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Learnings from Minnesota
I spent about 48 hours in Minnesota this past week. Don’t ask why 
Anyway, you gotta learn something right?
- Minneapolis is a real city with big buildings and everything. I don’t know why I was imaging something different, but I was. It’s actually pretty cool.
- Apparently, there’s a super cool sculpture garden. Unfortunately, shopping at Mall of America was way more important and time just ran out. Oh well, I’ll have to go back to see the giant cherry on a spoon.
- Mall of America really is all it’s cracked up to be. I even got my picture taken with Santa Claus.
- 60 degrees is not cold. I promise not to complain about the Las Vegas “cold”… at least for a few days.
- I went partly for work. Holy crap, there’s a ton of ad agencies that have offices in Minneapolis. I’m still befuddled by that one.
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>>there’s a ton of ad agencies that have offices in Minneapolis.I’m still befuddled by that one.
Really? Check out the list of cities w/Fortune500 headquarters and Minneapolis does pretty well (3M, Target, General Mills, Best Buy), plus tons of Med tech (Boston Scientific, Medtronic) and lots of other large private companies that you’ve never heard of. For a while, Minneapolis was a crucial commercial area for the upper midwest. Might seems strange when you think of the internet, but in the old days, it was good to have the creatives close to the clients.
Yes, yes, I’m surprised by that one too. I guess it goes back to my thoughts that MN wasn’t a “real” city.