Jamie Thingelstad

I purchased nnxyz abstract #0000 which comes with all 50 of the abstract collection. This is the fourth nnxyz collection that I have now. 🤩

I had a good time learning new topics and connecting with other technology leaders at the MnTech Tech Connect event today.

My sessions:

• Technological Disruption: A Futurist’s Perspective with Matt Versaggi
• Exploring OpenAI: Practical Applications for Real-World Problem Solving with Nick Kwicien
• The Art of Personalization wtih AI/ML: Optimizing Conversion by Showing Customers What They Want with Matt Yates and Max Lindquist
• Empowering Our Future Through Science with Dr. Jayshree Seth
• Cybersecurity State of the Union 2023 with Aaron Warner
• The Future Fit Digital Organization: What Does the Data Say? with Charles Betz
• Driving Business Success Through Innovation and Technology panel with Steve Arsenault, David Bingenheimer, David Black, Chris Chapman, and Julie Durham facilitated by Jeff Tollefson

A thesis I’ve pondered for years and won’t go away…

The real “threat” to capitalism isn’t socialism or communism. The thing that may break capitalism is technology.

Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world. — Archimedes

Technology is leverage. Technology allows a small number of people to create immense output. The potential present in AI will allow new kinds of output that were never before possible, in some cases with no people at all. Technology has brought efficiency improvements for as long as it has existed, and we should assume that will continue.

With so much leverage the labor market fails. There is no market to exchange your abilities for. There may be no buyer for human capacity. It isn’t a question of retraining if there isn’t anything to train to.

Got a pair of Lowa Renegade GTX Mid hiking boots to get ready for our hiking trip in Switzerland this summer. Excited to get these on the trail!

No rain!

• Work meeting in hotel.
• Ole & Steen for breakfast.
• Explore Bryant Park.
• Visit NY Public Library.
• Blue Bottle coffee.
• Return to Ole & Steen.
• Return to Angelina.
• Return to hotel.
• Car to Newark Airport.
• Flight DL2589 to Minneapolis.

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We explored the New York Public Library and were blown away by the amazing architecture and special collection. Theoretically they have books too, but not sure where those are. 📚

Our final morning in New York and it is not raining for the first time since Friday night! We get to venture out without rain jackets and umbrellas and enjoy Bryant Park!

Rained all day.
18,065 steps.

• Yummy Liberty Bagels.
• Walked to B&H..
• Ducked into Whole Foods to escape rain, got hot chocolate.
• Walked to High Line.
• Departed High Line for Chelsea Market.
• Explored Chelsea Market, including cheeseburger and book store.
• Stop at Apple Store 14th Street.
• Walked in rain to take R to 28th Street.
• Walk to the flagship Milk Bar store.
• Take R train to City Hall.
• Walk to Regal Theater in Battery Park.
• Go to a movie!
• Dinner at El Vez.
• 4 Train to 42nd Street.
• Escape room at Escape the Room.
• Walk back to the hotel.

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We successfully escaped from the Playground room at The Escape Game in New York! It was a fun room with a wide variety of puzzles to solve. It took a while for us to get momentum, but with some time (and some clues) we got going and escaped with exactly 1 minute on the clock!

Full list of escape rooms.

Seeking some respite from the constant rain we decided to see Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. at the Regal Cinemas in Battery Park. It turns out in Manhattan movie theaters go up several floors. Tammy had fond memories of reading this book, and the movie was really good too.

Walking the High Line is now a tradition for any trip to New York. We hoped to find a break in the rain to make the walk but no break was to be found. We ended up getting off the path at Chelsea Market to explore and have lunch.

Other times on the High Line: 2012, 2018, 2023 (Tyler and I), 2023 (Tammy and I), and 2023 (Family).

New York Bagels at Liberty Bagels in Midtown! 🥯

Rained all day.
17,823 steps.

• Kids got Dad coffee.
• Angelina for snack.
• Took F train to Brooklyn.
• Brunch with Greg and Annique at Frankies.
• Took F train to York.
• Walk to Brooklyn Bridge.
• Walk across boardwalk on Brooklyn bridge and got super wet.
• Took R train and accidentally needed up at MOMA Store, not MOMA?
• Took train to actual MOMA.
• Discovered largest line ever waiting for MOMA.
• Everyone in NY inside MOMA hiding from rain.
• Return to Hotel to change into dry clothes.
• Attempted Joe’s Pizza, line too long.
• Attempted Los Tacos, line too long.
• Went to Harry Potter.
• Returned to Joes Pizza for late night slices.
• Went to CVS and bought newspapers to stuff into wet shoes.
• Walked back to hotel.

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How about a few giant slices of pizza at nearly midnight? Sure!

What do you do when you visit the Museum of Modern Art? Well for many it seems that you navigate your way to Van Gogh’s Starry Night and take a picture of it in a fairly unhelpful mass of people.

I wonder, how many gigabytes of photos are taken of Starry Night each day?

What to do when you want to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge but it’s raining? Go anyway. We were really wet by the time we got to the other side. Shoes squishing with water wet. Was it worth it? Probably. ☔️

We took the F Train to Brooklyn and had an awesome brunch with Greg and his family. Greg and I met as freshman roommates at the University of Minnesota and became fast friends. It was the first time we were able to get our entire families together, and first I had seen him since 2018.