. Automation, GraphQL, Containers, Architecture and more on the agenda! 🙌🏆

\n\"Gold\n

A huge thank you to the #TeamSPS TechJam event organizers! 👏 Your passion and drive make us a better team!

\n\"Large\n

Bridget Kromhout getting SPS TechJam started off! Computers are easy, people are hard! 👏

\n\"Woman\n

Great #TeamSPS speakers at SPS TechJam! Thank you for sharing! 🙌🏆

\n\"Man\n\"Pregnant\n\"Man\n\"Man\n

Today we have people from United States 🇺🇸 (multiple cities), Ukraine 🇺🇦, Canada 🇨🇦, India 🇮🇳 and Bulgaria 🇧🇬 with #TeamSPS and partners here in Minneapolis. Global! 🌏

\n

Evolutionary architecture, Kotlin, and GraphQL. Great 2nd half of the morning at SPS TechJam! 🙌🏆

\n\"Young\n\"Man\n

Afternoon sessions for SPS TechJam. 🙌🏆

\n\"Large\n

Women in Tech sharing with #TeamSPS the great work they are leading! 🙌🏆

\n\"Large\n

I left my iPad at my seat while stepping away and #TeamSPS security was on the job with a good reminder! 🔐

\n\"iPad\n

“At SPS it might be Kube or Kubb!” Kelly Hamm at SumoLogic knows #TeamSPS — and thanks for the Kubb set!

\n\"Wooden\n

Another great #TeamSPS TechJam! Wonderful topics, great speakers and an amazing team! 🙌🏆

\n\"Cartoon\n\"Blue\n

Not sure about the Paul DeCoursey sticker in the lower right. 😳

\n\"Four\n

Time for some fun socializing for #TeamSPS at TechJam! 🍻

\n\"Large\n", "date_published": "2018-05-16T07:11:23-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2018/05/16/sps-techjam.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Kubb","Software Development","Tech Community","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2018/05/10/had-a-fabulous.html", "content_html": "

Had a fabulous lunch today with the Minneapolis contingent of our #TeamSPS Comms Team to celebrate numerous wins over recent months! Great job! 👏🏆

\n\"Group\n", "date_published": "2018-05-10T13:10:46-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2018/05/10/had-a-fabulous.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2018/05/10/ready-for-a.html", "content_html": "

Ready for a group book discussion on Radical Candor by Kim Scott with our #TeamSPS technology leadership team!

\n\"Two\n", "date_published": "2018-05-09T21:42:31-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2018/05/09/ready-for-a.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Books","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2018/04/20/time-to-head.html", "content_html": "

Time to head home! Successful 8th trip to Kyiv to visit #TeamSPS! 🛫

\n", "date_published": "2018-04-19T21:27:23-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2018/04/19/time-to-head.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Travel","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2018/04/19/great-georgian-dinner.html", "content_html": "

Great Georgian dinner at Gogi with our Kyiv leadership team. 😊

\n\"Large\n", "date_published": "2018-04-19T11:07:20-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2018/04/19/great-georgian-dinner.html", "tags": ["Travel","Work","Restaurants"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2018/04/16/heading-to-kiev.html", "content_html": "

Heading to Kyiv to visit #TeamSPS! ✈️ MSP → CDG → KBP

\n", "date_published": "2018-04-16T15:56:12-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2018/04/16/heading-to-kiev.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Travel","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2018/03/15/was-great-to.html", "content_html": "

Was great to catch up today with friends and MarketWatch colleagues Anna Klombies and Jim Bernard.

\n\"Three\n", "date_published": "2018-03-15T17:48:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2018/03/15/was-great-to.html", "tags": ["MarketWatch","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2018/03/14/day-shirt.html", "content_html": "

2018 π day shirt!

\n\"Man\n

See Pi Day Collection.

\n", "date_published": "2018-03-14T15:37:52-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2018/03/14/day-shirt.html", "tags": ["Work","Holidays","Pi Day"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2018/03/14/teamsps-getting-reading.html", "content_html": "

🥧 #TeamSPS getting reading to celebrate π day!

\n\"Dozens\n\"Dozens\n\"Dozens\n

See Pi Day Collection.

\n", "date_published": "2018-03-14T15:12:23-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2018/03/14/teamsps-getting-reading.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work","Holidays","Pi Day"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2018/03/09/time-to-leave.html", "content_html": "

Time to leave Pune and fly 🛫 to Delhi. We’ll have a half-day of meetings in Noida and then 🚙 drive to Agra tonight for a fun day on Saturday, before heading back home on Sunday. 🏠

\n", "date_published": "2018-03-08T19:03:39-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2018/03/09/time-to-leave.html", "tags": ["Travel","Work","India 2018"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2018/03/08/we-had-an.html", "content_html": "

We had an amazing day today with #TeamSPS in Pune! It was fabulous to meet everyone! 🤝

\n\"Large\n", "date_published": "2018-03-08T12:40:23-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2018/03/08/we-had-an.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Travel","Work","India 2018"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2018/03/08/173845.html", "content_html": "

We got to celebrate International Women’s Day while in Pune with Bristlecone. It was an honor to get to celebrate with everyone and even say a few words. It was fabulous to see so many women working in technology here! 👏🏻

\n\"Large\n

See IWD 2024, 2021, 2020, 2020 @ SPS, and 2018.

\n", "date_published": "2018-03-08T12:38:45-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2018/03/08/173845.html", "tags": ["Travel","Tech Community","Work","India 2018"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2018/03/08/nice-welcome-from.html", "content_html": "

Nice welcome from our partners at Bristlecone!

\n\"Group\n", "date_published": "2018-03-08T12:33:12-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2018/03/08/nice-welcome-from.html", "tags": ["Travel","Work","India 2018"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2018/03/08/bristleconehttpwwwbconecom-welcomed-us.html", "content_html": "

Bristlecone welcomed us to the Pune office with this amazing sand art in the lobby! Wow! 👏🏻

\n\"Black\n", "date_published": "2018-03-08T12:31:14-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2018/03/08/bristleconehttpwwwbconecom-welcomed-us.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Travel","Work","India 2018"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2018/03/07/next-leg-of.html", "content_html": "

Next leg of India trip starting. Had a fabulous time In Hyderabad. Now boarding Air India 🛫 to our next destination, Pune! 🇮🇳

\n", "date_published": "2018-03-07T07:50:25-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2018/03/07/next-leg-of.html", "tags": ["Travel","Work","India 2018"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2018/03/07/fabulous-visit-to.html", "content_html": "

Fabulous visit to Indmax #TeamSPS in Hyderabad. Thank you for the warm welcome and great questions! 🇮🇳

\n\"Large\n", "date_published": "2018-03-07T07:35:40-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2018/03/07/fabulous-visit-to.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Travel","Work","India 2018"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2018/03/06/a-very-warm.html", "content_html": "

A very warm and generous welcome to Hyderabad from our partners at Indmax. 🙏

\n\"Five\n", "date_published": "2018-03-06T07:01:58-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2018/03/06/a-very-warm.html", "tags": ["Travel","Work","India 2018"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2018/03/06/finished-great-town.html", "content_html": "

Finished great town hall with our partner Indmax #TeamSPS in Hyderabad! Also video to our Coimbatore team! So great to meet everyone! 🤝

\n\"Large\n", "date_published": "2018-03-06T06:48:41-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2018/03/06/finished-great-town.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Travel","Work","India 2018"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2018/03/06/starting-second-leg.html", "content_html": "

Starting second leg of India 🇮🇳 trip with flight to Hyderabad! ✈️

\n", "date_published": "2018-03-05T23:11:27-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2018/03/05/starting-second-leg.html", "tags": ["Travel","Work","India 2018"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2018/03/05/nice-evening-of.html", "content_html": "

Nice evening of good food and conversation with Bristlecone team.

\n\"Six\n", "date_published": "2018-03-05T13:41:16-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2018/03/05/nice-evening-of.html", "tags": ["Travel","Work","India 2018"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2018/03/05/had-a-very.html", "content_html": "

Had a very good visit to HCL today. Impressive capabilities and people!

\n\"Four\n", "date_published": "2018-03-05T07:00:43-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2018/03/05/had-a-very.html", "tags": ["Travel","Work","India 2018"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2018/03/04/amy-kent-and.html", "content_html": "

Amy, Kent and I got a warm welcome from our partners at Bristlecone after 20 hours of traveling and arriving in Delhi at 1am.

\n\"Three\n", "date_published": "2018-03-04T15:38:21-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2018/03/04/amy-kent-and.html", "tags": ["Travel","Work","India 2018"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2018/02/19/i-love-these.html", "content_html": "

I love these photos of Tammy and I from our annual SPS Commerce Social! 😊

\n

\"Two\"Two

\n", "date_published": "2018-02-18T21:26:34-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2018/02/18/i-love-these.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2018/01/21/in-meetings.html", "title": "2017 in Meetings", "content_html": "

Manager and maker\nschedules is a\nrelatively popular topic. The basic thesis is that maker schedules need\nto consist of large blocks of dedicated time on a goal. You need time to\nconnect with the work, hopefully, achieve some period of\nflow and realize an\nobjective. Manager schedule, however, is divided up into small segments\nof time to connect with people and topics, get information and make\ndecisions.

\n

In my position, I operate on manager time with occasional injections of\nmaker time. I am deliberate about how I manage this. My objectives and\ngoals are realized, in part, through my calendar. In recent years I felt\nI could better align my calendar and time with my objectives, so in 2016\nI did an end-of-year one-time analysis of my calendar and made some\nchanges. After reviewing that analysis, I decided the benefit was\nvaluable enough that in 2017 I committed to collecting more granular\ndata. My goal is to determine alignment and effectiveness of my schedule\nto my objectives. I developed a set of workflows that I run at the end\nof every day to collect this data.

\n

Now that I’ve collected a full year I can look at an overall budget to\nactual analysis. In business, we always look at our financial budget and\ncompare to actual. In managing my time, I find it helpful to consider a\nbudget and measure the actuals as well. You cannot budget well if you\ndon’t collect actuals.

\n

I’m going to share some of the statistical information that I gathered\nwhile doing this in 2017. I’m not sharing any information about the\ncontent or context. You may consider this\nnavel-gazing, but some\nmay find it interesting, and perhaps it will encourage others to be more\ndeliberate about managing their time.

\n

This analysis refers to meetings on my calendar. These are meetings\ninvolving other people. I block time on my calendar for solo work, and\nthat is excluded in this analysis.

\n

In 2017 I had a total of 1,512 meetings. These meetings occurred\nover 223 days. That is an average of 6.8 meetings per day.

\n

Meeting frequency is highest on Thursday. However, the largest\ncumulative hours are on Wednesday. Friday has shorter meetings on\naverage. I would have thought that meeting count would spike on Tuesday\nand then trend down through the week.

\n

\"2017

\n

Let’s look at how these meetings occur over the course of the year. The\naverage of 6.8 meetings per day shows visually here. There are many\nspikes, with one notable day having 13 meetings. Weekends are shown\nhere, and you can see the 2-week vacation I took in the summer.

\n

\"2017

\n

Daily data is noisy, and it’s easier to look at the 52 weeks of the year\nversus the working days. Here we look at the meeting count by week along\nwith a 4-week moving average.

\n

\"2017

\n

I got curious about how much of the week is scheduled in meetings. If we\nuse an 8-hour day as a baseline then consider the load to be the percent\nof those 8 hours that were scheduled what would my weeks look like? It\nisn’t uncommon for me to have all of my time scheduled, and occasionally\nbe over scheduled. As mentioned earlier, I do block time on my schedule\nfor solo work activities. As a result, 81.3% is fully scheduled.\nWhenever I am over 81.3% I’ve removed that block to allow for more\nmeeting time.

\n

\"2017

\n

How about the start time, do more meetings start in the morning? I\ncertainly feel like the morning is more frequently scheduled than the\nafternoons. Here is meeting frequency by start hour. My average day gets\na fast start at 8 am with a dip at 12 pm. Most days I have meetings\nthrough lunch. There is a dip again at 4 pm. In our office, we are much\nmore likely to start earlier than later, and you can see that with the\nfrequency of 7 am meetings versus 5 pm. The meetings in the middle of\nthe night were in Ukraine and are represented here in central time.

\n

\"2017

\n

I was curious to know the distribution of durations. What duration of\nmeetings do I have the most often? The most common meeting for me is 30\nminutes (37.3%) and then 60 minutes (29.1%). 45-minute meetings are also\ncommon (12.5%), that is the normal time I schedule for 1-1 meetings with\nmy team.

\n

\"2017

\n

This statistical data is most likely to gauge overall stress level or\ndemand for my time. I also get this data in a weekly report and it is a\nnice check on my qualitative assessment of the week. The additional data\nI collect about topic and context is very actionable. I can see areas\nwhere I’m over or under budget on time and can consider structural\nchanges to my schedule to align better. I like this act as the shift\nforces me to delegate some topics more, disconnect from some things and\ngive more time and focus to the areas that I specifically need to focus\non for success.

\n

I would highly encourage anyone that has more than 50% of their time\nscheduled to do a similar exercise. It will provide some insight both to\nhow you are feeling and the results you are getting.

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In our chat room today TeamSPS decided I needed some Christmas cheer! 🎄 😎

\n\"Man\n", "date_published": "2017-11-29T21:20:19-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2017/11/29/in-our-chat.html", "tags": ["Work","Holidays"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2017/11/30/looking-forward-to.html", "content_html": "

Looking forward to speaking at the MHTA Annual CIO Panel next week!

\n", "date_published": "2017-11-29T20:14:12-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2017/11/29/looking-forward-to.html", "tags": ["Tech Community","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2017/11/24/very-true-you.html", "content_html": "

Very true → “You are either building a learning organization, or you are losing to one who is." — John Allspaw

\n", "date_published": "2017-11-24T17:06:32-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2017/11/24/very-true-you.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2017/11/16/teamsps-brew-off.html", "title": "TeamSPS Brew Off", "content_html": "

Fun (and cold!) #TeamSPS Brew Off today. Tailgate style!

\n\"Crowd\n

Hanging with Pat Backen at #TeamSPS “Hop To It" Brew Off!

\n\"Two\n", "date_published": "2017-11-16T19:12:25-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2017/11/16/teamsps-brew-off.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Drinks","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2017/11/16/excited-for-tomorrows.html", "content_html": "

Excited for tomorrow’s #TeamSPS Brew Off! Part of our annual United Way campaign. Give back!

\n\"Circular\n", "date_published": "2017-11-15T21:33:51-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2017/11/15/excited-for-tomorrows.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work","Giving"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2017/11/09/great-day-at.html", "content_html": "

Great day at the #TeamSPS GrowthSummit18! So many amazing things to celebrate as we get ready for 2018!

\n\"Conference\n", "date_published": "2017-11-08T21:46:34-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2017/11/08/great-day-at.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2017/11/02/scenes-from-tonights.html", "content_html": "

Scenes from tonights #TeamSPS game night! I ran the Super Mario Kart tournament! Very competitive! 🏎🏆👍🏻

\n

\"Group\"Blokus\"Three\"Three

\n", "date_published": "2017-11-01T19:54:17-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2017/11/01/scenes-from-tonights.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Games","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2017/09/29/gave-another-copy.html", "content_html": "

Gave another copy of Getting Things Done to a #TeamSPS member. One of my favorite things to do!

\n", "date_published": "2017-09-29T16:32:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2017/09/29/gave-another-copy.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Productivity","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2017/09/14/rode-bike-to.html", "content_html": "

Rode bike to work for the first time in years and years. Great route and great ride on Defiant One!

