🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2024-12-15

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https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jaycuthrell_gartner-activity-7272029637310926848-D25n?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

✈️ 🌵 🤓 Last week I represented NexusTek in Las Vegas for Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies (IOCS) Conference. I captured a few notes using the official conference app — which was limited to text only with no hashtags — and I opted for LinkedIn vs. Mastodon and Bluesky. My end of week KoMex mini-trip was a success! 🇰🇷🇲🇽🌯

LinkedIn #OpenToWork Weekly

Per our reader survey, each week, I’m going to be highlighting a newsletter community reader that is #OpenToWork.

This week I’m highlighting Rich Green.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rich-green-5304804_opentowork-activity-7254266936497168384-81x7?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

More about Rich Green:

I am an seasoned technology and sales professional who has worked in both pre-sales and post-sales roles and in Customer Operations roles over my career. I am a self starter who works well both independently and in a team environment. I have been successful at every step of my career - whether it was helping launch the Iridium Satellite System while at Motorola SATCOM or taking a startup Internet Service Provider (softAware) to the next level to be acquired or selling into Enterprise, SMB, and SLED customers at Hughes, EMC, Brocade, Broadcom and Faction. I feel that I am an asset to any organization that I join. I am willing to relocate for the right opportunity.

Specialties: Sales Engineering, Solution Engineering, SAN, LAN, Storage, Technical Sales, Account Management

Source: Rich Green on LinkedIn
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📈 Markets Monday for 2024-12-09

As a reminder, this is an end of day snapshot…

Quick Recap

For Market Monday, I continue to look at the same key indicator that I take from a simple Yahoo Finance webpage each week. It’s how I look at things through the lens of the closing bell on Monday.

Last week…

Still many green things
Many green things

This week…

Not as many green things
Not as many green things

Previously, I decided on a view from Yahoo Finance. For example, this was a view of intraday in Technology which usually gets around a dozen or so interesting companies when the market is moving and a smaller handful of companies when the market is not moving as much.

If you are using Yahoo Applied Filters for Stocks screener you can bookmark your own heat map view.

  • % Change in Price (Intraday):greater than 4

  • Region: United States

  • Market Cap (Intraday): Mid Cap and Large Cap and Mega Cap

  • Price (Intraday):greater than or equal 5

  • Volume:greater than 15000

  • Sector: Technology

  • Industry: Software—Infrastructure and Information Technology Services and Computer Hardware and Software—Application and Communication Equipment and Electronics & Computer Distribution and Consumer Electronics and Electronic Components and Scientific & Technical Instruments and Semiconductor Equipment & Materials and Semiconductors

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2024-12-10

Two hot takes on two stories that caught my eye on Tuesday.

💰 + 🇫🇷 Again, if you aren’t investing in France then you aren’t taking advantage of unique IP protections — and this time, $48M worth of reasons to consider quantum computing has entered the chat.

https://www.techmeme.com/241210/p9#a241210p9

💰 + 💁 If you had told me there would be $40M seed round for detecting sassy responses… I’d assume you were funding a dystopian trope.

https://www.techmeme.com/241209/p17#a241209p17

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2024-12-11

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://www.foodandwine.com/nomu-mayo-drinkable-mayonnaise-8757564

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2024-12-12

Here in the US, a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) is a fairly recent part of our telecom history.

~20 years ago, there was a Google Phone and a Yahoo! Phone and even a Disney Phone.

And now… a recent $73M Series-B is making it even easier for MVNO ambitions to be set in motion.

https://www.techmeme.com/241212/p28#a241212p28

You get a mobile phone network!

And you get a mobile phone network!

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✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2024-12-13

The tech news story that caught my eye this week was Microsoft claiming next-generation closed-loop cooling data center designs will consume zero water.

https://www.techmeme.com/241210/p4#a241210p4

For example, when you hear statistics such as AI queries use up a bottle of water per prompt, widening adoption of this Microsoft design could mean AI data centers become less thirsty.

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2024-12-14

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/241214/p15#a241214p15

Insert Ceiling Cat Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/241214/p19#a241214p19

Insert We're All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/241213/p11#a241213p11

Insert That Wasn't Me, That Was Patricia Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/241213/p14#a241213p14

Insert Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/241213/p12#a241213p12


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