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November 20, 2025 Jamie Thingelstad

Selfie with Joel Crandall, CEO of MnTech, moments before we kick off the very first MnTech Elevate event!

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November 18, 2025 Jamie Thingelstad

Paragraph has now merged with Mirror and I decided to set up cross-posting to give it a try. Paragraph will pull posts from my RSS feed to show on my publication there as well.

November 17, 2025 Jamie Thingelstad

Farewell Ponder and Weekly Thing Forum

In September 2023, I introduced the Weekly Thing Forum with the hope of creating a space for readers of the Weekly Thing to connect with each other and continue topics that may have started in the Weekly Thing. The Forum itself is hosted on Ponder, which aligns closely with the …

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November 17, 2025 Jamie Thingelstad

Burning this many wooden wick candles at once is actually pretty noisy — so much crackle! 😮

Dozen lit wooden wick candles of various sizes arranged on a round dark tray on a coffee table, surrounded by books and glasses.
November 16, 2025 Jamie Thingelstad

Gall’s Law

I was listening to The Omni Show — How Jorge Arango Uses OmniFocus. It was an overall good episode and at the end Arango shared a reference to Gall’s Law. I had not heard of this before so I looked it up: A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a …

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November 16, 2025 Jamie Thingelstad

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November 16, 2025 Jamie Thingelstad

Things 4 Good Five Year Impact

We’ve now done our Things 4 Good Candle Fundraiser for five years. With the amazing support of this community we have raised $31,787 for non-profits! Thank you so much. This year was an incredible jump from last year selling 321 candles! ❤️ Last year we did the first day of the …

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November 16, 2025 Jamie Thingelstad

Things 4 Good 2025 Candle Fundraiser Insights

We have wrapped up the 5th annual Candle Fundraiser. I’m proud to say that we raised $9,048 in donations! That is a $2,000 jump (29.1%) from last year’s results. Amazing! Last year we made 252 candles and we sold out on Sunday. This year we sold 321 candles and only had 10 …

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November 16, 2025 Jamie Thingelstad

Things 4 Good 2025 Candle Fundraiser Results

We completed our annual candle sale raising $9,048 for the four organizations we picked! That is a 29.1% increase from 2024, topping the growth of previous years at 21.8, 9.7, and 10.3%. A huge thank you to the 73 folks from this community who made this possible by purchasing a …

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November 16, 2025 Jamie Thingelstad

POAP 7496955 at Farewell Ponder.

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