Minneapolis Downtown Council 2024 Annual Meeting
I got to attend the 2024 Minneapolis Downtown Council annual meeting today at the Armory. Our own Karin Lucas chairs the board and addressed the crowd. Amelia Santaniello emceed the event, with special appearances from Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.
There were many, many statistics shared about all the great things going on in downtown. It did seem like there was a lot of development going on. There is also a strong focus on safety and law enforcement. It was cool to see that SPS Commerce is the 9th largest employer with 1,465 people, up one spot from 2023 when we were 10th with 1,346.
See also: 2023 Meeting; 2020 Event, 2020 Music, and 2020 Speakers.
Ordered a Magic Keyboard to pair with the Apple Vision Pro so I can dive into more of the productivity use cases.
I wanted to celebrate getting my Apple Vision Pro and what better way than with a POAP! I’m sharing this POAP with anyone that demos it with me and experiences Spatial Computing — likely for the first time! I’m attaching POAP Moments to this event, and see on POAP Family.
POAP 6991680 at You Experienced Spatial Computing.
You can drink a coffee while using the Vision Pro, but you may need to tip your head back so the coffee mug doesn’t get blocked by the Vision Pro.
Tammy and I had a great night seeing Words & Music by Dan Wilson at the Woman’s Club of Minneapolis. He was joined my John Munson for a few Semisonic songs. The rest of the night he shared stories of various writing sessions and sang the songs that came from them. Laamar opened the night. It was great. 🎶
First experience in Spatial Computing. 🤩
At the Apple Store picking up my Apple Vision Pro!
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.
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?
