🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-06-22

June 22, 2025

This week continues our new shortened format. Next week will be a shorter vacation edition of 🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday.

Last week

Last week, NexusTek earned two top honors 🏆🏆 at the Pax8 Beyond 2025 Partner Awards:

Peak Performance – USA 🏆
Microsoft Copilot MVP 🏆

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/managed-it-services-leader-nexustek-wins-top-honors-at-pax8-beyond-2025-302482769.html

This week

I’m going to attempt a vacation for the first time since leaving IBM in 2024.

Wish me luck! 🤓

Hot Fudge Daily Digest

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-06-16

Last week

It’s all about love and rockets… so, a bit more spicy.

This week

Quantumania!

Source: https://finance.yahoo.com/research-hub/screener/9bda6c7b-fe9e-41ca-9da9-e281a4a9889a

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-06-17

💰 + 🤖 Funding for AI-anything companies continues.

Sword Health (virtual physical therapy): $40M
Pano AI (wildfire detection): $44M.
Nabla (healthcare worker augmentation): $70M.
Coralogix (observability + security): $115M
Applied Intuition (self-driving digital twin): $600M
Helsing (defense tech): $645M

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-06-18

Each Wednesday I then select the most interesting shared link from dozens of Slack communities. This will always be a safe for work link. 🙈

https://global.honda/en/topics/2025/c_2025-06-17ceng.html

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-06-19

📡 + 💰 One story caught my eye this week was Eutelsat joining the likes of Project Kuiper.

https://www.techmeme.com/250619/p29#a250619p29

Indeed, one need only back in time to [checks notes] May 2025 for a reflection on LEO broadband expansion of alternatives that will (one day) rival Starlink.

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-06-20

🪖 + 🧑‍💻 The story that caught my eye this week was the US Army Reserve’s Detachment 201.

https://www.techmeme.com/250613/p10#a250613p10

At SXSW 2024, I attended a fireside chat on “Cyber Talent in the Era of Great Power Competition“. The talk was interesting and I took a few notes in my Obsidian.

Here’s the YouTube video:

My notes:

77% of our youth is ineligible to serve
Propensity to Serve is key.
- SCIF work is the workplace.
- Hotspots exist.
- If that exists it can now enable a unique talent for no uniform roles as part of an attractive benefits, work flexibility, competitive compensation, and retention bonuses.
- Total compensation package to go full uniform is differentiated through healthcare and savings plans for military.
As of late 2023, Constructive Service Credit expansion includes R&D (up to Colonel) to solve big challenges.
- Off ramp and on ramp paths are becoming more flexible.
- Cyber and intelligence will be drawn from industry.
- Find us and we will find a way for you to serve.
- Example: Civilian to OTS to Major is 10 years and this approach does it in 6 months.

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-06-21

Ah, the Friday news dump. By Friday, everything seems to be reaching the peak of getting news turned in before a deadline or dread-line.

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.

🤔 🤨 🧐 Just a couple that caught my technologist eye…

https://www.techmeme.com/250620/p27#a250620p27

https://www.techmeme.com/250621/p8#a250621p8

#OpenToWork Weekly

I participated in a #NeverSearchAlone #JSC after rebooting Cuthrell Consulting and joining NexusTek.

I added those #OpenToWork from my LinkedIn network to this newsletter. Over time, we’ve grown an Alumni 🎉 section for those that transitioned to their next career adventure.

Alumni 🎉

Those in my network that are #OpenToWork:

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