\n\"Map\n", "date_published": "2017-09-14T08:05:34-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2017/09/14/rode-bike-to.html", "tags": ["Work","Cycling"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2017/09/09/found-out-tonight.html", "content_html": "

Found out tonight that you cannot badge out of the parking ramp at work if you didn’t badge in. 😐🚫

\n", "date_published": "2017-09-09T00:43:28-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2017/09/09/found-out-tonight.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2017/09/07/had-a-great.html", "content_html": "

Had a great time serving #TeamSPS lunch outside today! 🍔🌭🍪

\n\"Man\n", "date_published": "2017-09-07T13:53:58-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2017/09/07/had-a-great.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2017/07/26/driving-change.html", "title": "Driving Change", "content_html": "

The newest episode of Driving Change with Jeff Martin of Collective Genius is out with yours truly!

\n
\n \n
\n\n

You may also like the episodes with Bala Subramanian, Loren Brown, Nate Ober and Lisa Schlosser.

\n", "date_published": "2017-07-26T06:43:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2017/07/26/driving-change.html", "tags": ["Technology","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2017/06/21/teamsps-ice-cream.html", "content_html": "

Yeah, #TeamSPS Ice Cream social today! 🍦👏🏻

\n\n", "date_published": "2017-06-21T13:12:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2017/06/21/teamsps-ice-cream.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2017/06/15/withings-getting-acquired.html", "content_html": "

Withings getting acquired, and the brand merging in with Nokia, makes me worry about my Withings products. 😕

\n", "date_published": "2017-06-14T20:04:55-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2017/06/15/withings-getting-acquired.html", "tags": ["Fitness","Technology","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2017/05/26/the-giant-display.html", "content_html": "

The giant display on the right is supposedly a monitor. Looks like a home theatre. #TeamSPS

\n\n", "date_published": "2017-05-25T20:24:58-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2017/05/26/the-giant-display.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2017/05/12/andy-ajdomie-and.html", "content_html": "

Andy Domeier and I right before kicking off yesterdays awesome TechJam. #TeamSPS had a great day learning!

\n\n", "date_published": "2017-05-11T22:28:51-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2017/05/12/andy-ajdomie-and.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2017/05/10/sps-techjam.html", "title": "SPS TechJam 2017", "content_html": "

Kicking off #TeamSPS TechJam community event. Great day of learning and sharing technology solutions ahead.

\n\n

Nate and Dan sharing how they are using serverless solutions to create scalable and efficient services.

\n\n

Marcell sharing capabilities of the newest editions of Microsoft SQL Server.

\n\n

Valentin from our Kyiv office presenting at TechJam about migrating their service to microservices.

\n\n

. #TeamSPS Introduction to Go by Cody!

\n\n

Cool live coding and running it inside browser / presentation template. Nice!

\n\n

Jez Humble giving remote keynote for #TeamSPS TechJam on continuous delivery improvements!

\n\n

Had a great time doing #TeamSPS VP Jeopardy at TechJam! Good sports Kent, Amy, and Paul.

\n\n

Travis Travis Gosselin sharing the DevOps journey in our Toronto #TeamSPS office.

\n\n

Dan talking at #TeamSPS TechJam about isolation and benefits to systems. Less friction!

\n\n

Corbett sharing with #TeamSPS TechJam the fundamental value of the SPS network. Bringing it home to wrap up the day!

\n\n

Wrapped up #TeamSPS TechJam with Kubb, beer 🍺 and burgers 🍔!

\n\n

Tough choices: great beer or great beer? 🍻

\n\n", "date_published": "2017-05-10T08:52:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2017/05/10/sps-techjam.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Kubb","Software Development","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2017/05/09/looking-forward-to.html", "content_html": "

Looking forward to wearing my awesome #TeamSPS hockey jersey!

\n\n", "date_published": "2017-05-09T11:35:22-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2017/05/09/looking-forward-to.html", "tags": ["Sports","TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2017/05/03/got-to-meet.html", "content_html": "

Got to meet Chris Hadfield after he spoke at SPS Influence today. Great message from an amazing person! Thank you!

\n\n", "date_published": "2017-05-03T16:11:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2017/05/03/got-to-meet.html", "tags": ["Work","Outdoors"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2017/03/06/leadership-pipeline.html", "title": "Leadership Pipeline", "content_html": "

Notable how many references there are to “reviewing calendar” and looking at where time is spent. This is used repeatedly as a tool to assess if someone is focusing on the right work.

\n

Alignment triangle seems like a good concept for reviewing the health of your business and the organization.

\n\"Figure\n\"Book\n", "date_published": "2017-03-06T14:37:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2017/03/06/leadership-pipeline.html", "tags": ["Books","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2016/12/17/nice-article-with.html", "content_html": "

Minneapolis tech firm SPS Commerce gets retailers through busiest month of online orders ← Nice article with some of what we at SPS Commerce do to scale for peak.

\n", "date_published": "2016-12-17T17:14:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2016/12/17/nice-article-with.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Technology","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2016/11/22/want-to-help.html", "content_html": "

Want to help #TeamSPS grow and continue building out a world-class tech team? Join us in directly building that out!

\n

Follow up from last week: @spscommerce is looking for a Senior Technical Recruiter https://t.co/Ey7uEKS6Of Work with @JPHill_MN & @thingles https://t.co/Ar10zJvyeN

— Paul DeBettignies (@MNHeadhunter) November 21, 2016
\n\n\n\n", "date_published": "2016-11-22T10:39:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2016/11/22/want-to-help.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2016/11/07/love-seeing-teamsps.html", "content_html": "

Love seeing #teamSPS in new office in Toronto! Looking forward to visiting next week!

\n

It was lunch lady bingo at lunch in support of United Way! #SPSGIVESBACK pic.twitter.com/xVXwbJvm3B

— Mark DeBeer (@me_markdebeer) November 7, 2016
\n\n\n\n", "date_published": "2016-11-07T16:55:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2016/11/07/love-seeing-teamsps.html", "tags": ["Tweets","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2016/08/22/collaborative-gtd.html", "title": "Collaborative GTD?", "content_html": "

A friend of mine that has been on the path to GTD for a long time now recently emailed me about using GTD in a collaborative environment. His specific question was pretty direct:

\n
\n

OmniFocus is awful in a\ncollaborative environment. What gives?

\n
\n

I’ve been down this road, and his question prompted me to peel the layers back a few times on this issue.

\n

What is GTD?

\n

Let’s first start by taking a look at how Getting Things Done describes itself.

\n
\n

Getting Things Done (GTD) is the proven path to getting in control of\nyour world, and maintaining perspective in your life.

\n
\n

We see a focus on “your world” and “your life.” Nothing about collaboration there. Let’s continue.

\n
\n

Much more than a set of tips for time management and organization, GTD\nis a total work-life management system that transforms overwhelm into\nan integrated system of stress-free productivity.

\n
\n

Now we see some other concepts like “work-life” and “stress-free,” but again nothing about collaboration.

\n

I’m highlighting this definition just to level set on the objectives of the GTD method. I revisit this because like my friends question I have many times thought that it sure would be great if I could extend my GTD system to my colleagues at work. Wouldn’t it be great if the “Waiting for” context could be seen not just by me, but those that I’m waiting for? It seems like a little step to make, but when you extend it further, I think it’s a step too far.

\n

GTD is Personal

\n

I’ve been practicing GTD now for several years and if there is anything that I can guarantee it is that every person has a slight personalization to their GTD system. I use a combination of OmniFocus, Notes (built-in Apple version) and Due. Within those tools, I have a system of contexts, projects, and folders that optimized to my way of managing my activities.

\n

I can guarantee that my structure of tools and the way that I use them is different from yours. Even if you use the same tools the way that you use them will be different. This is part of what makes GTD work for a wide variety of people. It isn’t prescriptive on the how, just the what. Go ahead and use note cards and a physical inbox or use electronic tools. It doesn’t matter.

\n

To use a GTD tool in a collaborative environment would need commonality. It would require that we agree that the context “Work → Computer” is a valid context and that it means the same thing. Without the freedom of tooling and configuration, I don’t think people would be as successful in using GTD.

\n

GTD isn’t Project Management

\n

While GTD has many of the nouns and verbs of project management, it isn’t. It’s easy to look at the list of projects in your GTD tool, and the associated next actions and think of it like you are doing project management. However, you are not. This is a very lightweight version of project management.

\n

Extending GTD tools into a collaborative environment is attempting to turn them into a project management tool. Leave this to the world of specialized tools like Microsoft Project or OmniPlan. GTD tools don’t have the proper capabilities (and should not) to do this type of work. I would suggest that when people ask about collaborating with GTD, they are asking about doing project management across a team.

\n

What you can do!

\n

I don’t see a good way to extend GTD tooling to a collaborative environment, but that doesn’t mean we are stuck only to use GTD methods alone. There are many things you can do.

\n
    \n
  1. I routinely share my GTD experiences and tooling with colleagues. I\nshare the Getting Things Done book with people and will highlight\nGTD rituals like a weekly review.
    2. \n
  2. I use GTD language, such as asking people what their next actions\nare for a project.
    3. \n
  3. Use your GTD system to interact with others, but always through a\ndiscussion. I will routinely bring up an OmniFocus perspective and\nwalk through items during a status. The other person often is doing\nthe same. We have different tools and labels, but it works just\nfine.
    4. \n
\n

I do think that groups of people who use GTD together will be more efficient. However, I would hold on using a tool to solve the problem. Let everyone adopt the system that works for them, share the concepts and language.

\n

Getting Things Done and GTD are ® trademarks of The David Allen Company.

\n", "date_published": "2016-08-22T00:00:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2016/08/22/collaborative-gtd.html", "tags": ["Productivity","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2016/08/19/love-that-we.html", "content_html": "

Love that we can open up the #TeamSPS space and host great community conversations!

\n

Every one of these conversations with @bcantrill at #ContainerSummit is hilarious/fantastic. https://t.co/uE9zBP0Zo2 pic.twitter.com/tRgHb31FDv

— Bridget Kromhout (@bridgetkromhout) August 19, 2016
\n\n\n\n", "date_published": "2016-08-18T21:52:10-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2016/08/18/love-that-we.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2016/08/03/have-always-admired.html", "content_html": "

Have always admired and used Rajiv’s take on this!

\n

What does an effective CTO do? Based on my recent talk at @fastly #Altitude2016: https://t.co/3qYP4isjMh

— Rajiv Pant राजीव पंत 潘睿哲 🪷 (@rajivpant) August 3, 2016
\n\n\n\n", "date_published": "2016-08-02T22:25:36-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2016/08/02/have-always-admired.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2016/07/15/congratulations-to-statuspageio.html", "content_html": "

Congratulations to Statuspage team on becoming part of Atlassian!

\n", "date_published": "2016-07-15T08:29:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2016/07/15/congratulations-to-statuspageio.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2016/05/19/i-told-our.html", "content_html": "

I told our security team that when we got our ISO certification I would wallpaper my office with it. They took the opportunity to do it for me. How awesome! #TeamSPS

\n\"Office\n", "date_published": "2016-05-19T08:34:18-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2016/05/19/i-told-our.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Privacy \u0026 Security","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2016/05/12/ive-had-a.html", "content_html": "

I’ve had a fabulous week with #TeamSPS Kyiv! Great group of technologist building amazing services and getting better every day. Thank you!

\n", "date_published": "2016-05-12T13:55:29-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2016/05/12/ive-had-a.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2016/05/01/this-week-was.html", "content_html": "

This week was an awesome milestone for #TeamSPS with a huge product launch on our new platform! Amazing!

\n
\n \n
\n\n", "date_published": "2016-05-01T09:43:55-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2016/05/01/this-week-was.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2016/04/29/still-absorbing-and.html", "content_html": "

Still absorbing and reflecting on Simon Sinek talk at SPS In:fluence today. Great perspective and insights!

\n\"A\n", "date_published": "2016-04-28T19:21:15-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2016/04/28/still-absorbing-and.html", "tags": ["Tech Community","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2016/03/14/teamsps-celebrating-pi.html", "content_html": "

. #TeamSPS celebrating Pi Day!

\n\"People\n

See Pi Day Collection.

\n", "date_published": "2016-03-14T15:24:08-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2016/03/14/teamsps-celebrating-pi.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work","Pi Day"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2016/02/27/a-giant-cannoli.html", "content_html": "

A giant cannoli stuffed with baby cannoli inside? Oh my! #TeamSPS

\n\"Large\n", "date_published": "2016-02-26T21:36:18-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2016/02/26/a-giant-cannoli.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2016/02/19/102620.html", "content_html": "

Super talk from Mary Poppendieck with #TeamSPS today. Exactly aligned with where we are going!

\n

Absolutely ecstatic that #teamsps is hosting @mpoppendieck and Tom today! #lean #devops pic.twitter.com/pjZbzgw5Fp

— Andy Domeier (@AndyJD_) February 19, 2016
\n\n\n\n

If we aren’t learning we are failing. Always move forward, with passion!

\n

Almost 4 months in and I'm still impressed that my leadership insists on bringing in speakers for all of us #teamSPS pic.twitter.com/3yeskWI85U

— John Kelly (@jkelly3) February 19, 2016
\n\n\n\n

Thank you Mary and Tom Poppendieck for sharing insights with #TeamSPS! Thanks Andy Domeier for making it happen!

\n\"Four\n", "date_published": "2016-02-19T12:26:20-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2016/02/19/102620.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Software Development","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2016/02/16/210117.html", "content_html": "

Wow! Filled up the SPS event room.

\n

#devops Minneapolis meetup... out of chairs! pic.twitter.com/3hYNvoCvoo

— Andy Domeier (@AndyJD_) February 17, 2016
\n\n\n\n

teamSPS did our first internal devops day and was great!

\n

DevOps Meetup Mpls panel speaking of internal #devops meetings. pic.twitter.com/mkEaRmAYig

— Amy Patton (@pattonamyj) February 17, 2016
\n\n\n\n", "date_published": "2016-02-16T23:01:17-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2016/02/16/210117.html", "tags": ["Software Development","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2016/02/08/142756.html", "content_html": "

Happy to be hosting LogicMonitor Live event in Minneapolis at SPS Commerce! #TeamSPS

\n", "date_published": "2016-02-08T09:27:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2016/02/08/142756.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Software Development","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2016/02/02/upstairs.html", "content_html": "

Delicious #TeamSPS dinner at Upstairs in Montclair, NJ this evening.

\n\"Busy\n", "date_published": "2016-02-02T19:07:22-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2016/02/02/upstairs.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work","Restaurants"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2016/01/29/awesome-congrats-to.html", "content_html": "

SPS CFO Kim Nelson honored with TCB Women’s Leadership Award ← Awesome! Congrats to our CFO!

\n", "date_published": "2016-01-28T20:25:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2016/01/28/awesome-congrats-to.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2016/01/26/teamsps-agile-roadshow.html", "content_html": "

TeamSPS Agile Roadshow refresh on agile principles, best practices and continuous improvement.

\n\"Large\n", "date_published": "2016-01-26T10:49:15-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2016/01/26/teamsps-agile-roadshow.html", "tags": ["Software Development","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2016/01/21/210431.html", "content_html": "

TeamSPS tech meetup starting! Love the knowledge sharing!

\n\"Crowded\n", "date_published": "2016-01-21T16:04:31-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2016/01/21/210431.html", "tags": ["Software Development","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2016/01/21/140643.html", "content_html": "

Getting ready for #TeamSPS global sales meeting! High energy!

\n\"Large\n", "date_published": "2016-01-21T09:06:43-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2016/01/21/140643.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2016/01/20/i-sense-chatops.html", "content_html": "

I sense ChatOps in progress. #TeamSPS

\n

Very easy, install and go HipChat V2 API Wrapper for .NET https://t.co/E3v479U5if

— Travis Gosselin (@travisjgosselin) January 20, 2016
\n\n\n\n", "date_published": "2016-01-20T13:32:34-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2016/01/20/i-sense-chatops.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Software Development","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2016/01/15/tammy-and-i.html", "content_html": "

Tammy and I at the #TeamSPS Social!

