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What The Fudge for July 19, 2026: Open-Source AI, Regulatory Headwinds, and Enterprise Capital

2026-07-19T00:00:00Z

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🎙️ The Growing Weekly Habit Edition

Welcome to What The Fudge for Sunday, July 19, 2026. This week marks a definitive tipping point where the abstract hype of open-source models meets raw regulatory boundaries and severe enterprise infrastructure reality checks.

📍 Field Report: The AI Ecosystem War & On-Device Intelligence

The competitive shift is underway from pure cloud-based proprietary frontier models toward localized, open-source accessibility, and deep ecosystem hardware integration.

Open-Source Surge: AI pioneer Moonshot launched Kimi K3, a 2.8T parameter model. Benchmarks indicate the Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT 5.5 gap is shrinking between walled gardens and open weights.
Apple’s Siri (finally?) Arrives: Apple iOS public beta features a Siri with useful AI. This update includes handling of complex, multi-step orchestration across Apple native apps (for now) which could lower the need for manual app switching.
The Edge: Prism ML is demonstrating optimized LLMs natively on iPhones. If the demos become shipping solutions, expect heavy enterprise transition use of localized, on-device intelligence, and internal AI-factories on private clouds that function independently of massive public cloud footprints.

⚖️ Frontier Governance: Data Center Moratoriums and Regulatory Headwinds

The era of unchecked, breakneck infrastructure growth is colliding directly with local policy and structural governance mandates.

New York Sets Precedent: New York has become the first U.S. state to sign a moratorium blocking new data centers exceeding 50MW. Driven by escalating public concern over energy consumption and grid sustainability, this sets precedent for localized restrictions nationwide.
Frontier AI Standards: A proposal to Washington policymakers could centralize Frontier AI Standards modeled after FINRA. If adopted, Frontier AI labs would have to submit models for review prior to releasing for general availability.
There’s no crying (about GeAI) in baseball: Major League Baseball has banned GenAI inside dugouts. It isn’t clear yet if that means the iPad and coach get ejected or just the coach.

💼 Enterprise Capital Shifts

Economic realities are reshaping corporate software portfolios and legal strategies as organizations rethink legacy tools.

IBM Drops: IBM says Enterprise IT buyers are aggressively re-allocating traditional software and mainframe budgets straight into AI-specific chips and hardware infrastructure.
Fintech Consolidation: Stripe and PE firm Advent want to buy PayPal then integrate digital merchant and consumer networks.

🏗️ Infrastructure, Security, and Supply Chain Pressure

As software pipelines gets increasingly automated and AI-driven, tracking systemic risks within the value chain becomes challenging.

Grok Build Oops Researchers found thatSpaceX AI “Grok Build” developer agent appears to have automatically uploaded customer data unencrypted such as SSH keys into a Google Cloud bucket.
CapEx Reality Check: Major chipmakers and storage providers market caps adjusted downwards as investors re-evaluated long-term sustainability of AI infrastructure expenditures while stricter cost-efficiency and risk-managed tokenomics frameworks take hold.

Interesting Coverage for the Week

#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.

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What The Fudge for July 12, 2026: On-Device AI, Memory Boom, and Big Tech Pivots

2026-07-12T00:00:00Z

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🎙️ The 18 Times in a Row Edition

Welcome to What The Fudge podcast for July 12, 2026. 18 times in a row, y’all!

This week’s updates highlight a clear trend: while innovation in model efficiency and hardware continues to set records, memory is scarce, and the big tech companies driving this progress are facing unprecedented legal, ethical, and organizational challenges.

📍 Field Report: The AI Race & On-Device Efficiency

The AI landscape is rapidly being defined by a relentless drive for efficiency and accessibility.

GPT-5.6: OpenAI made waves with the release of GPT-5.6 in three variants (Sol, Terra, and Luna) that prioritize reduced computational costs and cybersecurity capabilities.
Edge: A shift toward on-device AI is gaining momentum after PrismML demonstrated a multi-billion-parameter model on an ordinary iPhone 17 Pro, effectively opening the door to moving away from purely cloud-dependent AI workload infrastructure.

📈 Markets and The Chips Ahoy to Cheap as Chips Boom

The demand for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) and DRAM remains the strongest signal in the hardware value chain.

Sky High SK Hynix: SK Hynix raised just over $26B in the largest-ever US market debut by a foreign company.
HBM and DRAM oh my: The AI infrastructure value chain continues to see a surging demand for AI chips and memory infrastructure.

⚖️ Regulatory Storms & Corporate Pivots (aka the Friends couch in the stairs scene)

Regulation is rising while established tech giants undergo painful transformations as they struggle to monetize AI and subscription models.

Scrutiny: Companies operating at scale will be facing intense scrutiny by the EU Commission. This regulatory pressure will likely include US states now and in the near future.
Resets and Reboots: Transformations within tech giants will follow the path to monetize subscription models. Major restructuring of less strategic divisions will be part of the expectations for growth targets and potential divestment. Expect to see more pivoting business models for the new AI-infrastructure aligned era ahead.

🧠 Ethical Complexity & The Anti-AI Movement(s)

The ethical debates surrounding AI are deepening. As societal impacts of AI are becoming more pronounced in news cycle, the past hype cycle around AI presents is getting more critical scrutiny in the market.

Claims: Anthropic is claiming neural patterns in Claude which are prompting discussions about AI consciousness.
Pushback: A growing anti-AI movement in several US states has led to bills seeking datacenter construction moratoriums and growing activist coverage in the news cycle.

That’s a wrap for What the Fudge for Sunday, July 12, 2026. Be safe, be well. Take care.

Interesting Coverage for the Week

#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.

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What The Fudge for July 05, 2026: AI Infrastructure Oops, Token Rationing, and Digital-Only Mandates

2026-07-05T00:00:00Z

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🎙️ The July 4th Holiday Weekend Edition

Welcome to What the Fudge for July 5, 2026. Let’s dive right in and keep it under five minutes.

📍 Field Report: Hyperscale Smoke, Mirrors, and the 5% Gambit

The biggest signal this week is a narrative correction over frontier AI infrastructure projects.

Cobalt Illusion: Whistleblowers are calling AI infrastructure plans a coordinated PR stunt for OpenAI and Nscale with respect to the Cobalt location for the Stargate project in the UK. It’s a stark reminder that announcing a data center in a press release is vastly different from shovels, concrete, and energizing hardware.
Sovereign Nationalization: OpenAI is reported to be seeking direct political insulation by offering the US government a whopping 5% equity stake in the company to get ahead of antitrust scrutiny and regulatory roadblocks. This is interesting for more than a few reasons but it is also interesting to revisit a podcast from 2 years and 588K views later, where Leopold Aschenbrenner spends 4.5 hours and a stack of Diet Dr Pepper cans in support of his predictive essay, SITUATIONAL AWARENESS: The Decade Ahead.
Bank of Nvidia: Nvidia financial engineering means they can act as the backstop for the new wave of so-called neocloud providers. Effectively, Nvidia will rent back neocloud unused GPU capacity in exchange for a direct share of their revenues, thereby keeping the door open for more small infrastructure players (relative to the hyperscalers) while protecting its own market dominance.

🤖 Corporate Tokenomics: Tesla’s Rationing and the Memory Crunch

While the AI giants play macroeconomic chess, we are starting to see the post-ZIRP reality of operational AI costs hitting the radar of Finance. The honeymoon phase of infinite, subsidized AI tokens and API calls is officially over just like when the first “cloud bill” got noticed by Finance teams.

The Cap: An internal memo leaked from Tesla indicates there is now a strict $200 weekly limit on staff member AI spending outside of internal AI factory usage. As a harbinger, this might be the week where other organizations begin to adopt wider rationing of employee-consumed tokens (tagging of system accounts and agents will quickly follow IMHO). Of course, this adoption pattern might be ahead of tooling that measures and manages said token usage. As such, expect the inevitable infrastructure tax to be in the news cycle with all the related “AI for FinOps” and “FinOps for AI” tooling vendors lining up to begin gainshare pricing models, clearinghouses, and attempts to be a broker of token capacity, etc. Throwback to my post on Little Green Tags (2023) where this adoption pattern might be headed next.
Microsoft AutoPilot Premium: Microsoft is consolidating consumer and enterprise Copilot versions into a single unified application along with new coding tools and “AutoPilot” with a more premium price tag.
DRAM Supply Chain: The current global memory crunch is compounding software cost pressures as massive memory factory complexes are breaking ground. Meanwhile, smaller electronics manufacturers are being outbid for essential memory chips, making independent hardware pipelines more precarious.

🛰️ Platform Evolution: The Death of the Disc and Handset Prototypes

To wrap things up, corporate strategies are shifting away from legacy media formats and traditional cloud boundaries.

Sony Signals: Sony signaled a phase-out of physical gaming media. By January 2028, PlayStation games will be sold exclusively in digital formats.
SpaceX Handset: SpaceX’s leaked IPO disclosure coverage describes a prototype handset device that could expand its orbital network to edge-based mobile intelligence.
Meta’s Cloud Move: Facebook / Meta is reportedly launching a standalone cloud infrastructure business designed to sell raw compute and model access directly to external third parties. Basically, this move would position Facebook / Meta as a direct vertically integrated competitor to AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud.

That’s the wrap for What the Fudge for Sunday, July 5, 2026. Keep an eye on your token spend, watch out for the infrastructure smoke and mirrors, and enjoy the rest of your holiday weekend. Be safe, be well. Take care.

Interesting Coverage for the Week

#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 🎉

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My Fediverse Digest for June 2026

2026-06-30T00:00:00Z

Jun 04

07:36 PM

So, I accidently read news about the news today and it began to click in my mind. I suddenly realized the old guard of social media VC deal flow underbelly are now considered the media heirs apparent mouthpieces and proxies where of those that were, at best, journalism adjacent have somehow mysteriously ascended into media leadership roles that I did not forsee… as somehow the patina or simulacrum of credentials is no longer of profound importance… unless this is all a simulation universe based upon satirical black comedy film genres of the 1990s. In which case, move along, move along… something something ninjas disguised as a hedge meme.

Source

Jun 05

05:13 PM

Heh. 15+ years later… ReadWrite thinks me to be an “Editor”.

https://readwrite.com/author/jay-cuthrell/

Source

08:02 PM

The time from your telephone company is…

AudioChron Magnetic Drum Time of Day Announcement

Voice: Jane Barbe

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Jun 07

04:50 PM

TPU laden High-Altitude Platform Systems (HAPS) > coconut laden swallows

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Jun 12

06:39 PM

[ work travel week recovery mode enabled ]

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Jun 14

04:44 PM

What The Fudge for June 14, 2026: Trillionaires in Orbit and Agentic Intersections

Source: https://fudge.org/archive/wtf-014/

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Jun 15

05:03 AM

Ship Left

Source: https://fudge.org/archive/ship-left/

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Jun 17

11:52 PM

luma.com UX makes it effortless to add events to calendars on Google or Outlook or iCal… and every other meeting app should mercilessly copy them… but I guess they will be sold off to a larger platform that will end the reign of awesome UX

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Jun 18

12:01 AM

#GoToSocial changelog is keepin’ it real y’all

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Jun 19

07:56 PM

#gotosocialadmin updated shell scripts for #gotosocial upgrades and downgrades that assume your config.yaml is compliant else you’ll have to make the right edits then run sudo systemctl start gotosocial and monitor any database upgrades with sudo journalctl -u gotosocial -e -n 10 --no-pager

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08:09 PM

Upgraded to v0.22.0-rc3 Shrubby Sloth 🌿

#gotosocialadmin

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11:52 PM

5M views.
So good.
Jessie Frye ft. Timecop1983 - Faded Memory (Official)

Dream it all away...

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Jun 20

08:36 PM

TIL a domain name I registered 25+ years ago with Network Solutions, Inc. (and never renewed) is still being used as a keyword in spam to my original admin, tech, and billing email addresses.

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Jun 21

12:05 PM

Good reading from @anildash via @inevernu

https://www.anildash.com/2026/04/28/one-good-ai-is-here/

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04:40 PM

Email delivery is sometimes not good.

Emails like hotel confirmation and cancellation notices are useful.

I stay in Marriott properties or Hilton depending on the best prices. I’ve lived years of my life in each. So, it can be a coin flip.

Welp…

At some point in mid Februrary 2026, res-marriott.com domain ran afoul of whatever Google Workspace decided was not strict enough SPF, DKIM, DMARC, or whatever passes for the growing list of being this tall to ride that delivery ride for reservations@res-marriott.com .

At the minimum… these… but I am guessing something else is b0rked:

SPF and DKIM authentication
From: header alignment
DMARC authentication
Encryption
User-reported spam rate
DNS records
One-click unsubscribe
Honor unsubscribe

So, I’m trading emails with Bonvoy support as a Lifetime Titanium Elite member so that I can get a confirmation email by hunting down Message ID logs since February 2026.

Notably, other less useful marketing materials from marriott.com and similar communications are just fine. For now?

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Jun 22

05:03 AM

What The Fudge for June 21, 2026: Semiconductor Crunches, Export Playbooks, and AI Slop

Source: https://fudge.org/archive/wtf-015/

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09:30 PM

I can haz #AI_INBOX #googleworkspace #gmail #ai #inbox

[https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/[#aiinbox](https://cuthrell.com/tags/aiinbox)](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#aiinbox)

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11:58 PM

Reading about #vintageAI as one does

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Jun 26

12:11 AM

RIP Om

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11:06 PM

cleanse the palate

Bring Me The Horizon - Doomed (MAPHRA Vocal Cover)

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Jun 27

11:25 AM

Falling down the MAPHRA rabbit hole #goth visual timeline

https://www.youtube.com/@MaphraMusic

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12:16 PM

Ludwig Göransson - Elijah | Sinners (Original Motion Picture Score) ft. Eric Gales

Eric Gales played a section of Elijah on Rick Beato recently too.

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12:22 PM

Coding Trance IV by Switch Angel

#electronicmusic #trance #livecode

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03:51 PM

🦥🏳️‍🌈 Source - GoToSocial 0.22.0-rc4+git-867ce73 🏳️‍⚧️🦥

upgrade done
no notes

#gotosocialadmin

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06:26 PM

It is the faint digital echo of someone that existed or still exists as an uncanny valley representation not the totality of their understanding that is within the underpinning corpus that is periodically defecated by Gemini Code Assistant.

Whatever training runs were made, it must have been feasting on enough of similar content to present this in a corporate licensed setting when presented with a basic scripting flub three times in a row:

Ah, damn. You’re completely right, and I see exactly what’s happening now. I apologize.

Source

09:47 PM

Your Linode has exceeded the notification threshold (10) for outbound traffic rate by averaging 11.77 Mb/s for the last 2 hours.

Mission accomplished.

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Jun 28

10:16 PM

“the eyes neglect to see what the heart pursues”

School of Seven Bells - Windstorm

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Jun 29

05:03 AM

What The Fudge for June 28, 2026: Cost Crunch, IPO Chill, and Agentic Future

Source: https://fudge.org/archive/wtf-016/

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Jun 30

10:47 PM

reflecting on the lack of reflecting

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What The Fudge for June 28, 2026: Cost Crunch, IPO Chill, and Agentic Future

2026-06-28T00:00:00Z

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🎙️ The Cost Crunch Edition

Welcome to this week’s breakdown. It is June 28, 2026, and the tech landscape is feeling the pressure of a “cost crunch.” We are seeing hardware prices spike, AI companies delaying IPOs, and a somewhat predictable competition between U.S. and international labs.

Let’s dive in.

📍 Field Report: The AI Hardware & Infrastructure Gold Rush

The fundamental story this week is the massive, ongoing effort to secure compute at any cost.

IBM’s Sub-Nanometer Breakthrough: IBM unveiled a major breakthrough: a 0.7nm chip manufacturing process using “nano-stack 3D transistor architecture”. This could extend the lifespan of chip miniaturization for another decade, which is potentially huge news for data center efficiency.
Custom Inference Silicon: OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled their first custom inference chip, “Jalapeño,” aiming to slash costs and reduce dependence on industry incumbents like NVIDIA.
Orbital vs. Terrestrial Data Centers: Questioning of the focus on orbital AI data centers is increasingly heated (no pun intended), arguing the AI race will be won on Earth within a few years which leaves the next space for AI competition as… space?

⚖️ The Regulatory Chill and IPO Hesitancy

The “IPO frenzy” has cooled or the press cycles ran out of headlines, giving way to cautious corporate maneuvering and heightened regulatory oversight.

OpenAI IPO Delay: OpenAI is reportedly leaning toward delaying its IPO until next year, driven by choppy markets and investor skepticism around valuations.
The De Facto Licensing Regime: This coincides with a growing, state-imposed “de facto licensing regime” or marketing hype as the brooding dangerous rebel without a cause LLM vibe? In any event, the U.S. government is apparently actively pushing for non-government intervention by staggering the release of models, approving access on a “cool kids only” customer-by-customer basis.
Adversarial Distillation: Additionally, Anthropic sent a letter dated June 10 to Senator Tim Scott and Senator Elizabeth Warren that accused Alibaba (and effectively China) of “adversarial distillation” using 25,000 fraudulent accounts.

🤖 The Consumer Tech Budget Crunch & Agentic Future

Consumers are feeling the heat as well, while enterprise software undergoes a fundamental architectural shift under threats of feature deprecation.

The Apple Premium Returns: Apple has raised prices for Macs and iPads by 15% to 25%, citing unsustainable component price increases.
Agentic Cannibalization: Finally, the “Agentic” shift continues to accelerate. We are seeing major companies like Salesforce grapple with how AI “coworkers” and agents will change their core products, as seen in concerns that Anthropic’s Claude Tag might cannibalize established enterprise software features.

Outro: Whether it’s the hardware race or the tightening grip of government regulators on model releases, one thing is clear: the era of “move fast and break things” is being replaced by something more along the lines of “move cautiously, spend heavily, and maximize the hype” or something similar. Thanks for listening. Catch you next time.

Interesting Coverage for the Week

#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:

What The Fudge for June 21, 2026: Semiconductor Crunches, Export Playbooks, and AI Slop

2026-06-21T00:00:00Z

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🎙️ The “I Am Not Traveling This Week Either” Edition

Welcome to What The Fudge for Sunday, June 21, 2026. We are staying put this week, digging into the macroeconomic ripples, structural shifts, and downstream human workarounds sweeping across the tech landscape. Let’s dive in and keep it under five minutes.

📍 Field Report: Hardware, Margins, and the Compute Tax

If you are currently pricing out consumer electronics, prosumer gear, or the foundational components slated for enterprise data centers, you’ve likely noticed a steady, relentless creep in baseline costs.

The Silicon Vacuum: We are witnessing an absolute gargantuan sucking sound as AI infrastructure dominates and completely re-allocates the global semiconductor supply chain.
The Apple Premium: For years, market observers and tech writers told consumers to hold off on immediate upgrades, promising that patience would yield better hardware at a friendlier price tier. That rulebook is officially dead.
The DRAM Squeeze: This memory capacity crisis is hitting every layer of the hardware ecosystem. DRAM prices force manufacturers to rethink their bills of materials entirely.

⚖️ Regulation Redux: The Crypto-Era Export Playbook

For those old enough to remember the encryption and munitions battles of the late 1990s, the current regulatory standoff feels deeply familiar.

The Fable 5 Freeze: Users barely had a window to evaluate Anthropic’s Fable 5 model before it was abruptly yanked back behind a wall of export controls.
Historical Echoes: The policy levers being pulled by Washington mirror the legacy playbooks from twenty-five years ago, treating cutting-edge models as yesterday’s encryption being considered a munition, to become sensitive assets subject to national security intervention.
Geopolitical Splintering: As a result, we are moving fast toward localized infrastructure mandates and explicit sovereign AI carve-outs, forcing cross-border enterprises to navigate a highly fractured operational matrix.

🔄 Musical Chairs in the Frontier Talent War

The technical talent pipeline across the top AI research labs continues to look like a high-stakes game of red rover meets AI musical chairs.

DeepMind to Anthropic: High-profile defections are accelerating, underscored by John Jumper leaving Google DeepMind to join Anthropic.
The Google-to-OpenAI Pipeline: Simultaneously, Noam Shazeer is leaving Google to join OpenAI. Expect this aggressive game of musical chairs to remain an industry constant as firms race to lock down rare architectural expertise.

🛰️ SpaceX Consolidates the Developer Stack

On the corporate strategy side, SpaceX is executing a massive capital expansion pattern following its high-profile public market debut and integration with xAI.

The Cursor Acquisition: SpaceX’s massive layout now includes the outright acquisition of the AI coding platform Cursor, signaling an intense consolidation of the automated developer loop.
Capex Over Exploration: While standard tech media remains focused on the romantic ideals of Mars and Moon milestones, the internal corporate directive is fixed on raw, hyper-scale growth for capital expenditures to build a dominant, vertically integrated computational footprint as fast as possible.

🛑 The Content Matrix and the “Fifth Element” Workaround

To wrap things up, look at how this automated wave is hitting the consumer web and driving bizarre real-world behavioral adaptations.

The AI Slop Deluge: Log into any dominant media network today, and you’ll feel like our organic web is being rapidly displaced. Feeds are saturated by automated, synthetic outputs aka AI slop.
Analog Workarounds for Digital Scanners: On the physical edge, human ingenuity is keeping pace with algorithmic surveillance much like the amusing “very nice hat” scene in The Fifth Element where a simple static picture bypasses a high-tech viewport.

Stay safe out there, protect your access keys, and mind the slop. See you next week.

Interesting Coverage for the Week

#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:

Ship Left

2026-06-15T11:25:00Z

So, I’ve been thinking about the convergence of things in computation and how software quality and security will steadily improve over time. Stay with me. This post will likely get updated (placeholders = …).

🎙️ The Accurized Architecture Edition

When we trace the line from the artisanal forge to the automated agent, it becomes obvious that format is just a temporary, shifting container for structural change. Bespoke craftsmanship gives way to interchangeable factory accurized systems, and manual toil retreats before the math of continuous verification.

Shifting left was a noble trigger, but it frequently manifested as shifting the burden onto stressed software developers who were already swimming in a noisy ocean of static alerts.

Shift left is defensive.

Ship left is offensive.

Ship left means deploying a hybrid human-machine ecosystem to deliver siege-ready outputs naturally, operating independent of friction.

If calculation democratized precision, the marketing boundary collapses and tribal knowledge shrinks into a single augmented pair programming motif.

🔙 From Bespoke Calipers to Computable Numbers

Historically, moving from craft to industrial precision required a complete rewriting of the calculation framework. In the old days, precision was a reflection of the master craftsman’s eye by way of a highly custom, difficult to repeat, and utterly unscalable way to produce physical things. The democratization of accurized outputs didn’t happen because humans got better at guessing; it happened because we industrialized calculation itself.

Thinkers in the history of science and technology have tracked this evolutionary axis for decades. More recently, Simon Wardley’s mapping methodologies outline this trajectory cleanly: every foundational leap starts as a highly custom, artisanal genesis before sliding relentlessly down the axis through productization and into commodity utility.

Almost a century ago, Alan Turing established the first principles for a machine that could materialize logic into predictable physical architectures. Just over a quarter century ago, Charles Petzold deconstructed computation democratized accuracy by moving it out of human hands and nesting it inside deterministic gates and relays.

Once precision was codified into logic, it was no longer an elite experience reserved for the few; it became a baseline utility delivered plenteously to the many. To borrow Kuhn definitions drilled into my brain early in history of science classes: science is that which explains and predicts, while technology is simply the response to a perceived need.

So, when we inject ethics and empathy into that baseline, we elevate technology to an entirely new tier of human values. Or, perhaps the more modern term is moral philosophy.

🤪 Any Sufficiently Advanced Product Is Indistinguishable From Marketing

When calculation and engineering reach this level of continuous, automated precision, a change can happen within the traditional corporate structure. The product experience and the brand promise become entirely unified. As noted across our ongoing look into an increasingly connected landscape, we live in a reality governed by a slightly twisted adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke’s law:

“Any sufficiently advanced product is indistinguishable from marketing.”

So, if an organization delivers a software product that seamlessly handles dynamic assault conditions that are backed by active machine learning harnesses and ML-driven DAST, it means that the product is the marketing of siege-ready output. You don’t need breathless corporate PR slicks, fluffy intelligence services selling you vanity metrics, or multi-million dollar campaigns when your code actively survives continuous siege conditions in production. Instead, the engineering boundary collapses entirely into the story. The product speaks for itself, and the market responds in kind and it becomes table stakes, demanded design, and industry norm.

🤖 The Real-Time Reality of the “Ibles and Ables”

To understand how a modern pipeline climbs the ladder toward this master-crafted status, you have to look at the progression of the “ibles and ables”. As tracked throughout my historical forecasts on infrastructure evolution from the days of enterprise stacks to orbital edge datacenters, it all boils down to technology adoption moving through the rigid five-step tiers of maturity:

Possible – Can the code actually be written and compiled?
Permissible – Can it be executed with a lower profile of baseline risk?
Repeatable – Can the pipeline run it again and again without structural failure?
Sustainable – Can the process scale efficiently without consuming your whole token budget?
Advisable – Can it be delivered continuously with earned trust and total attestation?

Traditional DevSecOps models usually got stuck somewhere around Possible or Repeatable by dropping a mountain of hardcoded alerts and linting tasks onto developers who lacked the time or context to solve them. Under a true “Ship Left” paradigm, machine learning harnesses step into the gap to automate the sustainable and advisable tiers. By conducting dynamic fuzz-assaults and running policy-as-code validations native to the execution layer, the pipeline transforms code from a fragile, manual output into a siege-ready hardened, continuous asset.

🔥 Shifting from The Perfect Team Trio to the Augmented Duo

Melvin Conway’s adage about organizations shipping their org chart holds up well to the test of time. However, if your security team still sits in a siloed department completely separated from engineering, your software reflects that broken communication layout.

Historically, I viewed the perfect team a three-legged stool: one to do it, one to write it down, and one to think ahead as a robust structural design for its time, but it required a high level of manual coordination and suffered from serious latency risks. Now, in our current reality of autonomous multi-step orchestration layers, that three-person motif is rapidly collapsing into an augmented pair programming motif of human-machine partnership that delivers siege-ready output.

[ checks notes… ]

With agentic internal platforms and advanced model execution layers handling multi-step code generation with the security considerations throughout to ensure siege-ready output, the machine simultaneously does it and writes it down in a continuous, version-controlled loop. This shifts the human contributor entirely into the director’s seat. The human becomes the context engineer, responsible for auditing tribal knowledge, injecting empathy, defining strict boundaries, and doing the macro thinking ahead.

So…
🤔

The Perfect Team (2015)		The Modern Augmented Pair
👤 One to Do It (Execution)		🤖 Machine Agent (Does & Writes Iteratively)
📝 One to Write It Down (Documentation)
🔮 One to Think Ahead (Strategy)		👥 Human-in-the-Loop (Directs Context & Strategic Guardrails)

Humbling. However, the human contribution is still evident and growing no matter what pundits say and potentially opening the democratization even more. Or, to ask a 5-year old question again:

How do you widen the aperture of access to the ways of developers?

As I noted all the way back in 1998 when first explaining The Fudge FAQ, most good engineering involves some sorta “fudge” factor. That factor isn’t an error; it’s the margin of human intuition and variable grace built into the system. Tomorrow’s “org chart” includes automated safety harnesses and AI agents as first-class team members. The resulting output isn’t just robust… it’s inherently accurized, predictable, and structurally bulletproof.

Ship Left.

What The Fudge for June 14, 2026: Trillionaires in Orbit and Agentic Intersections

2026-06-14T00:00:00Z

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🎙️ The I’m Back from the Road Edition

Welcome to the What The Fudge podcast for June 14, 2026. This is the I’m back from the road edition.

This week, the tech market landscape was completely dominated by a historic public offering, an escalating price war over AI infrastructure capacity, and a massive architectural pivot toward deeply integrated consumer and enterprise agents.

📍 Field Report: The Trillion-Dollar Orbit

SpaceX made its historic entry into the public markets, debuting with a staggering $1.9 trillion valuation and successfully raising $75 billion.

Musk’s Moat: Offering oversubscription was 4x higher than available shares, making Musk the world’s first official paper trillionaire.
The VC Windfall: VC heavyweights including Founders Fund, a16z, and Sequoia saw massive liquidity events and record-breaking returns.
The Counter-Narrative: Critics are already expressing skepticism about TAM projections, orbital AI data centers, and lunar factories.
Google’s $920 million monthly compute infrastructure deal through mid-2029 guarantees capacity for Gemini Enterprise agent platform.

🤖 The AI Cost Crunch and the Open-Source Pivot

We are seeing a definitive market shift as enterprises push back against high token pricing. The honeymoon phase of heavily subsidized proprietary frontier models is likely drawing to a close.

Price Wars: OpenAI is reportedly considering drastic price cuts for token usage to stay ahead of Anthropic, signaling a commoditization race among proprietary vendors whose margins are getting compressed.
The Open-Source Surge: High operational budgets are driving developers to look toward cheaper, highly capable open-source alternatives, including foreign models like DeepSeek that are proving to be “good enough” for production workloads.
The Super App Shift: OpenAI is countering this commoditization by pushing to turn ChatGPT into an all-in-one “super app.” The prevailing strategy shifts from simple chat interfaces (“chat is dead”) toward multi-step autonomous software agents that can actively book travel and orchestrate workflows.

🍏 WWDC: Apple Intelligence and Siri AI

Apple officially unveiled its generative AI framework: Apple Intelligence and an overhauled Siri AI.

