Thinking about making a crypto themed Wicky Thing Candle that you can only purchase via a L2 crypto network: Bitcoin Lightning, Gnosis, Arbitrum, Optimism, or Polygon. 🤩🤣🤓
Finally figured out Bitcoin Lightning transactions. Ready to use Lightning at Bitcoin Miami. Want to try? Send some Sats to sinfuljam38@walletofsatoshi.com (no longer used) or jthingelstad@strike.me. ⚡️
I applaud the Gnosis Chain Weekly moving to Ghost from Substack. 👏
Crypto and web3 projects oddly decide to have this extreme reliance on the most centralized platforms the Internet has — Twitter and Substack. Meanwhile we have perfectly good, open, censorship resistance methods like email and RSS sitting unused.
RSS should be widely adopted in Web3.
The first attempt to keep the squirrels out of these snacks we leave at the door failed in a single day. 😬🐿️
I claimed my ENS 6th Anniversary POAP for: thingelstad.eth, weeklything.eth, 0xjjt.eth, and magicpines.eth. Unfortunately I don’t have avatar records set for all my ENS domains. Get yours at the ENS Anniversary site.
Learning is to your mind,
as moving is to your body.
Both are key to thriving.
Tyler got to perform as part of the MN Statewide Honors Choir today. It was a lot of work but he enjoyed being part of it and the perfermance was great.
Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal’s Largest Software Development Firms in the Twin Cities ranked by software developers.
Ethereum gas prices have been very high and sustained for a week now. This seems like the highest since the merge and the crazy highs of 2020. 🤔 I would like to upgrade all my ENS domains to the v3 wrapper but not at 100+ gwei!
Thanks to an invite from Hector, I was able to join the Economic Club of Minnesota luncheon today with James Bullard, the President & CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis in discussion with Neel Kashkari, President & CEO of the Minneapolis Fed.
Tammy and I had a fun evening at Constellation Fund Bright Night event at the Fillmore. Constellations data driven approach to philanthropy and working to reduce poverty in the Twin Cities is a mission and method that resonates with me.
I purchased nnxyz abstract #0000 which comes with all 50 of the abstract collection. This is the fourth nnxyz collection that I have now. 🤩
MnTech Tech Connect 2023
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!
Tammy's NYC Birthday Trip Day 4
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.
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!
Tammy's NYC Birthday Trip Day 3
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.