\n\"Two\n\"Two\n\"Two\n\"Couple\n\"Man\n", "date_published": "2016-01-15T19:27:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2016/01/15/tammy-and-i.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2016/01/13/great-timing-for.html", "content_html": "

Great timing for #TeamSPS in Canada!

\n

In the Works – #AWS Region in Canada https://t.co/N1YTXjckUt pic.twitter.com/Lt85GxooGn

— Werner Vogels (@Werner) January 13, 2016
\n\n\n\n", "date_published": "2016-01-13T15:47:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2016/01/13/great-timing-for.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2015/12/22/holiday-reading-httpstcobjtqyajs.html", "content_html": "

Holiday reading: High Output Management, Building Microservices, and B4B. 📚

\n\"Three\n", "date_published": "2015-12-21T22:14:36-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2015/12/21/holiday-reading-httpstcobjtqyajs.html", "tags": ["Books","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2015/12/17/153158.html", "content_html": "

Andy Clayton showing Chat Ops work at tech meetup!

\n\"Group\n

Jeremy Olexa presenting on our use of Mesos.

\n\"Presenter\n

Crazy excited about what #TeamSPS is doing with Mesos. Massive agility jump!

\n", "date_published": "2015-12-17T16:31:58-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2015/12/17/153158.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Software Development","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2015/12/16/go-teamsps-in.html", "content_html": "

Go #TeamSPS in Boston!

\n

Listening to @LukeSamaha talk about why SPS Commerce uses graph databases, incl @neo4j - at Boston GraphDB meetup pic.twitter.com/CvGWBeAOYL

— ryan boyd (@ryguyrg) December 16, 2015
\n\n\n\n", "date_published": "2015-12-15T23:51:13-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2015/12/15/go-teamsps-in.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2015/12/05/after-a-week.html", "content_html": "

After a week of working literally every waking moment a Saturday with random home chores is pretty awesome!

\n", "date_published": "2015-12-05T10:27:05-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2015/12/05/after-a-week.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2015/12/05/got-a-new.html", "content_html": "

Got a new service architecting in my head and can’t stop thinking and evolving it. Going to be huge. So excited. #TeamSPS

\n", "date_published": "2015-12-05T10:20:46-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2015/12/05/got-a-new.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Software Development","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2015/12/04/044631.html", "content_html": "

Welcome to #teamSPS!

\n

Been really enjoying my new job at SPS. https://t.co/XRcagDBFVu

— John Kelly (@jkelly3) December 2, 2015
\n\n\n\n", "date_published": "2015-12-03T23:46:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2015/12/03/044631.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2015/11/14/hey-look-benjaminkitt.html", "content_html": "

Hey look Benjamin Kitt #TeamSPS in that photo! 👋

\n

@jeffsussna leading Service not just Software open space at #adtc. It's about the entire experience not just deploy pic.twitter.com/JU8IBB9Zan

— afm (@andymorgan) November 13, 2015
\n\n\n\n", "date_published": "2015-11-13T19:32:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2015/11/13/hey-look-benjaminkitt.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2015/11/13/teamsps-getting-a.html", "content_html": "

🍺 #TeamSPS getting a tour of Surly Brewing!

\n\"Large\n", "date_published": "2015-11-12T20:07:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2015/11/12/teamsps-getting-a.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Drinks","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2015/11/12/113100.html", "title": "Product Platform 2015", "content_html": "

Amy Patton reviewing new tooling #TeamSPS has brought in during last 12 months.

\n\"Woman\n

Was awesome to have David Hussman join #teamSPS product platform event today. Love the scribbles! 😊

\n\"Man\n

Peter Zaballos presenting to #TeamSPS today. Awesome to have such a strong partnership between product and tech!

\n\"Man\n

Exhausted and excited after 2 full days of learning, sharing and celebrating with product and tech teams of #teamSPS! Thank you all!

\n", "date_published": "2015-11-12T12:31:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2015/11/12/113100.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2015/11/11/devopssps.html", "title": "DevOps@SPS (SPS TechJam 2015)", "content_html": "

Super excited for DevOps@SPS today! #teamSPS #devops

\n\"Packed\n

Bill Gintz sporting the #TeamSPS DevOps@SPS shirt with extra unicorns!

\n\"Man\n

Bridget Kromhout kicking off #TeamSPS #devops event! Thank you!

\n\"Woman\n

Great — #TeamSPS in Ukraine on the streaming feed for DevOps@SPS.

\n

Devops SPS #teamsps #devops looking forward to hearing from @bridgetkromhout pic.twitter.com/sNm18pLp5e

— optimuspaul🤖 (@optimuspaul) November 11, 2015
\n\n\n\n

“I put a TCP joke in here. I thought about a UDP joke but figured you probably wouldn’t get it.” Bridget Kromhout Brilliant! 😊

\n

Love Bridget Kromhout description of the act of writing software. Best I’ve heard. Won’t try to paraphrase.

\n

Awesome Bridget Kromhout talk on distributed teams. The parallel of distributed systems opens the topic to tech in great way! Thank you!

\n

My favorite Twitterrific mute filter: “Pleading”.

\n

Selfie-as-a-service with Bridget Kromhout! #hugops ? 😀

\n\"Two\n

Starting afternoon of #teamsps #devops with Jeff Sussna and Design Thinking.

\n\"Two\n

Great talk from Jeff Sussna for #TeamSPS #DevOps event. Great connections to our world!

\n

Nice Kent Tangen and Rob Krystyniak!

\n

Collaboration at its best!#teamsps #devops pic.twitter.com/0Ajpgr0R5R

— Anne Knapp (@knapp_anne) November 11, 2015
\n\n\n\n

Nice! #TeamSPS Selfie!

\n

Serious stuff being discussed. #teamsps #devops pic.twitter.com/xdIa2xRaw8

— Amy Patton (@pattonamyj) November 11, 2015
\n\n\n\n

👍 #TeamSPS tech is a great place for everyone! Excited with the leadership of our Women in Tech @ SPS group!

\n

Women in Tech at SPS with @cunningleah and @pattonamyj and @Milinda Stone #teamsps #devops pic.twitter.com/q3tb3UXxBY

— Anne Knapp (@knapp_anne) November 11, 2015
\n\n\n\n

Hallelujah!

\n

@chrismunns "The tools support the culture and the culture demands the tools". #devops #teamsps #microservices

— Amy Patton (@pattonamyj) November 11, 2015
\n\n\n\n

Nice — #TeamSPS DevOps presentation on AWS Lambda. API Gateway + Lambda = Magic Unicorns.

\n

AWS Lambda is an amazing service. In process of moving WikiApiary bots to using it and API Gateway.

\n

Side benefits of operating a global team! Distributed everything!

\n

Had to leave work to help with kids this afternoon. #teamsps is streaming so I still get to participate. pic.twitter.com/fqH2nWmEA3

— John Kelly (@jkelly3) November 11, 2015
\n\n\n\n

Megears!

\n

Corp Tech getting into the mix!#teamsps #devops pic.twitter.com/qAsj762LNG

— Anne Knapp (@knapp_anne) November 11, 2015
\n\n\n\n

Welcome to #TeamSPS John!

\n

worked for companies that wanted to empower employees. Loving living it. All day brainstorming how to be better? Yes please. #TeamSPS

— John Kelly (@jkelly3) November 11, 2015
\n\n\n\n

NJ team on the live stream today! #TeamSPS #devops

\n

NJ Engineering Team #teamsps #devops pic.twitter.com/SXNs0Ect87

— Ken (@kegDevelopment) November 11, 2015
\n\n\n\n

Favorite selfie of #TeamSPS #devops.

\n

@cunningleah #devops #teamsps Hippies Unite! pic.twitter.com/nESb42xQUf

— Nate Anderson (@omnipitous) November 11, 2015
\n\n\n\n", "date_published": "2015-11-11T09:56:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2015/11/11/devopssps.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Software Development","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2015/10/29/teamsps-has-a.html", "content_html": "

New floor for #TeamSPS!

\n\"Empty\n", "date_published": "2015-10-29T07:55:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2015/10/29/teamsps-has-a.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2015/10/14/any-of-them.html", "content_html": "

Any of them know how to build things? We are hiring! 😀

\n

This is what #devops in NYC looks like for #teamsps! #velocityconf /CC @mndrue @nrandersen pic.twitter.com/N8zcmGSoVO

— Andy Domeier (@AndyJD_) October 14, 2015
\n\n\n\n", "date_published": "2015-10-13T23:08:35-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2015/10/13/any-of-them.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2015/10/06/monte-carlo-being.html", "content_html": "

Monte Carlo being added to OmniPlan. Great idea!

\n

What features are coming in @OmniPlan Pro? Dashboards, Monte Carlo Simulation, Earned Value Analysis, and more: pic.twitter.com/9zz3ExTrkv

— Ken Case (@kcase) October 6, 2015
\n\n\n\n", "date_published": "2015-10-06T16:56:39-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2015/10/06/monte-carlo-being.html", "tags": ["Technology","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2015/10/03/open-source-north.html", "title": "Open Source North 2015", "content_html": "

Looking forward to presenting today at Open Source North!

\n\"Dark\n

SPS Recruiters at Open Source North looking for talented technologists with a bias to open source! Go #TeamSPS!

\n\"SPS\n

Jeff Urban kicking off Open Source North.

\n\"Crowded\n

Enjoying Joel Crabb’s session on becoming an engineering manager. Great perspective. Agree 100%!

\n\"Audience\n

I ask every engineer pursuing management this. Doing personally and doing organizationally are different!

\n\"Conference\n

Presenting next at Open Source North on Transforming Your Organization with Open Source!

\n

I wasn’t able to stay for the entire day but the event was very well run, good lineup of speakers and very good attendance as well.

\n

I’m hoping they plan to organize this again next year, I can definitely see this growing into a substantial event.

\n", "date_published": "2015-10-03T08:51:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2015/10/03/open-source-north.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Software Development","Tech Community","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2015/09/16/dreamforce-keynote.html", "title": "Dreamforce Keynote", "content_html": "

There sure is a lot of waiting in lines at Dreamforce

\n

Dear people of Dreamforce: for the love of God stop force quitting your iOS apps! See step 3.

\n

Seated for Marc Benioff keynote at Dreamforce. Huge room.

\n\"Large\n

Dreamforce 2½ hour keynote? Marathon session.

\n", "date_published": "2015-09-16T13:38:40-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2015/09/16/dreamforce-keynote.html", "tags": ["Tech Community","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2015/09/15/heading-to-my.html", "content_html": "

Heading to my first Dreamforce event tomorrow. Expecting to be very overwhelmed by the size of it.

\n", "date_published": "2015-09-14T20:17:48-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2015/09/14/heading-to-my.html", "tags": ["Tech Community","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2015/09/01/great-dinner-out.html", "content_html": "

Great dinner out with #TeamSPS in Kyiv!

\n\"Group\n", "date_published": "2015-09-01T13:19:22-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2015/09/01/great-dinner-out.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Travel","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2015/08/31/sharing-fond-stories.html", "content_html": "

Sharing fond stories about Michael Davidovich with Yuri at Shoti, a great Georgian restaurant, in Kyiv. Good times!

\n\"Bottle\n", "date_published": "2015-08-31T12:54:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2015/08/31/sharing-fond-stories.html", "tags": ["Travel","Work","Restaurants"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2015/08/30/150207.html", "content_html": "

Off to visit #TeamSPS in our Kyiv, Ukraine office! MSP ✈️ AMS ✈️ KBP! Looking forward to the week!

\n

If you don’t remember flying before iPhones and iPads… you have no idea.

\n", "date_published": "2015-08-30T15:02:07-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2015/08/30/150207.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Travel","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2015/08/28/great-dinner-tonight.html", "content_html": "

Great dinner tonight with #TeamSPS members from Minnesota, New Jersey and Australia. 🌎

\n", "date_published": "2015-08-27T20:51:07-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2015/08/27/great-dinner-tonight.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2015/08/26/super-excited-about.html", "content_html": "

Super excited about the Mesos work #TeamSPS is exploring. So much potential!

\n", "date_published": "2015-08-26T16:08:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2015/08/26/super-excited-about.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Software Development","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2015/08/26/fabulous-day-for.html", "content_html": "

Fabulous day for lunch on the #TeamSPS deck.

\n\"People\n", "date_published": "2015-08-26T12:48:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2015/08/26/fabulous-day-for.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2015/08/03/some-day-i.html", "content_html": "

Some day I won’t be doing my expense report on a Sunday night 2 days after its due.

\n", "date_published": "2015-08-02T22:28:42-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2015/08/02/some-day-i.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2015/07/31/teamsps-getting-ready.html", "content_html": "

🙌 #TeamSPS getting ready to celebrate System Administrator Appreciation Day! Thank you team!

\n\"Sheet\n\"Sheet\n

Jeremy Olexa and Adrian firing up some System Administrator Appreciation Day cake!

\n\"Jeremy\n\"Several\n", "date_published": "2015-07-31T15:22:09-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2015/07/31/teamsps-getting-ready.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Software Development","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2015/07/30/loved-this-scene.html", "content_html": "

Loved this scene of #TeamSPS today. Great to see people come together, collaborate and win!

\n\"Six\n", "date_published": "2015-07-29T21:08:51-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2015/07/29/loved-this-scene.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2015/06/25/honored-to-share.html", "content_html": "

Honored to share the stage with David Novak to receive the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal Eureka! Award for SPS Commerce!

\n\"Glass\n", "date_published": "2015-06-25T18:38:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2015/06/25/honored-to-share.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2015/06/15/personally-experienced-the.html", "content_html": "

Personally experienced the inside of a smoker while serving lunch for #TeamSPS today. Thanks for pic Jay Wineinger!

\n\"Man\n", "date_published": "2015-06-15T17:20:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2015/06/15/personally-experienced-the.html", "tags": ["Cooking","TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2015/06/15/teamsps-celebrated-first.html", "content_html": "

TeamSPS celebrated first in top workplaces with a barbecue lunch today!

\n\"Large\n\"Outdoor\n\"Dozens\n", "date_published": "2015-06-15T14:30:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2015/06/15/teamsps-celebrated-first.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2015/06/15/114635.html", "content_html": "

Great to see SPS Commerce at the top of this Star Tribune top workplaces list! Go #TeamSPS!

\n", "date_published": "2015-06-15T06:46:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2015/06/15/114635.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2015/06/09/teamsps-work-from.html", "content_html": "

Working on the deck, #TeamSPS!

\n\"People\n", "date_published": "2015-06-09T11:18:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2015/06/09/teamsps-work-from.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2015/05/30/i-really-cant.html", "content_html": "

I really can’t express how much I dislike doing expense reports. 🙁

\n", "date_published": "2015-05-30T15:13:18-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2015/05/30/i-really-cant.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2015/04/28/great-overview-of.html", "content_html": "

Great overview of the #TeamSPS work on new products from Shivani Khanna Stumpf and Robert Davis at SPS In:fluence!

\n", "date_published": "2015-04-28T09:14:08-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2015/04/28/great-overview-of.html", "tags": ["Tech Community","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2015/04/28/134408.html", "content_html": "

Peter Zaballos kicking off SPS In:fluence!

\n\"Large\n", "date_published": "2015-04-28T08:44:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2015/04/28/134408.html", "tags": ["Tech Community","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2015/04/18/172843.html", "content_html": "

Now have a brand new Kubb set that is staying in my office. Hoping to get some #TeamSPS games going after work this summer.

\n", "date_published": "2015-04-18T12:28:43-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2015/04/18/172843.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Kubb","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2015/04/15/in-kyiv-this.html", "content_html": "

In Kyiv this week with #TeamSPS!