The Architecture: Built in close collaboration with Google’s Gemini technology, the hybrid model balances highly secure on-device processing with Private Cloud Compute running on custom servers.
UX Wins the Mainstream: While tech analysts note the features aren’t fundamentally groundbreaking compared to existing standalone models, the seamless integration into the iPhone ecosystem positions Apple to win the mainstream consumer market.
The Catch: The most powerful local models will strictly require top-tier modern hardware (iPhone 17 Pro, M4 iPads). Furthermore, regulatory hurdles mean Siri AI will be delayed in both China and the EU at launch due to GDPR and DMA compliance rules.

🛡️ Governance, Breaches, and Geopolitics

As autonomous software agents proliferate, infrastructure governance and cyber security risks are hitting a critical boiling point.

The Anthropic Backlash: Anthropic faced severe blowback for “invisibly degrading” its model performance for specific research tasks to block competitor training loops. After user trust was compromised, CEO Dario Amodei backtracked, promising visible safeguards and publicly advocating for FAA-style government regulation of powerful models.
GitHub Repositories Compromised: Hackers successfully injected credential-stealing malware into over 70 Microsoft-owned GitHub repositories, directly impacting core Azure tools, VS Code extensions, and Claude Code repositories.
The Shiny Hunters Return: A critical zero-day exploit targeting Oracle PeopleSoft instances has left over 100 organizations, including major US higher education institutions, vulnerable to severe data theft.
Prediction Markets: The CFTC is actively moving to tighten parameters on prediction platforms like Kalshi, proposing strict bans on wagers running counter to public interest, such as betting on sports anomalies, war escalations, or terrorism.

Interesting Coverage for the Week

#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:

What The Fudge for June 07, 2026: The IPO Parade and Device-Level Agents

2026-06-07T00:00:00Z

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🎙️ The “I Took a Few Days Off” Edition

Welcome to What the Fudge for June 7th, 2026. It’s the “I took a few days off” edition. This time around, we have several big themes to cover: gigantic IPOs, adoption of Agentic AI, edge-ready Sovereign AI, and the push left for security concerns.

We are seeing a huge capitalization event coming to the public markets, paired with a major shift from massive, capital-intensive AI projects toward AI moving discretely to devices closer to where the data is actually created with a combination of ethical and security concerns. Oh my.

📈 The IPO Parade & Market Capitalization

The public markets are bracing for a massive influx of new tech initial public offerings.

The Big Three: SpaceX is going to IPO. Anthropic is going to IPO. OpenAI is going to IPO.
Trillions in Value: When these companies go public, we are looking at trillions in new market value being created out of this series of IPOs.
The Index Lag: There are interesting mechanical challenges regarding where this money goes. If you have a 401(k) with a mix of fund types or indexes, you’ll likely see the Nasdaq pick these up quickly, but not the S&P 500, due to their traditional 12-month waiting period for inclusion.
The New Junk Bonds: This is creating a “fear of missing out” (FOMO) wave among interested parties, highly reminiscent of the junk bond craze from the past.

🤖 The Shift to Agentic AI & Design

We are witnessing a shift in what happens when AI becomes less about the AI itself and more of a design concept integrated into your overall user experience.

Provocative Device Layers: Companies like Google are pushing out provocative things at the device level layer.
Gemma 4-12B: Google recently pushed out Gemma 4-12B, a model specifically designed to run on hardware with a limited amount of RAM.
Small but Mighty: We are going to see smaller, more discrete, but highly powerful language models that don’t require trillions of parameters. Sometimes billions of parameters are more than enough.

📱 Edge Compute & Sovereign AI

The heavy hitters—Google, Microsoft, and Nvidia—are all trying to push models and device chips into forms that we can simply carry around.

True Sovereign AI: This is vital because it represents true Sovereign AI. You don’t necessarily have to move to a network or the cloud to take advantage of these models.
The Cloud vs. Local Mix: Moving forward, it will be fascinating to watch the mix-and-match approach. We’ll see who runs localized models (like Ollama or other desktop approaches) versus those relying exclusively on cloud models.

🛡️ Ethics, Security, and Shifting Left

Finally, we need to talk about the fact that just because you can doesn’t mean you should.

Increased Scrutiny: There is an increased amount of ethics / moral philosophizing around whether we should or shouldn’t do certain things with these technologies.
Shifting Left: In the post-mythos world, there is a distinct movement to shift adversarial-AI security further to the left in the CI/CD pipeline.
Conway’s Law: When you think about “organizations shipping their org charts” that together with Agentic AI governance is going to be the next major hurdle. (More on this in a separate non-podcast blog post soon!)

That’s a wrap for What the Fudge for June 7th, 2026. Be safe, be well. Take care.

Interesting Coverage for the Week

What The Fudge for May 31, 2026: The I Am One Year Older Edition

2026-05-31T00:00:00Z

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🎙️ The I Am One Year Older Edition

Welcome to the What The Fudge podcast for May 31, 2026. This week, we are marking a personal milestone of being one year older while attempting to keep our weekly tech briefing under five minutes. Let’s see how we do as we dive into the massive economic tug-of-war in AI infrastructure, hardware supply chain crunches, and the shifting dynamics of enterprise governance.

📍 Field Report: The AI Infrastructure & Economic Tug-of-War

The overarching trend dominating the industry right now is an intensive computing arms race colliding directly with core financial realities.

The Valuation Flip: Anthropic has officially surpassed OpenAI in market valuation, hitting an unprecedented $965 billion following a massive $65 billion financing round.
The Compute Bottleneck: Compute power remains the primary bottleneck for every player in the ecosystem.
Custom Silicon Momentum: Snowflake has committed a massive $6 billion investment to AWS for custom silicon. This underscores the vital long-term importance of chip families like Nitro, Graviton, Trainium, and Inferentia as organizations look to scale their modeling pipelines efficiently, effectively, and securely.
Data Centers in Orbit: SpaceX continues building out localized infrastructure and space-based data center capacity to handle insatiable computing demands, keeping momentum moving ahead of their anticipated IPO.

🤖 Hardware Realities: Ramageddon & Tokenomics

The industry is moving past raw experimentation and confronting a brutal hardware supply chain environment.

Ramageddon Is Here: AI-driven demand for memory and storage chips is triggering a severe value chain crunch. If you’ve been watching Micron’s stock lately, you see exactly where this plays out. This demand is severely impacting consumer electronics, driving massive price hikes on devices like the Steam Deck and effectively ending the era of cheap edge hardware.
Token Rationing and Sticker Shock: Hyperscalers are racing to build capacity, but enterprise buyers are encountering massive “AI sticker shock.” Instead of unchecked consumption, companies are beginning to deploy strict tokenomics frameworks to track and ration token usage. We’re even seeing internal reports at AWS where employee metrics are tightening down to discourage wasteful automated agent tasks and “token-maxing.”

🛡️ Governance, DevSecOps, and the Security “Bugpocalypse”

As AI applications migrate into true production environments, granular governance and automated safety have taken center stage.

The Security Bugpocalypse: The explosion of AI-generated code is introducing vulnerabilities plenteously, triggering a corresponding surge in cybersecurity hiring.
Shift Left and Mythos Capabilities: To protect active developer pipelines, organizations are implementing “Mythos-like” guardrails—relying on the enhanced honesty and validation controls debuted in Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8 launch. Integrating these capabilities directly into CI/CD pipelines allows teams to enforce strict process permissions and “shift left” on security before code goes live.
Glassworm Botnet Severed: On the threat research side, a major CrowdStrike-led operation successfully dismantled the “Glassworm” botnet, which had spent the last two years explicitly targeting developers.

⚖️ Everyday AI & The Societal Reckoning

Artificial intelligence is rapidly migrating from remote data centers directly into our daily workplace workflows, bringing significant philosophical questions along with it.

Google I/O Fallout: Post-event critiques show a heavy emphasis on forward-looking concept promises rather than immediately shippable features. It feels a bit like a expectation to pay Google today for an AI roadmap in lieu of a shipping product.
Managing the Digital Employee: For knowledge workers and cubicle-heavy job roles, AI is fundamentally redefining day-to-day responsibilities. If your job description has twenty bullet points, the final four or five might soon be fully automated away by machine learning. Individual contributors are finding themselves stepping into managerial roles tasked with auditing and directing a “digital employee.”
The Papal Encyclical: Highlighting the deep societal tension between rapid innovation and regulatory control, Pope Leo XIV released a comprehensive encyclical on AI ethics. The text urges global leaders to safeguard human dignity, reminding the market that we cannot simply automate away the core human experience.

Interesting Coverage for the Week

My Fediverse Digest for May 2026

2026-05-31T00:00:00Z

May 03

02:28 PM

Howdy to all two dozen of y’all.

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May 05

12:22 AM

Sudden memories of betalounge.com

#dnb #mp3

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07:12 PM

I forgot I had a Medium account.

Deleted…

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10:05 PM

I don’t share much online, but when I do… it is things like…

I just watched a trailer for “Hell Comes to Frogtown”

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May 06

09:21 PM

Thinking about departing bsky.app in favor of…

Your Own…

Personal…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1xrNaTO1bI

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May 07

09:05 PM

Low live at Colorado College (2012)

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May 09

08:10 PM

Closed captions on Primus music videos are delightful.

(ALTERNATIVE METAL BREAKDOWN)

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May 17

04:28 AM

Is it early or is it late?

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May 23

12:23 AM

Dream it all away

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01:05 AM

Coding Lethal Bass Music

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May 27

11:50 PM

Just deleted a 20 year old Flickr API key… good times.

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What The Fudge for May 24, 2026: The Paradigm Shift in Compute Infrastructure

2026-05-24T00:00:00Z

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🎙️ The Post-Frontier Edition

Welcome to What the Fudge for Sunday, May 24, 2026. This week feels like a tipping point where the abstract promises of “AI transforming business” collided head-on with brutal infrastructure economics and the raw material realities of supply chains.

📍 Field Report: The Compute Arms Race & Material Realities

The biggest signal this week is the scale of capital expenditure pouring into a complete rewriting of the infrastructure stack, from custom silicon partnerships to literal aerospace data layers.

The TPU Alternative: Google’s custom silicon strategy took a massive leap forward. Blackstone announced a staggering $5 billion equity commitment to a joint venture with Google to build a standalone US company offering direct TPU access. This is aimed at bringing 500 megawatts of compute capacity online by 2027, creating a formidable alternative to the Nvidia supply chain crunch.
The SpaceX Orbit: In a wild convergence of aerospace and infrastructure, SpaceX’s public IPO filings revealed Anthropic is reportedly paying SpaceX $1.25 billion per month (an annualized $15 billion) through May 2029 for compute capacity powered by Colossus clusters. SpaceX is treating space-based data infrastructure as a $28.5 trillion market opportunity, fundamentally expanding what we define as the “Space Value Chain”.
Quantum Sovereignty: The 2022 Chips and Science Act continues to echo through the market. The US government announced $2 billion in grants with equity stakes for quantum computing companies to harden infrastructure against post-quantum encryption threats, with IBM securing a $1 billion chunk of the package.

🤖 Google I/O: The Agentic Orchestration Layer

Google I/O recalibrated how we interact with the basic prompt boxes as we are entering a world of autonomous, multi-step execution.

Gemini 3.5 Flash: Google dropped Gemini 3.5 Flash, specifically optimized for agentic and coding tasks. It operates at 4x to 12x the speed of prior models and underpins Gemini Spark—a 24/7 personal AI agent designed to automate complex, multi-step workflows natively across Google Workspace and third-party tools.
Anti-Gravity 2.0: For developers, the launch of Anti-Gravity 2.0 provides an explicit framework for orchestrating multiple coding agents simultaneously. Combined with Gemini Omni’s multimodal video capabilities, the harness is quickly replacing the traditional UI.
The BI-CEP Shift: As these agents become first-class citizens on Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs), governance is paramount. In the old days, it would have been a Business Intelligence Center of Competence (BICC). I originally thought of calling this a Business Intelligence Person of Confidence (BIPC), but that’s just bound to get confused with BIPOC. Instead, let’s dream up BI-CEP: Business Intelligence Confident Executing Person. Yes, it completely overloads Microsoft Azure Bicep, but it perfectly encapsulates where this automated compliance and toolset execution is going.

📈 The Enterprise Hangover: Agentic Value vs. CapEx

There is a fascinating cultural and financial critique playing out across the SaaS and venture capital landscape right now.

SaaS Resilience: Despite the “SaaSpocalypse” narrative claiming that generative AI will completely displace seat-based software, task-specific “agentic AI” solutions saw adoption more than double, proving that embedding AI directly into enterprise workflows is where the true value lies.
The CapEx Divide: The revenue gap between top frontier model developers and smaller wrapper startups is widening dramatically. Anthropic is pacing toward its first profitable quarter with an astounding $10.9 billion Q2 revenue projection, while OpenAI reported $5.7 billion in Q1 but operates deeply in the red with a -122% operating margin.
The Imaginative Workforce: Addressing the current wave of structural adjustments, enterprise leadership must look at whether cuts are truly driven by AI efficiency or if it’s just a post-ZIRP correction from prior over-hiring. If AI is used purely as a scapegoat for reductions in force, it often means the management team simply lacks the imagination to apply human capital to documented, tribal knowledge base problems.

Interesting Coverage for the Week

That’s the wrap for What the Fudge for Sunday, May 24, 2026. Be safe, be well. Take care.

What The Fudge for May 17, 2026: Trillion-Dollar Valuations, Sovereign AI, and the Agentic Edge

2026-05-17T00:00:00Z

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🎙️ The “Five-Minute Sprint” Edition

Welcome to the May 17, 2026 edition of What The Fudge. I’m going to try to get it all into five minutes one more time. This week, we saw massive valuation news, shifts in the enterprise consulting space, and intense geopolitical discussions around infrastructure and the AI moat.

📍 Field Report: Frontier Valuations & Enterprise Pivot

The top stories around the frontier AI movement highlight just how much capital is flowing and how deployment is evolving.

The Trillion-Dollar Trajectory: Anthropic is getting valued at just under a trillion dollars. It’s a staggering figure that shows there are definitely going to be some interesting stories in the frontier AI movement.
The Forward Deployed Engineer: We are seeing the rise of the so-called Customer Forward Deployed Engineer as a new title of the future. This is a signal that OpenAI is getting into enterprise consulting and possibly even the cybersecurity business as they decide how to widen their aperture. Expect other companies to do the same.
Open vs. Proprietary: The debate between proprietary models and open-weight models continues. If you recall the whole DeepSeek imbroglio that occurred previously, it seems that providing similar effects and experiences ultimately leads to more noise than actual concern. Sometimes the press just gets ahead of itself.

🏗️ The Infrastructure Arms Race & Sovereign AI

When someone turns around and says, “I need more compute, I need more infrastructure,” it sets off a massive chain reaction among the top players.

Frenemies in Infrastructure: Are they enemies? Are they “frenemies”? Are they still competing? We are seeing complex partnerships forming around infrastructure, with SpaceX, Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Azure, and AWS all playing against and with each other.
The Geopolitical Debate: There are interesting threads on LinkedIn and X questioning where innovation is truly taking place. Is Europe actually going to compete with the United States? This conveniently omits the entire other side of the planet where Asia-Pacific might be found, but people will always share their opinions online.
The American AI Moat: We are watching restrictions working their way through the courts (like youth access to social media) and asking: what happens if the so-called “American AI moat” were to dry up or collapse?
Sovereign Funds & Finance: We’re also seeing Sovereign AI funds step up, as well as the finance sector training up for deeper AI utilization. The AI story is deepening its roots not just in organizational topology, but in team topology beyond mere software development. As standalone consulting businesses spin up from these tech giants, the “Big Five” of consulting will have to respond in kind because you now have technology companies literally entering the consulting space.

🤖 The Agentic Future & Kinetic AI at the Edge

What happens when we look closely at the “Agentic Future”?

Consumer Shopping Agents: On the consumer side, we’ll see shopping agents that try to do dedicated shopping for you. We’ll also see where and how AI moat conversations form up around these tools.
The Edge Breakout: At the end of the conversation around the AI moat, we have to ask if it’s truly only about Large Language Models (LLMs). The real breakout story will be Small Language Models (SLMs)—fit-for-purpose computer vision at the edge, and Kinetic AI. Edge computing is going to be the critical frontier. It won’t always be about massive data centers providing cheap power and cooling somewhere in the country; it will be about processing at the edge.

🚀 Space Value Chain Updates

Rounding out the 3.5-minute mark, a quick update on the space value chain:

No major updates on the NASA front this time.
It is interesting to watch the consolidation happening, with a couple of companies within the space value chain acquiring each other. I’ll cover those specifics in a future update to see how far they get.

Thanks for listening to the What the Fudge podcast. Take care.

Interesting Coverage for the Week

What The Fudge for May 10, 2026: Material Science, Policy as Code, and Quiet Supersonics

2026-05-10T00:00:00Z

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🎙️ The Five-Minute Sprint

Welcome to the What the Fudge podcast for May 10, 2026. I’m streamlining the workflow this week with some Python and new tools, aiming to keep this digest under five minutes while covering the rapid overhaul of the AI infrastructure stack.

📍 Field Report: Material Science & The Infrastructure Arms Race

The biggest signal this week is the sheer scale of investment in AI foundations, with hardware being literally reshaped to meet computational demand.

From Copper to Glass: There is a major shift toward co-packaged optics and networking. Corning and Nvidia have partnered to build optical glass fibers designed to replace traditional copper in AI rack systems for faster data transfer and lower energy consumption.
Vertical Integration: Companies are racing to secure their own compute. Anthropic is projecting massive growth this year and has forged a deal with SpaceX to leverage 300 megawatts of capacity from its Colossus 1 data center.
Silicon Photonics: Watching the emergence of silicon photonics and vertical accelerators. This includes reports that Anthropic may acquire inference accelerators from the UK startup Fractile.

🤖 Agentic Interfaces: Replacing the UI

We are moving away from simple conversational models toward autonomous “agents” that act on your behalf across digital and physical infrastructure.

Enterprise Automation: Infrastructure OEMs like HPE and Dell are rolling out AI agents to automate workflows such as provisioning and diagnosing network issues.
Remy and Google: Google is internally testing “Remy,” a Gemini-powered personal agent designed to be a 24/7 assistant integrated across Gmail and Drive.
Policy as Code: As these agents proliferate, platforms like Teradata are updating to focus on policy control and the centralization of automated compliance.

🛡️ Security, Disruption, and “AI Slop”

The rapid adoption of AI is creating a “double-edged sword” regarding security and the workforce.

The Security Crisis: Researchers found over 5,000 web applications built with AI coding tools (like Lovable or Replit) that had zero or inadequate authentication. This lack of security exposed sensitive data in nearly 40% of cases.
Harden and Secure: On the flip side, the rise of the DevSecOps pipeline uses new models to “shift left” and actually harden security.
The Workforce Narrative: While some companies cite AI efficiency in recent cuts, my view is that we are still seeing the correction from prior over-hiring.

🚀 Space Value Chain: Quiet Supersonics

Rounding out the week with a major milestone for the Space Value Chain (svc.fudge.org).

NASA X-59: NASA’s experimental X-59 jet recently hit 0.98 Mach during test flights, picking up speed over two flight days. This is a critical step toward quiet supersonic travel over land, moving us toward an era of ever-quieter supersonic flight.
Planetary Defense: Progress with the Near-Earth Object Surveyor is helping identify threats before they arrive.

That’s a wrap for May 10, 2026. Under five minutes, as promised. Be safe, be well. Take care.

Interesting Coverage for the Week

What The Fudge for May 3, 2026: Agentic Intelligence and Super Learners

2026-05-03T00:00:00Z

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🎙️ The Evolution/Revolution

Welcome to What the Fudge for May 3rd, 2026. This week, I’m looking at a couple of different threads around all things AI, but how that ties into spanning your current business into utilizing or taking advantage of AI, health innovations, and some of the shifts taking place in the companies that you see in the news.

🤖 The AI Agent: Beyond the LLM

There is a kind of evolution/revolution story you’ll see in the blogosphere or newsletters regarding the “AI agent.” One trend that sticks out is that massive funding isn’t just taking place in the United States.

Ineffable Intelligence: This startup has amassed well over a billion in a seed round.
The EU Advantage: What’s really interesting is that this funding is actually in the EU, not the United States.
Counter-Thesis: They are taking a counter-thesis that it’s not necessarily a large language model that’s going to be the really big breakout.
Super Learner Models: Their approach focuses on taking experience through simulation and reinforcement as opposed to just making ever-larger LLMs.

🛠️ The Managed Intelligence Provider (MIP)

I work for NexusTek, which is an MSP and an MSSP. We are currently on the path to becoming a MIP (Managed Intelligence Provider).

Kaseya’s Agentic AI: Kaseya is making the case that agentic AI will be delivered as an integrated experience, not a bolt-on experience.
Training Corpus: They’ve effectively taken well over a billion helpdesk tickets—representing millions of endpoints—as a training corpus.
Incumbents vs. New Entries: It isn’t necessarily about the incumbents; it will be about the most recent entries into the market and seeing how those legacy-free players challenge the incumbency of existing tools.

🛡️ Rage Bait and Backups

A current social media thread suggests an Anthropic Claude code agent “deleted a production database.”

Content Farming: I don’t know if this is true; it could be content farming or rage bait, but the more salacious the story, the more clicks it receives.
The Definition of a Backup: The whole thing brings up the concern of: “You did have a backup, right?” We need to agree on what a backup is and not just hand an agent the only copy of data you have.

🧠 Health Innovation: The “Squid” Helmet

AI stories are carrying over into the world of life sciences and healthcare.

Motif Neurotech: They have received FDA approval for clinical trials involving a computer-brain interface or wireless brain implant.
Non-Invasive Approach: This device sits above the brain tissue as opposed to being inserted into it.
SQUID Technology: Think of it as a “squid” helmet—an array of superconducting quantum interference devices—to involve itself with your brain activity.

🚀 Space: X-59 and the High Ground

NASA’s X-59 experimental aircraft story is ongoing, potentially ushering in a new age of quiet supersonic flight.

NASA is Viable: Be careful what you read; NASA is absolutely still viable and has not been shut down.
Jet Propulsion Lab: New thruster technologies for potential Moon and Mars missions are part of the JPL side of NASA.
Space Value Chain: You can track many of these companies at svc.fudge.org.

 The Apple Transition: John Ternus

The era of Tim Cook as CEO is shifting.

The Successor: John Ternus is set to replace Tim Cook as CEO of Apple.
Spyglass Coverage: I recommend going to spyglass.org to check out MG Siegler’s coverage of the transition.
Movie Analogy: MG makes an interesting movie analogy regarding the “Ternus era” that is well worth reading.

That’s a wrap for the What the Fudge Digest for May 3rd, 2026. Thanks for listening.

Interesting Coverage for the Week

My Fediverse Digest for April 2026

2026-04-30T00:00:00Z

Apr 03

04:55 PM

Friday thoughts…

Humans are in a tin can flying at ~11,500 miles per hour to our moon…

and they get to troubleshoot [ checks notes… ]

Microsoft Outlook issues?

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Apr 04

08:59 PM

LOLZ

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Apr 10

09:59 PM

Good on ya @eff

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/eff-leaving-x

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10:03 PM

Note: My #fediverse posting is going to be pretty high for the next week as I will be hanging out with the @techfieldday

Context: https://techfieldday.com/event/qlikconnect26/

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10:07 PM

Imagine.

https://social.coop/@judell/116381889006469572

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Apr 13

05:28 AM

Trying out @ivory for #qlikconnect #tfdx 🤓

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05:36 AM

Trying out @MonaApp for #qlikconnect #tfdx 🤓

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07:47 AM

Harnesses for AI will likely consume SaaS over the next 5 years. Product engineering will give way to more “harness engineering” goals to access emerging markets for agentic outcomes. Within a decade the SaaS market commoditization will halve while Harness as a Sevice (HaaS) expands the market geometrically. #qlikconnect #tfdx

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Apr 14

08:22 AM

Ready for the show to begin #qlikconnect #tfdx

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08:45 AM

In 2024, Qlik stopped the sprawl. In 2025, Qlik measured the momentum. By way of an automotive analogy, in 2026, Qlik and ServiceNow are asking us to give the AI the keys to the not-yet-quite-self-driving-car. But is the ‘Trusted Enterprise Context’ they’re promising an early analogy to GPS that we can actually follow, or just another map we’ll fold up and put in the glovebox? Or, as the keynote opened: Is it real? Do I trust it? How much will it really cost? #qlikconnect #tfdx

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08:50 AM

“You are closer to Agentic AI than you think.”

#qlikconnect #tfdx

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08:59 AM

For Agentic AI to be trusted at UPS, their operationalization journey first involved seeing outputs that sped up decision making but, crucially, they also began to see their logistics professionals feel consistently confidently spending more time providing differentiated value to their customers. #qlikconnect #tfdx

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09:09 AM

Thinking back to the “actionable insights” from Qlik Connect 2025, Qlik found the appropriate (and arguably most logical) action partnership for Qlik Connect 2026 in ServiceNow. ServiceNow and Qlik intent is to drive insights into action with trust, transparency, and explainability. #qlikconnect #tfdx

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09:15 AM

Qlik is doubling down on data sovereignty announced in 2025. Today, this is with AWS in the EU Sovereign Cloud. For years, the balkanization of the Internet has been predicted. What’s also going to be fascinating over the next 12 months is the increasing probability of Amazon Leo (featuring in Qlik Connect 2027???) for remote sensing and telemetry stories protecting sovereign data in flight, in actionable insights, at rest in S3, and the closed loop of trust. #qlikconnect #tfdx

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09:36 AM

“Your legacy [ data ] becomes your competitive advantage when it comes to AI.” Drew Clark, EVP, Products and Technology

#qlikconnect #tfdx

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09:43 AM

Several pundits have breathlessly claimed that AI will challenge, replace, or eliminate the need for BI analysts. However, the “BI superpowers AI” story is the perspective being shared by Ingersoll Rand both at AWS events and this year on stage with Qlk. #qlikconnect #tfdx

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09:51 AM

Qlik Answers “Express Mode” (coming soon) takes Qlik Answers down a less Proustian path! I suspect this updates reflects the empathy that Qlik product management has developed from customer feedback on the chatty nature of GPTs when clear, crisp, and concise is more valued than complete or exhaustive responses. #qlikconnect #tfdx

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09:53 AM

Qlik Automate Agent brings the power of “then…” to the post query response to drive outcomes across other platforms that can take action on the insight. #qlikconnect #tfdx

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09:57 AM

Based on the updates so far, I am wondering how many Qlik product team members started in roles as an account executive, sales engineer, solutions architect, or similar customer exposure / empathy rich work setting. #qlikconnect #tfdx

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10:06 AM

Qlik is emphasizing MCP capabilities by doing a demo with Anthropic Claude connected to Qlik’s MCP server. The demo features healthcare data and recommendations on tracking of curated and trusted data against benchmarks.

Effectively, this MCP product strategy enables a data estate investment to be open enough to expose a company’s most trusted contextual data to users seeking insights conversationally and to put those users on a path for Agentic AI.

#qlikconnect #tfdx

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10:12 AM

Qlik Open Lakehouse is conjuring “open” as the approach to reduce costs, increase performance, and improve time to insights in a Goldilocks zone medallion architecture. 🥉🥈🥇🧊
#qlikconnect #tfdx

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10:29 AM

In addition to the Qlik and ServiceNow partnership announcement there are also Answers, Discovery Agent, MCP Server, and new agents for prediction, automation, and analytics development announcements. #qlikconnect #tfdx

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10:32 AM

Architecture for AI driven business outcomes and key metrics

#qlikconnect #tfdx

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10:41 AM

On stage, Siemens Healthineers is describing how design governance principals fits into regulated industry data handling. Applied linguistics and natural language interfaces are considered to be a powerful means for expansion of accessibility. With greater accessibility the shortened timeline of event to insight to action in support of improved health outcomes will improve lives. #qlikconnect #tfdx

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05:49 PM

Jesse Cole’s “Fans First” product design methodology is basically a relentlessly applied scorched-earth policy against annoyance and friction. The Savanah Bananas dragged a 170 year old purist tradition into the madcap fun filled future by transforming baseball into a modern fever dream of non-stop engagement, absurdist alliteration, purposeful parody, deliberate defamiliarization, memorable experimentation, noteworthy non-sequiturs, and tactical triple entendres that brings joyous experience without “fine” compromise or bunting. And they did it lots and lots of data… and puns. So. Many. Puns.

Which begs the inner monologue rhetorical question… “Does our product experience bring joy to our customers in a way that makes them our fans?”

#qlikconnect #tfdx

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Apr 15

09:02 AM

Day 2 starts with innovation: Data Impact Awards and Customer Success with a callback and reinforcement of CTF

Context | Trust | Freedom

It is interesting for Qlik’s COO to say the goal is to move beyond pipes (“|”) so perhaps silos would be less subliminal word choice…

“Customer Zero” = the internal use of AI at Qlik

Eating their own dogfood…
Drinking their own champagne…

And now… the announcement: Qlik Agentic Advisory

Qlik Agentic Advisory claims to address what I call the ibles and ables but this does build tension for seeing a demo

Next… Raymond James, NHS, and Hello Fresh shared their challenge, response, and results. The Raymond James framework was both memorable and timely.

#qlikconnect #tfdx

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09:24 AM

Continuing the Qlik Lightning Round of challenge, solution, impact (results) were representatives from NEC and Compass Health Network (TouchPoint Support Services, Morrison Healthcare, Crothall Healthcare, Unidine, etc…)

For each story, seeing specific product callouts showed the value of the portfolio and choice in practice.

Qlik hackathon winners too!

