🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-09-14

September 14, 2025

Last Week

I migrated from Mastodon and decided on GoToSocial. It was pretty smooth but it is still early days for the Fediverse. Also, Jason Pullo at ESP, a NexusTek company shared insights on the top cybersecurity challenges in Hospitality.

https://www.nexustek.com/insights/cybersecurity-challenges-in-hospitality

This Week

Work travel this week!

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-09-08

And my screener gets a bit closer…

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-09-09

💰 + 🤖 Funding for AI-anything companies continues.

• Motion (AI agents for SMBs): $38M
• DataCrunch (European AI cloud hyperscaler): $59M
• Cognition (AI coding tool): $400M
• Reflection AI (AI coding tools): $1B
• Mistral (French AI champion): $1.8B

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-09-10

Sometimes the videos are not wacky or whimsical but they are… just… wonderful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfUEstWJUkA

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-09-11

Today means many different things for many different people.

A post on governing by AI vs. governing of AI, caught my eye.

https://www.techmeme.com/250911/p25#a250911p25

Notable headlines in recent years are interesting to consider.

2024

https://www.techmeme.com/240919/p7#a240919p7

2023

https://www.techmeme.com/231212/p23#a231212p23

2022

https://www.techmeme.com/221004/p14#a221004p14

2021

https://www.techmeme.com/210825/p32#a210825p32

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-09-12

I think the biggest story this week was Oracle’s $300B win.

https://www.techmeme.com/250910/p43#a250910p43

That’s a lot of power. Twinkie for scale.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzaQjS1JstY

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-09-13

One article squeaked into Friday news coverage that caught my eye.

I guess we’ll just have to wait a little while longer before we can embrace our new robot overlords.

https://www.techmeme.com/250912/p3#a250912p3

#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 🎉

• Congrats Sam Aiello 🎉
• Congrats Nathan Clyker 🎉
• Congrats Kelly Britt 🎉
• Congrats Tamera Rousseau King 🎉
• Congrats Thomas Chatham 🎉
• Congrats Dan Kelleher 🎉
• Congrats Jarrod Weise 🎉
• Congrats Karl Edwards 🎉
• Congrats Paul Lysko 🎉
• Congrats Bob Lima, PMP 🎉
• Congrats Rich Green 🎉
• Congrats Sheri Gearhart 🎉
• Congrats Shianna Maxwell 🎉
• Congrats Richard Arnesen! 🎉

Those in my network that are #OpenToWork:

• Scott Place - High Performance Sales Rep
• Trevor Schulz - 20+ Years in Tech Sales | Loyal, Dedicated, and Ready to Work Today
• Brian Booden - Ranked #1 in the UK for Qlik and DataViz Content
• Elizabeth Quintanilla - Fractional CMO, Digital Marketing Consultant & Coach, Marketing Gunslinger
• 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
• 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
• Ricardo Perez - Virtualization Architect | PowerFlex & VxRail Specialist
• Mike Berteletti, CISSP - Experienced IT Professional | Infrastructure & Security
• Chris Mojica - Technical Sales & Solutions Architect
• Matthew Leib - Data Center, 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

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