\n\"Group\n", "date_published": "2015-04-15T05:21:56-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2015/04/15/in-kyiv-this.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Travel","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2015/04/11/business-town-is.html", "content_html": "

Business Town ← This is great…

\n", "date_published": "2015-04-10T20:09:31-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2015/04/10/business-town-is.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2015/03/13/teamsps-celebrated-day.html", "content_html": "

. #TeamSPS celebrated π day (a day early) today along with the grand opening of our deck!

\n\"Slice\n

See Pi Day Collection.

\n", "date_published": "2015-03-13T17:08:46-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2015/03/13/teamsps-celebrated-day.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work","Holidays","Pi Day"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2015/02/24/called-it-mspbjreilly.html", "content_html": "

Called it!

\n
\n

@mspbjReilly: When Amazon started collecting MN sales tax last fall, ppl wondered why. $AMZN

\n
\n", "date_published": "2015-02-23T22:04:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2015/02/23/called-it-mspbjreilly.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2015/01/21/peterzaballos-addressing-teamsps.html", "content_html": "

Peter Zaballos addressing #TeamSPS today.

\n\"A\n", "date_published": "2015-01-21T18:36:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2015/01/21/peterzaballos-addressing-teamsps.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2015/01/03/software-for-good.html", "title": "Software for Good as B Corporation", "content_html": "

I’m really enjoying watching Casey Helbling and the team at Software for Good evolve their mission and business. They just transitioned to a B Corp structure.

\n
\n

We’re celebrating the new year in a big way: Today, the\nmuch-anticipated Minnesota Public Benefit Corporation Act went into\neffect, and Software for Good was one of the first to file as a\nbenefit corporation in the state of\nMinnesota.

\n
\n

If you are not familiar with a Benefit corporation, Wikipedia of course has a great overview.

\n
\n

The purpose of a benefit corporation includes creating general public\nbenefit, which is defined as a material positive impact on society and\nthe environment. A benefit corporation’s directors and officers\noperate the business with the same authority as in a traditional\ncorporation but are required to consider the impact of their decisions\nnot only on shareholders but also on society and the environment. In a\ntraditional corporation shareholders judge the company’s financial\nperformance; with a B-corporation shareholders judge performance based\non how a corporation’s goals benefit society and the environment.\nShareholders determine whether the corporation has made a material\npositive impact. Transparency provisions require benefit corporations\nto publish annual benefit reports of their social and environmental\nperformance using a comprehensive, credible, independent, and\ntransparent third-party standard. In some states the corporation must\nalso submit the reports to the Secretary of State, although the\nSecretary of State has no governance over the report’s content.\nShareholders have a private right of action, called a benefit\nenforcement proceeding, to enforce the company’s mission when the\nbusiness has failed to pursue or create general public benefit.\nDisputes about the material positive impact are decided by the courts.

\n
\n

Allowing a company to pursue things beyond pure profit and shareholder return, without having to be a non-profit, makes a lot of sense. It provides an opportunity for companies to be better citizens.

\n", "date_published": "2015-01-03T01:00:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2015/01/03/software-for-good.html", "tags": ["Work","Giving"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2014/12/21/minimum-vacation-policy.html", "title": "Minimum Vacation Policy", "content_html": "

Nearly everything in this Minimum Vacation\nPolicy\npost from Travis-CI is spot on. I’ve never been a supporter or believer\nof the unlimited vacation policy. Having managed teams for a long time\nI know that the majority of people faced with uncertain guidance like\n“unlimited” just will never take it. The dialogue inside someones head\nis something like:

\n
\n

Is it really unlimited? Of course not, there is some limit. What is\nthat limit? I don’t know. Well, I better not take any time off.

\n
\n

Even worse I think this type of policy is a punt on the part of the\nleadership team to not actually specify what the operating practices for\nthe organization are. Oftentimes this is considered “cool” but I think\nit’s really just shortsighted.

\n

The idea of instituting required vacation each year however is\ninteresting and is probably a very healthy thing. I think you can get\nmuch of the same affect by having the leaders in the organization set a\ngood example of taking time away and disconnecting.

\n", "date_published": "2014-12-21T02:00:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2014/12/21/minimum-vacation-policy.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2014/12/18/000151.html", "content_html": "

The view from the #TeamSPS deck at night is fabulous.

\n\"Downtown\n", "date_published": "2014-12-17T19:01:51-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2014/12/17/000151.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2014/12/16/nice-writeup-in.html", "content_html": "

Nice writeup in The Line with Peter Zaballos discussing SPS Commerce massive growth!

\n", "date_published": "2014-12-16T10:06:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2014/12/16/nice-writeup-in.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2014/12/11/083622.html", "content_html": "

Starting day at Salesforce World Tour in data analysis session!

\n\"Large\n

Overview from Billy Cripe of Field Nation use of Salesforce.

\n\"Packed\n

Salesforce Tour keynote starting.

\n\"Two\n

Disappointing Salesforce Tour session on Wave / Analytics. How about adding one data source? All sizzle, no steak.

\n", "date_published": "2014-12-11T09:36:22-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2014/12/11/083622.html", "tags": ["Tech Community","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2014/12/03/im-interviewing-people.html", "content_html": "

I’m interviewing 5 people today. Final candidates for five different positions! #TeamSPS is growing!

\n", "date_published": "2014-12-03T06:02:40-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2014/12/03/im-interviewing-people.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2014/11/20/peterzaballos-doing-meet.html", "content_html": "

Peter Zaballos doing “Meet the Expert” session for #TeamSPS!

\n\"Presenter\n", "date_published": "2014-11-20T13:08:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2014/11/20/peterzaballos-doing-meet.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2014/11/20/111447.html", "content_html": "

Tech support walkup session for #TeamSPS. Great way to solve problems and build connections in the team! Making it easy for our team! Love the experiments that Dan Megears and his team are doing to help us operate smoothly! In house Genius Bar!

\n\"Group\n\"Desk\n", "date_published": "2014-11-20T12:14:47-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2014/11/20/111447.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Technology","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2014/11/19/welcome-to-the.html", "content_html": "

Welcome to “The Cloud”! The #TeamSPS space rocks. 😊

\n\"Glass\n", "date_published": "2014-11-19T16:48:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2014/11/19/welcome-to-the.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2014/11/14/awesome-to-hear.html", "content_html": "

Awesome to hear SPS Commerce won Tekne Awards this evening! Missing event due to AWS re:Invent. Shout out to #TeamSPS!

\n", "date_published": "2014-11-13T20:48:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2014/11/13/awesome-to-hear.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2014/11/07/nice-teamsps-product.html", "content_html": "

Nice — #TeamSPS product and platform offsite today! #InfiniteRetailPower

\n\"SPS\n

👍 #TeamSPS assembling for product & platform event! Let’s do this!

\n\"Large\n

👍 #TeamSPS tech ops on the job from event.

\n\"Five\n

👍 #TeamSPS presentation from Shivani Stumpf and Mike Bjerkness!

\n\"Two\n

Product design for #TeamSPS being continually improved and redefined by Chuck Mallott!

\n\"Man\n

Love Chuck Mallott pursuit of bringing delight to B2B applications. Business users are people too! #TeamSPS

\n", "date_published": "2014-11-07T09:18:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2014/11/07/nice-teamsps-product.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2014/11/04/scotchprophet-and-hlprmnky.html", "content_html": "

Rich Howard and Chris Bidler jamming on some code. #TeamSPS

\n\"Two\n", "date_published": "2014-11-04T15:54:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2014/11/04/scotchprophet-and-hlprmnky.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Software Development","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2014/11/03/teamsps-opens-new.html", "title": "TeamSPS Opens New Floor", "content_html": "

Today is first day in new #TeamSPS floor! Expect many tweets with photos today. Collaborative, mobile optimized team-oriented space! Fifty five #TeamSPS WiFi access points found from my desk.

\n

\"Large
\n#TeamSPS getting setup!

\n

\"Purple
\nWritable surfaces everywhere!

\n

\"Row
\n140+ lockers to keep your coat and stuff.

\n

\"About
\nTwo #TeamSPS dev teams.

\n

\"Dozens
\nDonuts for #TeamSPS move in day!

\n

\"Six
\nMorning scrum in one of the #TeamSPS scrum rooms.

\n

\"Large
\n#TeamSPS new floor.

\n

\"Scrum
\nAnother #TeamSPS scrum room.

\n

\"Two
\nGreat #TeamSPS teamwork space.

\n

\"Two
\n#TeamSPS game room getting some use. Galaga FTW!

\n", "date_published": "2014-11-03T17:04:18-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2014/11/03/teamsps-opens-new.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2014/11/01/titans-of-tech.html", "title": "Titans of Tech 2014", "content_html": "

\"Titans

\n", "date_published": "2014-11-01T00:00:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2014/11/01/titans-of-tech.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2014/10/31/new-teamsps-space.html", "content_html": "

New #TeamSPS space is ready to roll. Here is one of the many collaborative tables with great tech.

\n\"Modern\n", "date_published": "2014-10-31T16:43:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2014/10/31/new-teamsps-space.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2014/10/30/foot-whiteboard-surface.html", "content_html": "

30 foot whiteboard surface with 5 operational dashboards. New #TeamSPS space is awesome!

\n\"Row\n", "date_published": "2014-10-30T12:21:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2014/10/30/foot-whiteboard-surface.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2014/10/30/one-detail-each.html", "content_html": "

One detail. Each desk in the new #TeamSPS space has these handy USB power ports. Mobile friendly.

\n\"Workers\n", "date_published": "2014-10-29T21:03:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2014/10/29/one-detail-each.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2014/10/20/great-kubb-event.html", "content_html": "

Great Kubb event with #TeamSPS today! Sporting Planet Kubb shirts and US National Kubb Championship set!

\n\"Group\n", "date_published": "2014-10-20T17:54:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2014/10/20/great-kubb-event.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Kubb","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2014/10/14/excited-to-welcome.html", "content_html": "

Excited to welcome the Leadtec team to #TeamSPS!

\n", "date_published": "2014-10-13T22:24:19-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2014/10/13/excited-to-welcome.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2014/10/01/teamsps-charleyhacker-sales.html", "content_html": "

Charley Hackerson sales mgmt team beat the tech mgmt team in Whirlyball today. We put up a fight! 15-12 #TeamSPS

\n\"WhirlyBall\n", "date_published": "2014-10-01T18:21:15-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2014/10/01/teamsps-charleyhacker-sales.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2014/09/16/tim-cook-on.html", "title": "Tim Cook on Charlie Rose", "content_html": "

This is a great two part interview (part 1, part 2) with Apple CEO Tim Cook with Charlie Rose. Wonderful insight into how Apple works and how they explore new products.

\n", "date_published": "2014-09-16T00:00:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2014/09/16/tim-cook-on.html", "tags": ["Work","Apple"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2014/08/15/marcfrons-great-interview.html", "content_html": "

Great interview with Rajiv Pant, CTO of NYTimes. I have a ton of respect for Rajiv. Good read!

\n", "date_published": "2014-08-15T09:31:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2014/08/15/marcfrons-great-interview.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2014/08/14/have-had-a.html", "content_html": "

Have had a great trip visiting #TeamSPS in Kyiv. Now starts the 32 hour day going home.

\n", "date_published": "2014-08-14T00:26:37-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2014/08/13/have-had-a.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Travel","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2014/08/12/hmm-office-mail.html", "content_html": "

Office365 mail offline? Maintenance window? Sure it’s 3:46a back home but it’s mid-day Kyiv. #TeamSPS

\n", "date_published": "2014-08-12T03:46:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2014/08/12/hmm-office-mail.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Travel","Productivity","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2014/08/12/delighted-to-have.html", "content_html": "

Delighted to have coffee shop in same building as new SPS Commerce Kyiv office. #TeamSPS

\n\"Russian-language\n", "date_published": "2014-08-12T01:44:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2014/08/12/delighted-to-have.html", "tags": ["Coffee","TeamSPS","Travel","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2014/08/12/new-spscommerce-kyiv.html", "content_html": "

New SPS Commerce Kyiv office is on the right side. #TeamSPS

\n\"Busy\n", "date_published": "2014-08-12T01:11:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2014/08/12/new-spscommerce-kyiv.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Travel","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2014/08/10/boarded-for-msp.html", "content_html": "

Boarded for ✈️ MSP - AMS - KBP! Looking forward to visiting #TeamSPS in our new office in Kyiv!

\n", "date_published": "2014-08-10T14:19:46-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2014/08/10/boarded-for-msp.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Travel","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2014/08/06/honored-to-be.html", "content_html": "

Honored to be on this list! → The first winners of our Titans of Technology awards

\n", "date_published": "2014-08-06T13:23:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2014/08/06/honored-to-be.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2014/07/10/teamsps-charity-live.html", "content_html": "

Time for the Live Auction at the #TeamSPS Charity Auction!

\n\"Crowded\n

Charley Hackerson and I just won whirlyball event at #TeamSPS auction. The sales v. tech team event is on!

\n", "date_published": "2014-07-10T18:49:10-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2014/07/10/teamsps-charity-live.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work","Giving"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2014/07/10/231906.html", "content_html": "

Great to see #TeamSPS doing good at tonight’s charity auction!

\n\"Large\n", "date_published": "2014-07-10T18:19:06-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2014/07/10/231906.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work","Giving"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2014/06/10/134110.html", "content_html": "

Really pleased with how the new #TeamSPS training / conference space turned out!

\n\"Large\n", "date_published": "2014-06-10T08:41:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2014/06/10/134110.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2014/06/06/nasdaq-sps-commerce.html", "title": "NASDAQ SPS Commerce Market Bell Ceremony", "content_html": "

On Tuesday of this week I got to be part of the SPS team ringing the market bell to start the trading day on NASDAQ! It was a ton of fun.

\n\"Group\n

Should add more photos and video to this post.

\n", "date_published": "2014-06-06T00:00:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2014/06/06/nasdaq-sps-commerce.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2014/06/03/fun-morning-with.html", "content_html": "

Fun morning with #TeamSPS opening the NASDAQ trading day!

\n\"Woman\n", "date_published": "2014-06-03T08:41:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2014/06/03/fun-morning-with.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2014/05/23/cto-culture-technology.html", "title": "CTO = Culture. Technology. Operations.", "content_html": "
\n

This is a guide for CTOs and other technology managers responsible\nfor a software engineering\norganization.\nThe purpose of this checklist is to help the CTO cover the areas of\nculture, technology and operations in their teams. It is presented in\nthe form of a memo to direct reports.

\n
\n

I’ve got a ton of respect for Rajiv and anyone in a technology leadership role should read this whole article.

\n", "date_published": "2014-05-23T00:00:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2014/05/23/cto-culture-technology.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2014/05/16/160928.html", "content_html": "

Looking forward to CIO luncheon today hosted by Genesys Works Twin Cities

\n\"Sponsor\n", "date_published": "2014-05-16T11:09:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2014/05/16/160928.html", "tags": ["Work","Giving"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2014/05/14/crazy-good-day.html", "content_html": "

Crazy good day today connecting the dots on our platform evolution. Love when the pieces start to click together and it just makes sense. #TeamSPS

\n", "date_published": "2014-05-13T20:14:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2014/05/13/crazy-good-day.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Software Development","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2014/05/09/soaking-in-charleyhacker.html", "content_html": "

Soaking in Charley Hackerson advanced sales training with #TeamSPS sales vets!

\n", "date_published": "2014-05-09T09:16:54-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2014/05/09/soaking-in-charleyhacker.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2014/05/07/what-drives-teamsps.html", "content_html": "

minnov8 wrote an overview of the SPS Omnichannel event last week. I know Steve, and he highlighted my joining SPS and the big stuff we are working on!