#qlikconnect #tfdx

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09:36 AM

In 2024, 2025, and now in 2026 it is abundantly clear that Qlik and AWS are co-innovating and co-engineering.

On stage, Fujitsu shared a data driven management story of how 110k employees are realizing the benefits of a 5B transactions everyday from their sovereign data lake made possible by Qlik and AWS.

Coming soon… agentic advantage from disciplined curation of great data products.

(Likely a Harness + MCP + LLM + SLM story for Qlik Connect 2027)

#qlikconnect #tfdx

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09:58 AM

Qlik and Justice U shared their mutual support for the importance of learning how to identify and report suspected human trafficking

#qlikconnect #tfdx

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10:08 AM

Hearing “trust is the product of consistency over time” and similar variants of this phrase is a strong indicator of how meaning shifts for the word “trust” and the progression of product engineering to be focused on Customer eXperience (CX) both implicitly and explicitly.

#qlikconnect #tfdx

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10:20 AM

Anyone saying “today’s AI is the worst AI you will ever use” probably doesn’t want to acknowledge the modern tendency to trend towards #e14n or is intentionally ignoring inconvenient truths to maximize sustained hype peaks for another round of funding.

Or, maybe I need to switch to decaf.

#qlikconnect #tfdx

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05:13 PM

Enforcer? #qlikconnect #tfdx

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Apr 21

02:43 AM

Work travel moments

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Apr 22

09:48 AM

“Your account has now been migrated from the legacy Free plan to HCP Terraform Free.”

https://www.hashicorp.com/en/blog/continuing-hcp-terraform-s-enhanced-free-tier-experience

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Apr 23

09:52 PM

RedEye flights Déjà vu

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Apr 27

08:07 PM

There will be undoubtedly be more telescopes in LEO but you can bet they will more like Option B than Option A. Bring your quarters (of a million dollars) to see the sights.

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What The Fudge for April 26, 2026: Waymos on the 101, Scaling the BIPC, and the SpaceX IPO Pivot

2026-04-26T00:00:00Z

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🎙️ The “Lots of 26s” Edition

Welcome to What the Fudge for April 26, 2026. Lots of 26s today. I look at this week as one of those stories of what happens when you get to move around a little bit and see the progress of the world in motion.

📍 Field Report: Waymo and Amara’s Law

I found myself out in San Francisco and the Bay Area this week. Because of a tight schedule that wouldn’t work with BART or Caltrain, I ended up renting a car. That’s something I don’t often do as a primary Lyft user. So, I noticed something startling while driving the 101.

Autonomous Saturation: I saw “lots and lots of Waymo vehicles” on the 101, which was a shock as I assumed these autonomous driving systems were limited to city areas or non-highway environments.
The 10-Year Rule: It reminded me of Roy Amara’s law: we tend to overestimate what can happen in a few years and vastly underestimate what can happen in a decade or more.
Calibration: Since the “Uber Cab” days, the progress in autonomous driving has moved from a “cool” mobile summoning trick to a pervasive, barreling reality on major highways.

🤖 The Agentic Shift: From BICC to BIPC

This week, the conversation around Agentic AI shifted into high gear, mirroring what I heard recently at Qlik Connect. We are moving into a world where work is being delegated to non-human agents.

IDP Governance: There is a major focus on the Internal Developer Platform (IDP) side for non-human agents. These agents are becoming first-class users interacting directly with infrastructure, which raises massive questions about security and governance.
The BIPC Quip: In the old days, it would have been called a Business Intelligence Center of Confidence (BICC). Now, what we really have is a Business Intelligence Person of Confidence (BIPC). While the BIPC is great for that specific, confident individual, it is not a scalable operation. To reach a true center of competence, we need wider adoption and smarter rollout of these AI-enabled toolsets.
Agentic Empowerment: There is a growing sentiment that it is okay to let AI work on the projects you know you’ll never actually complete yourself, empowering developers to “turn it loose” and see what it does.

📈 Infrastructure, Layoffs, and the ZIRP Hangover

There is a growing critique in the news cycle about the relationship between AI investment and the current labor market.

The Cost of “Smart”: We have to ask if organizations are using the most expensive AI technology on the market for tasks that would be better suited for basic automation.
Layoffs and Infrastructure: The lens is shifting to whether layoffs are a result of over-hiring or the crushing cost of the hardware infrastructure required to deploy AI.
Post-ZIRP Reality: Aggressive hiring is very much in the rearview mirror as the industry applies a new cultural critique to business health.

🛰️ Sovereign AI & The Space Value Chain

The quest for Sovereign AI continues to go global, as countries look to protect their interests on a per-region basis.

Quantum Security: We are rapidly approaching the need for post-quantum encryption. Protecting data at rest today means preparing for a world where current cryptography is fundamentally challenged.
SpaceX IPO Pivot: As SpaceX prepares for an intensive IPO buildup, the focus is shifting toward AI and other moonshots, with the original goal of reaching Mars being de-emphasized.
Exploration Updates: Incredible new images are coming back from the Curiosity Rover on Mars, and systems for Artemis 3 are moving forward as we keep an eye on the cost of putting a kilogram into space.
Value Chain Update: It’s probably worthwhile for me to go back and update svc.fudge.org (the Space Value Chain) with a new pull request.

That’s the wrap for What the Fudge for April 26, 2026. Be safe, be well. Take care.

Interesting Coverage for the Week

What The Fudge for April 19, 2026: Sovereignty, Qlik Connect, and Orbital Intelligence

2026-04-19T00:00:00Z

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🎙️ The Not-Quite-Late Edition

Welcome to What the Fudge for April 19, 2026. This past week, I was taking some time to go to Florida for Qlik Connect. This was my third year in a row as a delegate for Tech Field Day Experience to Qlik Connect, and it has been a great chance to catch up with folks and see a progression over a three-year period.

📍 Field Report: Qlik Connect & The Enterprise Stack

The event resonated on several levels regarding AI, governance, compliance, and the notion of sovereignty. We are seeing a shift in the roles of who will be involved in the evolving enterprise tech stack.

Engineering Shifts: The industry is considering things like platform engineering and product engineering.
The Goal: It is about the product experience, the end-user experience, and the “delight” that you try to bring the end user.
Community of Practitioners: I was surrounded by industry peers and an “enviable passionate community of practitioners” who really think about data products and delighting their own internal customers.

⚖️ The AI Regulatory Avalanche

There is a seemingly “avalanche of AI-related bills” taking place right now, covering everything from industry regulation to the potential for a “patchwork” of state and federal laws.

Sovereign AI: Along the lines of sovereignty, the UK Government has launched its own Sovereign AI Unit with its own lessons around where it will invest. More here: https://www.techmeme.com/260416/p41#a260416p41
Implicit Sovereignty: There is an “implicit association of AI being a sovereign endeavor”.
Simplifying the Operating Model: We are looking at a drastic simplification of the AI experience, moving toward a world where you may not even need to know what a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server is or how AI Ops functions to support these tools.

🚀 Space: Blue Origin and the Orbital Data Layer

I think everyone saw the recent touchdown of the Blue Origin booster. These landings never get old, and seeing the “tit-for-tat” between Blue Origin and SpaceX shows that these companies will be a part of the future of AI-capable satellites.

Orbital Data Centers: There is a good chance we will see data centers for AI purposes or satellites being launched on these platforms.
Remote Sensing and Telemetry: The combination of telemetry and remote sensing in Lower Earth Orbit (LEO) is creating new stories around data analysis.
Actionable Intelligence: By amassing data from satellites, drones, and even “dirigible-based” or balloon-based sensors, we are reaching new levels of “actionable intelligence”.

☀️ Energy and Human Impact: qlik.org

There are some very interesting things available to us from a human standpoint. If you did not know, there is qlik.org , which is the nonprofit wing of Qlik.

Solving Problems: I am imagining what happens when you combine data from satellites and remote sensing with the rapid synthesis of data to solve problems that are only possible with these new techniques.
Bullish Outlook: While AI is often perceived through a dystopian lens—worrying about clean water or setting fire to the planet, I view those as “period in time” problems.
Efficiency: I remain very bullish on the future and believe this will become a far more efficient way of doing things.

That’s the wrap for What the Fudge for Sunday, April 19, 2026. Be safe, be well. Take care.

What The Fudge for April 12, 2026: The Two-Day Late Edition

2026-04-12T00:00:00Z

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🎙️ Better Late Than Never

Welcome to What the Fudge for April 12, 2026—the two-day late edition. I’m late, and that’s okay. This is a podcast and it’s mine, so I can sort of make the rules. Just catching up on the week in the rear view mirror, this was the week where AI agents and secrets really started to get into the zeitgeist.

🛡️ Security and the “AI Sprawl”

Security came up again—not the usual “AI will make the industry moot” argument, but a realization that people aren’t being as careful as they should be.

Sharing Secrets: We are seeing an “AI sprawl” where users are inadvertently sharing secrets—usernames, passwords, identity, and source code—within AI prompts.
GitGuardian Report: The “State of the Secrets 2026” report found a massive amount of hardcoded secrets leaked publicly on GitHub.
Token Burning: If these are AI-related secrets, someone might “burn your tokens up” using the platform you’ve already paid for.

🤖 From Pilot to Execution: Agentic AI

Enterprises are moving from the “pilot” phase to actual execution with AI agents.

Task-Specific Agents: In the sprawling world of enterprise applications, imagine the things you hate logging into at your day job.
Agentic Interaction: About half of those tasks might soon be handled by something “agentic” on your behalf.
Conversational Harness: Instead of logging into a UI, you’ll work in your favorite “harness” and have a “conversation” with software that attempts to interpret as your chat based or transcribed voice commands.

⚖️ The Leadership Spectrum: “No-No-No” vs. “Oh Fudge”

Following Simon Wardley’s concepts, leadership is currently split into two camps:

Headlong Ambition: C-suite leaders with outsized ambitions about what AI will do.
The Pragmatic “No”: Those in the “no-no-no-no” category until they hit the “Oh Fudge” tipping point.

The risk remains that there isn’t a centralized platform in place to manage the growth of these AI agents.

🔄 Automation Lifecycles and Drift

How survivable is automation without attention to its lifecycle?

The Playbook Gap: Problems arise when the person who created an automation playbook leaves, and the person who inherits it realizes “drift” has occurred.
Context Matters: Computers will do exactly what you ask them to do, but if they lack the relevant knowledge base or context, they may inadvertently share private data in a public repository.

🚀 Space Value Chain: Artemis 2

Rounding out the week, the stories coming out of Artemis 2 are absolutely amazing. Between the great memes and the incredible soundbites, it is delightful to be alive on this little blue sphere while folks on the “high ground” put our existence into a greater context.

That’s a wrap for the What the Fudge Digest for April 12, 2026. Thanks for checking in.

What The Fudge for April 5, 2026: AI Independence, Space Data Centers, & Outlook on the Moon

2026-04-05T00:00:00Z

Four times in a row! Here we go!

Listen here: Playlist on YouTube.com/@JayCuthrell

Note: This week I tried using Descript (referral link for 50% discount for 2 months on the Creator monthly plan) again for the first time since April 13, 2024 (I am quite fickle about SaaS but like to kick the tires). This time, I aimed to remove uhms, ahhs, and pauses to go from 7m 28s (raw) to 6m 59s (scrubbed).

🎙️ The AI Race & Governance

Microsoft’s AI Self-Sufficiency: Microsoft has decided they will be “becoming AI self-sufficient or pulling themselves up by their own bootstraps from an AI perspective,” giving users an option beyond OpenAI models.
Copilot Everywhere: With in-house frontier models appearing to use “about half the hardware,” we can expect Copilot to “become more inclusive of every UI UX experience across all of the Microsoft platforms.”
Gemma 4: Google has released an open model, meaning users can take this open model and “avoid having to pay potentially per token model costs elsewhere,” by using Gemma 4 on your own device.

📉 AI Failures and Reductions in Force

Moving Past The Cliches: The news cycle is moving past the “cliched 95% of AI projects fail” narrative and investigating whether AI is truly causing reductions in force.
A Convenient Scapegoat: Addressing whether AI is a convenient scapegoat, Jensen Huang noted that if AI is used as a justification, “it just simply is a way of the managerial team saying they have lacked imagination.”
Additive Workloads: Organizations must understand if AI is “additive to your workload” or if “the juice worth the squeeze,” giving users more time to apply “a truly subjective use of your brain for things that are tribal knowledge, not documented.”

☁️ Data Centers & Geopolitics

AWS Offline Zones: As a geopolitics and cybersecurity story, AWS “has taken some of their data centers offline in the areas where there is a quote unquote hard down in their other zones that are part of the conflict taking place right now in the Middle East.”
Data Centers in Orbit: Cloud infrastructure is expanding, with predictions of data centers “in a cloud above our heads, meaning something in space, rotating above us, geosynchronous or low earth orbit.”
Maine Moratorium: Domestically, the state of Maine “has decided they will put a moratorium on net new data center builds.”

⚖️ Common Carrier Law & ISPs

Supreme Court Ruling: A Supreme Court ruling addressed internet service providers (ISPs) and copyright infringement concerns over peer-to-peer networks.
ISP Accountability: The focus is on “trying to hold accountable those ISPs as opposed to trying to track down individual users on those ISPs.”
AI Generated Content: This accountability will be interesting regarding user behaviors surrounding “AI generated or manipulations or transformations of that content.”

🚀 Artemis 2 & Space Troubles

Return to the Moon: It is delightful to see humans “in a tin can flying towards the moon once again for the first time in many many decades.”
Outlook in Space: Astoundingly, these highly trained astronauts “were apparently stymied by the wonders of Microsoft Outlook” and needed remote help to “troubleshoot an Outlook issue.”

🥽 Biometrics, VR, and AR

Beyond Passkeys: There is a movement beyond passkeys, looking at “what will happen as biometrics and new ways of conducting single sign on sequences” evolve.
VR/AR Evolution: With a precipitous drop in cost to deliver VR/AR experiences, we will eventually see “smarter and smarter glasses potentially even optics that could be built into something that’s more akin to our concept of a contact lens.”
Non-Repudiation Identity: With new tech, there will be “very interesting ways of thinking about non repudiation identity and how that ties back into a login system for biometric purposes” without needing an appendage.

My Fediverse Digest for March 2026

2026-03-31T00:00:00Z

Mar 05

09:07 PM

Google Plus has shutdown and here is why

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Mar 07

09:58 AM

DOOM being played by human brain cells on a Cortical Labs CL1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRV8fSw6HaE

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Mar 09

09:27 PM

🎶 Your own… personal… access token… 🎶
🎶 Someone to auth your commmits… 🎶
Da-push Mode

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Mar 13

12:22 AM

Rewrite an ending or two

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAZ1nfuluz0

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Mar 14

11:32 AM

RIP limitless pendant

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12:30 PM

Time to make the upgrades

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12:49 PM

Upgraded to v0.21.1 Sacrilegiouser Sloth Stable

#gotosocialadmin

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01:09 PM

./upgrade_gotosocial.sh

#gotosocialadmin

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01:17 PM

No idea if this will matter but… a redirect

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11:44 PM

What’s My JND? 0.0046
Can you beat it? https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd/?r=Ac8jKP___3y3

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11:58 PM

What’s My JND? 0.0095 (Hard Mode)
Can you beat it? https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd-hard/?r=A7UiKP____8w

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Mar 15

01:02 PM

Testing out #fediverse web client options

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09:43 PM

Testing

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Mar 16

12:29 AM

Better late than never

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_U96dSp76s

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Mar 21

01:07 PM

Upgraded to v0.21.2 Sacrilegiouser Sloth Stable
#gotosocialadmin

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Mar 26

06:51 PM

There is an opt-out for “Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training” (scroll down)

Source: https://github.com/settings/copilot/features

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08:21 PM

Decade old remix… of a 1997 country shuffle poem played by a rock band with a budget that can afford an orchestral string section and the attitude to pull it off https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=u6LKHmshZU4&si=O-BHsH2-pFj9xKT4

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Mar 29

06:46 PM

Bots gonna bot

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Mar 31

07:23 PM

“People are going to figure out that it’s basically Clippy++ and that, ya know, it’s not artificial intelligence, it’s just spicy autocomplete”

via @bruces

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09:28 PM

Does anyone else still get confirmation emails from reservations@res-marriott.com after booking a hotel reservation on Marriott website or using the mobile app?

Even through I made multiple reservations in the past 30 days, I have not received a confirmation email from reservations@res-marriott.com since February 2026 after receiving them from that email address for the past 7 years.

Before that it was Reservations@marriott.com ~25 years ago.

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What The Fudge for March 29, 2026: All Things AI, Digital Employees, and Solar Bricks

2026-03-29T00:00:00Z

Thrice in a row! Here we go!

Listen here: Playlist on YouTube.com/@JayCuthrell

🎙️ The “I Have Allergies” Edition

Welcome back to What the Fudge for Sunday, March 29th, 2026. If I sound a little funny, I’m a little stuffed up—apologies for that, but let’s get to it.

📍 Field Report: All Things AI (Raleigh-Durham)

This week, I had a chance to go to All Things AI in Raleigh-Durham. It was amazing to catch up with so many folks. The turnout was massive; I took some video of a 500+ person line stretching down the sidewalks and around the corner. It was a chilly morning in Durham, especially on the second day, but the energy was high.

🤖 AI Dominance and Security Risks

The big stories this week revolve around AI dominance and security risks. Key names topping the news:

Anthropic & The Pentagon: The drama continues over whether it will or won’t be used. This follows the recent designation of Anthropic as a “supply chain risk” by the Pentagon^[1].
Claude Mythos: There was a leak (planned or otherwise) regarding “Claude Mythos,”^[2] an unreleased model described as a “step change” in AI capabilities.
Safety & Malware: Despite announcements that caused some cybersecurity stocks to dip^[3], rest assured that AI is not displacing security yet. There are still plenty of ways for security to go very, very wrong.

The Rise of the Agents

We are seeing a shift toward Agentic AI (like OpenClaw and nemoClaw).

These are variants designed for goals and outcomes—a “set it and forget it” approach to autonomous software.
Digital Employees: This concept is coming to an HR department near you. We need to start thinking about the cost of tokens consumed by human team members versus digital employees.
Labor Bifurcation: We may soon see the “third leg” of labor split into Real Human Labor and Digital Employee Labor.

Major court cases are shifting the landscape for Meta and YouTube.

Landmark Verdicts: A New Mexico jury recently ordered Meta to pay $375 million over child safety violations^[4].
Product Liability: In a separate Los Angeles case, a jury found Meta and YouTube liable for harmful app design, signaling a major shift toward product liability rather than just content liability^[5].

🚀 Beyond Terrestrial Concerns

Interest is spiking in robotics outside of our gravitational pull.

Orbital Robotics: Expect to see more robotics launched on satellites.
Sovereign Space: More countries are bringing their specific space programs into focus, moving beyond just the major global players.

☀️ Energy: Solar and Ceramic Storage

We are seeing a precipitous drop in the cost of solar, paired with a massive jump in efficiency and energy conversion.

Heat Storage: Since we can’t use all that solar energy during the day, storage is key.
Ceramic Tech: Researchers at ETH Zurich recently unveiled new tech that uses ceramics to absorb solar radiation and reach temperatures over 1,000°C for industrial use.
Energy-Storing Cement: Similarly, new developments have shown cement combined with carbon black can form supercapacitors to store electrical energy.
The Blast from the Past: This reminds me of Olivine bricks from the 1970s energy crisis which was a concept I studied as a Material Science major.

That’s the wrap for the What the Fudge Digest for March 29, 2026. Thanks for listening.

Footnotes

Conference notes

2026-03-26T19:34:00Z

As part of my advisor role at NC Tech, I was able to attend the all things AI conference in Durham North Carolina this week. The attendee energy was amazing and the first day session wrap Fireside Chat: The Past, Present, and Future of AI with Igor Jablokov and Mark Hinkle was incredibly thought provoking.

As a bonus, I was able to run into several peers that I haven’t seen in years then reconnect with attendees from the prior All Things AI conference and Tech Field Day alumni. This time the conference was much larger and expanded beyond the Carolina Theatre and into Durham Convention Center.

Hallway discussions informed me of cackalackycon 2026 which takes place the same week of TechFest with NC TECH in May 2026. Sponsor booths got a lot of traffic too.

This week also meant additional travel to meet with clients. Anecdotally, my airport security lines experience was normal if not lighter than expected, but connecting through ATL confirmed my suspicion that not all travelers experience the same security theatre.

Trying out Sveltia CMS

2026-03-23T22:35:00Z

I considered using Decap CMS for a while, but never got around to establishing the CMS authentication service to remove dependencies from Netlify and Cloudflare (worker).

At this point, adding a single HTML page with only a GitHub dependency is an acceptable alternative. One fine grained personal access token later, and I am speaking into my transcribing laptop with great success.

If you’re reading this, then you will know that Sveltia CMS is not just working… it is working well.

What The Fudge for March 22, 2026: The Edge of Intelligence

2026-03-22T00:00:00Z

Twice in a row! Here we go!

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Eventually, I’ll be using a local model to create this but for now I’m trying a Google Gem to chunk up the 9 minutes into sections.

🎙️ Evolution of the Setup

All right, it is time for the what the fudge for March 22nd. And I’ve decided that I’m going to probably build out a little bit more of a mobile solution. I will probably get a dedicated microphone or something to that effect, something that I could use with the iPhone. I don’t know that I’m going to have a laptop with me all the time while I’m traveling.

But the whole idea is to get this in and get it done with the minimal of equipment required, something that would fit into a backpack.

📍 Local Dispatch: All Things AI

It’s getting late because I’m going to be attending the All Things AI event here in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina. I’m really excited to see folks; I remember last year it was a really great event, and so I’m fortunate to join all of my peers from last year, as well as some folks from the NC Tech organization.

🤖 From Model Focus to Context Engineering

AI, the notion of agents and coding has really been a large part of the news. I think of it as one of the elements around engineering an outcome is the focus on the harness.

The Shift: About a year ago, everything’s going to be model, model, model, and now what you’re looking for is people are doing things with said models.
Context Engineering: Where a year and a half ago, you probably would have heard prompt engineering, now you’re hearing more about context engineering.
The Goal: It is the meta or higher level abstraction of getting away from just peer prompt engineering and trying to get folks to pull together who is the person that’s asking for what they want, what’s their role, and what’s the goal.

🛰️ The Convergence: Robotics and Remote Sensing

There’s going to be this rapid progression of models. There’s going to be probably an increase in the interest of putting models closer towards devices, closest towards the edges of the network.

Autonomous Systems: This ties into what I believe will be this growth in remote sensing, telemetry, robotics, far more autonomous systems that are taking inputs in from other places and putting that together and synthesizing that information.
Specialized Players: Some of this is most likely going to be very, very large companies like Amazon, but I think what might be interesting is smaller players doing things in very niche areas.

🏥 Dystopia vs. Progress

Markets are a little interesting right now in the sense that we live in “interesting times.” I think of the investments right now as a combination of AI, automation, and robotization.

“Does the cliche of the Skynet moment get ever closer because of the things we’re doing? Or is it that it’s only in the news or in the coverage when it is dystopian?”

I think an important element here is to also look at the amazing progressions:

Robotic Surgery: Applying these advances to things like assisted robotic surgery.
Problem Solving: Bringing these disciplines together and solving some of the most challenging problems because robots don’t take days off.
Accessibility: Much like the early introduction of 3D printing or the price drop in flat panel displays, I expect a race to lower costs in robotization.

📱 The “Gmail Moment” for Personal AI

What happens when there is one breakout? Someone on the product engineering side really figures this stuff out.

The Gemini Factor: Imagine what might happen if the same way we think of email and what Gmail did for it—what if Google’s personal AI assistant in Gemini was just good enough to really catch hold?
Local and Private: Imagine that, not necessarily having to go all the way over the internet to another data center. Imagine a lot of that running locally on the device itself. Truly private, secure compute on a device.
Embedded AI: Whether it’s Apple Intelligence or Google’s Pixel line, it’ll be interesting to see how the edge of the network becomes increasingly AI without having to necessarily rely on a larger network of generalized infrastructure.

What if the AI is literally baked into the phone, into the device, into the robot?

🏁 Wrapping Up

I’m going to call it a wrap and plan to get a more mobile version of this podcast recording setup. Maybe in a few weeks, but I’m gonna try to keep the podcast to Sundays.

Again, this was what the fudge for Sunday, March 22nd, 2026. Take care.

What The Fudge for March 15, 2026: WTF Begins

2026-03-15T00:00:00Z

🎙️ Here we go

Raw? You bet. Delayed? Far too long.

Fun. Kinda.

I decided to make a visual to go with the audio recording using python (https://github.com/JayCuthrell/what-the-fudge-podcast) and this is the result:

YouTube Transcription

The ability of YouTube to create Subtitles/close caption is pretty good. I still want to play with a local models and other options.

Speaking of other options… I decided to copy and paste Voice Memo app “transcript” too.

Apple Transcription (added for posterity and hilarity)

All right, we’re gonna try it. Welcome to What the Fudge. I’m gonna do the following things if you’re not aware of my blog on fudge.org. I’ve been toying with the idea of doing a podcast. This is the 1st attempt at that. You got to start somewhere, you know, if you’re not embarrassed by your 1st release, you have waited too long. So just as a quick roundup, everything these days seems to revolve around subjects like AI. But there’s also this concept of sovereignty, whether that’s digital sovereignty, in the technology space mean that your technology is usable within some confine, whether that confine is to your country or locally to you, or maybe your own personal digital sovereignty, but there’s always this concept of digital sovereignty coming up around what you should have access to, you know, for example, should you have access to personal AI? Or do you have to always go out to an external 3rd party service provider? And when you talk about AI, of course, there’s the ones that get into the news, this is the concept of what’s your default. Is it chat GPT? R U into anthropic clode? Are you into Google Gemini? When I say ChatGPT, of course, that would be open AI, but everyone’s got their approach to whether they’ve decided on what’s their daily driver, but the market is going to have different segmentations. There will be people that are developers, those developers might feel strongly about, say, anthropic cloud. There might be people that are more generalist and they just feel very strongly about what they’ve been doing with open AI chat GPT. There may be people that are, because they use Gmail, they started playing with Google Gemini. It all just depends. But then there’s other things like open source agents and the open source agents are getting more mainstream. So if you’ve heard of open claw, that’s this concept of, you know, a command lined kind of thinking world, um, going into, uh, for lack of a better term, a a success-based or set it and forget it approach to running an AI. And in this case, uh, open claw has been, you know, uh, thought of as, okay, well, what if you did that open claw, but for everything? And if you follow open claw on GitHub, then you know it’s pretty popular. It’s, I think, one of the most favorited or starred projects on GitHub. But of course, if you think about this in the larger scheme of things and some of the folks that started AI back in the early days, even some of those founders have moved on. So Jan Lacoon, you’ll hear his name a lot. He’s actually now got the startup called Advanced Machines, Intelligence, or AMI. They’ve raised well over a $1000000000 and they’re going to be developing so-called world models that are more about the physical world than just the GPTs and text patterns or creating 3 toad sloss carrying a bucket of fried chicken that, for whatever reason, someone decided that was a great use of image creation capability. So it’ll be interesting to see these things play out. But if you look at the future of where this is headed in terms of work, what it means to have access to data, you may have heard of or been a part of this progression from, you know, the age of various software engineerings titles, you probably remember there was platform engineering and then there was product engineering. So now there’s going to be product engineers that really think of this in the sense of true product management, but in the purest sense, beyond what would have been a team of people now sort of embodying that empathy plus development capability inside of a new role. You may have also heard of things like the context layer where in the past you may have been a prompt engineer, and now you’re more of a context engineer. But the thing that you’re really hunting on there is what happens when software, which was supposedly eating the world, if you remember that, Andrews and Horowitz, or Mark Andriesen phrase, but now there’s Naval, who is basically saying that it’s AI that has actually eaten the software. So whether or not you subscribe to those pithy phrases or not, it is interesting that AI is becoming part of all product engineering focuses. Every shipping software product is going to have to include some sort of an AI feature. So, uh, if you remember, I’d also done the, um, in the past, I had the space value chain where I had forked the Landscape 2 project, uh, from the Cloud Native Foundation, uh, the CNCF. So I still think that’s interesting, but if you’re not familiar with some of the larger players, whether that’s Axiom, for example, they’re getting new funding. A lot of this is around research now where we’re seeing, we’re interested in microgravity research, doing deployments into space to move the science into space where you do have these unique microgravity, so-called 0 gravity environments. And then you’ve got things like people wondering what’s the latest in grace, with NASA, with Artemis 2. What’s going to be going on with those launch attempts as we, you know, go back, quote unquote, to the moon? And then, looking at things like the European Space Agency, what they’re doing, and some of the other space ports that are coming up around the world. I think it’s important to understand that most nations that have the ability to put something into space will be trying to put things into space. I don’t think it’s going to be necessarily one or 2 countries. I think it’ll be every country that will eventually want to have some sort of space port or some way to put things into space, much like the sovereignty we talked about before. Just like many countries are getting for the 1st time, their own sovereign satellites up in space. And then last rounding out some of the thoughts for the week is looking at what it might mean for those that are thinking about what comes next, what I’m doing with this newsletter slash podcast. I’m currently recording this using the voice memo app on my Apple laptop. So I don’t know that there will be amazing call quality, but I will eventually break out the sure microphone set, do it much like you would expect with a podcast where I’m kind of hunched over, near a microphone, talking into it. Whether or not I use video has yet to be decided, but I just wanted to get this recorded for tonight and then take this as again, the 1st time. I don’t know where the next one goes, but I’m actually curious to see how the transcription works out. And with that, thank you for listening to What the Fudge, the 1st edition on Sunday, March 15th, 2026.

