🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-11-16

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No travel this week! I’m excited to tune up some of my favorite agents and draw inspiration from the community to create new agents.

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📈 Markets Monday for 2025-11-10

Today’s top movers show a clear focus on the physical hardware underpinning the industry.

SymbolCompany Name% Change
TSEMTower Semiconductor Ltd+14.27%
SNDKSanDisk Corp+10.63%
PLTRPalantir Technologies Inc+8.10%
UUnity Software Inc+7.19%
LYFTLYFT Inc+7.08%
FROGJFrog Ltd+6.76%
CLSCelestica Inc+6.53%
WDCWestern Digital Corp+6.46%
MUMicron Technology Inc+6.07%
CARGCarGurus Inc+5.87%
CVNACarvana Co+5.68%
ACMRACM Research Inc+5.61%
NVDANVIDIA Corp+5.48%
LSCCLattice Semiconductor Corp+5.35%
INODInnodata Inc+5.02%

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-11-11

💰 + 🤖 Funding continues to flow for AI, crypto, and more.

  • Finnable (AI powered digital lending): $28.19M
  • Lighter (an AI to crypto pivot with Ethereum L2 & DEX): $68M
  • Neros (CV AI military FPV drones): $75M
  • Wonderful (client-facing AI agents): $100M
  • Clio (AI legaltech): $500M

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-11-12

First, a wacky wonderful video. Second, a wayback nostalgia tome. Third, a whoa we’re getting older moment.

Wacky Wonderful

How to Start an F-16 (Bully in the Alley Remix)

  • A Top Gun sea shanty
  • How to enter the danger zone
  • Motor Sergeant Frank Tree style

Wayback

On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem

  • Alan Turing’s 1936 paper
  • Presented to the London Mathematical Society
  • Birth of the “Turing machine”

Whoa

Shot: Michael Caine’s “catchphrase”

Chaser: Michael Caine’s “AI”

  • Not many people know that
  • Early answering machine
  • AI powered machines

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-11-13

Let’s see what the tech world was buzzing about on this day in years past.

5 Years Ago: November 13, 2020

Apple OCSP (Online Certificate Status Protocol) comes to light.

10 Years Ago: November 13, 2015

Google Chrome comes to iOS.

15 Years Ago: November 13, 2010

Netflix comes to Windows Phone 7 and Android.

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-11-14

Everything is bigger in Texas, right?

💰 + 🤖 The biggest story this week was Google dropping $40B on new data centers in Texas. Oh, and Berkshire Hathaway disclosed a new $4.3B stake in Alphabet.

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-11-15

The goal of Sneak Peak Saturday is to sift through the Friday news cycle for the stories designed or timed to be forgotten by Monday that represent peak patronizing publishing.

On Friday it was learned that Apple, the world’s most valuable company, is engaged in finding a new CEO per Financial Times reporting. Of course, this may not be news to those that understand succession planning but it would likely move markets if announced “suddenly” on a Monday.

Yes, looking at you, Bloomberg News “we move markets” writers 👀. So, a Friday news dump ensures there is no immediate market to react and gives the media a full 36 hours to digest, report, and neutralize the shock of what would normally be part of sensible succession planning for any organization.

By Monday morning, it’s “known” information rather than a breaking bombshell and begins socializing the inevitable. Also, floating thee name of a likely successor, John Ternus, might just be enough detail to satisfy curiosity or presumptively address any concerns about physical objects as a continued growth engine for the company.

#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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