Curious Experts with Diana Kander
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.
She emphasized focusing on big questions when looking at “things to do”.
- 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.
- How would you rank the importance of this, 1-10? Get rid of the good to focus on the great.
- Is this a zombie? Zombies are tasks that just exist out of inertia. How would we know if it is a zombie?
- How could we reimagine this?
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!
POAP 6989234 at I stopped by the Tech Lab at SKO.
I was using the Internet Archive Wayback Machine and stumbled on the Changes feature. It took a while for the visualization to populate but it is a cool way to see the rate of changes on your blog. I’m a happy supporter of Internet Archive.
I had a great first day of #TeamSPS Sales Kickoff 2024! So much energy and excitement in the room.
A warm welcome to the newest slate of Minnestar board members: Kathryn Frengs, Tim Herby, Muneeb B. Hafeez, Kevin Jansen, Robert Tomb, Matt Decuir, and Valerie Lockhart. I continue to be a big fan of Minnestar and their mission to catalyze the Twin Cities technology community.
Backed Project Tapestry from Iconfactory
Iconfactory launched a Kickstarter campaign for Project Tapestry today. Iconfactory is a great company that has built some of the most delightful experiences (Linea, Frenzic, Twitterific). Tapestry intends to be an open “timeline” of content from a variety of services. I’m intrigued because of the focus on open systems and the world-class skills of Iconfactory. Backed!
Today Buttondown released a new comments feature! I’ve turned this on for the Weekly Thing — it is something I’ve wanted to try for a while. You can leave comments on any issue in the archive.
Online Handle
Jim Nielsen’s Online Handles blog post caught my eye. I figured I would share too.
Recently I started using jthingelstad just for clarity. However, decades prior I always went by thingles, which was my very first Unix account username at the U of MN. It was just my last name truncated to eight characters, but the list had misspelled and transposed the e and l in my name.
I embraced it, but it aggravated even more the most common misspelling of my name.
Trying a Roomba for the first time and have it on a mapping run. I find myself talking to it:
“No, don’t go there.”
“Avoid that shag rug! You got stuck there before.”
“Nice job on that turn.”