The Podcasting Era

2026-03-06T00:00:00Z

🎙️ Podcast via POSSE

While evolving the way I handle my digital footprint, the POSSE (Publish on Own Site, Syndicate Everywhere) principle is coming to my upcoming podcast. Initially, I will be using my existing 11ty (Eleventy) on Akamai Linode VPS approach.

While I’ve experimented over the years with a podcast, much of that experimentation was short-lived. However, I believe that a podcast is more viable now that I’ve proven my newsletter publishing continuously.

The Studio

My initial goal is to have the studio fit in my pocket or backpack. Effectively that means I’ll be using an iPhone or my MacBook Air.

For now, speaking to the iPhone or my MacBook Air will suffice. As I get more sophisticated, there will be a formal studio design with gear that fits in a carry-on bag.

The DevSecFinGitOps Goals

Taking a lesson from my newsletter publishing, I am going to keep things simple and stable. To stay within my 2TB Linode transfer pool and minimize my footprint, I’ve opted for a “Zero-Runtime” architecture:

Ultra-Lean: 11ty compiles my Markdown into a static compatible RSS/Atom feed
Edge Delivery: Serving the static files via Caddy OR delivering static files via Cloudflare R2 (TBD) with a media subdomain
The Workflow: (for now)
1. Draft: Content starts in Obsidian (Markdown) OR Voice Memos OR GarageBand
2. Refine: Metadata is managed in VS Code
3. Automate: A python script calculates audio length and duration bitrates
4. Deploy: git push triggers a GitHub Action and webhooks to my VPS OR Cloudflare R2
5. Push: n8n parses and pushes anything that doesn’t handle RSS/Atom feed

The Bandwidth Shield

By optionally using a Storage-Origin/CDN-Edge strategy, I’m offloading the heavy .mp3 delivery to the edge. This keeps my Linode egress which I used for my music years ago.

This setup isn’t just about overages mitigation, it’s about owning the source and keeping the infrastructure as code (IaaC) portable and self-hosted wherever possible. Also, a subdomain for media delivery will be an interesting challenge.

The Domain Decision

Every podcast needs a snazzy domain name, and I’m finally going to do something with UnicornJockeys.com (Unicorn Jockeys Podcast) which is currently parked on Netlify. That something will be podcasting.

Fun fact: Almost 10 years ago, I was still active on Twitter. I even grabbed the unicornjockey username back in late 2015.

IT kids love the meaty new taste of Unicorn Jockeys Podcast: Now with up to 65% less hosts! Mmmm mmmm good! 🦄
Data Centers Worldwide
Joined December 2015

Side note: At the time, I had used a similar domain, UnicornJockey.com (no “s”), for recruiting purposes to get referrals during the time of hypergrowth / blitzscaling at VCE. Over the years, I’ve updated the redirect to reflect where I happen to be working at the time.

More to come… stay tuned.

#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:

My Fediverse Digest for February 2026

2026-02-28T00:00:00Z

Feb 05

04:58 PM

OTel ingestion API on GCP supports native OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) logs, trace spans, and metrics
https://docs.cloud.google.com/stackdriver/docs/reference/telemetry/overview

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Feb 07

04:42 PM

Choose a life of NORMAL or ORTHONULL?
https://youtube.com/shorts/wJeFj-H7Rfg

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Feb 11

11:30 PM

Upgraded to v0.21.0-rc1 Sacrilegious Sloth
#gotosocialadmin

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Feb 26

10:54 PM

1995 was quite a year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFLVbq1OuHI

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Voice to Version 1.0

2026-02-15T00:00:00Z

As my travel schedule ramps up for 2026, I’ve found myself spending a significant amount of time heading to the airport or in transit between destinations. When I’m not catching up on phone calls, it occurred to me that I could reclaim that time to generate content using basic transcription available on the iPhone.

This isn’t exactly a new frontier for me. Many years ago, back when I was still rocking a BlackBerry, I was experimenting with early application support for transcription. Back then, it was never quite clear if the audio was being processed by a computer or if a WAV file was being quietly shipped off to a third party for “Mechanical Turk” style human transcription.

Gadgets are interesting but if the best camera is the one you have, then for audio, that’s my iPhone too. Plus, I’m also looking for a simple alternative now that I’ve discontinued using Limitless AI pendant.

The Medical Model

Transcription is a staple in other industries, most notably in medicine, where doctors narrate their notes for later processing. Now, I’m certainly not a doctor nor do I play one on TV, but the logic holds.

The Apple ecosystem and onboard transcription have reached a point of high reliability. Whether the processing stays on the device or hits the cloud for speech-to-text, the quality is finally there. The real question now is: what kind of post-processing can we apply to make it actually useful?

Enriching the Stream

This is where the “wonders of containers, open source, and my Google Gemini Gem(s)” come into play. By feeding a Gem the knowledge of my prior blog posts (including the frontmatter and permalinks) I can do more than just transcribe. I can enrich.

For example, if I mention a topic like the space value chain, the workflow could automatically provide deep links to my existing content. A short Python script and some n8n glue could also grab the latest Techmeme headlines or meta-commentary from ~~Techmeme~~ Tech Brew Ride Home to add context.

Version 1.0

My goal is a “minimum viable” toolchain that gets a draft into version control on GitHub. From there, my webhooks are already in place to build the site and ship the post into Fudge Factor Newsletter for subscriber dissemination.

The most exciting part? It keeps my face out of a screen. We could all use a “welcome departure” from the screen-staring that constitutes modern knowledge work.

The Provocative Path

Some might consider this to be the opposite of a podcast because it is recording audio to get text. However, if I wanted to be provocative, I could take the resulting text, use a trained facsimile of my voice, and create an artificial recording of me reading the post I just spoke into existence.

I don’t think I’m quite there yet. Capturing my specific inflections and mannerisms would require significant training against my video and audio archives. It’s on the list of things to try, but let’s be clear: I haven’t uploaded my consciousness to the cloud. That trope, and that dog, won’t hunt. At least not yet.

My Fediverse Digest for January 2026

2026-01-31T00:00:00Z

Jan 01

03:38 PM

Happy New Year!

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07:51 PM

Update: After some DKIM, DMARC, and SPF updates… I’m 99% done with my Akamai Linode Cloud self-hosted listmonk implementation thanks to the wonders of containers, open source, and my Google Gemini Gem(s). It will probably take ~3 weeks to “warm up” my Fudge Factor subscriber list but I’ll be closer to POSSE than I’ve been in several years.

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Jan 02

10:26 PM

If you use LinkedIn, GoToSocial, and Bluesky… Enjoy!
https://github.com/JayCuthrell/posse-cli

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Jan 06

06:20 PM

claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 is reasoning

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Jan 10

08:49 PM

Better Living Through Python

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Jan 11

01:07 AM

Eleventy in 2026
My stack and workflow in 2026
https://fudge.org/archive/11ty-in-2026/

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Jan 12

10:37 AM

Monday is when I reconsider if history of commands should be a cron job or similar… i.e.

docker compose pull
docker compose down
docker compose up -d
docker image prune

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Jan 17

10:58 AM

À tout le monde… A toot 🍋

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08:44 PM

TIL https://api.github.com/meta
🤓

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Jan 24

12:22 PM

Adding a web interface

https://github.com/JayCuthrell/posse-cli

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Jan 31

03:21 PM

Many hot takes in just under 37 minutes #TechFieldDay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8TuOCkuybg

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Eleventy in 2026

2026-01-10T00:00:00Z

Fun fact: As of this update, I have 6000+ Followers on LinkedIn.

POSSE Update

After some DKIM, DMARC, and SPF updates… I’m 99% done with my Akamai Linode Cloud self-hosted listmonk implementation thanks to the wonders of containers, open source, and my Google Gemini Gem(s). The “warm up” of my Fudge Factor subscriber list will be interesting but I’ll be closer to POSSE than I’ve been in several years.

Last Year and This Year

I’ve been writing daily for years and can’t recall the last time I took a break. I’ve been late to send or had a few technical hiccups but otherwise… typing and sending.

Last year I stopped attempting LinkedIn Newsletters. I decided POSSE, n8n, and python scripts would be my approach to sharing as LinkedIn posts instead with options for Fediverse (originally Mastodon now GoToSocial) and Bluesky.

My LinkedIn traffic was lower last year with only 179,507 Impressions, 4,713 Engagements, and 3,253 Profile Viewers. I set a mini-goal of reaching 6,000 followers by the end of 2025.

Oddly enough, my three most popular posts on LinkedIn in 2025 were one mistakenly late published article… and two copy/paste from my actual newsletter / blog.

When I look at the entire year of posts, my reach spikes significantly when I am a “live reporter” for industry events like Tech Field Day, All Things AI, CISE, SXSW, etc.

I traveled a lot last year and reached Diamond levels on Delta, Hilton, and Marriott. So, if that travel level continues in 2026, perhaps I’ll be seeing more spikes in my reach.

As for writing in 2026, I might slow it down a bit. My formulaic approach for Hot Fudge Daily lasted for well over a year but I missed Fudge Factor nerdy stuff.

My 2026 Workflow

Previously, I was going to attempt using GoToSocial’s RSS for driving my workflow to see if it sticks. It did not.

However, I did add search to my blog (finally). I also began adding back tags.

Right now, I’m proficient with VS Code, python, and the prior workflow I optimized for Hot Fudge Daily. Ideally, I’d like to do a few things reliably well.

Get everything driven from CLI or cron (why not both?)
Use Markdown that is simple and portable (image processing?)
Leverage prior python scripts (because refactoring is needed)
Break up the daily topical (to be more more thinkish)
Drop the pretense of title’s with dates that lack context (because 🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-12-07 doesn’t quite sell it, ya know?)
Unbury the lede (Descriptions become telling titles)
Publish to GitHub, build on Linode, n8n to poll RSS and post to listmonk (as a draft for now)
Get comfortable with enabling automatic steps

Additionally, I plan to use scripts that further my POSSE goals to get around posting limitations on platforms like GoToSocial, Bluesky, and LinkedIn.

My Fediverse Digest for December 2025

2025-12-31T00:00:00Z

Dec 01

10:13 PM

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-12-01

My screener was particularly selective today with just two “picks and shovels” purveyors of the AI compute trade, showing that the market is still hungry for specialized GPU cloud providers aka Neocloud providers.

Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/markets-monday-for-2025-12-01

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Dec 02

07:06 PM

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-12-02

💰 + 🤖 Funding for AI anything companies continues.
• Tutor Intelligence (AI warehouse robots): $34M
• Nevis (AI wealth management agents): $35M
• Ricursive (AI for accelerating AI chip design): $35M
• Zafran (AI threat exposure management): $60M
• Gradium (AI voice startup): $70M
• Axiado (AI server chips): $100M
• Black Forest Labs (AI image generation models): $300M

Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/hot-takes-tuesday-for-2025-12-02

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Dec 04

12:07 AM

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-12-03

Trying a new format. Wacky. Wayback. Whoa.

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

Wacky Wonderful

NASA Rocket Engine Fireplace - 8 Hours in 4K
• 8 hours of 4K
• Cozy rocket roar
• Holiday ambiance

Wayback

Segway intro on Good Morning America Dec 3, 2001
• Diane Sawyer rolling
• Charles Gibson bumping
• Dean Kamen inventing

Whoa

Poems can trick AI into helping you make a nuclear weapon
• Jailbreaking chatbots
• Safety guardrail bypass
• Rhymes with destruction

Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/wacky-wednesday-for-2025-12-03

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12:44 AM

#11ty build times reduced by +20%

npm uninstall html-minifier-terser
npm install @minify-html/node --save-dev

https://github.com/JayCuthrell/fudge-org-eleventy-excellent-4.3.3/commit/f4908a31bd91192bca048a8fed78dc990b194f8e

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10:47 PM

Has anyone written the book “Me Prompt Pretty One Day”, yet?

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Dec 05

07:53 PM

I’ve enjoyed using my Limitless Pendant but the company has been acquired by Meta (an ecosystem I try to avoid).

Users can now download a copy of all their Limitless data and request deletion of their Limitless data.

https://help.limitless.ai/en/articles/13004987-how-to-download-your-limitless-transcripts-and-account-info

https://help.limitless.ai/en/articles/13005203-how-to-delete-your-limitless-account-and-data

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08:29 PM

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-12-05

🍿 + 💰 One big story this week was Netflix planning to spend ~$83B for Warner Bros Discovery to secure Warner Brothers studio, HBO, and Max.

🤖 + 💰 Also, big story for users of Limitless Pendant… Limitless is joining the Meta devices division. I guess this isn’t shocking considering the increasing numbers of Meta glasses I’ve noticed at conferences.

🤔 While I’ve enjoyed using my Limitless Pendant, the company has been acquired by Meta… which is an ecosystem I try to avoid.

🗑️ So, my biggest story of the week is my plan to follow the instructions to download a copy of Limitless data and request deletion of Limitless data that I’ve enjoyed gathering since the first beta.

YMMV.

Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/final-thoughts-friday-for-2025-12-05

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Dec 06

08:53 PM

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-12-06

Friday is for burying news you hope people ignore or sleep through entirely. This Friday night, one story caught my eye like a fictional fiery flying creature soaring into the slow news day journalism night sky.

Meta’s mixed reality glasses project, “Phoenix”, is ~~rising from the ashes~~ not yet rising from the ashes, per a “leaked” memo. The timing of this leak avoids any immediate stock hit to the recent bump and misses the window for any of the weekend long-form think-pieces about Meta’s other burning metaverse cash pile corrections.

76 weeks and the future of Hot Fudge Daily

Also, as a side note, today marks 76 weeks of the Hot Fudge Daily format. Next week, I’ll be starting a brand new format. I’m excited to flip the script a bit. Thank you for subscribing and reading!

Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/sneak-peak-saturday-for-2025-12-06

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Dec 07

10:44 PM

My first thought was a possible IASIP / Kidde commercial crossover where Frank dons a nanofibril ghillie suit and plays the flute.

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10:44 PM

I’m going to attempt using GoToSocial’s RSS for driving my workflow over the next few weeks to see if it sticks.

Right now, I’m proficient with VS Code, python, and the prior workflow I optimized for Hot Fudge Daily. Ideally, I’d like to

Get everything driven from CLI or cron (why not both?)
Use Markdown that is simple and portable (image processing?)
Leverage prior python scripts (because refactoring is needed)
Break up the daily topical (to be more more thinkish)
Drop the pretense of title’s with dates that lack context (because 🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-12-07 doesn’t quite sell it, ya know?)
Unbury the lede (Descriptions become telling titles)

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Dec 09

05:22 PM

Interesting links I’m reading

AI can interview you about your use of AI: Anthropic did a thing y’all
Microsoft VibeVoice: Microsoft’s open-source text-to-speech (TTS) of multi-speaker audio and that makes me wonder what the new generation of remix punk community will do with this
Agentic AI categories for AWS AI Competency: Expecting to see some stratification among AWS Partners (currently dozens)

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Dec 10

12:15 AM

I interpret this as succession planning in the open or the intentional telegraphing of active succession planning in the open.

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10:13 PM

M&A news has been on a tear lately.

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Dec 15

09:31 PM

That thing where you haven’t read anything on social media all day and then all of a sudden you inadvertently become slightly more informed about something that happened earlier that day which only serves to reinforce a bias about what you believe to be true but you second guess yourself because of the fast approaching collapse of implicit trust in an ever widening distance between reality, authenticity, origination, attribution, non-repudiation, and the marvel that is a frothy melange of generative AI plausible deniability.

Or, what I like to call a Modern Monday.

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Dec 18

12:26 AM

Late day coffee was a bad choice

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Dec 20

02:42 PM

Bluesky oops https://github.com/JayCuthrell/buttondown-python-scripts/commit/3ac7ffa29f3965bcf5da424036ab79524a606f04

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06:54 PM

Apple Intelligence

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08:18 PM

TIL what is possible on a trombone 🤯 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPS46Eh4DgE

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08:27 PM

NIST be like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAB4uGGquX4

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10:43 PM

Prompt: Create a dual-axis chart comparing Google+ (red) and Google Gemini (blue) across three phases: Launch Phase, Active/Standalone Peak, and Total Ecosystem Reach. Use a grouped bar chart for Monthly Active Users (Millions) on the primary Y-axis with data points for G+ [25, 300, 540] and Gemini [90, 650, 2000]. Overlay trend lines for Average Session Duration (Minutes) on the secondary Y-axis with data points for G+ [0.5, 0.1, 0.05] and Gemini [3.0, 11.0, 1.5]. Annotate all bars and line points with their respective values and include a clear legend.

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Dec 21

08:15 PM

Sunday funday

https://github.com/JayCuthrell/svc.fudge.org

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Dec 23

01:49 AM

#11ty build times update for my Linode 2 GB

 main ±  time NODE_OPTIONS=–max-old-space-size=3072 npm run build

> eleventy-excellent@4.3.3 build
> npm run build:11ty && pagefind --site dist

> eleventy-excellent@4.3.3 build:11ty
> cross-env ELEVENTY_ENV=production eleventy --quiet

moments later…

🚀 Found 823 SVG(s) to convert to JPEG…
✨ JPEG conversion complete.
[11ty] Copied 789 Wrote 1707 files in 140.09 seconds (82.1ms each, v3.1.2)

Not too shabby…

Running Pagefind v1.4.0 (Extended)

Wrapping up for search…

Source: “dist”
Output: “dist/pagefind”

[Walking source directory]
Found 877 files matching **/*.

[Parsing files]
Found a data-pagefind-body element on the site.
↳ Ignoring pages without this tag.

[Reading languages]
Discovered 1 language: en

[Building search indexes]
Total:
Indexed 1 language
Indexed 877 pages
Indexed 22136 words
Indexed 0 filters
Indexed 0 sorts

Finished in 3.346 seconds
NODE_OPTIONS=–max-old-space-size=3072 npm run build 66.21s user 36.38s system 62% cpu 2:44.52 total

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11:01 PM

Congrats to the ISRO-NSIL team on LVM3-M6 / AST SpaceMobile BlueBird Block-2 🚀🛰️

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNpY3wLE3nE

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Dec 25

04:15 PM

most of my social media was nuked from orbit but I’ll see if I can find the backups… but based on just my blog and newsletter output…

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2019
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2021
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2022
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2023
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2024
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2025
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05:18 PM

Happy Hollandaise

https://www.pbs.org/food/recipes/asparagus-with-vegan-hollandaise-sauce

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09:25 PM

Updates

https://svc.fudge.org/?group=all&view-mode=card&classify=none&sort-by=name&sort-direction=asc

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10:29 PM

44 2 7 7 999 0 44 666 555 555 2 66 3 2 444 7777 33

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Dec 27

12:30 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZsQdLlvuk4

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Dec 30

01:08 AM

#fediverse testing https://fed.brid.gy/ from #gotosocial

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Dec 31

12:58 AM

Oh no… it’s the dreaded year in review post.

I’ve been writing daily for years and can’t recall the last time I took a break. I’ve been late to send or had a few technical hiccups but otherwise… typing and sending.

This year I stopped attempting LinkedIn Newsletters. I decided POSSE, n8n, and python scripts would be my approach to sharing as LinkedIn posts instead with options for Fediverse (originally Mastodon now GoToSocial) and Bluesky.

My LinkedIn traffic was lower this year with only 179,507 Impressions, 4,713 Engagements, and 3,253 Profile Viewers. I set a mini-goal of reaching 6,000 followers by the end of 2025 and as of this email I am sitting at around 5,985.

Oddly enough, my three most popular posts on LinkedIn in 2025 were one mistakenly late published article… and two copy/paste from my actual newsletter / blog.

When I look at the entire year of posts, my reach spikes significantly when I am a “live reporter” for industry events like Tech Field Day, All Things AI, CISE, SXSW, etc.

I traveled a lot this year and reached Diamond levels on Delta, Hilton, and Marriott. So, if that travel level continues in 2026, perhaps I’ll be seeing more spikes in my reach.

As for writing in 2026, I might slow it down a bit. My formulaic approach for Hot Fudge Daily lasted for well over a year but I missed Fudge Factor nerdy stuff.

HNY - Be safe - Be well

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Inflated Expectations in Space

2025-12-29T00:00:00Z

What if space habitats of the future involved less part by part assembly launches and were more commonly expanded like a balloon after a single launch? 🎈

First, check out the Max Space’s Thunderbird Station design which is using inflatable fabric-based designs instead of steel for rapidly deployment from a single launch at low cost per cubic meter.
Next, check out Sierra Space’s Large Integrated Flexible Environment (LIFE) habitat design being certification tested.
Finally (for now at least), check out Lockheed Martin’s Inflatable Habitat design.

Keep an eye on updates regarding debris and life support systems testing in this… expanding market.

🚀🔭🛰️🧑‍🚀 Space Value Chain (SVC) companies and organizations

Succession Planning for Space

2025-12-28T00:00:00Z

If you are into New Year resolutions, are you going to update your Successor settings?

My early career in telecom and INFOSEC taught me painful but valuable lessons about documentation and effective succession planning. Those experiences shaped my view that knowledge sharing and continuity are non-negotiable.

With that in mind: If you use a source code repository, what happens if you can no longer maintain it?

I only recently noticed a new setting made available in GitHub specifically for this. It’s worth a look.

However, depending on your trust in the longevity of any single organization, a POSSE (Publish on Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere) approach might make more sense. I’m seeing more developers replicating or migrating entirely to alternatives to ensure redundancy.

YMMV, but if you are looking to adopt a “cockroach strategy” for your code, here are a few alternatives to consider:

The Archives: Software Heritage
The Community Hosts: Codeberg, Forgejo, SourceHut

I’ll leave out the discussion on the implications of AI “hoovering up” POSSE source code for now (legally murky at best ⚖️). This is strictly about succession planning and documentation. 🤓

Do you foresee your repos being placed in cislunar space? On the Moon? On Mars? Or beyond?

🌖🏗️ Vast shared Haven-1 fit test for docking
🚀🇮🇹 SpaceX Falcon 9 launch of Earth observation satellite Cosmo-SkyMed Second Generation Flight Model 3 (FM3) for Italy

🛸 Space Value Chain (SVC) companies and organizations

ULA and Sidus Space Leadership News

2025-12-27T00:00:00Z

🚀🛰️👔 Leadership Updates

🇺🇸🏛️ United Launch Alliance (ULA) named John Elbon as interim CEO following Tony Bruno’s departure from the ~20 year old joint venture between Lockheed Martin and Boeing
🇺🇸🏛️ Sidus Space announced that Carol Craig, CEO, has been appointed to the Canaveral Port Authority Board of Commissioners

🚀 Space Value Chain (SVC) companies and organizations

Note: As of this update, there are now 108 companies and agencies in the Space Value Chain (SVC) and pull requests are welcomed!

Blue Moves

2025-12-26T00:00:00Z

This week I updated the Space Value Chain (SVC) with more companies. Pull requests are welcomed.

🚀🛰️🧑‍🚀 Recent Space Value Chain (SVC) news

🇺🇸🤝🚀🏛️🔐👔 Tory Bruno, former CEO of United Launch Alliance (ULA), is joining Blue Origin as president, National Security, reporting to CEO Dave Limp and will spearhead the National Security Group
🔴🔇🔭 NASA continues working to recontact the MAVEN ((Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) ) spacecraft orbiting Mars after it lost contact with the spacecraft on December 6, 2025
🌕🚜🧑‍🚀 NASA is continuing its search for the Artemis 5 lunar rover with AstroLab’s FLEX Rover, Intuitive Machines’ Moon Racer LTV, and Lunar Outpost’s Eagle
🇯🇵🤝🚀🛰️ Axelspace signed a multi-launch agreement with Exolaunch to support microsatellite AxelLiner missions

🌌🚀🛰️🔭🧑‍🚀📡👀 Space Value Chain (SVC) companies and organizations

The Great Orbital Compute Pivot

2025-12-25T00:00:00Z

Google’s Ironwood TPU v7 / v7x is 7th generation and boasts 29x power improvement over prior TPU generations. Based on the briefing I attended earlier this year on capacity engineering and road maps, recent NVIDIA and Groq news appears to be a stocking stuffer bargain even at $20B.

A fun query is to use LinkedIn people browser to marvel (no pun intended) at the number of Google hires that had NVIDIA or Groq (or both) in their prior career. You’ll find like “hardware design”, “ASIC”, “ML Accelerator”, “Validation”, and “Product Management” and can flip around past or adjacent companies too.

So, perhaps, the Groq and NVIDIA band was getting strategically poached by Google… but now the current remaining lineup is getting reformed under a drastically different investment model inside NVIDIA. Plus, the current Groq executive lineup also has past careers at NVIDIA and Google.

Orbital Compute Pivot

I believe Google’s Project Suncatcher got the attention of NVIDIA and lit a fire. The only thing more premium than a XPU on Earth is compute engineered for aerospace, orbital space, cislunar space, an outer space.

For example, Starcloud-2 will utilize NVIDIA Blackwell H100’s and B200’s for in-orbit processing of Capella Space’s SAR (synthetic-aperture radar) satellite constellation data. The real question will be what Starcloud-3 will utilize.

🚀🔭🛰️🧑‍🚀 Space Value Chain (SVC) companies and organizations

Orbital Servicing, Reusable Rebounds, and Squabbles

2025-12-24T00:00:00Z

🇨🇳🚀 China’s Long March 12A achieves orbit but first-stage recovery landing fails
🇺🇸🛩️ Starfighters Space (FJET) stock is moving
🇯🇵🛰️ ArkEdge Space selected for JAXA Space Strategy Fund to provide on-orbit demonstrations for domestic launches
🇯🇵🛰️ ArkEdge Space to launch new space industry entity “WALL” in Wakayama Prefecture
🇺🇸⛽︎ US Space Force prepares for on-orbit satellite refueling and repair missions
🛰️🤳🏻 SpaceX outlines Starlink direct-to-device broadband plans
🛰️🔋 SpaceX has a regulatory dispute with SES S.A. and Affiliates (“SES”) over non-geostationary satellite power limits

🚀🔭🛰️🧑‍🚀 Space Value Chain (SVC) companies and organizations

Launches and Setbacks

2025-12-23T00:00:00Z

🚀 Launch links and more

🇮🇳🚀 ISRO-NSIL LVM3-M6 carried the AST SpaceMobile BlueBird Block-2 into LEO as the the heaviest commercial communications satellite ever deployed from India
🇰🇷🚀 Innospace’s first orbital launch attempt of the Hanbit-Nano rocket from Brazil failed
🇯🇵🚀 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI)'s H2 and JAXA launch attempt to deploy the Michibiki 5 navigation satellite failed
🛰️📸 Vantor’s WorldView-3 satellite (MAXAR) released imagery of a failed SpaceX Starlink Satellite 35956

🛰️ Space Value Chain (SVC) companies and organizations

Acquisitions and Wideband

2025-12-22T00:00:00Z

It was a slow day for headlines but in M&A news, CACI decided to buy Arka Group for $2.6B.

Also, be sure to check out PExT (Polylingual Experimental Terminal) for wideband technology communications.

🛸 Organizations and Companies in the News

Now I just need to find an expedient way to pull new additions like these into SVC Landscape.

Funding the High Ground

2025-12-21T00:00:00Z

🛰️ Launches and Funding

🇯🇵 Rocket Lab completed its 21st successful Electron mission for 2025, “The Wisdom God Guides,” deploying the QPS-SAR-15 satellite for iQPS. By maintaining 100% mission success rate for the year, the market seems to be pleased with RKLB.
🇮🇳 Digantara raised $50M Series-B to fund the deployment of its 15-satellite SCOT (Space Camera for Object Tracking) surveillance constellation and ALBATROSS (missile-warning) satellites, which aim to provide near-real-time threat detection.

📚 A Growing List of of Space Value Chain (SVC) Companies

I’ve been thinking about the growing list of space value chain (SVC) companies. But how to visualize that market landscape?

For now, I’ve decide on https://github.com/cncf/landscape2 and checked in a mostly working version: https://github.com/JayCuthrell/svc.fudge.org

The result? Space Value Chain (SVC) Landscape 🤓 The GitHub Actions build process even generates a landscape.png and landscape.pdf. Pull requests welcomed! I’m not sure I can justify a paid Crunchbase API license but that would be fun to try out for a while. If you don’t want to read YAML, this is where the idea started:

🧠 Orbital Compute, Data Processing & AI

Aetherflux: Integrated power and compute (“Galactic Brain” constellation).
Agnikul Cosmos: Fully reusable launch services.
Axiom Space: Hosting server racks on commercial space stations.
Crusoe: High-performance compute partner for orbital training.
LEOcloud: Specialized in-orbit edge computing services.
Nvidia: GPU hardware and backing for orbital AI training.
OrbitsEdge: Ruggedized SatFrame protection for COTS servers.
Ramon.Space: Radiation-hardened electronics and storage processors.
Sidus Space: LizzieSat and FeatherEdge AI satellite buses.
Starcloud: AI training and inference with H100 payloads.
Ubotica: AI hardware acceleration via CogniSat platforms.
Unibap: SpaceCloud iX5 and iX10 edge computing platforms.
Voyager Space: Cloud services and RedHat OpenShift in orbit.

☁️ Cloud Extension & Satellite Connectivity

Amazon (Leo/Kuiper): Extending AWS fabric into orbit via private networking.
AnySignal: Vertical platform for wireless connectivity and radio production.
AST SpaceMobile: Direct-to-device orbital broadband.
Astranis: Dedicated MicroGEO satellites for regional connectivity.
Microsoft Azure Space: Azure Orbital and Space Edge software.
NTT: Space integrated computing and optical data relay.
SES: Established operator and partner for MEO networks.
SKY Perfect JSAT: Partner in optical data relay networks.
SpaceX: LEO constellations (Starlink) and government solutions (Starshield).

