Soundtrack for today is the Big Sur playlist Tammy and I creating on one of the most amazing days of the Summer of Love.
It’s Big Green Egg time! Waiting for Mike Rock to arrive before opening the Indeed Brewing.
OmniFocus is not a bug tracker! Use bug trackers for issues. Don’t put them in OmniFocus, it clutters your GTD system with a lot of noise.
Ridiculously good Myrcenary Double IPA from Odell Brewing! Thanks Andy! 🍺
CTO = Culture. Technology. Operations.
This is a guide for CTOs and other technology managers responsible for a software engineering organization. The purpose of this checklist is to help the CTO cover the areas of culture, technology and operations in their teams. It is presented in the form of a memo to direct reports.
I’ve got a ton of respect for Rajiv and anyone in a technology leadership role should read this whole article.
Gorgeous Minnesota summer evening.

Neighborhood Badminton. 🏸

Awesome, and true.
If you're too busy to have a weekly review, you really need to have a weekly review.
— John Arundel (@bitfield) May 23, 2014
Tried to get the new WikiApiary Celery bots live tonight but “daemonizing” celeryd got the best of me for tonight.
At Nomad Pub Minneapolis for Burroughs Bocce Cup! Bocce is no Kubb, but still lots of fun. I wonder if PlanetBocce.com is available. 🙂
New Glarus’ Wisconsin Belgian Red is so good. 🍺
Want to live down the street from me? Nice S Mpls home for sale!
Started day with CaringBridge board meeting. Great organization and great people! Thanks Sona Mehring and team!
Looking forward to CIO luncheon today hosted by Genesys Works Twin Cities
Forgot my iPad at home today. Feel like I forgot to put on pants before I came to work.
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
The Oatmeal did a great two-piece part on What it’s like to own a Tesla Model-S (and part 2).
☕️ Delightful afternoon espresso.
Mothers Day dinner prep starting. 4 lbs of yum. Big Green Egg starting.
Big Green Egg.
See ya in a couple hours. Prime rib on Big Green Egg.
Spent most of evening after kids were in bed doing digital weeding.