\n

SPS Commerce' Omnichannel - A Big Vision http://t.co/buDex6o1mu CC: @SPS_Commerce @thingles @Schwegman #SPSOmnichannel

— Minnov8 (@Minnov8) May 7, 2014
\n\n\n\n", "date_published": "2014-05-07T14:40:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2014/05/07/what-drives-teamsps.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2014/05/07/iphone-huddle-with.html", "content_html": "

iPhone huddle with David Novak, Shivani Stumpf, and Michael Davidovich at SPS Omnichannel. #TeamSPS

\n\"Three\n", "date_published": "2014-05-06T21:03:06-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2014/05/06/iphone-huddle-with.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2014/05/05/fun-to-run.html", "content_html": "

Fun to run into Steve Borsch at SPS Omnichannel event!

\n

Peter Zaballos kicking off event.

\n\"Man\n

Jim Frome describing the power of networks at SPS Omnichannel.

\n\"Man\n

Jim Frome describing the SPS Commerce network focused platform.

\n\"Man\n", "date_published": "2014-05-05T08:09:16-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2014/05/05/fun-to-run.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2014/05/04/233759.html", "content_html": "

Looking forward to SPS Omnichannel reception tonight!

\n\"Omnichannel\n", "date_published": "2014-05-04T18:37:59-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2014/05/04/233759.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2014/04/21/teamsps-getting-ready.html", "content_html": "

🙌 #TeamSPS getting ready for stoke.d session!

\n\"People\n", "date_published": "2014-04-21T09:36:23-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2014/04/21/teamsps-getting-ready.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2014/03/26/worked-so-well.html", "content_html": "

Worked so well for Best Buy. 😕

\n
\n

@MNHeadhunter: BAD news. Cargill to outsource IT services; 900 jobs affected

\n
\n", "date_published": "2014-03-26T18:25:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2014/03/26/worked-so-well.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2014/03/25/great-day-with.html", "content_html": "

Great day with AWS Cloud and #TeamSPS today in Seattle working on simple workflow!

\n", "date_published": "2014-03-24T21:42:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2014/03/24/great-day-with.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Software Development","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2014/03/23/debating-if-there.html", "content_html": "

Debating if there would be enough interest at Minnebar in a session on the CTO part of a technology organization.

\n", "date_published": "2014-03-22T20:51:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2014/03/22/debating-if-there.html", "tags": ["Tech Community","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2014/03/13/congrats-to-elmerbaldwin.html", "content_html": "

Internet Broadcasting Systems sold for $20 million ← Congrats to Elmer Baldwin, Todd Carter, and Internet Broadcasting team on todays news!

\n", "date_published": "2014-03-13T10:32:02-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2014/03/13/congrats-to-elmerbaldwin.html", "tags": ["Tech Community","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2014/03/07/223841.html", "content_html": "

Looking forward to a great evening with #teamsps tonight!

\n", "date_published": "2014-03-07T17:38:41-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2014/03/07/223841.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2014/03/06/010000.html", "title": "Remembering Farhan Muhammad", "content_html": "\"Man\nOn Tuesday morning I was shocked to get an email from Jennifer at ILM\nProfessional Services informing us that Farhan Muhammad, the CEO of ILM,\nhad passed away in his sleep on Sunday night. I see Farhan regularly and\nI've worked with him and his firm on projects for several years. To my\nknowledge he had no health issues and he was a mere *41 years old*!\nFarhan and I had been emailing back and forth just days prior on a\nproject that I was framing up to get him and his firm involved in. This\nnews was so unimaginable it took a while to even process it.\n

In the past decade I’ve done several projects with Farhan over the course of three different companies. He was a true partner in every aspect of the word. I knew that if Farhan told me that the consultants he had to work on a project were great, I didn’t need to verify. I knew as a fellow technologist I could just go with what he said. He was an “ace in the hole” so to speak. When I knew I needed to extend beyond my team, and get some outside folks in, he and his firm would rise to the challenge. And, if he knew he couldn’t, he would be plain and direct and help redirect to a path that would work.

\n

I remember on multiple occasions calling him that I needed help getting a project started, and needed to start yesterday with a solid team that could execute in weeks not months. He was always able to make magic happen.

\n

On top of being a great business partner, he was also just an awesome guy. You couldn’t work with him long without seeing the pride and joy he had in his family. His wife and their two kids came up in conversations a lot. My heart goes out to them with this sudden and unexpected loss. Farhan was born in Pakistan and moved here straight after high school. His extended family was a big part of his life as well, and one of the drivers to extra bedrooms in their home so they could stay for weeks and months at a time.

\n

Perhaps the most amazing thing is after a near decade of doing projects, technology projects with high risk, I don’t even remember a single time having a meeting or discussion with Farhan that was frustrating, challenging or dredging through a project gone wrong or technology poorly designed. That’s amazing!

\n

I was right in the middle of framing up the next project I wanted to work with Farhan and his team on. I was really eager to get Farhan’s take on the approach, and we were excited to totally reinvent how this service worked and how people would engage with it. I’m saddened to not have the opportunity to do that again.

\n

To all of Farhan’s family, friends and coworkers I want to send my deepest sympathies and regrets. I was able to attend the funeral service today to pay my respects and it was so nice to hear from so many that had great memories of working and living with him. His impact will be felt for a very long time, and he will not be forgotten. The Twin Cities technology community lost a great technologist, entrepreneur and supporter this week.

\n
\n

Related:

\n\n
\n", "date_published": "2014-03-06T01:00:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2014/03/06/010000.html", "tags": ["Tech Community","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2014/03/04/very-saddened-by.html", "content_html": "

Very saddened by the sudden and surprising passing of Farhan Muhammad. Worked with him over a number of years. Such a great spirit.

\n", "date_published": "2014-03-04T18:37:51-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2014/03/04/very-saddened-by.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2014/02/19/thread-on-wikitech.html", "content_html": "

Thread on #wikitech mailing list on meetings v. mailing list discussions.

\n

Shared common trait? Neither end when they should.

\n", "date_published": "2014-02-19T07:18:07-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2014/02/19/thread-on-wikitech.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2014/02/19/sent-meeting-invite.html", "content_html": "

Sent meeting invite at 6:05am. Got first acceptance at 6:07am. #TeamSPS has early risers.

\n", "date_published": "2014-02-19T07:14:42-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2014/02/19/sent-meeting-invite.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2014/02/19/120750.html", "content_html": "

Excited to head to CoCo MSP for a while with #TeamSPS today!

\n", "date_published": "2014-02-19T07:07:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2014/02/19/120750.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2014/02/10/welcome-liamconfrey-to.html", "content_html": "

Welcome Liam Confrey to #TeamSPS!

\n", "date_published": "2014-02-10T10:57:53-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2014/02/10/welcome-liamconfrey-to.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2014/02/05/in-awe-at.html", "content_html": "

In awe at the depth and strength of the #TeamSPS sales teams! Amazing group Charley Hackerson, David Novak, and David Verette

\n", "date_published": "2014-02-04T22:12:29-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2014/02/04/in-awe-at.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2014/01/31/hanging-in-hipchat.html", "content_html": "

Hanging in HipChat with Dan Megears getting MXToolBox MailFlow monitoring for #TeamSPS email round trip. Yeah, that cool. 🙂

\n", "date_published": "2014-01-30T21:11:07-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2014/01/30/hanging-in-hipchat.html", "tags": ["Productivity","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2014/01/20/teamsps-chef-tech.html", "content_html": "

Chef Tech Lunch for #TeamSPS!

\n\"Group\n", "date_published": "2014-01-20T12:22:02-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2014/01/20/teamsps-chef-tech.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Software Development","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2014/01/19/went-shopping-and.html", "content_html": "

Went shopping and not sure if I bought a computer or just clothes for work. 💸

\n", "date_published": "2014-01-19T15:41:55-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2014/01/19/went-shopping-and.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2013/12/18/heading-to-visit.html", "content_html": "

Heading to visit #teamsps Parsippany with Amy Patton.

\n", "date_published": "2013-12-18T07:34:13-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2013/12/18/heading-to-visit.html", "tags": ["Travel","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2013/12/11/first-trip-to.html", "content_html": "

First trip to Kharkiv to meet #teamsps was awesome! So much talent and enthusiasm. Great time!

\n

Boarded ✈️ in KBP to AMS. The exit door of this airplane is very cold. Weather in Ukraine feels identical to Minnesota.

\n

✈️ UIA plane headed to AMS.

\n\"Ukraine\n

2.5 + 3.5 + 4.5 + 3.75 = approximate hours of sleep for each day of this trip. (Crazy tired.)

\n

Just landed in MSP! Long day of flying!

\n

Customs, then Baggage claim, then Uber, then big hugs at home!

\n", "date_published": "2013-12-11T23:19:31-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2013/12/11/first-trip-to.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Travel","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2013/12/11/041000.html", "content_html": "

Team meeting and tech walkthrough with one of #teamsps Kharkiv Dev teams.

\n\"Man\n

Now that is a beer!

\n\"Large\n", "date_published": "2013-12-11T05:10:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2013/12/11/041000.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Travel","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2013/12/09/235400.html", "content_html": "

Good morning from Kharkiv!

\n\"Snow-covered\n

Looking forward to awesome day with #TeamSPS in Kharkiv. 2nd double espresso and then heading out. ☕️

\n\"Double\n

Morning reviewing three potential office spaces for #TeamSPS in Kharkiv.

\n

Desk for next couple of days in Kharkiv.

\n\"MacBook\n

All Hands for #TeamSPS Ukraine!

\n\"Group\n

Out for traditional Ukrainian dinner.

\n\"Eight\n", "date_published": "2013-12-10T00:54:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2013/12/09/235400.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Travel","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2013/12/10/facetime-call-with.html", "content_html": "

Facetime call with family while in Ukraine. So great to be able to see family so far away!

\n", "date_published": "2013-12-09T19:27:43-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2013/12/09/facetime-call-with.html", "tags": ["Family","Travel","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2013/12/08/150200.html", "content_html": "\n

Great pic of Kent Tangen, Dan Megears, and Michael Davidovich boarding UAI flight in Kyiv.

\n\"Passengers\n", "date_published": "2013-12-08T16:02:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2013/12/08/150200.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Travel","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2013/11/25/short-week-is.html", "content_html": "

Short week is packing 5 days of stuff into a 3-day schedule. 😕

\n", "date_published": "2013-11-25T17:24:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2013/11/25/short-week-is.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2013/11/21/interview-i-did.html", "content_html": "

Meet a Minnesota CTO interview I did with Jeff Pesek, published today!

\n", "date_published": "2013-11-21T09:48:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2013/11/21/interview-i-did.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2013/11/20/heading-to-parsippany.html", "content_html": "

Heading to Parsippany to spend rest of week with Rob Krystyniak and rest of #teamsps.

\n", "date_published": "2013-11-20T08:04:40-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2013/11/20/heading-to-parsippany.html", "tags": ["Travel","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2013/11/10/star-tribune-in.html", "title": "Star Tribune in April 1999 on BigCharts Acquisition", "content_html": "

I’ve been cleaning through old files and found the copy of the April 30, 1999 issue of the Star Tribune that I had saved with the article about BigCharts being acquired by CBS MarketWatch. I couldn’t just recycle this before running it through the scanner. Phil sure had some hair back then. 😀

\n

\"Star

\n

\"Star

\n

Funny that Phil actually did relocate to San Francisco area, just about 10 years later than this article and had nothing to do with BigCharts or MarketWatch.

\n", "date_published": "2013-11-10T01:00:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2013/11/10/star-tribune-in.html", "tags": ["BigCharts","MarketWatch","Tech Community","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2013/11/07/152300.html", "content_html": "

Presenting at #TeamSPS meeting today! Crew filing in!

\n\"Large\n

Archie Black kicking off #teamsps meeting.

\n\"Man\n

Say Hi to #TeamSPS!

\n\"Packed\n", "date_published": "2013-11-07T16:23:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2013/11/07/152300.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2013/10/29/152200.html", "title": "TeamSPS Platform 2013", "content_html": "

Everything set for #TeamSPS Platform offsite!

\n\"Large\n

Nice — #TeamSPS Platform assembled!

\n\"Panoramic\n

Peter Zaballos introducing Tyler Hamilton at #TeamSPS Platform event.

\n\"Man\n

Tyler Hamilton addressing #TeamSPS Platform event.

\n\"Man\n

NO COFFEE! OMG! #teamsps

\n\"Coffee\n

Chuck Mallott taking the stage to discuss UX design at #TeamSPS Platform event!

\n

Chuck Mallott explaining UX.

\n\"Man\n

Chuck Mallott you should do that UXD presentation at next Minnebar event.

\n

Luke Samaha presenting on the power of our network! #TeamSPS Platform

\n\"Person\n

Luke Samaha throwing down serious math. #TeamSPS

\n\"Presenter\n", "date_published": "2013-10-29T15:22:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2013/10/29/152200.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Minnestar","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2013/10/28/really-excited-to.html", "content_html": "

Excited to get #TeamSPS together for SPS Commerce Platform offsite tomorrow! It’s going to be great!

\n

Materials are ready for SPS Commerce #TeamSPS Platform offsite tomorrow! See you all tomorrow!

\n", "date_published": "2013-10-28T15:22:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2013/10/28/really-excited-to.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2013/10/27/im-doing-presentations.html", "content_html": "

I’m doing 8 presentations this week. Slide deck overload!

\n", "date_published": "2013-10-27T16:27:47-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2013/10/27/im-doing-presentations.html", "tags": ["Tech Community","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2013/10/18/got-my-internalonly.html", "content_html": "

Got my internal-only #TeamSPS CTO blog going tonight. Yet another use of WordPress.

\n", "date_published": "2013-10-17T23:04:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2013/10/17/got-my-internalonly.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Blogging","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2013/10/16/hour-day-today.html", "content_html": "

12 hour day today. Felt like 3!

\n", "date_published": "2013-10-16T18:35:46-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2013/10/16/hour-day-today.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2013/10/14/well-that-wasnt.html", "content_html": "

Well that wasn’t the morning I was planning on. The network gods were not smiling this morning.

\n", "date_published": "2013-10-14T11:01:47-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2013/10/14/well-that-wasnt.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2013/10/13/very-nice-to.html", "content_html": "

Very nice to be able to check in on #TeamSPS weekend maintenance work using HipChat.

\n", "date_published": "2013-10-13T01:16:58-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2013/10/13/very-nice-to.html", "tags": ["Productivity","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2013/10/10/080400.html", "content_html": "

Classic Van Halen getting things rocking at #TeamSPS sales event! Guessing most of #TeamSPS at today’s event know Van Halen as that band on the classic rock station. 😀

\n", "date_published": "2013-10-10T08:04:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2013/10/10/080400.html", "tags": ["Music","TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2013/10/03/192203.html", "content_html": "

Great seats at the Wild game! #TeamSPS 🏒

\n\"Packed\n", "date_published": "2013-10-03T19:22:03-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2013/10/03/192203.html", "tags": ["Sports","TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2013/09/27/crazy-day-juggling.html", "content_html": "

Crazy day juggling SPS Commerce 2014 business planning, awesome CaringBridge offsite and now off to my sisters wedding! Hectic & Lucky!

\n", "date_published": "2013-09-27T15:36:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2013/09/27/crazy-day-juggling.html", "tags": ["Family","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2013/09/22/just-hung-this.html", "content_html": "

Just hung this BigCharts.com memory in my new office.

\n\"Framed\n", "date_published": "2013-09-22T16:50:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2013/09/22/just-hung-this.html", "tags": ["BigCharts","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2013/09/22/up-early-for.html", "content_html": "

Up early for #TeamSPS release window. Thankful for espresso.

\n\"MacBook\n", "date_published": "2013-09-22T06:45:22-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2013/09/22/up-early-for.html", "tags": ["Coffee","TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2013/08/30/at-university-of.html", "content_html": "

At University of Minnesota Computer Science Memorial event celebrating the accomplishments of John Riedl. What a great man and mentor. Amazing roster of people celebrating John Riedl’s career here. Researchers from academia, Google and Yahoo.