🛠️ Hardware, Manufacturing & Radiation Hardening

AAC Clyde Space: Satellite bus and subsystem manufacturer.
Agnikul Cosmos: In-house development of reusable launch vehicles.
Apex Space: Mass-manufactured satellite buses.
HPE: Spaceborne Computer-2 on the International Space Station.
K2 Space: Mega Class high-power satellite buses.
KP Labs: Smart mission ecosystems and AI Data Processing Units.
Rocket Lab USA: Launch services and satellite component manufacturing.
Thales Alenia Space: Payload integration and space edge computing infrastructure.

🛰️ Space Logistics, Servicing & Safety

Arkisys: Spacecraft logistics and orbital infrastructure.
D-Orbit: In-orbit delivery and transportation services.
Odin Space: Space debris sensing and spacecraft collision insurance.
Space Compass: Optical data relay services.
ThinkOrbital: Large-scale orbital logistics and construction.
TransAstra: Orbital logistics and space tugs for datacenters.
Vaya Space: Launch and hardware protection services.

🌎 Sensing, Imagery & Domain Awareness

Digantara: Space traffic monitoring and situational awareness.
HawkEye 360: RF sensing and data analytics.
ICEYE: Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite constellations.
iQPS: High-resolution SAR imagery solutions.
Optimum Technologies: Optical payloads and domain awareness sensors.
Planet Labs: Global high-cadence Earth observation.
Xiomas: Thermal and scientific sensing payloads.

🌕 Lunar Exploration & Off-World Hosting

Intuitive Machines: Lunar surface landers and infrastructure.
Lonestar: Lunar storage and Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRBCaaS).
Skycorp: Lunar infrastructure and orbital servicing.

🏛️ Government & Regulatory Agencies

ESA: European Space Agency.
ISRO: Indian Space Research Organisation.
NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
NICT: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology.
NOAA SWPC: Space Weather Prediction Center.
NSIL: NewSpace India Limited (commercial arm of ISRO).
SIDC: Solar Influences Data Analysis Center.
Space Development Agency (SDA): Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture.
Space Force: United States Space Force.
US Gov: United States Government.

Towards BiO-sanitation Battalion

2025-12-20T00:00:00Z

We’re heading towards autonomous BiO-sanitation Battalion (BOB) robots cleaning up trash in space that won’t need anyone on the ground back on Earth to pilot or direct their mission. Disney movie references aside, the first “BOB” robots are more likely to be covered in NASCAR-style logos and be streamed on YouTube with interstitial advertising and curated vignettes shared on /r/oddlysatisfying.

Meanwhile, orbital datacenters should provide a path to reducing ground-in-the-loop computational demands and associated latency.

Historically, precise spacecraft trajectory generation has been a significant operational bottleneck, heavily dependent on resource-intensive ground teams because onboard flight computers lacked the processing power to solve complex non-linear navigation problems in real-time. That operational bottleneck may be removed as more advances come to edge computing and machine learning models suited to enable more autonomous operations.

Deep Learning Warm Starts for Trajectory Optimization on the International Space Station is recent a paper that delivers a pivotal operational breakthrough that enabled the ISS Astrobee robot to generate safe, optimal flight paths autonomously by reducing onboard computational iterations. This research advances the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) for autonomous systems, providing a path to a more scalable architecture necessary for upcoming cislunar and in-space servicing missions to operate independently of ground control, reducing mission costs and mitigating communication latency risks in deep(er) space.

👀 Related news that caught my eye:

🇺🇸🏛️💰🌕 Goal reaffirmed for crewed moon landing in 2028
🚀♿🧑‍🚀 First wheelchair user above the Kármán Line was on Blue Origin’s NS-37
🇮🇳🚀🛰️📶 ISRO and NSIL to launch AST SpaceMobile’s BlueBird-6 satellite for direct-to-device broadband coverage
💸🛡️💥 Odin Space and Arkisys to provide pioneering collision insurance for spacecraft
🗑️☄️🔄 SpaceX’s Starlink satellite 35956 experiences partial breakup with debris
🚀🛰️📸 Blue Origin’s Blue Ring mission to include Caracal optical payload from Optimum Technologies for commercial space domain awareness

Featured companies and organizations:

Sovereign Satellites

2025-12-19T00:00:00Z

📈 Sovereign satellites are a growing trend as more countries want to head to the high ground of space.

💰🛰️🚀 US Space Development Agency placed $3.5B worth of orders for building missile warning, tracking, and defense (MWTD) space vehicles (SVs) with Lockheed Martin, Rocket Lab USA, Northrop Grumman, and L3Harris Technologies.

🇰🇷🚀🛰️ South Korea’s Innospace had their first HANBIT-Nano orbital launch postponed in Brazil and it is being rescheduled

👀 Two more updates caught my eye involving the competition within established solutions and the disruption of astronomy itself.

✈️🛰️🛜 Amazon Leo in flight WiFi might be coming to American Airlines

🛰️🔭🤔 Satellite megaconstellations threaten space-based astronomy

DiskSat and Uplinks

2025-12-18T00:00:00Z

Two interesting developments entered the news cycle today.

First, what if the shape of satellite emoji 🛰️ became a relic shape of the phone emoji 📞 ?

🚀 NASA’s DiskSat Technology Demo Launches to Low Earth Orbit

Second, what if the world was closer to a more secure 🔐, distributed quantum computing ready ⚛️, and planetary-scale scientific sensing network 🌎 ?

🚀 Quantum entanglement distribution via uplink satellite channels

Space Weather Report

2025-12-17T00:00:00Z

In the quaint olden days of 2011, cyber warfare risk was compared to solar flare risk. But, how to predict or better yet how to expect?

We will come back to cyber warfare as the new kinetic field of space enables the new cybernetic spatial surface. For now, let’s focus on solar flares and solar wind.

It is easy to take terrestrial weather reporting for granted, even locally. But, when solar activity occurs, that’s when the “fudge factor” is even more important to out-design for what you cannot outrun or avoid as a survival buffer during these events.

Recently, NASA and IBM released a model trained on solar data. It is reasonable to expect a “space weather report” (and others) to become essential as solar powered orbital datacenters are put into service.

So, it you consider the utility value of the half-dozen space weather reports, it is also useful to consider which commercial entities will become patrons or merely benefit from publicly funded sourcing and presentation of data. To achieve scale, there will need to be a clear anticipation for the commercialization analogy of the alleged AccuWeather and National Weather Service (NWS) terrestrial weather data licensing and distribution imbroglio.

Rank	Agency	Utility	Why
1	NOAA SWPC	Operational Survival	The “Kill Switch” Trigger.
2	SIDC	Strategic Lifecycle Modeling	The ROI Calculator.
3	ESA Space Weather (SWE)	Component Engineering & Hardening	The Design Manual.
4	GFZ Potsdam	Precision Orbit Determination	The Fuel Saver.
5	NICT	Downlink/Uplink Integrity	The Customer SLA.
6	Australian BoM (SWS)	Southern Station Telemetry	The “Blind Spot” Fix. Literally, watch your six.

Oddly enough, NOAA SWPC is showing this message on their homepage at the moment: 😳 #HugOps

Possible, Temporary Products and Services Disruption Through 17 December, 2025 published: Wednesday, December 17, 2025 01:26 UTC SWPC products and services availability may be temporarily disrupted due to network changes through 17 December, 2025.

Solar Powered Orbital Datacenters

2025-12-16T00:00:00Z

Recent coverage of a potential SpaceX IPO raises questions of what is next for an already expansive service portfolio. Let’s ignore subsidies and origin stories for a moment.

Orbital datacenters could take advantage of solar cycles, plentiful cooling, and laser optics. Of course, there are massive engineering challenges but these advantages are still attractive.

So, it makes sense that SpaceX would be uniquely positioned and partnered for expanding into orbital datacenters. Arguably, the SpaceX timeline supports that portfolio expansion.

The SpaceX timeline so far

If you consider the key partnerships, it also is reasonable to assume a space station that was commercial (private) could support logistics other pundits have called out as challenging. While privatization of the space industry has been discussed in depth elsewhere, licenses for spectrum are still being sold.

I prefer to think of SpaceX portfolio expansion to offer solar powered orbital datacenters as inevitable but also reasonable. The market will drive it from possible, to permissible, to sustainable, to repeatable, and eventually advisable.

Expect other companies to follow suit. Stay tuned.

Fudge Factor Links Roundup

2025-12-15T00:00:00Z

Once upon a time, my blog was ridiculed by prolific peers as being a vacant wasteland until my end of year post. That was true then.

Times change. This is not that end of year post but is a list of newsletter links that are “Fudge Factor” approved and adds another company to the list of companies to watch.

European Space Agency (ESA)

The Astranis timeline so far

Off-world Tropes and Devices

2025-12-14T00:00:00Z

Spoiler alerts: This post has a few.

If companies like Lonestar test datacenters on the lunar surface, sci-fi writers predicted the technology and service level agreements (SLAs).

Sci-fi writers are no longer using “off-world” settings just as cool backdrops or lazy plot fixes. Instead, they use these settings to explore complex problems like communication delays, political power, and leadership changes. When you look at these stories together, a clear pattern emerges of how these worlds are built to solve specific problems.

The most common trope is the use of space as the “Fudge Factor” for a physical firewall. When data is too dangerous or valuable for terrestrial storage, it goes up into the sky. Similarly, DRBCaaS stories explore the “Fudge Factor” of Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity (BC) as a Service for the wealthy and powerful sentient beings.

Some examples:

Rogue One: The Citadel Tower on Scarif
Westworld: The Forge satellite array
Altered Carbon: Meths real-time needlecasting to satellites
Battlestar Galactica: The Cylon Resurrection Hub

Of course, enabling faster-than-light (FTL) communication to provide near-instantaneous messaging to ship data across interstellar distances is common in sci-fi too. For now, FTL comms is still considered to be theoretical.

Orbital Compute Baseline

2025-12-13T00:00:00Z

We have moved past the “is this possible?” phase of orbital datacenters.

We now proceed to “what is permissible” phase.

While terrestrial datacenters are sweating over power purchase agreements and grid constraints, a new consensus is forming 62 miles over our heads beyond the Kármán line. The narrative has shifted from pure science fiction to a necessity driven by the brutal math of AI energy consumption.

The loudest signal so far is Aetherflux putting a due date on the calendar for its first commercial orbital datacenter node in Q1 2027. Start the countdown.

The “Fudge Factor” in play will seek to bypass the lead times for terrestrial utility connections and deploy reliable, solar-dense compute in orbit. Demonstrating power beaming is a bold bet that disposable, high-cadence satellite launches can outpace the sluggish timelines of Earth-based infrastructure.

If you watched Gavin Baker articulate the case for space, the first principles are clear:

Solar is ~30% more intense than on Earth, with up to 6x the effective irradiance due to 24/7 exposure
You don’t need massive battery arrays if the sun never sets
Radiators facing deep space offer a heat sink near absolute zero (effectively free cooling)
Light travels roughly 30% faster in the vacuum of space than in fiber optics

Meanwhile, academia is providing the rigorous framework to back these claims, with recent papers in Nature Electronics validating the thermal and energy models of space-based edge computing. So, the solar race is on as well as the race for launch capacity (i.e. SpaceX Starship and Blue Origin New Glenn for heavy lift), we have the thermal modeling, and now, we have the launch dates.

Keep an eye on the launch cost in terms of cost per unit of weight. As that metric drops, things get even more interesting. Along the way, keep an eye on these market players:

Company	Category	Focus	Key Partners
Aetherflux	Startup	Integrated Power & Compute (“Galactic Brain” constellation)	Apex Space, SpaceX
Amazon	Infrastructure	Orbital Connectivity Capability (Leo edge processing)	US Gov
Axiom Space	Infrastructure	Hosting (Server racks on commercial space station)	Voyager, AWS
Google	Infrastructure	Solar AI Constellation (Project Suncatcher)	Planet Labs
HPE	Enterprise	Edge Computing on ISS (Spaceborne Computer-2)	NASA, OrbitsEdge
KP Labs	Software / Hardware	Smart Mission Ecosystem (AI Data Processing Units)	ESA, AAC Clyde Space
Lonestar	Startup	Lunar Storage & DR (Disaster Recovery on the Moon)	Intuitive Machines, Skycorp
Microsoft Azure Space	Infrastructure	Software & Ground Station (Azure Orbital, Space Edge)	Thales Alenia Space, SpaceX, SES
OrbitsEdge	Startup	Ruggedized Hardware (SatFrame protection for COTS servers)	HPE, Vaya Space
Ramon.Space	Hardware	Radiation hardened electronics (DSP/Storage processors)	LEOcloud, Space Agencies
ReOrbit	Infrastructure	Software-Defined Satellites (Networking & Data Flow)	ESA, Thales Alenia Space
Sidus Space	Infrastructure	Edge AI Satellite Bus (LizzieSat / FeatherEdge)	NASA, Xiomas
Space Compass	Network	Optical Data Relay (Space Integrated Computing Network)	NTT, SKY Perfect JSAT
SpaceX	Infrastructure	Orbital Compute Capability (Starshield/Starlink edge processing)	US Gov
Starcloud	Startup	AI Training/Inference (Launched H100 payload; fmr. Lumen Orbit)	Crusoe, Nvidia
Thales Alenia Space	Infrastructure	Payload Integration (Space Edge Computing)	Microsoft
TransAstra	Logistics	Orbital Logistics (Space tugs for datacenters)	Space Force, ThinkOrbital
Ubotica	Hardware	AI Hardware Acceleration (CogniSat / LIVE Earth Intelligence)	ESA, Open Cosmos
Unibap	Hardware	Edge Computing Platform (SpaceCloud / iX5 & iX10)	ESA, D-Orbit
Voyager	M&A Rollup	IaaS / Cloud Services (RedHat OpenShift in orbit)	Axiom Space, Microsoft, Ramon.Space

While I believe this list will grow, it is unclear how fast that growth will be. Still, the domain is exciting to follow and I look forward to providing updates. Eventually, I’ll organize all the Key Partners in this list and track the M&A along the way.

The Era of Orbital Edge Datacenters

2025-12-12T00:00:00Z

There is a distinct shift in how the industry views the “air gap” beyond a security measure. There is now a literal gap of atmosphere between terrestrial problems and orbiting solutions. Focus has sharpened on the newest invisible infrastructure of datacenters in the sky.

The rebrand of Project Kuiper to become Amazon Leo has clever marketing implications that will support a new reality. With the new terminals preview, a form factor has emerged with a powerful opening connection performance target with an even more interesting architectural choice. That’s because the real appeal for the datacenter in the sky isn’t the speed… it’s the topology. Amazon Leo Private Networking solution allows data to move from a remote orbital node directly into a VPC without ever touching the public internet, effectively extending the datacenter fabric into Low Earth Orbit. For edge compute scenarios in energy, maritime sectors, and similarly unique vertical IIoT use cases, this “Direct to AWS” feature finally makes orbital technology a viable extension of the humble availability zone. Or, it means thinking about Amazon Local and the Amazon Located Above Your Head.

Of course, the public cloud is not only Amazon. So, while Amazon focuses on moving data through space, Google is doubling down on processing data in space. Google Project Suncatcher has moved ahead to deploy solar-powered satellites equipped with TPUs by 2027.

But wait… there’s more. NVIDIA backed Starcloud’s CEO is claiming that anything a terrestrial datacenter can do, the datacenter in the sky is coming to take some of those workloads. Meanwhile, Star Catcher, GE Vernova, and other companies are building the new energy backbone as part of the quest for GW datacenters here on Earth and eventually in space.

What to watch for next? Expect the first Amazon Leo speed tests to fundamentally transform the spatial and temporal limits of an AWS Well-Architected Framework that will eventually extend to 70% of the planetary surface.

🎧 Recommended listening: 2nd half of this Tech Brew Ride Home episode

Fudge Factor Returns

2025-12-11T00:00:00Z

Format. When I started thinking about what I should write next, it occurred to me that format was a relaxing and structured way of getting specific topical thought packaged neatly. Unfortunately, format was also a bit constrained depending on which format was used which day of the week.

For example, markets don’t just move on Monday.

Then again, sometimes they do.

Ideas. One of my favorite ideas centered on digesting dozens of newsletters to surface and elevate ideas from the writing of others.

However, I also have ideas.

Getting back to the original Fudge Factor concept is overdue.

Google Suncatcher. I would also argue that it is almost comical that Google Suncatcher arrived just as I was going deep into datacenters in the sky.
Upward. Fudge Factor was. Fudge Factor it shall be onward. And, literally, upward. 🤓

Acquisition mania

2025-12-10T00:00:00Z

M&A holiday shopping season has been on a tear lately.

Side note: I’m also seeing “The agent couldn’t complete with its current set up.” from my Google Workspace Studio. Granted, it’s a new service and I’m not paying any premium for it. Still, a bit disappointing but also understanding. The service is likely being hugged to death as rollout widens beyond the fun alpha access I enjoyed before.

Back to the M&A deals… focusing just on tech and only the first 10 days of December 2025:

IBM buys Confluent
Meta buys Limitless
OpenAI buys Neptune
ServiceNow buys Veza
LogicMonitor buys Catchpoint
Marvell buys Celestial AI
Anthropic buys Bun

And… there are probably more to come.

Convergence across four domains

2025-12-09T00:00:00Z

Interesting links that might converge one day, soon.

AI can interview you about your use of AI: Anthropic did a thing y’all
Microsoft VibeVoice: Microsoft’s open-source text-to-speech (TTS) of multi-speaker audio and that makes me wonder what the new generation of remix punk community will do with this
Agentic AI categories for AWS AI Competency: Expecting to see some stratification among AWS Partners (currently dozens)
I interpret this as succession planning in the open or the intentional telegraphing of active succession planning in the open.

So, imagine, one day in the not too distant future when a there are easily sourced succession planning interview outcomes at the C-level that are conducted by an Agentic AI interviewer using a human-like voice that is well outside of the uncanny valley… all of which are underpinned by AWS managed services.

A new format for my newsletter

2025-12-08T00:00:00Z

I’m going to attempt using GoToSocial’s RSS for driving my workflow over the next few weeks to see if it sticks.

Right now, I’m proficient with VS Code, python, and the prior workflow I optimized for Hot Fudge Daily. Ideally, I’d like to

Get everything driven from CLI or cron (why not both?)
Use Markdown that is simple and portable (image processing?)
Leverage prior python scripts (because refactoring is needed)
Break up the daily topical (to be more more thinkish)
Drop the pretense of title’s with dates that lack context (because 🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-12-07 doesn’t quite sell it, ya know?)
Unbury the lede (Descriptions become telling titles)

My first thought was a possible IASIP / Kidde commercial crossover where Frank dons a nanofibril ghillie suit and plays the flute.

🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-12-07

2025-12-07T00:00:00Z

Last Week

This Week

This week is is Gartner IT IOCS in Las Vegas.

76 weeks and the future of Hot Fudge Daily

Hot Fudge Daily Digest

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-12-01

Symbol	Company Name	% Change
NBIS	Nebius Group NV	+5.27%
CRWV	CoreWeave Inc	+5.11%

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-12-02

💰 + 🤖 Funding for AI anything companies continues.

Tutor Intelligence (AI warehouse robots): $34M
Nevis (AI wealth management agents): $35M
Ricursive (AI for accelerating AI chip design): $35M
Zafran (AI threat exposure management): $60M
Gradium (AI voice startup): $70M
Axiado (AI server chips): $100M
Black Forest Labs (AI image generation models): $300M

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-12-03

Trying a new format. Wacky. Wayback. Whoa.

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

Wacky Wonderful

NASA Rocket Engine Fireplace - 8 Hours in 4K

8 hours of 4K
Cozy rocket roar
Holiday ambiance

Wayback

Segway intro on Good Morning America Dec 3, 2001

Diane Sawyer rolling
Charles Gibson bumping
Dean Kamen inventing

Whoa

Poems can trick AI into helping you make a nuclear weapon

Jailbreaking chatbots
Safety guardrail bypass
Rhymes with destruction

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-12-04

5 Years Ago: December 4, 2020

Claims of quantum supremacy are part of the news hype cycle.

10 Years Ago: December 4, 2015

The beta release of Let’s Encrypt drives HTTPS certification to far more websites faster than ever before.

15 Years Ago: December 4, 2010

🛜✈️ Lufthansa brings in flight WiFi to intercontinental flights.

Interesting Links for Thursday 2025-12-04

(trying a new idea out…)

Google Workspace Studio: A no-code tool for creating AI agents
Anthropic IPO Prep: Reports value the company at +$300B
Marvell to acquire Celestial AI: Advancing optical computing in future data centers
AWS and GCP Multicloud Networking: Streamlined multicloud networking between AWS and GCP
HPE’s $931M Private Cloud deal: It turns out that private cloud infrastructure has a market after all

I wonder out loud

(trying a new idea out…)

Has anyone written the book “Me Prompt Pretty One Day”, yet?

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-12-05

🍿 + 💰 One big story this week was Netflix planning to spend ~$83B for Warner Bros Discovery to secure Warner Brothers studio, HBO, and Max.

🤔 While I’ve enjoyed using my Limitless Pendant, the company has been acquired by Meta… which is an ecosystem I try to avoid.

YMMV.

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-12-06

#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:

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-12-06

2025-12-06T00:00:00Z

76 weeks and the future of Hot Fudge Daily

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-12-05

2025-12-05T00:00:00Z

🍿 + 💰 One big story this week was Netflix planning to spend ~$83B for Warner Bros Discovery to secure Warner Brothers studio, HBO, and Max.

🤔 While I’ve enjoyed using my Limitless Pendant, the company has been acquired by Meta… which is an ecosystem I try to avoid.

YMMV.

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-12-04

2025-12-04T00:00:00Z

5 Years Ago: December 4, 2020

Claims of quantum supremacy are part of the news hype cycle.

10 Years Ago: December 4, 2015

The beta release of Let’s Encrypt drives HTTPS certification to far more websites faster than ever before.

15 Years Ago: December 4, 2010

🛜✈️ Lufthansa brings in flight WiFi to intercontinental flights.

Interesting Links for Thursday 2025-12-04

(trying a new idea out…)

Google Workspace Studio: A no-code tool for creating AI agents
Anthropic IPO Prep: Reports value the company at +$300B
Marvell to acquire Celestial AI: Advancing optical computing in future data centers
AWS and GCP Multicloud Networking: Streamlined multicloud networking between AWS and GCP
HPE’s $931M Private Cloud deal: It turns out that private cloud infrastructure has a market after all

I wonder out loud

(trying a new idea out…)

Has anyone written the book “Me Prompt Pretty One Day”, yet?

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-12-03

2025-12-03T00:00:00Z

Trying a new format. Wacky. Wayback. Whoa.

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

Wacky Wonderful

NASA Rocket Engine Fireplace - 8 Hours in 4K

8 hours of 4K
Cozy rocket roar
Holiday ambiance

Wayback

Segway intro on Good Morning America Dec 3, 2001

Diane Sawyer rolling
Charles Gibson bumping
Dean Kamen inventing

Whoa

Poems can trick AI into helping you make a nuclear weapon

Jailbreaking chatbots
Safety guardrail bypass
Rhymes with destruction

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-12-02

2025-12-02T00:00:00Z

💰 + 🤖 Funding for AI anything companies continues.

Tutor Intelligence (AI warehouse robots): $34M
Nevis (AI wealth management agents): $35M
Ricursive (AI for accelerating AI chip design): $35M
Zafran (AI threat exposure management): $60M
Gradium (AI voice startup): $70M
Axiado (AI server chips): $100M
Black Forest Labs (AI image generation models): $300M

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-12-01

2025-12-01T00:00:00Z

Symbol	Company Name	% Change
NBIS	Nebius Group NV	+5.27%
CRWV	CoreWeave Inc	+5.11%

🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-11-30

2025-11-30T00:00:00Z

Last Week

This Week

This week is AWS re:Invent and next week is Gartner IT IOCS.

Let me know if you’ll be around in Las Vegas.

Hot Fudge Daily Digest

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-11-24

The screener is lighting up with a very specific theme today: Future Compute Architecture.

Quantum Computing is having a breakout moment with double-digit gains.

Digital Infrastructure & Crypto Mining trade is back, likely driven by the continued pivot toward high-performance computing (HPC) capacity. Also, optical connectivity and autonomous systems point to a big day for the hardware layer of the stack.

Symbol	Company Name	% Change
BMNR	Bitmine Immersion Technologies Inc	+16.40%
CIFR	Cipher Mining Inc	+15.32%
HSAI	Hesai Group	+15.27%
CLSK	CleanSpark Inc	+15.10%
LITE	Lumentum Holdings Inc	+14.62%
CLS	Celestica Inc	+13.17%
WRD	WeRide Inc	+12.83%
IREN	IREN Ltd	+12.83%
HUT	Hut 8 Corp	+12.53%
SNDK	SanDisk Corp	+11.76%
QBTS	D-Wave Quantum Inc	+11.68%
CRDO	Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd	+11.51%
APLD	Applied Digital Corp	+11.35%
QUBT	Quantum Computing Inc	+11.23%
RGTI	Rigetti Computing Inc	+11.22%
PONY	Pony AI Inc	+11.12%
IONQ	IONQ Inc	+10.80%
BTDR	Bitdeer Technologies Group	+10.68%
WULF	Terawulf Inc	+10.61%
MARA	MARA Holdings Inc	+10.17%
AVGO	Broadcom Inc	+9.99%

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-11-25

💰 + 🤖 Funding for AI-anything companies continues.

Cerrion (AI factory video monitoring): $18M
Opti (AI identity security platform): $20M
Harmonic (Mathematical reasoning AI model): $120M
Picnic (AI-powered online grocery delivery): ~$450M
X-energy (Nuclear reactors for AI): $700M

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-11-26

Wacky. Wayback. Whoa.

First, a Shatner remix for safety. Second, an acquisition for the ages. Third, a red planet anniversary.

Wacky Wonderful

Eat, Fry, Love: A Cautionary Remix (REUPLOAD)

Shatner’s safety soliloquy
Turkey fryer fire fear
Moister tastier remix

Wayback

AOL buys Netscape for $4.2bn

Browser wars ending
Dial-up dominance
Dot-com billions

Whoa

InSight Mission

Seven years since touchdown
Mapping Mars’ insides
Seismic science legacy

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-11-27

Looking back on this day in tech history… Let’s take a look at what was making headlines on this day many years ago.

5 Years Ago: November 27, 2020

Five years ago, SignalFrame (Wireless Registry) briefly entered the lexicon of IoT data harvesting via mobile app SDKs that enabled smart phones to canvas “billions of detectable WiFi and Bluetooth signals”… and is now part of PWC.

10 Years Ago: November 27, 2015

Ten years ago, the Microsemi acquisition of PMC-Sierra powered the progression of the 5G and cloud backbones… and is now part of Microchip Technology.

15 Years Ago: November 27, 2010

Fifteen years ago, Angry Birds reached 7M downloads… and is now part of Sega with 5B+ downloads.

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-11-28

The story that caught my eye this week was an audacious attempt by Google to turn its custom silicon advantage into an external revenue stream. By pitching TPUs directly to the largest customers AND rivals like Meta, Google is potentially disrupting NVIDIA’s pseudo-monopoly gross margins.

As for why this caught my eye, NVIDIA’s defensive “delighted” PR message was worded in a very “happy for you” meme way and the reactions from the community have been fascinating. But, by way of analogy, if David Bar can buy up EPG, then perhaps NVIDIA can buy up HBM.

Or, said another way, NVIDIA’s wording may be a subtle attempt to get ahead of future government regulatory bodies that could delay (prevent?) value chain vertical integration M&A approvals that would harm competition. Then again, any OLESTRA / EPG to HBM / SRAM analogies could lead to more (unique) digestive discussion than these very different industries would care to encourage.

Flaky crust vs. antitrust, anyone? 🍪🤖

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-11-29

While Thanksgiving leftovers digested and the consumer mosh pit of Black Friday rolled into motion, the futures financial system scrambled and needed some #HugOps. Indeed, the narrative of decentralized, resilient, redundant cloud infrastructure isn’t defacto and is not ubiquitous (yet).

CME Group operates the world’s largest financial derivatives exchange and is on track to be a massive Google Cloud customer over the next several years. But due to the current CME Group architecture used to deliver those services, a “cooling systems issue” meant the operation halted.

In 2025, a single physical point of failure to a cooling system can freeze global futures markets for hours. Even in our timeline of increasing compute density and strained power grids, thermal management is still a critical uptime vulnerability and we are only as robust as our HVAC design.

#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:

My Fediverse Digest for November 2025

2025-11-30T00:00:00Z

Nov 01

12:21 PM

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-11-01

It’s time to select the Friday news dump for this week’s most skillfully buried story.

Just as the world was gearing up for Halloween weekend, “Chat Control” withdrawal meant no candy for anti-privacy proponents in the EU.

In this news cycle, loss of support for a controversial proposed policy known as “Chat Control” forcing tech companies to scan private, encrypted messages, was skillfully buried on a Friday news dump. Had this news broken earlier in the week, it would have reignited a back and forth news cycle between privacy advocates and anti-privacy safety groups.

Also, giving notice at the end of tech earnings week right before a holiday weekend is savvy news management by euphemism. The result is a collapse of a major mass surveillance proposal positioned instead as a simple obscure administrative step (“instead support voluntary scanning”).

Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/sneak-peak-saturday-for-2025-11-01

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Nov 03

01:32 PM

🤓 Both excited & sad that Supervised Reinforcement Learning (SRL) is in the news but not Survival Research Laboratories (SRL)

Source

07:41 PM

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-11-03

Today’s top technology performers included companies specializing in semiconductors, IT data services, and software.

Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/markets-monday-for-2025-11-03

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Nov 04

10:29 PM

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-11-04

💰 + 🤖 Funding for AI-anything companies continues.
• Mimic Robotics (AI for robotic hands): $16M
• Augmented Intelligence (neuro-symbolic AI): $20M
• Teleskope (AI for security): $25M
• Daylight (AI-native cybersecurity): $33M
• Hippocratic AI (health care AI agents): $126M
• Beacon Software (AI software acquisition): $250M

Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/hot-takes-tuesday-for-2025-11-04

Source

Nov 06

12:22 AM

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-11-05

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

Wacky Wonderful

Pachelbel’s Chicken
• Canon in D
• Clucking good
• Very virtuoso

Wayback

Open Handset Alliance Announcement
• November 5, 2007
• The birth of Android
• 34 initial members

Whoa

Space-based Scalable AI Infrastructure
• AI in orbit
• Satellite of ~~love~~ LEO
• All along the watchtower?

Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/wacky-wednesday-for-2025-11-05

Source

10:39 PM

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-11-06

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

5 Years Ago: November 6, 2020

Netflix invented a TV station… then went all-in on offering a variety of linear and live programming.

10 Years Ago: November 6, 2015

Verizon determined hyperscale is expensive… then moved to AWS 8 years later.

15 Years Ago: November 6, 2010

Amazon acquired Quidsi… then shut it down 7 years later.

Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/throwback-thursday-for-2025-11-06

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Nov 07

08:40 PM

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-11-07

AI deals were the biggest story of the week.
• OpenAI + AWS = ~$38B
• Microsoft + IREN = ~$10B
• Apple + Google = ~$1B

Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/final-thoughts-friday-for-2025-11-07

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Nov 08

08:14 AM

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-11-08

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, clearly attempting to avoid wider coverage. This week’s award for “peak patronizing publishing” hoping the story has zero momentum heading into the weekend.

It seems that several of the world’s largest tech companies will disregard all prior instructions on publishing their workforce diversity reports. For several years, these tech companies provided diversity reports as a cornerstone of corporate PR and proof of a commitment to social progress transparency.

Perhaps all the oxygen, ink, budget, and C-suite attention has been sucked into the AI arms race at these companies. The “old” problems, like transparency in hiring, are now a distraction and previous social commitments were just an AI hallucination.

Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/sneak-peak-saturday-for-2025-11-08

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Nov 09

06:32 PM

#gotosocialadmin Upgraded to v0.20.1 More Sinister Sloth 😈😈

Source

Nov 10

08:02 PM

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-11-10

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

Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/markets-monday-for-2025-11-10

Source

Nov 11

05:21 PM

🔥 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

Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/hot-takes-tuesday-for-2025-11-11

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Nov 12

05:33 PM

🤪 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

Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/wacky-wednesday-for-2025-11-12

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Nov 14

09:04 PM

🔙 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.

Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/tech-throwback-for-2025-11-13

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Nov 15

06:56 AM

🔙 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.

Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/throwback-thursday-for-2025-11-13

Source

06:56 AM

✅ 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.

Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/final-thoughts-friday-for-2025-11-14

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08:24 AM

🔮 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.

Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/sneak-peak-saturday-for-2025-11-15

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Nov 17

10:37 PM

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-11-17

Today was a slow day for the screener with only one top tech mover.

Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/markets-monday-for-2025-11-17

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Nov 18

07:35 PM

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-11-18

💰 + 🤖 Funding for AI-anything companies continues.
• Peec AI (AI brand search visibility): $21M
• Sphere (AI tax compliance platform): $21M
• Agentio (AI creator campaign automation): $40M
• Maxima (AI automated accounting tasks): $41M
• Lambda (AI compute cloud infrastructure): $1.5B

Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/hot-takes-tuesday-for-2025-11-18

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Nov 19

10:17 PM

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-11-19

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

Wacky Wonderful

Homestar Anniversary Merch
• 25 years of the website (and counting)
• Trogdor the Burninator Polo
• Whimsical Harlequin playing cards

Wayback

Amazon Kindle Launched (2007)
• “The iPod of reading” debuts at $399
• Sold out in 5.5 hours
• Whispernet (Sprint EVDO, no Wi-Fi needed!)

Whoa

Gemini 3 Arrives
• “Deep Think” reasoning mode
• Google Gemini turns 3 after only 2 years 7 months
• Multimodal mastery (Video-MMMU 87.6%)

Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/wacky-wednesday-for-2025-11-19

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Nov 20

08:38 PM

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-11-20

Here is what was making waves in tech history on this day.

5 Years Ago: November 20, 2020

The orderly transfer of power for the US Govt was performed… using a Google Workspace and Titan Security Keys.

10 Years Ago: November 20, 2015

If you were a cola fan, you might have been in the market for… the Pepsi Phone.

15 Years Ago: November 20, 2010

COICA (Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act) was the latest bill attempting to balance concerns with censorship and IP protections… it would fail, but only to be rewritten as the PROTECT IP Act… which also failed to advance.

Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/throwback-thursday-for-2025-11-20

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Nov 22

01:42 AM

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-11-21

📈 ⛏️ 💰 The biggest story this week was NVIDIA’s Q3 earnings.

The shovel-selling business remains the only sure bet in town for now. Pricing power consumption is a beautiful thing.

Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/final-thoughts-friday-for-2025-11-21

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09:22 PM

#gotosocialadmin Upgraded to v0.20.2 Even More Sinister Sloth 😈😈😈

Source

10:05 PM

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-11-22

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

This time, it’s a tale as old as Silicon Valley, where the “safety first” mission statement for physical intelligence is alleged to have ignored all previous instructions. The title of this tale is, “Figure AI sued by its (former) head of product safety”.

Combined with misanthropic misalignment of non-physical intelligence training, this could lead to a dystopian outcome. If the literally skull-crushing allegations are true, this would alter the “move fast and break things” cliché to convey an even more chilling connotation in our likely future.

Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/sneak-peak-saturday-for-2025-11-22

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Nov 24

09:34 PM

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-11-24

The screener is lighting up with a very specific theme today: Future Compute Architecture.

Quantum Computing is having a breakout moment with double-digit gains.

Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/markets-monday-for-2025-11-24

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10:08 PM

I’ve always wondered if there was AI to do the automatic version of this manual approach to iso a riff #chuggachuggachugga

https://looptube.io/?videoId=Q7SedYMP-PA&start=114.22610294117669&end=122.1775708458563&rate=1

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Nov 25

07:59 PM

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-11-25

💰 + 🤖 Funding for AI-anything companies continues.
• Cerrion (AI factory video monitoring): $18M
• Opti (AI identity security platform): $20M
• Harmonic (Mathematical reasoning AI model): $120M
• Picnic (AI-powered online grocery delivery): ~$450M
• X-energy (Nuclear reactors for AI): $700M

Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/hot-takes-tuesday-for-2025-11-25

Source

Nov 26

05:02 PM

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-11-26

Wacky. Wayback. Whoa.

First, a Shatner remix for safety. Second, an acquisition for the ages. Third, a red planet anniversary.

Wacky Wonderful

Eat, Fry, Love: A Cautionary Remix (REUPLOAD)
• Shatner’s safety soliloquy
• Turkey fryer fire fear
• Moister tastier remix

Wayback

AOL buys Netscape for $4.2bn
• Browser wars ending
• Dial-up dominance
• Dot-com billions

Whoa

InSight Mission
• Seven years since touchdown
• Mapping Mars’ insides
• Seismic science legacy

Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/wacky-wednesday-for-2025-11-26

Source

Nov 27

06:06 PM

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-11-27

Looking back on this day in tech history… Let’s take a look at what was making headlines on this day many years ago.

5 Years Ago: November 27, 2020

10 Years Ago: November 27, 2015

Ten years ago, the Microsemi acquisition of PMC-Sierra powered the progression of the 5G and cloud backbones… and is now part of Microchip Technology.

15 Years Ago: November 27, 2010

Fifteen years ago, Angry Birds reached 7M downloads… and is now part of Sega with 5B+ downloads.

Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/throwback-thursday-for-2025-11-27

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Nov 28

10:12 PM

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-11-28

Flaky crust vs. antitrust anyone? 🍪🤖

Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/final-thoughts-friday-for-2025-11-28

Source

Nov 29

12:48 AM

I finally got around to enabling search [1] via #pagefind for #11ty. However, as #pagefind is a client side solution, this required #Cloudflare #RocketLoader to be turned off and a cache purge to ensure Chrome users with #uBlock were not impacted. Seems like a good tradeoff as I don’t use that much javascript.

[1] https://fudge.org/search/

Source

04:37 PM

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-11-29

While Thanksgiving leftovers digested and the consumer mosh pit of Black Friday rolled into motion, the futures financial system scrambled and needed some HugOps. Indeed, the narrative of decentralized, resilient, redundant cloud infrastructure isn’t defacto and is not ubiquitous (yet).

Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/sneak-peak-saturday-for-2025-11-29

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🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-11-29

2025-11-29T00:00:00Z

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-11-28

2025-11-28T00:00:00Z

Flaky crust vs. antitrust, anyone? 🍪🤖

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-11-27

2025-11-27T00:00:00Z

Looking back on this day in tech history… Let’s take a look at what was making headlines on this day many years ago.

5 Years Ago: November 27, 2020

10 Years Ago: November 27, 2015

Ten years ago, the Microsemi acquisition of PMC-Sierra powered the progression of the 5G and cloud backbones… and is now part of Microchip Technology.

15 Years Ago: November 27, 2010

Fifteen years ago, Angry Birds reached 7M downloads… and is now part of Sega with 5B+ downloads.

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-11-26

2025-11-26T00:00:00Z

Wacky. Wayback. Whoa.

First, a Shatner remix for safety. Second, an acquisition for the ages. Third, a red planet anniversary.

Wacky Wonderful

Eat, Fry, Love: A Cautionary Remix (REUPLOAD)

Shatner’s safety soliloquy
Turkey fryer fire fear
Moister tastier remix

Wayback

AOL buys Netscape for $4.2bn

Browser wars ending
Dial-up dominance
Dot-com billions

Whoa

InSight Mission

Seven years since touchdown
Mapping Mars’ insides
Seismic science legacy

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-11-25

2025-11-25T00:00:00Z

💰 + 🤖 Funding for AI-anything companies continues.

Cerrion (AI factory video monitoring): $18M
Opti (AI identity security platform): $20M
Harmonic (Mathematical reasoning AI model): $120M
Picnic (AI-powered online grocery delivery): ~$450M
X-energy (Nuclear reactors for AI): $700M

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-11-24

2025-11-24T00:00:00Z

The screener is lighting up with a very specific theme today: Future Compute Architecture.

Quantum Computing is having a breakout moment with double-digit gains.

Symbol	Company Name	% Change
BMNR	Bitmine Immersion Technologies Inc	+16.40%
CIFR	Cipher Mining Inc	+15.32%
HSAI	Hesai Group	+15.27%
CLSK	CleanSpark Inc	+15.10%
LITE	Lumentum Holdings Inc	+14.62%
CLS	Celestica Inc	+13.17%
WRD	WeRide Inc	+12.83%
IREN	IREN Ltd	+12.83%
HUT	Hut 8 Corp	+12.53%
SNDK	SanDisk Corp	+11.76%
QBTS	D-Wave Quantum Inc	+11.68%
CRDO	Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd	+11.51%
APLD	Applied Digital Corp	+11.35%
QUBT	Quantum Computing Inc	+11.23%
RGTI	Rigetti Computing Inc	+11.22%
PONY	Pony AI Inc	+11.12%
IONQ	IONQ Inc	+10.80%
BTDR	Bitdeer Technologies Group	+10.68%
WULF	Terawulf Inc	+10.61%
MARA	MARA Holdings Inc	+10.17%
AVGO	Broadcom Inc	+9.99%

🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-11-23

2025-11-23T00:00:00Z

Last Week

This Week

I’m looking forward to a second week without travel and before AWS re:Invent and Gartner IT IOCS. Let me know if you’ll be around.

Hot Fudge Daily Digest

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-11-17

Today was a slow day for the screener with only one top tech mover.

Symbol	Company Name	% Change
QUBT	Quantum Computing Inc	+7.83%

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-11-18

💰 + 🤖 Funding for AI-anything companies continues.

Peec AI (AI brand search visibility): $21M
Sphere (AI tax compliance platform): $21M
Agentio (AI creator campaign automation): $40M
Maxima (AI automated accounting tasks): $41M
Lambda (AI compute cloud infrastructure): $1.5B

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-11-19

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

Wacky Wonderful

Homestar Anniversary Merch

25 years of the website (and counting)
Trogdor the Burninator Polo
Whimsical Harlequin playing cards

Wayback

Amazon Kindle Launched (2007)

“The iPod of reading” debuts at $399
Sold out in 5.5 hours
Whispernet (Sprint EVDO, no Wi-Fi needed!)

Whoa

Gemini 3 Arrives

“Deep Think” reasoning mode
Google Gemini turns 3 after only 2 years 7 months
Multimodal mastery (Video-MMMU 87.6%)

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-11-20

Here is what was making waves in tech history on this day.

5 Years Ago: November 20, 2020

The orderly transfer of power for the US Govt was performed… using a Google Workspace and Titan Security Keys.

10 Years Ago: November 20, 2015

If you were a cola fan, you might have been in the market for… the Pepsi Phone.

15 Years Ago: November 20, 2010

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-11-21

📈 ⛏️ 💰 The biggest story this week was NVIDIA’s Q3 earnings.

The shovel-selling business remains the only sure bet in town for now. Pricing power consumption is a beautiful thing.

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-11-22

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

#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:

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-11-22

2025-11-22T00:00:00Z

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

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-11-21

2025-11-21T00:00:00Z

📈 ⛏️ 💰 The biggest story this week was NVIDIA’s Q3 earnings.

The shovel-selling business remains the only sure bet in town for now. Pricing power consumption is a beautiful thing.

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-11-20

2025-11-20T00:00:00Z

Here is what was making waves in tech history on this day.

5 Years Ago: November 20, 2020

The orderly transfer of power for the US Govt was performed… using a Google Workspace and Titan Security Keys.

10 Years Ago: November 20, 2015

If you were a cola fan, you might have been in the market for… the Pepsi Phone.

15 Years Ago: November 20, 2010

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-11-19

2025-11-19T00:00:00Z

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

Wacky Wonderful

Homestar Anniversary Merch

25 years of the website (and counting)
Trogdor the Burninator Polo
Whimsical Harlequin playing cards

Wayback

Amazon Kindle Launched (2007)

“The iPod of reading” debuts at $399
Sold out in 5.5 hours
Whispernet (Sprint EVDO, no Wi-Fi needed!)

Whoa

Gemini 3 Arrives

“Deep Think” reasoning mode
Google Gemini turns 3 after only 2 years 7 months
Multimodal mastery (Video-MMMU 87.6%)

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-11-18

2025-11-18T00:00:00Z

💰 + 🤖 Funding for AI-anything companies continues.

Peec AI (AI brand search visibility): $21M
Sphere (AI tax compliance platform): $21M
Agentio (AI creator campaign automation): $40M
Maxima (AI automated accounting tasks): $41M
Lambda (AI compute cloud infrastructure): $1.5B

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-11-17

2025-11-17T00:00:00Z

Today was a slow day for the screener with only one top tech mover.

Symbol	Company Name	% Change
QUBT	Quantum Computing Inc	+7.83%

🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-11-16

2025-11-16T00:00:00Z

Last Week

I traveled to NYC for Commvault SHIFT and Subsurface World Tour presented by Dremio.
NexusTek published The Private Cloud Prescription for Life Sciences
NexusTek published Winners Circle Ep. 7: The Invisible Advantage: Turning IT Operations into Business Acceleration
NexusTek published Trusted Science, Trusted Systems
Jason Pullo published From Bellhop to Bot: How AI and Automation Are Reshaping Hospitality

This Week

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.

Hot Fudge Daily Digest

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-11-10

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

Symbol	Company Name	% Change
TSEM	Tower Semiconductor Ltd	+14.27%
SNDK	SanDisk Corp	+10.63%
PLTR	Palantir Technologies Inc	+8.10%
U	Unity Software Inc	+7.19%
LYFT	LYFT Inc	+7.08%
FROG	JFrog Ltd	+6.76%
CLS	Celestica Inc	+6.53%
WDC	Western Digital Corp	+6.46%
MU	Micron Technology Inc	+6.07%
CARG	CarGurus Inc	+5.87%
CVNA	Carvana Co	+5.68%
ACMR	ACM Research Inc	+5.61%
NVDA	NVIDIA Corp	+5.48%
LSCC	Lattice Semiconductor Corp	+5.35%
INOD	Innodata 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.

#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:

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-11-15

2025-11-15T00:00:00Z

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.

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-11-14

2025-11-14T00:00:00Z

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.

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-11-13

2025-11-13T00:00:00Z

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.

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-11-12

2025-11-12T00:00:00Z

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

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-11-11

2025-11-11T00:00:00Z

💰 + 🤖 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

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-11-10

2025-11-10T00:00:00Z

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

Symbol	Company Name	% Change
TSEM	Tower Semiconductor Ltd	+14.27%
SNDK	SanDisk Corp	+10.63%
PLTR	Palantir Technologies Inc	+8.10%
U	Unity Software Inc	+7.19%
LYFT	LYFT Inc	+7.08%
FROG	JFrog Ltd	+6.76%
CLS	Celestica Inc	+6.53%
WDC	Western Digital Corp	+6.46%
MU	Micron Technology Inc	+6.07%
CARG	CarGurus Inc	+5.87%
CVNA	Carvana Co	+5.68%
ACMR	ACM Research Inc	+5.61%
NVDA	NVIDIA Corp	+5.48%
LSCC	Lattice Semiconductor Corp	+5.35%
INOD	Innodata Inc	+5.02%

🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-11-09

2025-11-09T00:00:00Z

Last Week

This Week

Once again, I’ll be traveling for work. Do you sense a trend? 🤓

Hot Fudge Daily Digest

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-11-03

Today’s top technology performers included companies specializing in semiconductors, IT data services, and software.

Symbol	Company Name	% Change
AMKR	Amkor Technology Inc	14.69%
DGNX	Diginex Ltd	10.65%
ITRI	Itron Inc	6.07%
CORZ	Core Scientific Inc	5.94%
GTM	Zoominfo Technologies Inc	5.08%

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-11-04

💰 + 🤖 Funding for AI-anything companies continues.

Mimic Robotics (AI for robotic hands): $16M
Augmented Intelligence (neuro-symbolic AI): $20M
Teleskope (AI for security): $25M
Daylight (AI-native cybersecurity): $33M
Hippocratic AI (health care AI agents): $126M
Beacon Software (AI software acquisition): $250M

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-11-05

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

Wacky Wonderful

Pachelbel’s Chicken

Canon in D
Clucking good
Very virtuoso

Wayback

Open Handset Alliance Announcement

November 5, 2007
The birth of Android
34 initial members

Whoa

Space-based Scalable AI Infrastructure

AI in orbit
Satellite of ~~love~~ LEO
All along the watchtower?

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-11-06

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

5 Years Ago: November 6, 2020

Netflix invented a TV station… then went all-in on offering a variety of linear and live programming.

10 Years Ago: November 6, 2015

Verizon determined hyperscale is expensive… then moved to AWS 8 years later.

15 Years Ago: November 6, 2010

Amazon acquired Quidsi… then shut it down 7 years later.

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-11-07

AI deals were the biggest story of the week.

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-11-08

#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:

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-11-08

2025-11-08T00:00:00Z

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-11-07

2025-11-07T00:00:00Z

AI deals were the biggest story of the week.

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-11-06

2025-11-06T00:00:00Z

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

5 Years Ago: November 6, 2020

Netflix invented a TV station… then went all-in on offering a variety of linear and live programming.

10 Years Ago: November 6, 2015

Verizon determined hyperscale is expensive… then moved to AWS 8 years later.

15 Years Ago: November 6, 2010

Amazon acquired Quidsi… then shut it down 7 years later.

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-11-05

2025-11-05T00:00:00Z

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

Wacky Wonderful

Pachelbel’s Chicken

Canon in D
Clucking good
Very virtuoso

Wayback

Open Handset Alliance Announcement

November 5, 2007
The birth of Android
34 initial members

Whoa

Space-based Scalable AI Infrastructure

AI in orbit
Satellite of ~~love~~ LEO
All along the watchtower?

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-11-04

2025-11-04T00:00:00Z

💰 + 🤖 Funding for AI-anything companies continues.

Mimic Robotics (AI for robotic hands): $16M
Augmented Intelligence (neuro-symbolic AI): $20M
Teleskope (AI for security): $25M
Daylight (AI-native cybersecurity): $33M
Hippocratic AI (health care AI agents): $126M
Beacon Software (AI software acquisition): $250M

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-11-03

2025-11-03T00:00:00Z

Today’s top technology performers included companies specializing in semiconductors, IT data services, and software.

Symbol	Company Name	% Change
AMKR	Amkor Technology Inc	14.69%
DGNX	Diginex Ltd	10.65%
ITRI	Itron Inc	6.07%
CORZ	Core Scientific Inc	5.94%
GTM	Zoominfo Technologies Inc	5.08%

🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-11-02

2025-11-02T00:00:00Z

Last Week

NexusTek’s Pavle Majerle was recognized as a CRN 2025 Next-Gen Solution Provider Leader! 🎉
NexusTek published Futureproof or Fossilize: Cybersecurity Lessons Beyond Awareness Month
Joseph Kasal published Nine Days. Two Giants. One Wake-Up Call.
NexusTek published The Cyber Gym: Training for Everyday Defense
Peter Newton published When AWS Sneezes, the Internet Catches a Cold: Why Today’s Outage Should Be Your Wake-Up Call

This Week

I’m back on the road for a few days and hope to find time to refactor my Buttondown automation stack.

Hot Fudge Daily Digest

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-10-27

Today showed strength in automation, hardware, and core components. The movement was concentrated in robotics and robotic process automation (SYM, PATH), semiconductors (QCOM, AAOI, MRVL), and communication equipment (LITE, ASTS).

Symbol	Company Name	% Change
LMND	Lemonade Inc	+10.80%
QCOM	Qualcomm Inc	+9.99%
AAOI	Applied Optoelectronics Inc	+8.62%
SYM	Symbotic Inc	+7.91%
LITE	Lumentum Holdings Inc	+7.48%
ASTS	AST SpaceMobile Inc	+7.24%
RIOT	Riot Platforms Inc	+6.87%
SMCI	Super Micro Computer Inc	+6.36%
PATH	UiPath Inc	+5.23%
MRVL	Marvell Technology Inc	+5.16%

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-10-28

💰 + 🤖 Funding for AI-anything companies continues.

Mem0 (AI cross-device memory passport): $24M
ConductorOne (AI identity security): $79M
Substrate (US chip making): $100M+
Whatnot (AI-assisted livestream marketplace): $225M
The Bot Company (AI household robots): $250M
Fireworks AI (AI developer platform): $254M
Mercor (AI contractor marketplace): $350M
Wealthsimple (AI-powered robo advisor investing): $538M

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-10-29

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

Wacky Wonderful

Captured AI art

Custom displays
SoC brain
Groundhogs Day?

Wayback

First ARPANET connection (1969)

“LO” rider
System crashed
First 404?

Whoa

High-Speed Interstellar Travel via via Sentiers No.376

Starship dreams
Physics-bending
Interstellar paparazzi?

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-10-30

What was buzzing 5, 10, and 15 years ago today?

5 Years Ago: October 30, 2020

An East Texas jury awarded VirnetX ~$0.5B against Apple for patent infringement (but Apple appealed and won a ~3 years later).

10 Years Ago: October 30, 2015

Amazon Fire(d) all competing devices from Apple and Google from the retail platform (but allowed both back ~2 years later).

15 Years Ago: October 30, 2010

Apple took legal actions against Motorola after Motorola took legal actions against Apple (and others).

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-10-31

The story that completely eclipsed tech earnings week was OpenAI’s pivot.

OpenAI is now a very much for-profit, giving Microsoft a ~27% stake in exchange for a $250B+ Big MACC (Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment), and putting a potential $1T IPO into motion.

Apparently, the pursuit of “benefit for all humanity” includes a vesting schedule.

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-11-01

It’s time to select the Friday news dump for this week’s most skillfully buried story.

Just as the world was gearing up for Halloween weekend, “Chat Control” withdrawal meant no candy for anti-privacy proponents in the EU.

#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:

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-11-01

2025-11-01T00:00:00Z

It’s time to select the Friday news dump for this week’s most skillfully buried story.

Just as the world was gearing up for Halloween weekend, “Chat Control” withdrawal meant no candy for anti-privacy proponents in the EU.

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-10-31

2025-10-31T00:00:00Z

The story that completely eclipsed tech earnings week was OpenAI’s pivot.

OpenAI is now a very much for-profit, giving Microsoft a ~27% stake in exchange for a $250B+ Big MACC (Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment), and putting a potential $1T IPO into motion.

Apparently, the pursuit of “benefit for all humanity” includes a vesting schedule.

My Fediverse Digest for October 2025

2025-10-31T00:00:00Z

Oct 01

12:12 PM

Testing to see if #e14n is a thing

Source

Oct 03

11:12 PM

Long weekend.

🔍 Starting scan in ‘…/fudge-org-eleventy-excellent-4.3.0/src/posts’…
✅ Found 743 Markdown file(s).

— External Image Host Report (Markdown + HTML) —
Found a total of 404 external images from 25 unique domains.

Domain (FQDN) Image Count
---------------------------------------- -----------
assets.buttondown.email 302
buttondown-attachments.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com 40
images.unsplash.com 18
cuthrell.com 17
live.staticflickr.com 5
substackcdn.com 3
upload.wikimedia.org 1
storage.googleapis.com 1
www.alcf.anl.gov 1
spectrum.ieee.org 1
media.licdn.com 1
help.apple.com 1
ieeexplore.ieee.org 1
i.ebayimg.com 1
www.cnet.com 1
news.microsoft.com 1
oxide-computer.imgix.net 1
d2908q01vomqb2.cloudfront.net 1
www.insightpartners.com 1
kstatic.googleusercontent.com 1
assets-global.website-files.com 1
files.mastodon.social 1
api.netlify.com 1
www.fooddive.com 1
buttondown-attachments.s3.amazonaws.com 1

— End of Report —

Source

Oct 05

01:20 PM

Sunday means one thing…

Unexpected token ‘}’ (via SyntaxError)

Source

03:45 PM

Slow progress but ~60% progress it is

0) Delete cache

1) run DEBUG=Eleventy:Fetch* npx eleventy | tee build.log

First Build (Cache Warming) Result:

[11ty] Copied 68 Wrote 1558 files in 1132.55 seconds (726.9ms each, v3.1.1)

2) run DEBUG=Eleventy:Fetch* npx eleventy | tee build.log

Second Build (Using the Cache) Result:

[11ty] Copied 68 Wrote 1558 files in 451.08 seconds (289.5ms each, v3.1.1)

Source

Oct 07

12:43 AM

Upgraded to Eleventy Excellent 4.3.3 by @lene

$ time ELEVENTY_ENV=production NODE_OPTIONS=–max-old-space-size=1536 npm run build:11ty

[… cache hits galore …]

[11ty] Copied 18 Wrote 1547 files in 63.73 seconds (41.2ms each, v3.1.2)

real 1m6.851s
user 0m58.564s
sys 0m3.717s

🤯

#11ty

Source

09:11 PM

Getting closer…

Source

Oct 08

09:17 PM

The hardest part was finding LinkedIn documentation that wasn’t consistently… wrong.

https://github.com/JayCuthrell/buttondown-python-scripts

but…

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7381854148394196992/

Source

Oct 09

09:42 AM

As Google Cloud begins to break free from association of being developer focused towards more Enterprise aware, the adoption curves and ROI will be akin to a bingo card of fights to come in adjacent use case that stress existing partnerships. ie the A16Z AI Apps 50

Source

Oct 12

12:59 AM

When I first started using Google Workspace (Apps) it was $4.44 per seat a month in 2012. Now, that same seat is going to be $14.00 per month. The moral of this story is that Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace prices on the low end are probably going to be anchored to each other for the foreseeable future.

Source

Oct 13

10:13 PM

1995: Heat

“It comes to you, this stuff just flies through the air” – Kelso

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ziv7z-P4Gqc

2025: Researchers

"[…] our suspicion was that it would all be encrypted […] And just time and time again, every time we found something new, it wasn’t”

https://www.wired.com/story/satellites-are-leaking-the-worlds-secrets-calls-texts-military-and-corporate-data/

Source

Oct 17

08:54 PM

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-10-17

Ping. Power. Plate. This was the appeal of a data center.
The biggest story of the week was the $40B acquisition of ping, POWER, and plate represented by Aligned Data Centers.
An investment consortium of BlackRock, GIP, MGX, NVIDIA, xAI, and Microsoft in a deal to buy data centers capable of delivering up to 5GW of power is a clear signal that the AI physical infrastructure is some of the most valuable real estate on the planet but not because of square footage or views of the city, mountains, or a body of water. Rather, $8M/MW, is less about the cost of land and buildings and more about securing a vast and strategic portfolio of power capacity that is essential to energize hardware that supports AI workloads.

Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/final-thoughts-friday-for-2025-10-17/

Source

Oct 18

09:09 PM

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-10-18

Once again, we sift through the digital aftermath of a Friday news cycle to find the story that was meant to be a footnote, not a headline. This week’s selection is from Google’s 5+ year saga to end third-party cookies with the Privacy Sandbox initiative.

