Jamie Thingelstad

Waited until it was cold enough before swapping this light out. New light should prohibit access by hornets attempting to build nests again.

First time playing Upwords. Sort of like Scrabble with stacking tiles. Fun but got hard and took a long time to play. Tammy was the winner by a long ways. Mazie and I traded places due to unplayed tiles.

Tammy: 235 → 225
Jamie: 141 → 136
Mazie: 147 → 132
Tyler: 130 → 120

This morning Weekly Thing 300 went out and a couple hours later my cellphone rang. It was Rajiv Pant calling out of the blue to congratulate me on the milestone. That was so great. Not a text. Not an email. A real telephone call from someone I haven’t talked to in many years. Thanks Rajiv! 🙏

The business of social media is the business of addiction.

These are the tobacco companies of our time.

At some point in the future…

We’ll learn how they knew all along their product was bad for us.

Eventually society will shun it as a bad habit.

I have scheduled Weekly Thing 300 to go out tomorrow morning! This project that I started in June 2017 cause I wanted to play with a newsletter is now the most widely read thing I create. 🤯

I’m continuing to experiment by announcing a membership program to support a digital non-profit. 😊

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

A nice evening for a movie so we watched IF.

I voted on October 17 via mail and thanks to the impressively well run Minnesota voting system I can confirm my ballot was accepted by the election board to be counted today. 🇺🇸🗳️☑️