🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-04-20
I'm spotlighting alumni successes in my network and sharing insights from AI Infrastructure Field Day!
Reminder
This week I’ll be at AI Infrastructure Field Day 2! 🤓
https://techfieldday.com/event/aiifd2/
#OpenToWork Weekly
I believe in #NeverSearchAlone. Previously, I participated in a #JSC for a year after leaving IBM, rebooting Cuthrell Consulting, and joining NexusTek.
Since late last year, I’ve also been highlighting those in my network that are #OpenToWork by linking to their LinkedIn and quoting their LinkedIn About section. This week I’m simplifying as the About section updates were not getting updated (by me) in a timely fashion.
Week over week, the list grew until I had to add an Alumni 🎉 section this week for those that have transitioned from #OpenToWork to their next career adventure.
Alumni 🎉
Congrats Paul Lysko 🎉
Congrats Bob Lima, PMP 🎉
Congrats Rich Green 🎉
Congrats Sheri Gearhart 🎉
Congrats Shianna Maxwell 🎉
Congrats Richard Arnesen! 🎉
#OpenToWork
Those in my network that are #OpenToWork:
- Kelly Britt - Experienced Talent Acquisition Specialist
- Jarrod Weise - Strategic Partnerships & Business Development Leader
- Dan Kelleher - Program & Technical Project Manager | CSM
- Barbara Hadley, EdM, SPHR - Strategic HR Leader | Employee Engagement Expert
- Andrew Webber - Proven Leader | Consumer Product Innovation & Scaling
- Lida Tohidi - Award-Winning Product & Marketing Leader | Startup Advisor
- Nathan Clyker - Strategic Sales & Business Development | IT Solutions Expert
- Gina (Gina Minks) Rosenthal - Global Product Marketing Manager | Technical Content Strategist
- Janel Van Beek - Business Strategist & Master Coach | Leadership & Change Expert
- Greg Phillips - Cloud Platform & Strategic Marketing Leader
- Tamera Rousseau King - Technical Program Manager | Agile Product Owner | People Leader
- Ricardo Perez - Virtualization Architect | PowerFlex & VxRail Specialist
- Mike Berteletti, CISSP - Experienced IT Professional | Infrastructure & Security
- Chris Mojica - Technical Sales & Solutions Architect
- Matthew Leib - Datacenter, Cloud & Storage Architect | Technical Writer & Analyst
- Michael Joffe - Global Technology Leader | P&L Management | SaaS & OEM
- Colleen Coll - Event Technology & Digital Media Specialist | Live Reporting
- Karl Edwards, PMP - Technical Program Manager | Network Strategy | Telecom & Tech
- Thomas Chatham - Engineering Leader | SaaS & Converged Infrastructure
- Sam Aiello, Ph.D. - Cybersecurity & Technology Strategist | Pre-Sales Leadership
Hot Fudge Daily Digest
📈 Markets Monday for 2025-04-14
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:
Spicy Level 19!
This week:
No spicy
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 2025-04-15
Two hot takes on funding on Tuesday.
🦺 + 💰 This proves that there is some money in AI safety and security.
https://www.techmeme.com/250415/p14#a250415p14
🤔 + 💰 Or, this means fewer but bigger AI related cloud bills are coming.
https://www.techmeme.com/250415/p41#a250415p41
🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-04-16
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.youtube.com/watch?v=lzPoG9H8Hlo
https://www.instagram.com/ellecordova/reel/DFVjBa5v6wz/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6NkgMqN42E
🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-04-17
The market for annotation of data has a fascinating history. And annotation might be increasingly niche with each passing year.
https://www.techmeme.com/250417/p7#a250417p7
For perspective, consider the rise of the most visible format for annotation of data that you’ve probably done thousands of times at this point — Google reCAPTCHA.
It has also been 20 years since the launch of Amazon Mechanical Turk.
✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-04-18
🤖 + 💰 The story that caught my eye this week was Hammerspace taking $100M.
https://www.techmeme.com/250416/p21#a250416p21
🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-04-19
Ah, the Friday news dump. Let’s see the memes!
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.
Insert Let’s See Who This Really Is Meme
https://www.techmeme.com/250418/p5#a250418p5
Insert Ceiling Cat Meme
https://www.techmeme.com/250418/p10#a250418p10
Insert We’re All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Meme
https://www.techmeme.com/250418/p3#a250418p3
Insert That Wasn’t Me, That Was Patricia Meme
https://www.techmeme.com/250418/p14#a250418p14
Insert Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Meme
https://www.techmeme.com/250418/p6#a250418p6
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