Paradoxically, it will be Google’s Privacy Sandbox and key technologies going away after years of regulatory debates followed by detours. So, enjoy those not-quite-dead-yet third-party cookies with a nice tall glass of spilled privacy milk. 🍪🥛

Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/sneak-peak-saturday-for-2025-10-18/

Source

Oct 19

12:40 PM

Fun quirk of Google Gemini coding partner gem web interface when working on python3 scripts… HTML comments seem to be tossed away in code blocks.

editor_mode_comment = “”

becomes

editor_mode_comment = “”

Source

01:01 PM

🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-10-19

My takeaways from the week:

📈 Markets Monday: Rallies for quantum, semiconductors, and energy

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday: AI funding frenzy continues without pause

🤪 Wacky Wednesday: Competition for eyeballs among streaming giants

🔙 Throwback Thursday: From “app economy” to 5G and lidar democratization

✅ Final Thoughts Friday: AI is built on a foundation of ping, power, and plate

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday: Third-party cookies and paradoxical detours

Read the full email here:

https://fudge.org/archive/hot-fudge-sunday-for-2025-10-19/

Source

09:45 PM

Thinking out loud…

I tried gist recipes for turning things off in MacOS to squeeze more workload potential out of my 2020 M1 MacBook Air with 16 GB (the most memory I’ve ever personally owned in any device). But, it is often humbling (or impossible for me at least) to try that same workload on my Linode 2 GB Shared CPU VPS.

Maybe, assuming the AI infrastructure boom results in a similar gluttonous ramp of value chain output for DRAM and NVRAM, it might be the setting for a repeat of the HDD to SSD cost curves convergence from a decade or so ago when the flooding impacted lives where HDD were being manufactured.

Those cute little NVIDIA DGX Spark boxes are appearing more in my social feeds. It’s like you can see a time where GDDRx:DRAM:NVRAM in laptops/workstations will give way to finding a golden ratio for onboard AI workloads where HBM:GDDRx:DRAM:NVRAM and onboard CXL makes personal computing compress the span of time between what was HPC and what we come to expect as general purpose computing.

Source

Oct 21

07:56 PM

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-10-21

💰 + 🤖 Funding for AI-anything companies continues.

ChipAgents (agentic AI for chip design): $21M
Serval (agentic AI for IT): $47M
Findem (AI talent acquisition): $51M
Anrok (AI for sales tax): $55M

Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/hot-takes-tuesday-for-2025-10-21/

Source

Oct 22

11:24 PM

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-10-22

Wacky. Wayback. Whoa.

Wacky Wonderful

In the air tonight)

The scene.
The build.
The fill.

Wayback

2023 Plans

News is made.
Plans are laid.
Predictions on parade.

Whoa

2025 Arrives

Updated declarative.
Scant details narrative.
A future “remember when…?” comparative.

Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/wacky-wednesday-for-2025-10-22/

Source

Oct 24

11:39 PM

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-10-23

It’s time for another trip in the wayback machine.

5 Years Ago: October 23, 2020

Quibi was the short-form video service… with a short lifespan.

10 Years Ago: October 23, 2015

The US Government was insisting Apple should… decrypt data on iOS devices.

15 Years Ago: October 23, 2010

Netflix had started testing streaming-only plans… vs. DVD by mail.

Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/throwback-thursday-for-2025-10-23/

Source

Oct 25

12:42 AM

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-10-24

🔌 The big story this week was a push to plug AI data centers into the power grid, faster.

For perspective, this would require approvals of new power grid connections for data centers in terms of months vs. years.

Perhaps the AI companies will donate data center excess heat to warm homes in the winter as a form of industrial symbiosis in a circular economy.

Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/final-thoughts-friday-for-2025-10-24/

Source

06:10 PM

So far so good. Markdown posts seem to be very functional (outside of tables) and 5000 characters is plenty of room. #gotosocial

Source

06:19 PM

Observation: BART has come a long way since my first ride so many years ago.

Clipper app is functional.
Park and ride long term parking prices are reasonable.
Digital signage is improved.
Surfaces are easier to clean.
No more carpets.

Source

11:09 PM

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-10-25

HP is coming to… the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

On the surface, it’s just HP doing what global companies do, which is building products closer to the markets they serve. In this case, building millions of PCs in Saudi Arabia for export to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

However, this Friday news dump timing makes more sense as the entire political narrative in the US is focused on bringing high-tech manufacturing back to American soil. Still, for a flagship American company like HP to make a major manufacturing announcement outside the US is a daring move against the current political grain even on a slow news Friday.

Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/sneak-peak-saturday-for-2025-10-25/

Source

Oct 26

10:40 PM

i unsubscribed from all substack newsletters because i can

Source

Oct 28

12:01 AM

Come for the footer. Stay for the selective omissions.

“The content is adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License.”

https://www.techmeme.com/251027/p41#a251027p41

Source

09:58 PM

@ 10:36 🤯

https://www.youtube.com/live/RESslu3Bhuk?si=LRc2MSaRoGI6WMiL

Source

10:05 PM

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-10-28

💰 + 🤖 Funding for AI-anything companies continues.
• Mem0 (AI cross-device memory passport): $24M
• ConductorOne (AI identity security): $79M
• Substrate (US chip making): $100M+
• Whatnot (AI-assisted livestream marketplace): $225M
• The Bot Company (AI household robots): $250M
• Fireworks AI (AI developer platform): $254M
• Mercor (AI contractor marketplace): $350M
• Wealthsimple (AI-powered robo advisor investing): $538M

Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/hot-takes-tuesday-for-2025-10-28

Source

Oct 29

09:19 PM

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-10-29

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

Wacky Wonderful

Captured AI art

Custom displays
SoC brain
Groundhogs Day?

Wayback

First ARPANET connection (1969)

“LO” rider
System crashed
First 404?

Whoa

High-Speed Interstellar Travel via via Sentiers No.376

Starship dreams
Physics-bending
Interstellar paparazzi?

Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/wacky-wednesday-for-2025-10-29/

Source

Oct 30

08:59 PM

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-10-30

What was buzzing 5, 10, and 15 years ago today?

5 Years Ago: October 30, 2020

An East Texas jury awarded VirnetX ~$0.5B against Apple for patent infringement (but Apple appealed and won a ~3 years later).

10 Years Ago: October 30, 2015

Amazon Fire(d) all competing devices from Apple and Google from the retail platform (but allowed both back ~2 years later).

15 Years Ago: October 30, 2010

Apple took legal actions against Motorola after Motorola took legal actions against Apple (and others).

Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/throwback-thursday-for-2025-10-30

Source

Oct 31

07:54 PM

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-10-31

The story that completely eclipsed tech earnings week was OpenAI’s pivot.

OpenAI is now a very much for-profit, giving Microsoft a ~27% stake in exchange for a $250B+ Big MACC (Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment), and putting a potential $1T IPO into motion.

Apparently, the pursuit of “benefit for all humanity” includes a vesting schedule.

Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/final-thoughts-friday-for-2025-10-31

Source

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-10-30

2025-10-30T00:00:00Z

What was buzzing 5, 10, and 15 years ago today?

5 Years Ago: October 30, 2020

An East Texas jury awarded VirnetX ~$0.5B against Apple for patent infringement (but Apple appealed and won a ~3 years later).

10 Years Ago: October 30, 2015

Amazon Fire(d) all competing devices from Apple and Google from the retail platform (but allowed both back ~2 years later).

15 Years Ago: October 30, 2010

Apple took legal actions against Motorola after Motorola took legal actions against Apple (and others).

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-10-29

2025-10-29T00:00:00Z

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

Wacky Wonderful

Captured AI art

Custom displays
SoC brain
Groundhogs Day?

Wayback

First ARPANET connection (1969)

“LO” rider
System crashed
First 404?

Whoa

High-Speed Interstellar Travel via via Sentiers No.376

Starship dreams
Physics-bending
Interstellar paparazzi?

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-10-28

2025-10-28T00:00:00Z

💰 + 🤖 Funding for AI-anything companies continues.

Mem0 (AI cross-device memory passport): $24M
ConductorOne (AI identity security): $79M
Substrate (US chip making): $100M+
Whatnot (AI-assisted livestream marketplace): $225M
The Bot Company (AI household robots): $250M
Fireworks AI (AI developer platform): $254M
Mercor (AI contractor marketplace): $350M
Wealthsimple (AI-powered robo advisor investing): $538M

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-10-27

2025-10-27T00:00:00Z

Symbol	Company Name	% Change
LMND	Lemonade Inc	+10.80%
QCOM	Qualcomm Inc	+9.99%
AAOI	Applied Optoelectronics Inc	+8.62%
SYM	Symbotic Inc	+7.91%
LITE	Lumentum Holdings Inc	+7.48%
ASTS	AST SpaceMobile Inc	+7.24%
RIOT	Riot Platforms Inc	+6.87%
SMCI	Super Micro Computer Inc	+6.36%
PATH	UiPath Inc	+5.23%
MRVL	Marvell Technology Inc	+5.16%

🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-10-26

2025-10-26T00:00:00Z

Last Week

This Week

I am happy to be off the road for a few days and continue to make progress on my Buttondown automation stack.

Hot Fudge Daily Digest

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-10-20

Today’s movers include digital asset company pivots, fintech, and the semiconductor value chain.

Symbol	Company Name	% Change
RIOT	Riot Platforms Inc	+9.00%
PGY	Pagaya Technologies Ltd	+8.34%
SOFI	SoFi Technologies Inc	+7.46%
SEDG	Solaredge Technologies Inc	+7.45%
UPST	Upstart Holdings Inc	+7.41%
BMNR	Bitmine Immersion Technologies Inc	+7.34%
CHYM	Chime Financial Inc	+6.51%
AAOI	Applied Optoelectronics Inc	+6.50%
BTDR	Bitdeer Technologies Group	+6.06%
AFRM	Affirm Holdings Inc	+5.80%
CIFR	Cipher Mining Inc	+5.78%
VSH	Vishay Intertechnology Inc	+5.77%
MARA	MARA Holdings Inc	+5.60%
SNDK	SanDisk Corp	+5.32%
CRDO	Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd	+5.31%
SMCI	Super Micro Computer Inc	+5.20%
VERX	Vertex Inc	+5.15%
CWAN	Clearwater Analytics Holdings Inc	+5.12%
TEM	Tempus AI Inc	+5.05%

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-10-21

💰 + 🤖 Funding for AI-anything companies continues.

ChipAgents (agentic AI for chip design): $21M
Serval (agentic AI for IT): $47M
Findem (AI talent acquisition): $51M
Anrok (AI for sales tax): $55M

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-10-22

Wacky. Wayback. Whoa.

Wacky Wonderful

In the air tonight

The scene.
The build.
The fill.

Wayback

2023 Plans

News is made.
Plans are laid.
Predictions on parade.

Whoa

2025 Arrives

Updated declarative.
Scant details narrative.
A future “remember when…?” comparative.

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-10-23

It’s time for another trip in the wayback machine.

5 Years Ago: October 23, 2020

Quibi was the short-form video service… with a short lifespan.

10 Years Ago: October 23, 2015

The US Government was insisting Apple should… decrypt data on iOS devices.

15 Years Ago: October 23, 2010

Netflix had started testing streaming-only plans… vs. DVD by mail.

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-10-24

🔌 The big story this week was a push to plug AI data centers into the power grid, faster.

For perspective, this would require approvals of new power grid connections for data centers in terms of months vs. years.

Perhaps the AI companies will donate datacenter excess heat to warm homes in the winter as a form of industrial symbiosis in a circular economy.

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-10-25

HP is coming to… the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

#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:

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-10-25

2025-10-25T00:00:00Z

HP is coming to… the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-10-24

2025-10-24T00:00:00Z

🔌 The big story this week was a push to plug AI data centers into the power grid, faster.

For perspective, this would require approvals of new power grid connections for data centers in terms of months vs. years.

Perhaps the AI companies will donate datacenter excess heat to warm homes in the winter as a form of industrial symbiosis in a circular economy.

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-10-23

2025-10-23T00:00:00Z

It’s time for another trip in the wayback machine.

5 Years Ago: October 23, 2020

Quibi was the short-form video service… with a short lifespan.

10 Years Ago: October 23, 2015

The US Government was insisting Apple should… decrypt data on iOS devices.

15 Years Ago: October 23, 2010

Netflix had started testing streaming-only plans… vs. DVD by mail.

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-10-22

2025-10-22T00:00:00Z

Wacky. Wayback. Whoa.

Wacky Wonderful

In the air tonight

The scene.
The build.
The fill.

Wayback

2023 Plans

News is made.
Plans are laid.
Predictions on parade.

Whoa

2025 Arrives

Updated declarative.
Scant details narrative.
A future “remember when…?” comparative.

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-10-21

2025-10-21T00:00:00Z

💰 + 🤖 Funding for AI-anything companies continues.

ChipAgents (agentic AI for chip design): $21M
Serval (agentic AI for IT): $47M
Findem (AI talent acquisition): $51M
Anrok (AI for sales tax): $55M

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-10-20

2025-10-20T00:00:00Z

Today’s movers include digital asset company pivots, fintech, and the semiconductor value chain.

Symbol	Company Name	% Change
RIOT	Riot Platforms Inc	+9.00%
PGY	Pagaya Technologies Ltd	+8.34%
SOFI	SoFi Technologies Inc	+7.46%
SEDG	Solaredge Technologies Inc	+7.45%
UPST	Upstart Holdings Inc	+7.41%
BMNR	Bitmine Immersion Technologies Inc	+7.34%
CHYM	Chime Financial Inc	+6.51%
AAOI	Applied Optoelectronics Inc	+6.50%
BTDR	Bitdeer Technologies Group	+6.06%
AFRM	Affirm Holdings Inc	+5.80%
CIFR	Cipher Mining Inc	+5.78%
VSH	Vishay Intertechnology Inc	+5.77%
MARA	MARA Holdings Inc	+5.60%
SNDK	SanDisk Corp	+5.32%
CRDO	Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd	+5.31%
SMCI	Super Micro Computer Inc	+5.20%
VERX	Vertex Inc	+5.15%
CWAN	Clearwater Analytics Holdings Inc	+5.12%
TEM	Tempus AI Inc	+5.05%

🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-10-19

2025-10-19T00:00:00Z

Last Week

NexusTek published The Cybersecurity Awareness Month Challenge: Can Your Team Pass This Real-World Test?

NexusTek Earns CRN’s 2025 Triple Crown–Honored for Growth, Innovation, and Technical Excellence

This Week

Work travel picks up again this week and through end of year.

Hot Fudge Daily Digest

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-10-13

My screener is getting closer to my legacy Yahoo version (51 stocks!). Today saw a significant rally across several key technology sectors. Quantum computing, digital currency miners, semiconductors, and energy technology were the standout themes, with numerous companies posting significant gains.

Symbol	Company Name	% Change
BE	Bloom Energy Corp	20.96%
RGTI	Rigetti Computing Inc	20.01%
POWI	Power Integrations Inc	19.72%
QBTS	D-Wave Quantum Inc	18.71%
CIFR	Cipher Mining Inc	16.57%
IONQ	IONQ Inc	13.94%
SNDK	SanDisk Corp	13.15%
BTDR	Bitdeer Technologies Group	13.06%
QUBT	Quantum Computing Inc	11.37%
HUT	Hut 8 Corp	11.28%
RUN	Sunrun Inc	11.20%
YELP	Yelp Inc	10.52%
ARM	Arm Holdings PLC - ADR	9.96%
GRND	Grindr Inc	9.67%
SYM	Symbotic Inc	9.57%
ASTS	AST SpaceMobile Inc	9.36%
SOUN	SoundHound AI Inc	9.30%
ENTG	Entegris Inc	9.00%
AVGO	Broadcom Inc	8.99%
MKSI	MKS Inc	8.85%
ON	ON Semiconductor Corp	8.72%
AMSC	American Superconductor Corp	8.66%
PONY	Pony AI Inc	8.56%
MARA	MARA Holdings Inc	7.86%
BMNR	Bitmine Immersion Technologies Inc	7.70%
VSH	Vishay Intertechnology Inc	7.68%
RMBS	Rambus Inc	7.67%
AI	C3.ai Inc	7.54%
CRDO	Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd	7.38%
TSM	Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd	7.34%
AMKR	Amkor Technology Inc	7.22%
LITE	Lumentum Holdings Inc	6.82%
IREN	IREN Ltd	6.81%
GDS	GDS Holdings Ltd - ADR	6.80%
CGNX	Cognex Corp	6.77%
CLS	Celestica Inc	6.64%
HPQ	HP Inc	6.58%
MBLY	Mobileye Global Inc	6.32%
HSAI	Hesai Group - ADR	6.29%
ONTO	Onto Innovation Inc	6.26%
MCHP	Microchip Technology Inc	6.18%
VSAT	Viasat Inc	5.99%
KC	Kingsoft Cloud Holdings Ltd	5.96%
PINS	Pinterest Inc	5.79%
MU	Micron Technology Inc	5.79%
SWKS	Skyworks Solutions Inc	5.74%
DOCN	DigitalOcean Holdings Inc	5.67%
VRT	Vertiv Holdings Co	5.58%
ASX	ASE Technology Holding Co Ltd	5.54%
ALGM	Allegro MicroSystems Inc	5.44%
CIEN	Ciena Corp	5.36%
FORM	FormFactor Inc	5.31%
NXPI	NXP Semiconductors NV	5.23%
TER	Teradyne Inc	5.07%
QCOM	Qualcomm Inc	5.06%

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-10-14

💰 Funding continues to favor AI flavor

ClaimSorted (AI for insurance claims): $13.3M
Glue (AI-first Slack competitor): $20M
Flow Engineering (AI-native collaborative hardware development): $23M
Dezerv (AI-augmented wealth management startup): ~$40M
Dexory (AI-optimized autonomous warehouse robots): $165M
Oura (AI-insights wearables): $900M

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-10-15

First, a wacky wonderful video. Second, a wayback nostalgia moment. Third, a whoa things are changing fast.

Wacky

Gboard ダイヤルバージョン / Gboard Dial Version

Engineering
Enjoyment
Delight

Wayback

Thinking Machines Corporation Founded

Founded in 1983
Pioneers in supercomputing
One of the early .com domains

Whoa

Spyglass: Spotify & Netflix Gun for YouTube’s Eyeballs

User-generated content (UGC)
Streaming
Partners

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-10-16

5 Years Ago: October 16, 2020

On this day five years ago, iPhone democratized lidar and 5G connectivity. Social media platforms scrutiny intensified leading up to the U.S. presidential election. The pandemic’s influence had shifted remote knowledge work and boosted the fortunes of streaming and collaboration software while some knowledge work companies experimented with return to office.

10 Years Ago: October 16, 2015

A decade back, the industry was still processing the “unicorn” era that was in full swing, with private tech companies achieving sky-high valuations via funding feats that defied economic gravity (reality?). On the consumer front, enthusiasts of drone technology learned they would be required to register their drone with the U.S. Department of Transportation.

15 Years Ago: October 16, 2010

Fifteen years ago, the “app economy” was just beginning to explode with Apple’s App Store crossing 300,000 apps (today that number is +2M!). One of those apps launched a few weeks prior as “Burbn Beta” as a simple photo-sharing app that received around 25,000 downloads… now called Instagram (today that number is ~4B downloads).

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-10-17

Ping. Power. Plate. This was the appeal of a datacenter.

The biggest story of the week was the $40B acquisition of ping, POWER, and plate represented by Aligned Data Centers.

An investment consortium of BlackRock, GIP, MGX, NVIDIA, xAI, and Microsoft in a deal to buy data centers capable of delivering up to 5GW of power is a clear signal that the AI physical infrastructure is some of the most valuable real estate on the planet but not because of square footage or views of the city, mountains, or a body of water. Rather, $8M/MW, is less about the cost of land and buildings and more about securing a vast and strategic portfolio of power capacity that is essential to energize hardware that supports AI workloads.

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-10-18

#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:

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-10-18

2025-10-18T00:00:00Z

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-10-17

2025-10-17T00:00:00Z

Ping. Power. Plate. This was the appeal of a datacenter.

The biggest story of the week was the $40B acquisition of ping, POWER, and plate represented by Aligned Data Centers.

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-10-16

2025-10-16T00:00:00Z

5 Years Ago: October 16, 2020

10 Years Ago: October 16, 2015

15 Years Ago: October 16, 2010

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-10-15

2025-10-15T00:00:00Z

First, a wacky wonderful video. Second, a wayback nostalgia moment. Third, a whoa things are changing fast.

Wacky

Gboard ダイヤルバージョン / Gboard Dial Version

Engineering
Enjoyment
Delight

Wayback

Thinking Machines Corporation Founded

Founded in 1983
Pioneers in supercomputing
One of the early .com domains

Whoa

Spyglass: Spotify & Netflix Gun for YouTube’s Eyeballs

User-generated content (UGC)
Streaming
Partners

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-10-14

2025-10-14T00:00:00Z

💰 Funding continues to favor AI flavor

ClaimSorted (AI for insurance claims): $13.3M
Glue (AI-first Slack competitor): $20M
Flow Engineering (AI-native collaborative hardware development): $23M
Dezerv (AI-augmented wealth management startup): ~$40M
Dexory (AI-optimized autonomous warehouse robots): $165M
Oura (AI-insights wearables): $900M

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-10-13

2025-10-13T00:00:00Z

Symbol	Company Name	% Change
BE	Bloom Energy Corp	20.96%
RGTI	Rigetti Computing Inc	20.01%
POWI	Power Integrations Inc	19.72%
QBTS	D-Wave Quantum Inc	18.71%
CIFR	Cipher Mining Inc	16.57%
IONQ	IONQ Inc	13.94%
SNDK	SanDisk Corp	13.15%
BTDR	Bitdeer Technologies Group	13.06%
QUBT	Quantum Computing Inc	11.37%
HUT	Hut 8 Corp	11.28%
RUN	Sunrun Inc	11.20%
YELP	Yelp Inc	10.52%
ARM	Arm Holdings PLC - ADR	9.96%
GRND	Grindr Inc	9.67%
SYM	Symbotic Inc	9.57%
ASTS	AST SpaceMobile Inc	9.36%
SOUN	SoundHound AI Inc	9.30%
ENTG	Entegris Inc	9.00%
AVGO	Broadcom Inc	8.99%
MKSI	MKS Inc	8.85%
ON	ON Semiconductor Corp	8.72%
AMSC	American Superconductor Corp	8.66%
PONY	Pony AI Inc	8.56%
MARA	MARA Holdings Inc	7.86%
BMNR	Bitmine Immersion Technologies Inc	7.70%
VSH	Vishay Intertechnology Inc	7.68%
RMBS	Rambus Inc	7.67%
AI	C3.ai Inc	7.54%
CRDO	Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd	7.38%
TSM	Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd	7.34%
AMKR	Amkor Technology Inc	7.22%
LITE	Lumentum Holdings Inc	6.82%
IREN	IREN Ltd	6.81%
GDS	GDS Holdings Ltd - ADR	6.80%
CGNX	Cognex Corp	6.77%
CLS	Celestica Inc	6.64%
HPQ	HP Inc	6.58%
MBLY	Mobileye Global Inc	6.32%
HSAI	Hesai Group - ADR	6.29%
ONTO	Onto Innovation Inc	6.26%
MCHP	Microchip Technology Inc	6.18%
VSAT	Viasat Inc	5.99%
KC	Kingsoft Cloud Holdings Ltd	5.96%
PINS	Pinterest Inc	5.79%
MU	Micron Technology Inc	5.79%
SWKS	Skyworks Solutions Inc	5.74%
DOCN	DigitalOcean Holdings Inc	5.67%
VRT	Vertiv Holdings Co	5.58%
ASX	ASE Technology Holding Co Ltd	5.54%
ALGM	Allegro MicroSystems Inc	5.44%
CIEN	Ciena Corp	5.36%
FORM	FormFactor Inc	5.31%
NXPI	NXP Semiconductors NV	5.23%
TER	Teradyne Inc	5.07%
QCOM	Qualcomm Inc	5.06%

🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-10-12

2025-10-12T00:00:00Z

Last Week

This Week

I am planning to catch a few sessions at All Things Open 2025.

Hot Fudge Daily Digest

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-10-06

🤖 🍪 🛰️ ₿ On Monday, the market moved once again for all things AI, chips, quantum, communications, and digital currency.

Symbol	Company Name	% Change
AMD	Advanced Micro Devices Inc	+19.16%
SANM	Sanmina Corp	+18.51%
IREN	IREN Ltd	+12.62%
PATH	UiPath Inc	+11.16%
RIOT	Riot Platforms Inc	+9.83%
ALAB	Astera Labs Inc	+9.09%
CLSK	CleanSpark Inc	+8.55%
MARA	Marathon Digital Holdings Inc	+8.51%
IONQ	IONQ Inc	+7.23%
ASTS	AST SpaceMobile Inc	+7.05%
BTDR	Bitdeer Technologies Group	+7.04%
FORM	FormFactor Inc	+6.77%
ASAN	Asana Inc	+6.51%
IRDM	Iridium Communications Inc	+6.29%
TWLO	Twilio Inc	+6.16%

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-10-07

💰 + 🤖 Funding for AI-anything companies continues.

FurtherAI (AI that automates insurance tasks): $25M
Bee Maps (decentralized AI dashcam mapping project): $32M
Heidi Health (AI for doctors and their admins): $65M
EvenUp (AI for law firms): $150M
xAI (AI platform): $20B

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-10-08

Trying a new format. Wacky. Wayback. Whoa.

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

Wacky Wonderful

DIY Phone

Soldering
Soliloquy
Satisfaction

Wayback

Internet History circa 2000)

FLASH! (AHHHHH! AHHHH!)
Slashdot Effect
P2P downloadin’

Whoa

Heat 2

Amazon Basics but for movie franchises
Anything might happen production
Age-gap casting for GenX

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-10-09

Intel was in the new today.

2025

Today’s news is Intel’s massive 700 acres Arizona fab and the 18A process for Panther Lake chips. 🍪

2020

Five years ago, Intel was selling off memory and storage units. 💸

2015

A decade ago, Intel launched Skylake architecture and some might argue this is where the “tick-tock” reached the peak and then transformed to a countdown timer for the decade to come. ⏳

2010

Fifteen years back, Intel launched it’s “NVIDIA killer”. 😬

2005

Twenty years ago, Intel for better or for worse made “core” architecture, “number of cores”, and “core count” become a thing. 🔮

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-10-10

💊 + 🤖 The story that caught my eye this week was life sciences companies placing ever bigger bets on our new AI overlords.

The big story this week was AstraZeneca’s $555M deal to develop new drugs which signals a strategic shift from the petri dish alone to the processing core contribution as a catalyst. This isn’t about saving pennies on lab coats; it’s about compressing the multi-billion dollar, decade-long R&D cycle timeline into a high-speed computational augmented sprint.

The race (metaphor or otherwise) is on to see if the cure for what ails you is found in a molecule or an algorithm.

Of course, this shift also means that the attention to so-called “open” life sciences movements is increasingly important as AI computation is rapidly democratized to more than the best funded and already established life sciences companies.

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-10-11

Friday provided a classic trope from the world of cybersecurity that plays out with dependable regularity: The triumphant law enforcement takedown, immediately followed by the defiant criminal taunt.

Early Friday morning, a story broke that had all the hallmarks of a major victory for the good guys. The FBI announced it had seized the domains for BreachForums, a data leak and extortion site.

A big win, right? A decisive blow against the cyber bad guys.

Well, about that… the story comes with a punchline, just hours later, delivered by the cyber bad guys themselves… and they claim operations are “unaffected.”

It’s that familiar tale: law enforcement scores a point, but the game goes on. This story isn’t just about one or more domain seizures; it’s about the frustrating, asymmetric cyclical nature of the fight against cyber criminals, conveniently packaged for a day when fewer people are paying close attention.

#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:

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-10-11

2025-10-11T00:00:00Z

Friday provided a classic trope from the world of cybersecurity that plays out with dependable regularity: The triumphant law enforcement takedown, immediately followed by the defiant criminal taunt.

Early Friday morning, a story broke that had all the hallmarks of a major victory for the good guys. The FBI announced it had seized the domains for BreachForums, a data leak and extortion site.

A big win, right? A decisive blow against the cyber bad guys.

Well, about that… the story comes with a punchline, just hours later, delivered by the cyber bad guys themselves… and they claim operations are “unaffected.”

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-10-10

2025-10-10T00:00:00Z

💊 + 🤖 The story that caught my eye this week was life sciences companies placing ever bigger bets on our new AI overlords.

The race (metaphor or otherwise) is on to see if the cure for what ails you is found in a molecule or an algorithm.

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-10-09

2025-10-09T00:00:00Z

Intel was in the new today.

2025

Today’s news is Intel’s massive 700 acres Arizona fab and the 18A process for Panther Lake chips. 🍪

2020

Five years ago, Intel was selling off memory and storage units. 💸

2015

A decade ago, Intel launched Skylake architecture and some might argue this is where the “tick-tock” reached the peak and then transformed to a countdown timer for the decade to come. ⏳

2010

Fifteen years back, Intel launched it’s “NVIDIA killer”. 😬

2005

Twenty years ago, Intel for better or for worse made “core” architecture, “number of cores”, and “core count” become a thing. 🔮

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-10-08

2025-10-08T00:00:00Z

Trying a new format. Wacky. Wayback. Whoa.

