Weekly Thing #146 / Stoics, Lockdown, MnTech, Learning a Language
Raspberry Pi HQ Camera, skin in the game, hard part of learning a language, remote meetings, board games quarantine, Minnestar at fifteen.
Weekly Thing #145 / Permanent, Coronavirus, Zoom Fatigue
Zoom fatigue theory, effective reproduction number, silently killing coronavirus patients, 36000 missing deaths, reopen domain surge, SaaS efficient growth.
Weekly Thing #144 / Contact Tracing, Stockdale Paradox, John Prine, Goat 2 Meeting
COVID-19 tracing tool, Zoom brand, John Conway dies, iPhone SE, NextDNS, Stockdale Paradox, cold-brew coffee chemistry, COBOL training.
Weekly Thing #143 / Archetypes, Wear a Mask, Zoom
Zoom encryption flaws, wear a mask, reopen the nation, COBOL falling apart, Bill Gates vaccine factories, John Prine dead at 73, Tesla ventilator.
Weekly Thing #142 / Signaling, Zoom, Bill Gates, Decision Journal
Bill Gates coronavirus response, corporate socialism, government bailouts, signaling as a service, bailing out investors, managers not you.
Weekly Thing #141 / We provided 147,360 meals for those in need!
COVID-19 grief, coronavirus treatments, iPad cursor, iOS 13.4, Amazon delivery delays, Netflix relief fund, hammer and dance.
Special Thing #140 / Matching Donations to Second Harvest!
I’m Jamie Thingelstad, and this is a Special Thing! This is a never-before-done middle-of-the-week short email for Weekly Thing subscribers to encourage...
Weekly Thing #140 / Conversations, Leadership, Remote, iPad
iPad Pro trackpad, new keyboard cover, flatten the curve, pandemic history, managing remotely, skill stacking, virus startup strategy.
Weekly Thing #139 / Control, Energy
Brave Browser, Facebook's negative impact, Things Apple Watch app, history of the URL, low carb diet brain effects, brain's nightly rinse cycle.
Weekly Thing #138 / Covid-19, Credibility, Clearview AI, Hair Freezing
Clearview AI facial recognition, stopping Facebook, First Amendment social media, OmniFocus floating time zones, Ulysses writing assistant.
Weekly Thing #137 / Let's Encrypt, Fraidycat, Metagame, Real-Flame what?
Let's Encrypt billion certificates, Text Renaissance, Unread 2, DIY license plate reader, GitHub for data, Tim Berners-Lee Solid, AirTags waterproof.
Weekly Thing #136 / Wikipedia, Side Quest, Latency, Signal
Wikipedia, Wikimedia, DJI Mavic Mini, Susan Fowler and Uber, intermittent fasting, Signal secure messaging, YETI V Series cooler.
Weekly Thing #135 / Spy Emails, Engineering Strategy, True Fans
Hundred-Year Marathon, engineering strategy, mailing list spying, single .txt file, 100 True Fans, Voyager 2 online, Brandi Carlile.
Weekly Thing #134 / Platform & Product, Corporate Athlete, Mindfulness
Platform-product fit, corporate athlete, full engagement, Amazon Dating, smart notes, paid membership, iOS 13.4, LEGO Masters, Luminary Loppet, mindfulness.
Weekly Thing #133 / Clayton Christensen, iPad at 10, Ukraine, Nintendo Switch, Apple Map Expansion
Developer coefficient, global GDP impact, women in tech, Nintendo Switch sales, Apple Maps expansion, Tetris 99, sign stealing scandal.
Weekly Thing #132 / Backdoors, Espresso, Technical Debt, Coaching, Studio Ghibli
Backdoors and golden keys, Phil Zimmerman, Clipper chip, brewing better espresso, technical debt Tetris, GraphQL vs REST, MindNode 7.0.
Weekly Thing #131 / GoatCounter, Hobbies, AR, Leadership, Ring
Ring firing employees, Marie Kondo minimalism, AR supremacy, Roam usage, first 90 days CTO, GTD weekly review, mind maps, Apache Pulsar.
Weekly Thing #130 / Dec 14, 2019
TikTok privacy analysis, Ring's surveillance network, disaster.radio, Lightroom SD card importing, JSON-LD introduction, election news chaos.
Weekly Thing #129 / Dec 7, 2019
Guido van Rossum on Python, pronouncing Kiev, Ring surveillance company, roleplaying difficult conversations, Amazon HTTP APIs, anonymous email forwarding.
Weekly Thing #128 / Nov 30, 2019
Sacha Baron Cohen on Facebook, Contract for the Web, onboarding new hires, developing engineers, WeWork fall, home delivery habit.