\n", "date_published": "2013-08-30T15:49:13-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2013/08/30/at-university-of.html", "tags": ["Software Development","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2013/08/23/minneapolisst-paul-business.html", "content_html": "

Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal published this short blurb on me joining SPS Commerce. They also published an article as well.

\n\"Smiling\n", "date_published": "2013-08-23T19:56:40-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2013/08/23/minneapolisst-paul-business.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2013/08/19/sps-university-teamsps.html", "content_html": "

SPS University! #TeamSPS growing.

\n\"Group\n", "date_published": "2013-08-19T08:04:53-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2013/08/19/sps-university-teamsps.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2013/08/16/fun-discussion-with.html", "content_html": "

Fun discussion with Paul DeBettignies exploring ways to grow #TeamSPS tech team — great way to cap off first week at SPS Commerce!

\n", "date_published": "2013-08-16T17:25:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2013/08/16/fun-discussion-with.html", "tags": ["TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2013/08/16/mn-twins-httpstcogzuflels.html", "content_html": "

MN Twins with #TeamSPS. Great to meet more people at tonight’s Twins event!

\n\"Packed\n", "date_published": "2013-08-15T19:59:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2013/08/15/mn-twins-httpstcogzuflels.html", "tags": ["Sports","TeamSPS","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2013/08/15/team-spscommerce-httpstcoryshuawl.html", "content_html": "

Team SPS getting ready to go to Twins game! ⚾️

\n\"People\n", "date_published": "2013-08-15T18:15:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2013/08/15/team-spscommerce-httpstcoryshuawl.html", "tags": ["Sports","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2013/08/12/excited-to-start.html", "content_html": "

Excited to start a new adventure today at SPS Commerce!

\n", "date_published": "2013-08-12T06:55:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2013/08/12/excited-to-start.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2013/07/23/protip-small-business.html", "content_html": "

Pro Tip: Small business owners, don’t name your WiFi the same as your business if it’s not open to customers.

\n", "date_published": "2013-07-23T12:03:04-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2013/07/23/protip-small-business.html", "tags": ["Technology","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2013/07/21/goodbye-to-my.html", "title": "Goodbye to my friend, John Riedl", "content_html": "

\"John

\n

Three years ago my friend, mentor and former professor John Riedl shared the news with our book club that he had been diagnosed with cancer. Melanoma. He spent the last three years fighting it. He did it all right, as the scientist he was. He was able to try never-before tested treatments. He adopted a vegan diet. He was strong and vital. He was optimistic, as always, and we were all optimistic for him. In the last month things got much worse very quickly. Yesterday I joined well over two hundred others in celebrating his life and spirit at his funeral. It was a perfect ceremony for a man that was loved and admired so much. I would like to share the story of how I came to know John.

\n

Hackers v. Crackers

\n

I started at the University of Minnesota in 1990. So did Dr. Riedl. 1990 was his first year as a professor in the Computer Science department of the Institute of Technology. At some point during that year the Minnesota Daily wrote a big exposé article on how bad hackers were. They were supposedly breaking into every computer system around, stealing credit cards and doing illegal things. I was fairly fresh from reading Stephen Levy’s fantastic book Hackers and I took great offense at this article. See, hackers are exceptional software developers (aka coders). People that break into computers? Those are crackers. A completely different type of software person focused on compromising systems, both technical and human.

\n

I read this article and it got me all worked up so I sent a letter to the editor telling the Daily that they got it all wrong. Their hacker article was wrong and should have used the term cracker. This is clearly a semantic battle that never was. I don’t think anyone used the term cracker for people that broke into systems much after that point or even before, but I was principled.

\n

The day after that letter ran I remember getting a phone call in my Frontier Hall dorm room. I picked it up and the guy introduced himself as Dr. Riedl, in the computer science department. He mentioned that he and Dr. Carlis were going to write an opinion piece on the article the Daily had published and wondered if I would mind if they quoted me. I have no idea why he thought he needed to ask, but he did and I stammered out “Sure” at some point. We chatted briefly on other University stuff and he ended by saying that “If I ever needed anything, feel free to stop by.” I said thanks and looked forward to reading the article.

\n

Losing Unix Access?

\n

A while after the article I was facing a problem. In 1990 when you took a Computer Science class you were given an account on the Unix workstations. However, that account was provisioned for the class you were enrolled in. So, I had an account but it was going to disappear when the quarter ended.

\n

This was traumatic for me. You see, I had discovered Unix and it was like an entirely new world of technology had opened up. Actually, it wasn’t “like” that, it specifically was that! I had discovered IRC and was chatting with people around the world. I was FTP‘ing to servers at other Universities. I was building software on my own. This was amazing! And it was going to go away when my class ended. So, I went to see Dr. Riedl.

\n

I went to his office and explained my predicament. His response? He put me on his graduate research team. This is the team that eventually became GroupLens, but I don’t think it had that name at that time. I went from hoping to get an account somehow to getting 24-hour access to a lab with dedicated machines, and a permanent account on a handful of SunOS workstations. I was in heaven! I was also a clueless freshman that couldn’t do much beside help with testing the stuff the grad students were working on. While my friends were going to parties on the weekend, I was heading to the graduate lab in the CSci building to explore the systems and software, and very importantly the pre-web Internet. I spent hours there just learning and learning. (To be clear, access to the computer lab was clearly not the only thing that kept me out of the social scene on the weekends. 🙂)

\n

Go and Build Things

\n

I learned so much in the CSci lab and loved being able to ask grad students questions that probably drove them a little crazy. It turns out I liked that a lot more than going to my other classes. Both Dr. Riedl and Dr. Carlis recognized that I knew the technology, but didn’t seem to be ready for all of the college experience. They both opened the door that maybe I should go and work in industry for a while. Maybe I would come back to the University, or maybe I wouldn’t. And that is what I did, and I never did end up coming back.

\n

I lost touch with Dr. Riedl for a while. To be fair, we were both crazy busy. He took a break from the University to start NetPerceptions and had a wild ride. I was busy building BigCharts and then growing MarketWatch. Years later, after he had returned to the University I reached out to get lunch and we had a great time catching up. We stayed in contact for a long time after that. He graciously invited me to speak at the University of Minnesota a number of times, including being the keynote speaker at the Computer Science departments annual open house. He also gave a nice quote for me when I received the Forty Under 40 award.

\n

Book Club

\n

In late 2007 I got an email from him about a book club. 17 years from when we first met, wow. He mentioned that he was part of this small book club of geeky guys that liked to read about technology topics, and strayed off topic as they wished. Honestly, I wasn’t much of a reader at the time but the idea of reading books with a group that included John Riedl was far too much to pass up on. I joined without hesitation.

\n

\"Book

\n

John was a voracious reader I realized. That shouldn’t have surprised me given his scholarly and scientific background. He was also a great person to discuss books with, as are Tom, Erik and Dan, the other members of the club. I count myself truly lucky to have shared a book club with John for 6 years. I’ve come to recognize it as a unique experience. Reading informs oneself, and reading together over the course of many years, brings you together and allows for raucous and challenging conversations. As Tom said in a reference to the club and John, “For years to come I’ll read something and think ‘John would really like this.’”

\n

The world is worse off without John here. He was a brilliant man, mentor and teacher who had such an impact on my life. And you know what? I wasn’t alone. I’ve heard many stories like mine of people who’s lives are substantially better due to their interactions with John. At his funeral, the common refrain was how much of a mentor he was. My condolences are with his wife Maureen who I got to read a handful of books with as well in our members + spouse meetings, and his children Eric, Karen and Kevin who I really only know through the annual Christmas letter, but all seem to be incredible individuals in their own right. No surprise there.

\n

Related links:

\n\n", "date_published": "2013-07-21T00:00:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2013/07/21/goodbye-to-my.html", "tags": ["Family","Software Development","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2013/05/15/183727.html", "content_html": "

Today is the anniversary of BigCharts.com I still remember watching those first chart requests scroll by.

\n", "date_published": "2013-05-15T13:37:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2013/05/15/183727.html", "tags": ["BigCharts","Technology","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2013/05/02/fun-panel-conversation.html", "content_html": "

Fun panel conversation this morning at The Collaborative event with Justin Kaufenberg.

\n", "date_published": "2013-05-02T14:38:14-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2013/05/02/fun-panel-conversation.html", "tags": ["Tech Community","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2013/03/04/cold-snowy-day.html", "content_html": "

Cold snowy day to wait 20 minutes for the bus. 🥶

\n", "date_published": "2013-03-04T09:45:05-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2013/03/04/cold-snowy-day.html", "tags": ["Work","Weather"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2012/12/28/being-that-guy.html", "content_html": "

Being that guy on a conference call via cellphone in the coffee shop.

\n", "date_published": "2012-12-28T11:03:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2012/12/28/being-that-guy.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2012/12/26/please-charge-me.html", "title": "Please Charge Me Something", "content_html": "

For Christmas the brother-in-laws on Tammy’s side pick names. There are only four of us but we like the simplicity of just getting one name to pick better. For a couple of years now we’ve used a website called DrawNames.com to handle the name drawing, sending emails and even handling exclusions so you don’t get the same person every year. They sent an email asking for feedback and I felt like sharing some thoughts with them and decided I should share them publicly too.

\n
\n

I like your service a lot and if I had more name drawing groups at\nChristmas I would use it for sure. I’ve suggested your service to\nothers and I know that at least some of them have used it. Everything\nwent very smooth and I think you have the right email confirmations in\nplace to make sure you don’t get “busted” email picks in spam folders.

\n

With that said, I have a concern that your service makes enough\nrevenue to be around. My alternative to using your service is to write\na small script that will pick names and send emails. It would be ugly.\nProbably break a lot. Would likely not get delievered right. I’d\nrather use your service! I see that I can keep a wishlist and I’m sure\nthat generates affiliate revenue, but I’m not sure many people do\nthat. I know we don’t.

\n

I would rather just pay a small fee for each name drawing group that I\nhave. Maybe a $1? $2? I’m not sure what the right amount is, but I\nhave a hard time seeing how you would make $1 off of our group now,\nso at least for us that would be an increase.

\n

In addition to making me feel like your service will continue to be\naround, it would also give me confidence that you are not dropping\nremarketing cookies in my browser (you aren’t right?) and that my\nfriends and family are not having their email addresses sold to others\n(which your privacy policy assures me is not happening already).

\n

While I have your ear let me also thank you for not littering the site\nwith link ads. Thank you for not requiring the use of Facebook connect\nor login with Twitter stuff.

\n

That’s it. The service is nice and works really well. Just charge me\nsomething. :-)

\n
\n

My hope is that they have thought about charging before but assume that nobody would pay. It’s the Internet right? Nobody pays. But they do. They pay in droves for the right thing. This website is worth as much to me as many iOS apps I’ve bought for $0.99. Maybe if they hear customers saying they would pay, they can see the path to something that pays the bills and is worth keeping around clarify a bit.

\n", "date_published": "2012-12-26T01:00:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2012/12/26/please-charge-me.html", "tags": ["Technology","Privacy \u0026 Security","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2012/12/21/great-thbridge-holiday.html", "content_html": "

Great 8thBridge holiday party tonight! What a crew!

\n", "date_published": "2012-12-20T22:37:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2012/12/20/great-thbridge-holiday.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2012/05/15/on-this-day.html", "content_html": "

On this day in 1997 Philip Hotchkiss, me and a team of 6 launched BigCharts.com. Great memories!

\n", "date_published": "2012-05-15T13:17:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2012/05/15/on-this-day.html", "tags": ["BigCharts","Tech Community","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2012/04/24/graphitelaunch-day-go.html", "content_html": "

Graphite launch day! Go team!

\n\"Group\n", "date_published": "2012-04-24T10:42:21-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2012/04/24/graphitelaunch-day-go.html", "tags": ["Tech Community","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2012/04/05/may-have-to.html", "content_html": "

May have to drive tomorrow instead of MetroTransit just to stop at Urban Bean Coffee on the way in.

\n", "date_published": "2012-04-04T20:35:23-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2012/04/04/may-have-to.html", "tags": ["Coffee","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2012/01/28/double-party-day.html", "content_html": "

Double event day!

\n

8thBridge team and family ice skating this afternoon at The Depot Minneapolis.

\n

CaringBridge annual event tonight.

\n", "date_published": "2012-01-28T14:23:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2012/01/28/double-party-day.html", "tags": ["Work","Giving"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2011/10/08/jobs-cake.html", "title": "Jobs Cake", "content_html": "

We have a lot of Apple people at 8thBridge. On Thursday we marked Steve Jobs’ passing with a cake in his memory. The screen dimensions on the frosting iPhone are a bit Android-ish, but a great decorating job nonetheless.

\n\"Memorial\n", "date_published": "2011-10-08T00:00:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2011/10/08/jobs-cake.html", "tags": ["Work","Apple"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2011/07/17/perceived-project-progress.html", "title": "Perceived Project Progress", "content_html": "

Our remodeling project is scheduled for 12 weeks. I’m very familiar with project execution, that is a big part of what I do for a living. Watching the progress of our remodel I’ve been thinking about real versus perceived project progress. The chart below reflects the relationship.

\n

\"Perceived

\n

When we build software there is a decent amount of time getting groundwork put in. You have to get the build process working right, get your integration tests working, get version control working the way you want it. You probably need to use some framework code. It is a lot of stuff that doesn’t really feel like progress to a non-technical person.

\n

Then you start framing out the software. Big swaths go in place, but mostly just stubs. Everything looks like it is coming together really fast, but it is largely a façade. Things are just in place to make sure it all comes together right.

\n

At the end, it feels like the thing is so close to done but it just keeps dragging on. The edge cases have to be handled, error handling needs improvement. You need to log things. Not to mention that final design of the visual elements. This is where people get frustrated.

\n

I fully expect the same thing to happen with this remodel. It seemed like a long time to get the structural stuff rolling. This week it seemed like a lot started to happen, and with the framing right around the corner it will feel like we are almost there. Then, things will take a very long time to get the light switches all wired up right and all the final punch list items completed.

\n

While I ride the Perceived Progress line I’m going to try to keep a good grounding on the Actual Progress line. It is the only one that matters after all.

\n", "date_published": "2011-07-17T00:00:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2011/07/17/perceived-project-progress.html", "tags": ["Software Development","Home","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2011/07/05/first-week-of.html", "title": "First Week of Standing Desk", "content_html": "

Today I started my second week of using my makeshift standing desk. My initial observations are:

\n\n\"Office\n

My makeshift standing desk is far from ideal. I know my keyboard is about 6" too low. My monitor is as high as it goes but at an angle so I look down at it. Looking down is kind of nice in one way, but I think it would be ergonomically better to have it much higher and looking straight on.

\n

People keep asking me how long I’m going to keep this up. I don’t know. It’s possible my setup is deficient and it won’t be better. I’m hopeful that I hit a turning point this week and my feet feel better and my lower back hurts less. I’ve started stretching occasionally through the day which I hope helps as well.

\n

All in I like it, contrary to the probable tone of this note. I feel like there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

\n", "date_published": "2011-07-05T00:00:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2011/07/05/first-week-of.html", "tags": ["Home","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2011/06/30/cupcake-surprise.html", "content_html": "

We got a pleasant surprise at the office today with the delivery of some delicious cupcakes from Wuollet Bakery.

\n\"Two\n", "date_published": "2011-06-30T00:00:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2011/06/30/cupcake-surprise.html", "tags": ["Work","Restaurants"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2011/06/27/att-stop-reminding.html", "title": "AT\u0026T: Stop Reminding Me You're Expensive", "content_html": "

Okay, these monthly text messages from AT&T; drive me crazy.

