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The tulips are blooming and looking amazing at the Arboretum.

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Finished 2.34 mile walk in 50 minutes (21.37 min/mile). Walked around a new lake when visiting Quinn’s new apartment. Nice apartment and nice lake! 🚶‍♂️

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Happy Star Wars Day — May the 4th be with you!

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Me and my cousin Quinn wrapping up a great day at Minnebar 19 — it was my 19th Minnebar and his 1st! Related, I’m the oldest of the cousins and he is the youngest, with 13 more between us.

Two smiling men posing for a selfie inside a convention center, one wearing a name tag reading Quinn Chrest at Minnebar.
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I love the passion and excitement that people bring to the Mega-Minne-Multi-Indie-Mini Arcade at Minnebar.

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Garrick van Buren, Jim Bernard, and I after his Minimal Viable Polka session at Minnebar 19. I feel very confident that this is the first accordion experience at Minnebar — and it was a great time!

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

Group of about a dozen smiling people posing together in front of a Thanks for Joining Us event banner at Minnebar19.
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Stats on Minnebar 19:

  • Largest minnebar ever
  • 167 sessions
  • Over 2,000 registered attendees

Wow! 😮

Super strong kickoff to Minnebar — one of the best I can recall. Great energy, logistics well orchestrated, materials very well done. Amazing. 👏👏👏

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Hey #Minnebar19 attendees — you can get your awesome Minnebar 19 POAP by tapping your phone on the “NFC discs” at the t-shirt table, newbie desk, or by the main stage!

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A reasonable mental model for X.com is as Elon Musk’s personal blog, with commenting enabled.

It is no more a “platform” than a casino is a park.