Thomas Ritchie

Dad, husband, marketing/comms, ex-newsie, Catholic. Hockey, cycling, outdoors, music, socials, cooking, craft beer, Macs and videography.

[Nicolas Cole 🚢👻 @Nicolascole77]

I asked 195,000 people for the best book they read in 2024.

These 14 turned up the most (so they will make for great reading over the holidays):🧵

[Thomas Ritchie @CreativeThomasR]

@goosetheband in Omaha. Great show. #livemusic

[Thomas Ritchie @CreativeThomasR]

@FrMikeSchmitZ2 I’ll be traveling to UMD this weekend for my daughter’s college visit. Looking for mass times at @BulldogCatholic Newman center. Can you help?

[Adam Wathan @adamwathan]

🎧 New Hackers Incorporated!

I've always wondered how @37signals builds new products, where there's no way the work will fit into a six-week cycle.

So I went deep with @jasonfried about the entire year-long process of building the new HEY Calendar 🗓️

https://t.co/NXQB6wcnBM

[Thomas Ritchie @CreativeThomasR]

@SDSearchlight Are they also going to pay for it?

[Thomas Ritchie @CreativeThomasR]

@HeelanPride did Heelan have issues today with the Weather text/call notification system? We didn't receive any notifications.

[Peter Yang @petergyang]

Airbnb has a blueprint of their entire customer journey on their office walls.

They then map all product, policy, and service updates to it.

More companies should do this to avoid shipping the org chart.

[Linus ✦ Ekenstam @LinusEkenstam]

Google (DeepMind) releases AI model Gemini.

There is no turning back now, we are in for one mad ride. The multi modality, and fluidity of the model is super clean.

My jaw dropped at 4:24 seconds

A thread...

[Thomas Ritchie @CreativeThomasR]

Genius. @MarkTheisen6 should check this.

[Ashwinn @Shwinnabego]

chipotle's marketing 🤌

[Thomas Ritchie @CreativeThomasR]

@TheRealRhllor @Rushthewriter take note.

[The Iowa Hawkeyes @TheIowaHawkeyes]

Senior Saturday in Kinnick 🤩

Gameday Timeline ⤵️

#Hawkeyes

[David Wessel @davidmwessel]

Goldman Sachs predicts AI will add 1.3 percentage points to global productivity growth over the next decade.

[Thomas Ritchie @CreativeThomasR]

Awesome seeing former @Musketeerhockey player @BobbyBrink19 grab his first 2 @NHL goals in a single night. #hockey

[DHH @dhh]

Skiff is a new, small tool for deploying static marketing sites using Kamal. Built on #NoBuild ideas, stone-age tools like Server Side Includes, and running with nginx. We use it to run https://t.co/viKQ8g6EgS and https://t.co/ztyykJieTg already. Enjoy! https://t.co/j7245IvtMF

[RAGBRAI @RAGBRAI_IOWA]

We are excited to present to you the 2024 RAGBRAI LI logo! RAGBRAI LI is Home Sweet Home - no matter where you're from.

https://t.co/TBpAnwJNgb

#RAGBRAI51 #RAGBRAI #RAGBRAILI

[fleetwood jack @imfleetwoodjack]

this video of Norm MacDonald’s old writing partner Jim Downey is the hardest i’ve laughed in months

[Thomas Ritchie @CreativeThomasR]

Ah now this is innovation! Love it.

[Thomas Ritchie @CreativeThomasR]

Interesting @MarkTheisen6

[Nieman Reports @NiemanReports]

Six months ago, NPR left Twitter. The numbers confirm what many of us have long suspected — that Twitter wasn’t worth the effort, at least in terms of traffic, writes @gbullard
https://t.co/C0S7TqWo5I

[Thomas Ritchie @CreativeThomasR]

The tech is really getting impressive. Great comparison of #AI image generation

[Chase Lean @chaseleantj]

A few hours ago, Adobe released Firefly 2, their new AI image generator.

But how good is it?

I compared it to Midjourney & DALL-E 3 across 10 very different image categories so you don't have to.

Here are the results:

[Thomas Ritchie @CreativeThomasR]

@PhysInHistory Clearly it’s an Irish road bowling team photo.