\n\"iPhone\n

Let me inventory all the ways these are annoying:

\n\n

Okay, that’s enough. I just needed to say that.

\n", "date_published": "2011-06-27T00:00:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2011/06/27/att-stop-reminding.html", "tags": ["Technology","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2011/05/18/did-some-testing.html", "content_html": "

Did some testing with OmniPlan 2.0’s collaborative features today. Amazing. Can’t wait for the release version!

\n", "date_published": "2011-05-18T16:29:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2011/05/18/did-some-testing.html", "tags": ["Technology","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2011/02/22/michael-birawer-prints.html", "title": "Michael Birawer Prints", "content_html": "

The hallways of the 8thBridge office just got classed up! The building added a number of Michael Birawer prints. It makes the space feel a lot better.

\n\"Panoramic\n\"Hallway\n", "date_published": "2011-02-22T01:00:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2011/02/22/michael-birawer-prints.html", "tags": ["Work","Arts"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2011/01/11/stuck-in-a.html", "content_html": "

From yesterday’s junk mail. Why not a more direct message, like “Stuck in a contract? We’ll pay to get you stuck in our contract!”

\n\"Red\n", "date_published": "2011-01-11T01:00:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2011/01/11/stuck-in-a.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2010/12/10/attract-customers-with.html", "title": "Attract Customers with WiFi Name", "content_html": "

A while back we were traveling and I noticed that this coffee shop, Kavarna, didn’t just have its name in its WiFi network as most do. They smartly were telling anyone that could see the WiFi signal to come on in and use the network.

\n\"iPhone\n

Smart. More places should do this. How about “Free Refills” in your WiFi network name?

\n", "date_published": "2010-12-10T01:00:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2010/12/10/attract-customers-with.html", "tags": ["Technology","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2010/11/29/its-when-you.html", "title": "It's When You Wake Up?", "content_html": "

Why is it so different to go to sleep at 2am and get up at 6am, versus going to bed at 10pm and getting up at 2am? Both are a miserly 4 hours of sleep, but the later is immensely less desirable.

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I’ll be doing the later tonight to head into the office for a product release.

\n", "date_published": "2010-11-29T01:00:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2010/11/29/its-when-you.html", "tags": ["Fitness","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2010/10/12/wow-fell-asleep.html", "content_html": "

Wow. Fell asleep on my bus ride home. Missed stop. Taking a little adventure. 😕

\n", "date_published": "2010-10-12T18:07:05-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2010/10/12/wow-fell-asleep.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2009/07/30/entrepreneur-in-residence.html", "title": "Entrepreneur in Residence at Split Rock Partners", "content_html": "

Earlier this week Split Rock Partners did a press release regarding my entrepreneur in residence (EIR) with the firm. The first question friends of mine have asked is “What exactly is an entrepreneur in residence?” Wikipedia highlights an EIR as:

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The EIR role is often designed to fill one of three primary functions:

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That is a great recap of what I will be doing with Split Rock. The partners have given me a place to office and the opportunity to get and give early feedback around potential business ventures.

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A couple of other items about EIR roles. There are other “in residence"programs. For example, artist in residence seems to be a fairly well established. I’ve also seen writer in residence as well as journalist in residence pop up. Lastly, just to be clear, the EIR role is a partnership. I’m not an employee at the firm, and this isn’t a “job”. It is a formal collaboration and a vehicle for us to work together.

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I am excited to work with the partners at Split Rock and will make the most of such a unique opportunity!

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Jamie Thingelstad joins Split Rock Partners as an Entrepreneur in Residence

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Former Dow Jones executive will focus on emerging opportunities in digital media

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Minneapolis, MN, July 27 – Split Rock Partners, a venture capital firm focused on emerging software and internet services companies, is pleased to announce that Jamie Thingelstad, former Vice President, Chief Technology Officer of the Wall Street Journal Digital Network, the consumer division of Dow Jones & Company and Chief Technology Officer of MarketWatch, Inc., is affiliated with the firm as an Entrepreneur in Residence (“EIR”).

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Mr. Thingelstad was founding Chief Technology Officer of BigCharts, Inc. through its acquisition by MarketWatch in 1999. BigCharts was a pioneer in delivering real-time financial information via the web, and provided financial tools offered by the majority of top financial services firms at the time of the acquisition.

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MarketWatch was subsequently acquired by Dow Jones, and Mr. Thingelstad continued to take on progressively larger responsibilities within the Dow Jones organization. In his last role, he served as Chief Technology Officer of the Wall Street Journal Digital Network, a leading provider of financial and investment news through sites sites such as the Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch and Barrons. During his tenure, the network properties grew substantially in audience, and introduced several new product offerings. Prior to that Mr. Thingelstad was Chief Technology Officer for the Enterprise Media Group of Dow Jones where he oversaw the development efforts for Dow Jones Newswires, Dow Jones Indexes and other business services offered by the company.

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“Jamie is an accomplished entrepreneur and brings great insight into the intersection of the internet, new media, and the implications for next-generation business models,” said Michael Gorman, a Managing Director at Split Rock Partners. “As a pioneer in digital media, he is intimately familiar with the unique challenges and opportunities presented by the convergence of new technologies, consumer behavior, advertiser objectives and industry economics. We look forward to applying his insights to the process of identifying the most promising opportunities taking advantage of these dynamic trends.”

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As an EIR with Split Rock Partners, Mr. Thingelstad will be evaluating opportunities defining the next generation of digital media, the increasing opportunities in social applications on the web as well as the continuous evolution of the web as a platform.

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“I am excited to explore how new technologies can build upon the foundation of traditional media, while creating new opportunities to meet the needs of consumers and businesses in unanticipated ways,” said Mr. Thingelstad. “We are still at an early stage in the transformation of digital content production, delivery and consumption, and in that transformation lies opportunity. I am pleased to partner with the Split Rock team given their track record of partnering with entrepreneurs to translate the potential of breakthrough ideas into leading companies.”

\n\nAbout Split Rock Partners\n

Split Rock Partners, with offices in Minneapolis and Menlo Park, seeks emerging opportunities in healthcare, software, and Internet services primarily in the Upper Midwest and West Coast. Split Rock was formed in June 2004 by the teams responsible for healthcare, software and Internet services investments for St. Paul Venture Capital (SPVC) and continues to manage SPVC’s portfolio in those sectors. Split Rock closed a $275 million inaugural fund in April of 2005, and a $300 million second fund in May, 2008. Representative companies backed by Split Rock’s team include Atritech, Disc Dynamics, EBR, eBureau, Entellus, Evalve, Gearworks, Internet Broadcasting, HireRight, LowerMyBills.com, MyNewPlace, QuinStreet, and Tornier. Additional information about the firm can be found at www.splitrock.com.\n

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See this release on MarketWatch.com.

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Bricker.

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Keekley.

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Prediction: Twitter will NEVER make as much money from me as the various Twitter client developers have made from me on various platforms.

\n", "date_published": "2009-04-16T09:11:10-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2009/04/16/prediction-twitter-will.html", "tags": ["Work","Social Media"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2009/02/26/corporate-brand-logo.html", "content_html": "

20 Corporate Brand Logo Evolution ← Cool overview of brand logo evolution. Interesting to see how some have changed, and how some haven’t.

\n", "date_published": "2009-02-26T01:00:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2009/02/26/corporate-brand-logo.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2009/02/12/flashback-bigcharts-partnership.html", "title": "Flashback: BigCharts Partnership Portfolio from 1997", "content_html": "

We recently converted my home office to hardwood flooring from carpet. Doing this required that the room be emptied, including a big filing cabinet. I decided it was time to do a filter through that filing cabinet and found some fun things from a many years ago. One of those items was the BigCharts Partnership Portfolio from 1997-1998. This was a printed, high-gloss, portfolio item that we shared with clients so they could see how people were using the products. It’s pretty fun to see all these screen shots of sites (many of which are long gone now) from a decade ago. I scanned a copy so others could enjoy.

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Some highlights that gave me a chuckle:

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At a coffee shop and the woman at the table next to me is selling a Yellow Pages listing to a guy. Tough sell. Lot of work for not much revenue.

\n", "date_published": "2008-12-17T10:05:58-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2008/12/17/at-coffee-shop.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2008/10/10/google-language-detection.html", "title": "Google Language Detection Problems", "content_html": "

When I was traveling in the UK I had a couple of really interesting experiences using the normal set of online services I use. The Internet really doesn’t have a concept of countries, but I found myself unable to do some things while I was there because various online services made assumptions by mapping my IP address to a country. This is a process called geo targeting and it is used in online advertising almost always. My experience highlighted that you should be careful to use it for account settings or commerce transactions.

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For example, when I was in parts of the UK and tried to login to Google Reader I was greeted with this screen.

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I’m not sure what language that is, but it isn’t one I know. Now, while it wasn’t english it was obvious to me, and I think to most people, that you should just login in the form provided. I figured once I logged in it would then know via my preferences where I live and flip the language back to english. Unfortunately, it wasn’t so smart.

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Another example of this problem popped up when I was trying to renew my Google Earth subscription. Unfortunately I wasn’t even able to do it since it would only allow me to see the UK store and only allow me to buy the one in £’s even though my account is entirely setup in the US.

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Good food for thought on how far you should take geo targeting in building out products, versus marketing.

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Saying goodbye to nearly 5 months off. What a great, great summer it has been. Feeling very fortunate.

\n", "date_published": "2008-09-28T22:38:21-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2008/09/28/saying-goodbye-to.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2008/05/15/under-forty-award.html", "title": "40 Under Forty Award", "content_html": "

I got the exciting news a couple of weeks ago that I was selected to be one of the recipients of the Minneapolis St. Paul Business Journal’s 40 Under Forty awards. The process to be selected involves a nomination process. The editors receive letters from people and then sift through those to figure out who to pick. My sincerest thanks to Dan Grigsby who threw my name into the ring first, as well as everyone else who suggested me for this award. Lastly, thanks to John Riedl for taking the great quotes. Thank you! The Business Journal has been doing this award for at least 11 years now (2006 Winners, 2007 Winners). Dan Grigsby is also a winner this year. Looking in the past years I see Andrew Eklund of Ciceron. Going all the way back to 1999 shows my friend and founder of BigCharts, Philip Hotchkiss. It’s great to join such company.

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This is a great way to cap off the last decade as I transition into the next chapter. A cherry on the top if you will.

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\"40

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There is a dinner tonight at the Minneapolis Club for this event. Looking forward to meeting everyone else!

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\"40

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Last night was my absolutely amazing farewell party at the Bernard’s house. The gang put together this awesome going away video for me. It’s just great. Thank you so much everyone. Who would have ever thought reading “twitters” could be so funny! There is an amazing, completely unexpected and inexplicable cameo at the end. But don’t skip to it! Sit back and enjoy…

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That is just great. I’m speechless. 🤩

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Links to most messages read:

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Just turned in SecurID, company ID, American Express card, etc. whew…

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Completely overwhelmed with all the heartfelt comments from people on my last day.

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Last tweet from my Dow Jones office. See you on the other side!

\n", "date_published": "2008-05-09T13:28:59-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2008/05/09/132859.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2008/05/09/marketwatch-dow-jones.html", "title": "MarketWatch, Dow Jones Chapter Closing", "content_html": "

Today I’m closing a very long chapter in my career. This is my last day at Dow Jones/MarketWatch. This transition has been in the works for a while. It was announced in January and over the course of the following months I’ve been able to wrap-up some projects, transition others and most importantly work to get my replacement hired and up-to-speed. I’m happy to leave on a Friday, and have a new CTO start on Monday to take the organization forward. My replacement will be in New York which I think will be immensely helpful. I’ve been able to do a lot from Minneapolis, but moving to New York isn’t in the cards and it was time for me to do something different.

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The past 10+ years have been amazing. This chart is a great representation of all the twists and turns that have occurred over that period.

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This is a tough day. It’s filled with a lot of emotion. I’ve found myself reflecting a lot over this week. Remembering a lot of past colleagues, all the great projects and even some of the bombs. It’s been amazing to see an organization grow and change through so many events. I’m incredibly proud of everything that has been accomplished by such this great team.

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I’ll be taking a respite this summer and enjoying a great number of trips with my family. Stay tuned right here for news on those travels!

\n", "date_published": "2008-05-09T00:00:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2008/05/09/marketwatch-dow-jones.html", "tags": ["MarketWatch","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2008/05/08/completely-flattered-by.html", "content_html": "

Completely flattered by all the amazing emails I’ve been getting from people as my final day at Dow Jones approaches. In the end, it’s all about people.

\n", "date_published": "2008-05-08T17:10:35-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2008/05/08/completely-flattered-by.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2008/05/08/flashback-marketwatch-in.html", "title": "Flashback: MarketWatch in Windows 2000 Launch", "content_html": "

There are a few points in the history of BigCharts and MarketWatch that I’m especially proud of. Perhaps one of the most prominent ones, and most public, is the inclusion of the BigCharts BigArchitecture (the name we retroactively gave the COM-infrastructure behind MarketWatch and BigCharts) in the scalability demo at the Windows 2000 launch event. The video is a fun watch.

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Prelude

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We had been working with Microsoft pretty extensively at this point in part because we were trying to run our stuff on Windows NT 4.0 and it was horrible. We were having immense problems. We decided to throw a “Hail Mary” and upgrade to the unreleased beta of Windows 2000 Server. It worked! Our problems, which I can’t even remember now (anyone?) went away, and our sites stabilized.

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Microsoft knew about the success we had had and was looking for the scalability demo for the launch. They called us about 10 days before the launch event to see if we could do it. We sent one of our systems team out that night. When he got there, Kristian Meier called me on my mobile saying “Dude! Do you know what they want me to do?! This is awesome!” We really hadn’t had time to brief him before his flight.

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They made images, installed 500 clients, a bunch of servers, some databases and loaded it all up on trucks to drive from Redmond to San Francisco.

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Event

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Microsoft only gave us two seats on the floor for the event. Chris Tersteeg and I attended. The screen that they had MarketWatch on in the auditorium was immense. To this day I don’t think I’ve ever seen a screen projected bigger. They brought MarketWatch up live during the talk and at one point the page refresh kicked in. The whole screen went blank and Chris and I sat there with our heartbeat stopped waiting for the page to redraw. I don’t think there has ever been a more anxious page view to the site.

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There is a funny editorial aside here. The newsroom was of course covering the launch of Windows 2000 and the theme of the coverage was that it was generally a non-event. We had a headline, above the fold that morning, called “Windoze 2000 Launch” and there was a picture of a guy sleeping next to it, if I remember right. Microsoft of course called me with panic since this wouldn’t exactly be the kind of headline you would want on the screen during the launch event. I called our editor to see what we could do. He appropriately suggested that we hope something new happens to take the headline off the site, otherwise, pound sand. Luckily some new news broke!

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The demo was awesome in person. Seeing 500 client machines drive huge traffic to your code base was great. After the launch event we called it a day, rented a convertible and drove around the valley for the afternoon. We also made a stop at Fry’s to pick up some toys.

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What a great event. Thanks to everyone who made it a reality!

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Wiping my MacBook Pro hard drive clean for the next person.

\n", "date_published": "2008-05-01T13:54:17-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2008/05/01/wiping-my-macbook.html", "tags": ["Work","Apple"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2008/04/30/taking-more-stuff.html", "content_html": "

Taking more stuff home to slowly drain my personal stuff out of my office.

\n", "date_published": "2008-04-30T17:07:03-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2008/04/30/taking-more-stuff.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2008/03/25/new-york-taxis.html", "title": "New York Taxis Get Computers", "content_html": "

I seem to be on a string of complaints about screens being placed everywhere (annoying ads and zip codes. I admit that being the gadget geek I am, I’m surprised by how offensive I find these intrusions to be. This one I’m a bit divided on though. It seems that the majority of New York taxis have gotten these screens installed that give you the weather, news, location and map information and other stuff.

