🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-09-21

Last Week

⛳️ Jason Pullo at ESP, a NexusTek company shared deep golf industry insights in Part 1 of a multi-part series of posts on the Top 10 IT Issues in Golf.

https://www.nexustek.com/insights/golf-it-challenges-part-1

☁️ Yes, please.

https://www.nexustek.com/insights/hybrid-cloud-yes-and-economy

This Week

I’m back from work travel and looking forward to refining my automation.

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-09-15

Screener improvements are happening and getting closer.

SymbolCompany Name% Change
RMBSRambus Inc.+9.33%
LYFTLYFT, Inc.+8.90%
IRENIris Energy Limited+8.56%
VSATViasat, Inc.+7.20%
STXSeagate Technology Holdings PLC+7.17%
CVLTCommVault Systems, Inc.+7.16%
AFRMAffirm Holdings, Inc.+7.10%
UUnity Software Inc.+6.40%
AIC3.ai, Inc.+6.27%
ASMLASML Holding N.V.+6.16%
IONQIonQ, Inc.+5.92%
UPSTUpstart Holdings, Inc.+5.82%
ASTSAST SpaceMobile, Inc.+5.49%
PGYPagaya Technologies Ltd.+5.46%
TTMITTM Technologies, Inc.+5.32%
HUTHut 8 Corp.+5.15%
PSTGPure Storage, Inc.+5.14%

Yahoo Screener

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-09-16

💰 + 🤖 Funding for AI-anything companies continues.

  • Nory (AI-powered restaurant management system): $37M
  • Druid (AI agent deployment): $31M
  • Modern Animal (AI-powered veterinary clinic software): $46M
  • CodeRabbit (AI code review): $60M
  • Vega (AI security analytics platform): $65M
  • Dyna Robotics (AI foundation model for robotics): $120M
  • Alt Capital (AI startup fund): $275M
  • Figure (AI-powered humanoid robots): $1B+

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-09-17

I would humbly suggest that this content be considered as a suitable substitution for Rick Roll targeting sequences whenever and wherever possible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik8u1FsA4v8

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-09-18

Looking back…

  • 5 Years Ago

    • Apple released iOS 14.
    • Today, there is iOS 26.

  • 10 Years Ago

    • Amazon reported a profit.
    • Today, AWS is a key profit center.

  • 15 Years Ago

    • The iPad “cannibalized” PC notebook sales.
    • Today, there are rumors of a touch screen OLED MacBook Pro.

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-09-19

The biggest story this week was the return of tech IPO activity.

https://www.techmeme.com/250919/p18#a250919p18

https://www.techmeme.com/250918/p35#a250918p35

For perspective, it has been a busy tech IPO year so far.

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-09-20

Once again, I’ve selected a Friday news dump item that reached a peak level of trope, cliché, or bromide on the slowest news day that may be attempting to avoid wider coverage.

35 years ago, the H1-B visa came into existence. It has grown over the years as have periodic calls for both greater expansion and reforms.

At a time in history where slow news days are rare, a Friday update on significantly higher H1-B visa fees gained attention and speculation. First, an Executive Order (EO) was summarized and linked with highlights of the eye watering $100,000 fee being imposed by the EO.

https://www.techmeme.com/250919/p23#a250919p23

My first thoughts were how this might impact offshore consulting firms. In terms of impact, I wondered specifically about the largest global systems integrators (GSIs).

https://bsky.app/profile/cuthrell.com/post/3lzaco5ai422i

As of Saturday, more news reporting attempted to clarify ambiguity and charitability of interpretation of the H1-B visa fees increase. Naturally, updates behind paywalls and speculation in the open are both increasing on the topic.

https://www.techmeme.com/250920/p12#a250920p12

Considering the news ecosystem skews heavily towards tech for beat reporting, blogs, social platforms, streaming platforms, and email newsletters, it is reasonable to expect the H1-B visa topic will probably be in the news cycle for a few more weeks.

#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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