🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2024-11-17
This week highlights market milestones, tech updates, quirky links, and travel innovations!
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I’ve been traveling for ~3 weeks, working with clients, refining my everyday carry co-working setup, and will have some more news to share in my next update.
📈 Markets Monday for 2024-11-11
New Recap
For Market Monday, I must acknowledge the moment. Yes, this week saw the Dow reach 44K and the S&P 500 reach 6K while NASDAQ is still around 19K but will likely be flirting with 20K.
As the old saying goes about eggs in a basket…
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=PUbY#
🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2024-11-12
Two hot takes on the two stories caught my eye on Tuesday.
💰 + ☁️ During All Things Open conference in Raleigh, I had a chance to speak with the LocalStack team… congrats!
https://www.techmeme.com/241112/p17#a241112p17
💸 + ☁️ Not just one but two (2!) cloud fiscal responsibility (aka FinOps) investments across ScaleOps and PointFive!
https://www.techmeme.com/241112/p15#a241112p15
https://www.techmeme.com/241112/p34#a241112p34
🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2024-11-13
Each Wednesday I go through dozens of Slack communities.
I then select the most interesting shared links.
This will always be a safe for work list. 🙈
https://youtube.com/shorts/ijxyhIKcX5w?si=Dv-7MeHqYEluFAfd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1J3NLNWAPU?si=YyRinOiM4_nP9mGX
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atcqMWqB3hw?si=RpMxtbCYKnnCnkq6
🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2024-11-14
Back in 2008, the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) certification was meant to help untangle the growing number of cables required to connect various consumer digital devices. Then, a few years later, Apple had released AirDrop.
By 2014, “Kiss Connectivity” was envisioned as an end to the need for the various cables needed to connect devices for basic file transfers. Next, less than 4 years ago, Google Android responded with Nearby Share.
Today, the cable hassle can be the cloud hassle of having to upload a file over a network to a public cloud target just so another device can download from that public cloud target. However, there are a few more options that focus on cloud hassle free simplicity such as ShareIt which relies on ad hoc Wi-Fi hotspot creation and LiveDrop which leverages innovations in computer vision.
https://www.techmeme.com/230523/p9#a230523p9
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZSZt32JWvg
✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2024-11-15
This week, the top stories that caught my eye revolved around coming enhancements to technologies that might lower travel anxiety and simplify hybrid work.
- Checking your bags and tracking them
- Ground transportation without humans to and from the office
- Getting meals at your hotel or office
- Google Maps and Waze convergence if you have drive or get a rental car
- Enabling easier flexible workplace and co-working access
🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2024-11-16
By Friday, everything seems to be reaching the peak of getting news turned in before a deadline or dread-line. It sometimes seems like we reach a fever pitch in news coverage throughout the week.
Peak 🏔️ vs. Peek 👀
Then there is a trope, cliché, or bromide about slow news days and the quietly mentioned news updates sent on a Friday — to try and sneak it past wider coverage. Or, in a nutshell, peak patronizing publishing.
In that spirit, here are a few stories that you might have missed on the slow news of a Friday.
Insert Let’s See Who This Really Is Meme
https://www.techmeme.com/241116/p6#a241116p6
Insert Ceiling Cat Meme
https://www.techmeme.com/241115/p23#a241115p23
Insert We’re All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Meme
https://www.techmeme.com/241116/p1#a241116p1
Insert That Wasn’t Me, That Was Patricia Meme
https://www.techmeme.com/241115/p3#a241115p3
Insert Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Meme
https://www.techmeme.com/241115/p17#a241115p17
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