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Find missing image NY Taxi flickr.com/2408/2341902786_5ec8e84dc9_m.jpg.

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I find these things incredibly annoying. You get into the cab and immediately start having this thing blast at you. It’s rude. You should have to press it to activate it. Thankfully you can turn it off and I do that with vigor whenever I get into the cab.

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However, there is a great value add here since you can now charge the cab fare on your credit card. This is absolutely great. I love not having to figure out the tip and just swipe the card. In fact, on the last business trip to New York this function saved me from expensing $133.01 in cash. Great! Now if they just quit making you sign the receipts!

\n", "date_published": "2008-03-25T00:00:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2008/03/25/new-york-taxis.html", "tags": ["Travel","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2008/03/25/t776984070.html", "content_html": "

It’s annoying when sales people are so obviously trying to figure out a “tickler date” to call you back.

\n", "date_published": "2008-03-24T19:00:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2008/03/24/t776984070.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2008/03/17/finally-checking-into.html", "content_html": "\n", "date_published": "2008-03-17T19:00:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2008/03/17/finally-checking-into.html", "tags": ["Travel","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2008/03/17/t773047860.html", "content_html": "

Heading to dinner at Tamarind in New York for meeting with Sapient.

\n", "date_published": "2008-03-16T19:00:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2008/03/16/t773047860.html", "tags": ["Travel","Work","Restaurants"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2008/03/11/flashback-the-day.html", "title": "Flashback: The Day Webfront Died", "content_html": "

I’ve been cleaning up some old, old files on my machine and have run into some really fun stuff. I’ll have a few posts with some of this stuff.

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Here is a fake homepage for MarketWatch that was created by our editorial team in San Francisco on the day that webfront died. You see, in the ancient days, MarketWatch had one publishing server called webfront, and one day it died. It was never coming back and that sucked. We couldn’t publish anything. We had been working on other solutions and those got an immediate boost that day. In the matter of 24, or 36, or 48 hours – the number seems to get bigger with time – we put in place a whole new system for publishing content.

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The pictures of me sleeping on my couch and Chris in his chair were taken after an all-night slog to restore publishing. Oh, those were the days.

\n", "date_published": "2008-03-11T00:00:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2008/03/11/flashback-the-day.html", "tags": ["MarketWatch","Blogging","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2008/02/09/confluence-case-study.html", "title": "Confluence Case Study", "content_html": "\"Atlassian\n

A case study was just posted at the Atlassian website on the use of the Confluence wiki solution at work. Some nice quotes from me in it, and the story on how we’ve been using Wiki’s. It leaves out some of the longer history though. The Wiki use really started in MarketWatch long before Dow Jones bought us, and then spread when people saw how effective the technology was.

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Nice writeup though. No big errors in it like these things can have so often.

\n", "date_published": "2008-02-09T01:00:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2008/02/09/confluence-case-study.html", "tags": ["MarketWatch","Software Development","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2008/01/30/t659732902.html", "content_html": "

$8 for the MnPASS lane!? I’ll pass on that.

\n", "date_published": "2008-01-29T19:00:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2008/01/29/t659732902.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2007/12/20/dow-jones-disco.html", "title": "Dow Jones Disco Party 2007", "content_html": "\"Boogie\nOh my. Really. Wow. Absolutely fabulous!\n

That is the only way to start any post on the 2007 Dow Jones Disco Party that we had this year. This years party was a complete blast. I had given a preview of the Disco Theme in another post and people did not hold back at all in going all out.

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Great food. Amazing band, Boogie Wonderland. Disco music. Awesome people! How can you go wrong! Party along with this video!

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Every year it gets better and I really cannot imagine how next year could top this one.

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Our annual holiday party at the office is coming up this weekend. It has been a tradition for many years to have a theme. There was a black & tie year. There was a year you came as a favorite figure in history. There was even a cowboy year that didn’t go over so well. This year the theme is 70’s Disco – and Tammy and I are going all out. Here is a sneak peak!

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Get ready to boogie!

\n", "date_published": "2007-11-27T01:00:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2007/11/27/upcoming-office-holiday.html", "tags": ["Family","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2007/11/21/the-office-mens.html", "title": "The Office Men's Bathroom", "content_html": "

At our office we have a long running joke about the men’s bathroom. By long running I mean several years. There is always something wrong. Flooding. Broken knobs and handles. Atomic flushing. I’ll leave it at the pleasantries. A couple weeks ago I walked in and saw a nice note on the door to one of the stalls.

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The sign on the door reads

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STOP USING HAND TOWELS TO WIPE YOUR ARSE. THEY DON’T FLUSH!!!

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Really, it’s a privilege to work with people that can throw out an “arse”.

\n", "date_published": "2007-11-21T01:00:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2007/11/21/the-office-mens.html", "tags": ["Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2007/09/26/t295413582.html", "content_html": "

I need a ship.

\n

One of the tweets highlighted in my MarketWatch Farewell Video.

\n", "date_published": "2007-09-25T19:00:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2007/09/25/t295413582.html", "tags": ["MarketWatch","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2007/09/24/t290657212.html", "content_html": "

Sitting at my desk, sweating. Thinking about how much I hate our office space. Around 83 °F in office.

\n

One of the tweets highlighted in my MarketWatch Farewell Video.

\n", "date_published": "2007-09-23T19:00:00-05:00", "url": "https://www.thingelstad.com/2007/09/23/t290657212.html", "tags": ["MarketWatch","Work"] }, { "id": "http://jthingelstad.micro.blog/2007/09/21/t284563632.html", "content_html": "

Too hot to be sitting at a computer. Over 80 in my office.

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Getting a sales pitch on Gartner.

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Very long meeting and I’m last on the agenda. Awesome.

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Trying really hard to resist the urge to create PowerPoint slides for todays meeting.

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Reviewed business dinner menu with chef. It’s going to be great.

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Tonight, for only the second time in the 10 years or so that I’ve traveled for business, I got stranded. I was to depart New York tonight on a 6:00pm flight out of LaGuardia. I heard that storms were coming, and I was worried because my experience is that LaGuardia is a horrible airport when dealing with bad weather. Newark seems to do the best for the NY region with tough weather.

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My 6:00pm flight was delayed to 6:40pm before I even left for the aiport. On the way to the airport I got three additional delays on my Blackberry pushing it back 20 minutes each. By the time I arrived at the airport I was looking at an 7:50pm departure and other flights were being canceled. They then “delayed” my flight until 7:00am the next morning, which I found humorous since 13 hours, overnight, hardly seems like a delay. The cherry on top was when they then canceled my 7:00am “delayed” flight and rebooked everyone on regularly scheduled flights the next day.

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This was bad enough, but on top of it there are no hotel rooms in the entire city of New York. None. Seriously, I’m not kidding. No rooms. The closest I came was a $900 room at the Four Seasons that ended up getting booked while I was on the phone with the guy debating if $900 was at all sensible for a room to sleep one night in, getting up at 4:00am for an early flight out. I decided no, and the room got taken anyway.

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I planned to have a fun time with it, and head into town with no hotel room. Ya know, make lemonade and all. I know there is a Starbucks in Times Square open all night, and I figured I’d just connect there and stay up all night drinking espresso. I was seriously worried about the 2:00am to 5:00am period though. I knew I would get pretty tired.

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Then I got a voicemail from friends in New York. He’s on Twitter, and saw my flailing desperation. I had considered calling them but I was still clinging to the romance of braving New York all night. I quickly opted to take the couch in their apartment and that’s where I write this. I’m getting ready to wind down and sleep a couple hours before heading out.

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It’s amazing how much ruckus a blustery storm can bring.

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See also Stranded in New York Tweets.

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See also Stranded in New York.

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One of the tweets highlighted in my MarketWatch Farewell Video.

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I just got back home after a business trip. This trip entailed an offsite training event. At any event like this you have a couple of breaks in the morning and afternoon. These used to just be a “Break”. A decade ago when cell phones really became prevalent these turned into “Communication Breaks”. Everyone would dash out of the room and dial up their mobiles.

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The vernacular has changed! It is now “Blackberry Breaks”. I believe this now makes the ‘crackberry’ a brand like Kleenex. Even the couple of people with non-Blackberry Blackberry’s like Treos and Windows Mobile devices were enjoying their “Blackberry Break”.

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I wonder if we’ll be takin “iPhone Breaks”, or just an “iBreak”.

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Excuse me for a moment of self-promotion. 🙂 I was featured in an article published last Friday in the Twin Cities Business Journal about what Dow Jones is doing here in Minneapolis, specifically some of the R&D; work that we’ve been focused on.

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While the article suffers from some inaccuracies, for example, the entire office is not about Dow Jones Online but is instead many different divisions of Dow Jones. It seems I can never get through an interview for an article without something like that happening.

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I’m happy to get the word out. I’ve been trying to get more publicity for what we are doing in Minneapolis since far too few people understand what we are doing, and we need all the best talent we can get.

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Day 8 of the Great Adventure starts with a relatively lazy morning as we prepare to head to Washington DC for the long weekend. This week has been crazy. I had two evening business events filled with very busy schedules in the day. I mostly just got up at 6 am each day, got showered and left very early to get a head start on the day and came home well after Mazie was asleep. Mazie decided that she should just wave goodbye to me whenever she saw me. 🙁

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It rained most of the week as well so it wasn’t a first great week of the Great Adventure for anyone. Tammy and Mazie came into the office on Thursday and we all had lunch together at the company cafeteria. I showed them around the office a bit.

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I’m pretty excited to head down to DC. My mom and sister are coming out to spend the weekend with us. I’ll post some updates from DC and try to get some pictures up as well.

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Go to day: 3, 4, 8, 10, 12, 15, 16, 17, 22, 23, 24, 27, 28, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 37 or East Coast Adventure collection.

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I’m taking this week off, using up some of my remaining vacation time before it vanishes. Tammy and I are not feeling adventurous enough to go on a big trip with Mazie, so we are staying home for the week. I’ve picked a couple of projects to work on (like I need more of them!) and spending time relaxing and hanging out with Tammy and Mazie. We have some babysitting arranged so we can head out and have some outside fun as well.

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I’m feeling really pumped about what I’m working on at the office lately (read: change the world), and it’s hard to disconnect. But, I know it’s healthy and I will come back after a week with even more focus and clearer vision.

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I woke up in my New York hotel at 7:00 am this morning very tired. I didn’t get to sleep until fairly late the night before. I took my camera and a couple of lenses into Times Square to get some classic New York photos. My day didn’t start until 9:30 am so I could sleep in a bit.

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After getting cleaned up I went to get dressed. I had flown in on a Sunday night so I was very casual coming in – sandals and shorts. Great to be able to fly in casual clothes. I got up this morning to put on my business attire, black slacks and a dress shirt.

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Now, the last few months haven’t been great ones for me in regards to my weight. Let’s just use the excuse that I want to support Tammy in pregnancy. 🙂 So I’ve got a number of dress slacks that fit me, and I have a number that really do not fit. Well, as I got ready in my hotel room I put on my shirt and stepped into my slacks when sudden horror struck.

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I had brought pants that did not fit! To be clear, this wasn’t a matter of just being a little tight. Oh no, these were simply not going to fit in any way, shape or form.

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After expressing my frustration with the situation with some colorful language I realized how completely screwed I was. I had flown in wearing shorts and sandals. I had one pair of slacks that did not fit. I had 1 hour and 25 minutes before my meeting started. I seriously would have feigned illness, massive food poisoning or something, before showing up to a business meeting in shorts and sandals.

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I shut myself of the horror after about 30 seconds and went into action. I immediately put on my shorts and sandals and headed down to the front desk. The woman there told me that Macy’s opened at 8:00 am and was 8 blocks down Broadway. I ran out, literally, and grabbed a cab. I got to Macy’s, ran to the door and found them locked. They opened at 10! She had the wrong information.

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More colorful language at this point as I called back to the hotel. Things were looking very grim. The concierge told me of a place downtown, just 15 minutes on the subway that opened at 8 am. No way I would be able to make that work. I found a crappy clothing store selling super cheap junk but they had nothing that was better than what I was wearing. The concierge called a Banana Republic and they were open. As I prepared to head over there I thought about sizes. After calling them back we found they carry nothing bigger than a 38 which even at the best of times wouldn’t be for me.

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I walked back to the hotel. At this point I called Tammy and expressed my despair. Panic was in my voice with only 55 minutes until I had to be at my meeting. I got to the hotel and the concierge worked the phones. Jackpot. She found a store that had the right size and would open early for me! I checked out of the hotel and headed out with luggage in hand and 40 minutes until the meeting.

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I got to the store, ran in and grabbed a pair of dockers. Changing rooms were a time luxury I didn’t have. Dropped trou’ right in the store and put on the dockers. Fit! Great! Grabbed a new belt as well and left for my meeting with 25 minutes remaining, and a sense of calm having averted a total disaster.

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I called Tammy to let her know the situation was under control and hung my head out of the taxi window like a dog to cool off, all the running around had worked up a sweat. I felt completely like I was in the TV show The Amazing Race. I think it’s time to segment my closet better!

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It’s really hard for me to stop reading a book. Once I start I feel like I’m obligated to finish it. Usually this isn’t a problem because overall most books are worthwhile. However, sometimes I get stuck on a book. I start it, but it doesn’t catch me or it’s just not that good. As a result I just let it sit there. However, now I’ve committed to that book so I don’t get another one out. This results in a stall in my reading that can last months.

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Such is the case with Bad Leadership. Mostly I found this just to be a bad book. The pitch is fine – we should focus on bad leadership to learn how to be better leaders. That makes sense. However, the author expands a topic that should be a lengthy essay into a full book. She does so by including example after example of bad leadership. Some of these stories are interesting in their own rite, but that’s not the point of the book really.

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Anyway, I finally cleansed myself of this one. Decided it was okay to not finish it and have moved on to my next read.

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I got a great email today from someone that used to work at our company. I haven’t seen her for years, since she worked with us. We have emailed back and forth, mostly about baby stuff since she has one and we are expecting one. Anyway, her email today was telling me about her new website/business.

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Without further ado, check it out at Attached to Baby. It seems that in addition to running the business she’s also a model in a number of the pictures. 🙂 Buy some stuff!

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This is great. It’s awesome to see people putting out their own shingle and taking a chance. I hope she’s immensely successful. Now, I need to go figure out what carrier we are going to get.

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News hot off the wire! MarketWatch is being purchased by Dow Jones. Still very early. It’s great news on many fronts with lots of open questions still to be figured out.

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While I was on vacation I wanted to read a light-hearted business book. I like to have something to spin around in my head during the downtime. Death by Meeting was recommended to me and it fit the bill just right.

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First of all, this book is a business fable and some may find that really annoying. It’s a very fast read. Even though it weighs in at over 200 pages you flip through them very quickly.

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The basic premise of this is that most meetings are not worthwhile and the author suggests how to make them more productive. To cut to the chase he suggests that meetings neet to have an intent that is more defined. Ultimately coming to four types of meetings that a company or division should have on different schedules. It’s interesting and I know I have personally seem many of the problems that the author points out about existing meetings.

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I found it particularly interesting to read this after reading Agile Software Development with Scrum. I found a lot of what Scrum talks about to be more of a discussion of the dynamics of people in the workplace, and much of what Death by Meeting goes over is similar – both in problem and solution. For example, Death by Meeting suggests that teams meet every day for a 5 minute “check-in” meeting. This is identical in nature and intent to a daily Scrum meeting. Similar problems, similar solutions.

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I won’t go into great detail on the book. Like I said, it’s a quick read and if you find the topic interesting I think it’s worth reading. I may try to take some of the concepts proposed and try to bring that into our environment at MarketWatch.

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We just got done with the annual MarketWatch golf outing today. It was a great day.

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