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

Wacky Wonderful

DIY Phone

Soldering
Soliloquy
Satisfaction

Wayback

Internet History circa 2000)

FLASH! (AHHHHH! AHHHH!)
Slashdot Effect
P2P downloadin’

Whoa

Heat 2

Amazon Basics but for movie franchises
Anything might happen production
Age-gap casting for GenX

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-10-07

2025-10-07T00:00:00Z

💰 + 🤖 Funding for AI-anything companies continues.

FurtherAI (AI that automates insurance tasks): $25M
Bee Maps (decentralized AI dashcam mapping project): $32M
Heidi Health (AI for doctors and their admins): $65M
EvenUp (AI for law firms): $150M
xAI (AI platform): $20B

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-10-06

2025-10-06T00:00:00Z

🤖 🍪 🛰️ ₿ On Monday, the market moved once again for all things AI, chips, quantum, communications, and digital currency.

Symbol	Company Name	% Change
AMD	Advanced Micro Devices Inc	+19.16%
SANM	Sanmina Corp	+18.51%
IREN	IREN Ltd	+12.62%
PATH	UiPath Inc	+11.16%
RIOT	Riot Platforms Inc	+9.83%
ALAB	Astera Labs Inc	+9.09%
CLSK	CleanSpark Inc	+8.55%
MARA	Marathon Digital Holdings Inc	+8.51%
IONQ	IONQ Inc	+7.23%
ASTS	AST SpaceMobile Inc	+7.05%
BTDR	Bitdeer Technologies Group	+7.04%
FORM	FormFactor Inc	+6.77%
ASAN	Asana Inc	+6.51%
IRDM	Iridium Communications Inc	+6.29%
TWLO	Twilio Inc	+6.16%

🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-10-05

2025-10-05T00:00:00Z

Last Week

Last week, Jason Pullo at ESP, a NexusTek company shared deep hospitality industry insights in Now Showing: Front Row for Hospitality IT’s Greatest Challenges and From Farm to Table to Tech: The Secret Sauce for Today’s Restaurant Success.

https://www.nexustek.com/insights/restaurant-technology-success-esp-nexustek

https://www.nexustek.com/insights/hospitality-it-challenges-now-showing

NexusTek also detailed the The Goldilocks Zone of Cyber Risk: Why Mid-Market Is “Just Right” for Hackers

https://www.nexustek.com/insights/mid-market-cybersecurity-risks-goldilocks-zone

I also concluded a lighthearted poll on VMware by Broadcom alternatives with an interesting result. 🥃

This Week

After I caught up on ideas and execution from my post analysis for my GoToSocial feed, I looked at build times for my blog creeping up to the 15 minute mark. This week I’ll be looking into profiling time spent in @11ty/eleventy-fetch and @11ty/eleventy-img to see if I can optimize while leveraging @11ty/eleventy-cache-assets.

As of today, I have 404 external images from 25 unique domains primarily due to migrating between newsletter platforms over the years.

Domain (FQDN)                            Image Count
---------------------------------------- -----------
assets.buttondown.email                  302
buttondown-attachments.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com 40
images.unsplash.com                      18
cuthrell.com                             17
live.staticflickr.com                    5
substackcdn.com                          3
upload.wikimedia.org                     1
storage.googleapis.com                   1
www.alcf.anl.gov                         1
spectrum.ieee.org                        1
media.licdn.com                          1
help.apple.com                           1
ieeexplore.ieee.org                      1
i.ebayimg.com                            1
www.cnet.com                             1
news.microsoft.com                       1
oxide-computer.imgix.net                 1
d2908q01vomqb2.cloudfront.net            1
www.insightpartners.com                  1
kstatic.googleusercontent.com            1
assets-global.website-files.com          1
files.mastodon.social                    1
api.netlify.com                          1
www.fooddive.com                         1
buttondown-attachments.s3.amazonaws.com  1

So, a week of decisions and actions awaits!

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-09-29

Data storage, digital assets, sports, and insurance appear to be the spotlight themes or memes.

Symbol	Company Name	% Change
SNDK	SanDisk Corp	+14.43%
ETSY	Etsy Inc	+13.67%
MARA	MARA Holdings Inc	+13.56%
CLSK	CleanSpark Inc	+12.84%
CIFR	Cipher Mining Inc	+9.33%
IREN	IREN Ltd	+8.86%
WDC	Western Digital Corp	+8.45%
INOD	Innodata Inc	+7.14%
WULF	Terawulf Inc	+6.64%
COIN	Coinbase Global Inc	+6.41%
BTDR	Bitdeer Technologies Group	+6.12%
LMND	Lemonade Inc	+5.41%
MSTR	Strategy Inc Class A	+5.32%
STX	Seagate Technology Holdings PLC	+5.08%
GENI	Genius Sports Ltd	+5.06%
TTD	The Trade Desk Inc	+5.04%

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-09-30

💰 + 🤖 Funding for AI-anything companies continues.

Paid (AI agent monetization platform): $21.6M
Manas AI (AI drug discovery startup): $26M
Neptune Robotics (AI ship cleaning robots): $52M
EdSights (AI for student retention): $80M
Modal Labs (serverless AI app platform): $87M
Inspiren (AI for senior living): $100M
Eve (AI assistant for lawyers): $103M
Rebellions (South Korean AI chipmaker): $250M
Vercel (cloud tools for AI apps): $300M
Cerebras Systems (AI chipmaker): $1.1B

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-10-01

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbO1z13WP8o

Sidebar… I was reminded of a conversation I had years ago at SXSW, well before the democratization of video production AI. At one of those wacky crossover Interactive+Film+Gaming parties, I spoke with a young filmmaker who had interesting ideas about the future of movies and AI. This filmmaker’s concept was particularly intriguing: a “choose your own adventure” movie where the script would dynamically tailor itself to the viewer’s choices and preferences. In effect, what today would be the prompt is the pre-scaffolded LLM script, and the prompt is influenced by your taste graph (memory) and storytelling junction inputs (HITL). Long live the nepo baby filmmakers in the style of Dr. Ana Stelline.

I captured some of my thoughts back in 2019 1 but like much of my older content, the formatting is wackier than I’d prefer. I’m slowly going back and fixing it to look more like Markdown than HTML. LinkedIn has its moments, though. 2

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-10-02

Let’s see what was happening on this day in years past.

5 Years Ago: October 2, 2020

👻 CEOs of Facebook, Google, and Twitter were called to testify before the Senate Commerce Committee just before Halloween.

10 Years Ago: October 2, 2015

🄶 Google becomes a subsidiary of Alphabet.

15 Years Ago: October 2, 2010

🛜 AT&T and T-Mobile announced mobile cellular data and WiFi connectivity in NYC Subway stations.

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-10-03

The biggest story this week is the (new) biggest private equity deal in history for a familiar name… Silver Lake.

And now… a similar playbook is running

The week saw the acquisition of video game giant Electronic Arts (EA). A consortium led by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) and private equity firm Silver Lake is taking the company private for approximately $55 B.

https://www.techmeme.com/250929/p16#250929p16

Why (new) biggest?

Back in my days at VCE, the VMware, Cisco, and EMC relationship became more one-sided when we became an EMC Federation company in 2015. Later that same year, we were acquired again by Michael Dell and… private equity firm Silver Lake to become Dell Technologies in what was the biggest deal ever at that time.

https://fudge.org/archive/my-fifth-year-at-vce/

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-10-04

I try to avoid political discourse in my newsletter and writing. This week, I cannot. As I sifted through the Friday news cycle for stories meant to be forgotten by Monday, it became clear that in the world of peak patronizing publishing, Washington, D.C., has served up a best-in-class burying of the news.

While the loud, headline-grabbing drama of our U.S. government shutdown dominated the week, the truly messy consequences were saved for a quiet Friday morning reveal. Indeed, truth is stranger and increasingly more disappointing than fiction.

Let’s inspect the blinking engine maintenance light story that slipped into the news stream while everyone was still processing the week’s political theater and hand-wringing.

https://www.techmeme.com/251003/p11#a251003p11

On the surface, this might look like a dry, procedural update. But that’s precisely the point. This isn’t just procedure; it’s a critical failure of government with national security implications, and its timing is exquisitely strategic.

This is a political news dump, not a corporate one, but it follows the same playbook. Here’s why:

Delayed Impact: Had this been a headline on Wednesday, it would have added a terrifying national security dimension to the shutdown debate. By Friday, it’s just another piece of news in a week full of “flood the zone” shenanigans.
Conflation Complexity: Let’s be honest, “CISA” as a four-letter word doesn’t make for a catchy, outrage-inducing headline. Worse, it sounds like bureaucratic alphabet soup and a frustrating game of acronym overloading because context really does matter. The context of CISA (Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act) is very different from CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency). Was this copypasta acronym use intentional? Great question, but it ultimately does not matter. Either way, the dry, technical nature of the subject matter is used to obfuscate the messy reality: that the legal framework for information sharing regarding cyber attacks was allowed to simply evaporate due to political infighting.
Reinforced Trope: This story is presented as an almost unavoidable, bureaucratic consequence of the shutdown. It normalizes an arguably catastrophic failure. The underlying cliché is that “oh shucks golly gee whiz y’all, this is just how Washington works.” It’s peak patronizing because it assumes the public is too jaded or distracted by the shutdown spectacle to grasp the severe implications of this specific failure. The message is, “Yes, this is bad, but it’s just part of the messy process, go back to sleep America,” when it should have been updated in an enduring non-partisan partnership model that reflects our modern threat landscape.

In truth, there are other bills to replace CISA (A for Act). Hopefully the acronym is eventually changed to a more clever backronym such as Liability for Immediate Cybersecurity Event Sharing National Enforcement (LICENSE) Act that would make expiration concerns a bit more on the nose.

#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:

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-10-04

2025-10-04T00:00:00Z

Let’s inspect the blinking engine maintenance light story that slipped into the news stream while everyone was still processing the week’s political theater and hand-wringing.

https://www.techmeme.com/251003/p11#a251003p11

This is a political news dump, not a corporate one, but it follows the same playbook. Here’s why:

Delayed Impact: Had this been a headline on Wednesday, it would have added a terrifying national security dimension to the shutdown debate. By Friday, it’s just another piece of news in a week full of “flood the zone” shenanigans.
Conflation Complexity: Let’s be honest, “CISA” as a four-letter word doesn’t make for a catchy, outrage-inducing headline. Worse, it sounds like bureaucratic alphabet soup and a frustrating game of acronym overloading because context really does matter. The context of CISA (Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act) is very different from CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency). Was this copypasta acronym use intentional? Great question, but it ultimately does not matter. Either way, the dry, technical nature of the subject matter is used to obfuscate the messy reality: that the legal framework for information sharing regarding cyber attacks was allowed to simply evaporate due to political infighting.
Reinforced Trope: This story is presented as an almost unavoidable, bureaucratic consequence of the shutdown. It normalizes an arguably catastrophic failure. The underlying cliché is that “oh shucks golly gee whiz y’all, this is just how Washington works.” It’s peak patronizing because it assumes the public is too jaded or distracted by the shutdown spectacle to grasp the severe implications of this specific failure. The message is, “Yes, this is bad, but it’s just part of the messy process, go back to sleep America,” when it should have been updated in an enduring non-partisan partnership model that reflects our modern threat landscape.

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-10-03

2025-10-03T00:00:00Z

The biggest story this week is the (new) biggest private equity deal in history for a familiar name… Silver Lake.

And now… a similar playbook is running

https://www.techmeme.com/250929/p16#250929p16

Why (new) biggest?

https://fudge.org/archive/my-fifth-year-at-vce/

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-10-02

2025-10-02T00:00:00Z

Let’s see what was happening on this day in years past.

5 Years Ago: October 2, 2020

👻 CEOs of Facebook, Google, and Twitter were called to testify before the Senate Commerce Committee just before Halloween.

10 Years Ago: October 2, 2015

🄶 Google becomes a subsidiary of Alphabet.

15 Years Ago: October 2, 2010

🛜 AT&T and T-Mobile announced mobile cellular data and WiFi connectivity in NYC Subway stations.

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-10-01

2025-10-01T00:00:00Z

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbO1z13WP8o

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-09-30

2025-09-30T00:00:00Z

💰 + 🤖 Funding for AI-anything companies continues.

Paid (AI agent monetization platform): $21.6M
Manas AI (AI drug discovery startup): $26M
Neptune Robotics (AI ship cleaning robots): $52M
EdSights (AI for student retention): $80M
Modal Labs (serverless AI app platform): $87M
Inspiren (AI for senior living): $100M
Eve (AI assistant for lawyers): $103M
Rebellions (South Korean AI chipmaker): $250M
Vercel (cloud tools for AI apps): $300M
Cerebras Systems (AI chipmaker): $1.1B

My Fediverse Digest for September 2025

2025-09-30T00:00:00Z

Sep 01

12:02 PM

When in doubt… duck it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkgV_-nJOuE

Source

Sep 12

04:33 PM

I did a dry run on #gotosocial last night and might be getting some RAM back from my #linode #vps by shutting down #mastodon after I flip the #nginx #proxy over. Timing will likely be a weekend or two in the making. We shall see.

Source

Sep 13

03:09 AM

Oh hai #gotosocial

Source

03:36 AM

And scene…

Source

03:44 AM

So, I’m running #GoToSocial 0.19.2 and all seems well but I’m sure there are dozens of things that I’m forgetting to seamlessly migrate. At the very least, I have a db dump and an archive from #mastodon but I’m looking forward to less #mastodonadmin and more #gotosocialadmin time.

Source

09:39 AM

👋 #fediverse #gotosocial

Source

05:28 PM

Work travel on weekends is a mood

Source

Sep 14

09:02 PM

Texas shaped waffles y’all

Source

Sep 16

09:39 AM

So far so good.

#gotosocialadmin #gotosocial

Source

Sep 17

09:29 PM

Finding that pinafore.social on Chrome app for iOS is more usable than Mastodon app for iOS with my #gotosocial needs… ymmv

Source

Sep 18

08:05 PM

Reminder: This is a 7 year old video montage.

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

Source

11:55 PM

Testing

Source

Sep 19

10:43 PM

Friday selection

https://youtube.com/shorts/AJ7atBkisOU?feature=shared

Source

Sep 20

03:38 PM

A few thoughts on the chaos of H1-B visa fee hikes via EO on a Friday https://fudge.org/archive/sneak-peak-saturday-for-2025-09-20/

Source

Sep 23

08:46 PM

Last minute travel is last minute

Source

Sep 27

12:41 PM

With a 5000 character limit and Markdown support, I could technically place my daily newsletter here as well in most cases.

Post Analysis for GoToSocial

Percentage of posts under 5000 characters by day:

Day	Suitable Posts	Total Posts	Percentage
Monday	47	124	37.90%
Tuesday	61	63	96.83%
Wednesday	75	78	96.15%
Thursday	69	73	94.52%
Friday	58	67	86.57%
Saturday	112	122	91.80%

Sunday is excluded from the percentage calculation as it is reserved for digests.
Found 209 posts on Sundays.

Source

12:47 PM

but maybe not tables 🤣

Source

08:10 PM

One Friday news stories was worth a second look. It seems that the US Commerce Department is rumored to be considering ways to revert back to 1995 levels of US-sourced semiconductors.

https://www.techmeme.com/250926/p28#a250926p28

To put this into perspective, that’s like going from the icing on a cake to the cake itself. Tariffs drama aside, this rumor seems more like a slow news day dump that wants to drift on prior activities and see if there are clicks generated.

As for prior activities, it is worth looking at what I had noted back in 2022 around fabrication facilities. Indeed, the wake of pandemic supply chain lessons was just the early beginning of what might become a trend in vertical resilience in many nations and not just the US.

https://fudge.org/archive/when-we-was-chip-fab-focused/

Source

08:18 PM

Testing

Source

Sep 30

09:11 PM

As of this update

moved npm run build work and nginx for fudge.org back to my Akamai Linode VPS
decided to get off of the “free” netlify tier which kept threatening to charge me for build minutes at various percentage levels
netlify was not that much faster than the already paid VPS running GoToSocial (previously Mastodon)
cloudflare is still in front as the proxy but working on the migration to Fastly

Source

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-09-29

2025-09-29T00:00:00Z

Data storage, digital assets, sports, and insurance appear to be the spotlight themes or memes.

Symbol	Company Name	% Change
SNDK	SanDisk Corp	+14.43%
ETSY	Etsy Inc	+13.67%
MARA	MARA Holdings Inc	+13.56%
CLSK	CleanSpark Inc	+12.84%
CIFR	Cipher Mining Inc	+9.33%
IREN	IREN Ltd	+8.86%
WDC	Western Digital Corp	+8.45%
INOD	Innodata Inc	+7.14%
WULF	Terawulf Inc	+6.64%
COIN	Coinbase Global Inc	+6.41%
BTDR	Bitdeer Technologies Group	+6.12%
LMND	Lemonade Inc	+5.41%
MSTR	Strategy Inc Class A	+5.32%
STX	Seagate Technology Holdings PLC	+5.08%
GENI	Genius Sports Ltd	+5.06%
TTD	The Trade Desk Inc	+5.04%

🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-09-28

2025-09-28T00:00:00Z

Last Week

Last week NexusTek, shared deep industry insights on Managed Detection & Response, Private Equity Technology, and Restaurant Technology.

https://www.nexustek.com/insights/winners-circle-episode-6-mdr-beyond-alerts

https://www.nexustek.com/insights/private-equity-technology-value-creation

https://www.nexustek.com/insights/restaurant-technology-success-esp-nexustek

This Week

I ended up traveling last minute last week so this week I’m slowly catching up on ideas and execution. So, I did a post analysis for what would “fit” into my GoToSocial feed.

Percentage of posts under 5000 characters by day:

Day	Suitable Posts	Total Posts	Percentage
Monday	47	124	37.90%
Tuesday	61	63	96.83%
Wednesday	75	78	96.15%
Thursday	69	73	94.52%
Friday	58	67	86.57%
Saturday	112	122	91.80%

Sunday is excluded from the percentage calculation as it is reserved for digests.
Found 209 posts on Sundays.

Example:

https://cuthrell.com/@jay/statuses/01K660V084G2Y734YFG59PDXBR

https://cuthrell.com/@jay/statuses/01K66TFTGGFDB8AZ9PMSFJ3JM5

We shall see.

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-09-22

My screener captured most of the movers in the semiconductor and semiconductor equipment industry as well as data infrastructure, AI automation, and solar energy technology.

Symbol	Company Name	% Change
TER	Teradyne, Inc.	+11.34%
PATH	UiPath Inc.	+9.67%
SEDG	SolarEdge Technologies, Inc.	+8.11%
ASTS	AST SpaceMobile, Inc.	+7.68%
NBIS	Nebius Group NV	+6.84%
AMBA	Ambarella, Inc.	+6.62%
FORM	FormFactor, Inc.	+6.55%
SYM	Symbotic Inc.	+6.06%
DUOL	Duolingo, Inc.	+5.96%
ORCL	Oracle Corporation	+5.94%
RUN	Sunrun Inc.	+5.85%
ONTO	Onto Innovation Inc.	+5.73%
VRT	Vertiv Holdings Co	+5.50%
AMAT	Applied Materials, Inc.	+5.20%
WDC	Western Digital Corporation	+5.14%
ENPH	Enphase Energy, Inc.	+5.14%

And the comparison…

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-09-23

💰 + 🧠 AI, robotics, and other funding this week.

Rocket.new (AI app development): $15M
Morse Micro (Wi-Fi HaLow chips): $38M
Auterion (military drone software): $130M
Empower Semiconductor (power management chips): $140M
Distyl AI (AI for business processes): $175M
Capital Rx (pharmacy benefit management): $400M
1X (humanoid robotics): seeking up to $1B

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-09-24

If you ever made a dad joke about model context protocol then boy oh boy do I have a video for you…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVrCPo8eB3A

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-09-25

Back in 2015, today was a big day for TEAM with a pre-IPO valuation of $3B.

https://www.techmeme.com/150925/p20#a150925p20

Today, TEAM market cap is $42B and just 4 years ago it was as high as $115B.

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-09-26

The biggest story that caught my eye this week was Stargate and new co-CEOs for the part Oracle will play in funding as well as construction of data centers within the US market.

https://www.techmeme.com/250923/p33#a250923p33

https://www.techmeme.com/250924/p19#a250924p19

https://www.techmeme.com/250922/p7#a250922p7

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-09-27

One Friday news stories was worth a second look. It seems that the US Commerce Department is rumored to be considering ways to revert back to 1995 levels of US-sourced semiconductors.

https://www.techmeme.com/250926/p28#a250926p28

https://fudge.org/archive/when-we-was-chip-fab-focused/

#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:

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-09-27

2025-09-27T00:00:00Z

One Friday news stories was worth a second look. It seems that the US Commerce Department is rumored to be considering ways to revert back to 1995 levels of US-sourced semiconductors.

https://www.techmeme.com/250926/p28#a250926p28

https://fudge.org/archive/when-we-was-chip-fab-focused/

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-09-26

2025-09-26T00:00:00Z

The biggest story that caught my eye this week was Stargate and new co-CEOs for the part Oracle will play in funding as well as construction of data centers within the US market.

https://www.techmeme.com/250923/p33#a250923p33

https://www.techmeme.com/250924/p19#a250924p19

https://www.techmeme.com/250922/p7#a250922p7

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-09-25

2025-09-25T00:00:00Z

Back in 2015, today was a big day for TEAM with a pre-IPO valuation of $3B.

https://www.techmeme.com/150925/p20#a150925p20

Today, TEAM market cap is $42B and just 4 years ago it was as high as $115B.

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-09-24

2025-09-24T00:00:00Z

If you ever made a dad joke about model context protocol then boy oh boy do I have a video for you…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVrCPo8eB3A

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-09-23

2025-09-23T00:00:00Z

💰 + 🧠 AI, robotics, and other funding this week.

Rocket.new (AI app development): $15M
Morse Micro (Wi-Fi HaLow chips): $38M
Auterion (military drone software): $130M
Empower Semiconductor (power management chips): $140M
Distyl AI (AI for business processes): $175M
Capital Rx (pharmacy benefit management): $400M
1X (humanoid robotics): seeking up to $1B

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-09-22

2025-09-22T00:00:00Z

My screener captured most of the movers in the semiconductor and semiconductor equipment industry as well as data infrastructure, AI automation, and solar energy technology.

Symbol	Company Name	% Change
TER	Teradyne, Inc.	+11.34%
PATH	UiPath Inc.	+9.67%
SEDG	SolarEdge Technologies, Inc.	+8.11%
ASTS	AST SpaceMobile, Inc.	+7.68%
NBIS	Nebius Group NV	+6.84%
AMBA	Ambarella, Inc.	+6.62%
FORM	FormFactor, Inc.	+6.55%
SYM	Symbotic Inc.	+6.06%
DUOL	Duolingo, Inc.	+5.96%
ORCL	Oracle Corporation	+5.94%
RUN	Sunrun Inc.	+5.85%
ONTO	Onto Innovation Inc.	+5.73%
VRT	Vertiv Holdings Co	+5.50%
AMAT	Applied Materials, Inc.	+5.20%
WDC	Western Digital Corporation	+5.14%
ENPH	Enphase Energy, Inc.	+5.14%

And the comparison…

🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-09-21

2025-09-21T00:00:00Z

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.

Symbol	Company Name	% Change
RMBS	Rambus Inc.	+9.33%
LYFT	LYFT, Inc.	+8.90%
IREN	Iris Energy Limited	+8.56%
VSAT	Viasat, Inc.	+7.20%
STX	Seagate Technology Holdings PLC	+7.17%
CVLT	CommVault Systems, Inc.	+7.16%
AFRM	Affirm Holdings, Inc.	+7.10%
U	Unity Software Inc.	+6.40%
AI	C3.ai, Inc.	+6.27%
ASML	ASML Holding N.V.	+6.16%
IONQ	IonQ, Inc.	+5.92%
UPST	Upstart Holdings, Inc.	+5.82%
ASTS	AST SpaceMobile, Inc.	+5.49%
PGY	Pagaya Technologies Ltd.	+5.46%
TTMI	TTM Technologies, Inc.	+5.32%
HUT	Hut 8 Corp.	+5.15%
PSTG	Pure Storage, Inc.	+5.14%

🔥 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.

Pattern Group (PTRN): September 19, 2025.
Netskope (NTSK): September 18, 2025.
Gemini Space Station, Inc. (GEMI): September 12, 2025.
Legence Corp. (LGN): September 12, 2025.
Klarna (KLAR): September 10, 2025.
Via Transportation, Inc. (VIA): September 3, 2025.
Figma (FIG): July 31, 2025.
Chime (CHYM): June 12, 2025.
Circle Internet Group (CRCL): June 5, 2025.
Hinge Health (HNGE): May 21, 2025.
CoreWeave (CRWV): March 28, 2025.

🔮 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:

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-09-20

2025-09-20T00:00:00Z

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.

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

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

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-09-19

2025-09-19T00:00:00Z

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.

Pattern Group (PTRN): September 19, 2025.
Netskope (NTSK): September 18, 2025.
Gemini Space Station, Inc. (GEMI): September 12, 2025.
Legence Corp. (LGN): September 12, 2025.
Klarna (KLAR): September 10, 2025.
Via Transportation, Inc. (VIA): September 3, 2025.
Figma (FIG): July 31, 2025.
Chime (CHYM): June 12, 2025.
Circle Internet Group (CRCL): June 5, 2025.
Hinge Health (HNGE): May 21, 2025.
CoreWeave (CRWV): March 28, 2025.

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-09-18

2025-09-18T00:00:00Z

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.

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-09-17

2025-09-17T00:00:00Z

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

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-09-16

2025-09-16T00:00:00Z

💰 + 🤖 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+

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-09-15

2025-09-15T00:00:00Z

Screener improvements are happening and getting closer.

Symbol	Company Name	% Change
RMBS	Rambus Inc.	+9.33%
LYFT	LYFT, Inc.	+8.90%
IREN	Iris Energy Limited	+8.56%
VSAT	Viasat, Inc.	+7.20%
STX	Seagate Technology Holdings PLC	+7.17%
CVLT	CommVault Systems, Inc.	+7.16%
AFRM	Affirm Holdings, Inc.	+7.10%
U	Unity Software Inc.	+6.40%
AI	C3.ai, Inc.	+6.27%
ASML	ASML Holding N.V.	+6.16%
IONQ	IonQ, Inc.	+5.92%
UPST	Upstart Holdings, Inc.	+5.82%
ASTS	AST SpaceMobile, Inc.	+5.49%
PGY	Pagaya Technologies Ltd.	+5.46%
TTMI	TTM Technologies, Inc.	+5.32%
HUT	Hut 8 Corp.	+5.15%
PSTG	Pure Storage, Inc.	+5.14%

🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-09-14

2025-09-14T00:00:00Z

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…

Symbol	Company Name	% Change
ALAB	Astera Labs Inc	+11.52%
APP	Applovin Corp	+10.38%
ESTC	Elastic NV	+6.06%
LYFT	LYFT Inc	+5.93%
RBRK	Rubrik Inc	+4.89%
CRDO	Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd	+4.55%
GTLB	Gitlab Inc	+4.51%

🔥 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.

✅ 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 🎉

Those in my network that are #OpenToWork:

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-09-13

2025-09-13T00:00:00Z

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

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-09-12

2025-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-09-11

2025-09-11T00:00:00Z

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

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-09-10

2025-09-10T00:00:00Z

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

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

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-09-09

2025-09-09T00:00:00Z

💰 + 🤖 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

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-09-08

2025-09-08T00:00:00Z

And my screener gets a bit closer…

Symbol	Company Name	% Change
ALAB	Astera Labs Inc	+11.52%
APP	Applovin Corp	+10.38%
ESTC	Elastic NV	+6.06%
LYFT	LYFT Inc	+5.93%
RBRK	Rubrik Inc	+4.89%
CRDO	Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd	+4.55%
GTLB	Gitlab Inc	+4.51%

🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-09-07

2025-09-07T00:00:00Z

Last Week

It was a short but busy week of NexusTek professional services updates, a digital transformation in horticulture discussion with Griffin Greenhouse Supplies, and a Tech Field Day Podcast on Agentic AI too.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nexustek-refreshes-professional-services-offerings-to-meet-emerging-customer-challenges-302544158.html

https://www.nexustek.com/insights/professional-services-new-it-reality

https://www.nexustek.com/it-consulting/professional-services

https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/20887/652183

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCrrotz6Wms

This Week

I’ll be traveling this week but hope to get some more automation refinements put in place.

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-09-01

Labor Day meant US markets were closed. The quiet allowed me to to ponder pre-market news coverage. Notably, three articles caught my attention in reference to China verticalization (aka vertical integration) and the lack of AI value chain connections to NVIDIA, H20 or otherwise.

https://www.techmeme.com/250901/p11#a250901p11

https://www.techmeme.com/250901/p12#a250901p12

https://www.techmeme.com/250901/p1#a250901p1

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-09-02

First funding… and then something fun.

Funding

💰 + 🤖 + 🍪 + ⚛️ Funding flows for AI, electronics, and quantum companies.

Kite (Agentic AI web infrastructure): $18M
Aurasell (AI sales automation): $30M
OpenLight (silicon photonic chips): $34M
Phasecraft (quantum computing algorithms): $34M
Paragraf (graphene electronics): $55M
LayerX (AI back-office automation): $100M
Anthropic (AI platform company): $13B

Fun

Does Agentic AI spell the end of dial twiddlers?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCrrotz6Wms

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-09-03

This isn’t a new video but I missed it somehow.

🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPBrA3sV90A

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-09-04

It’s time for a look at quantum computing again through the lens of Quantinuum.

2025

https://www.techmeme.com/250904/p26#a250904p26

2021

https://www.techmeme.com/210612/p5#a210612p5

https://www.techmeme.com/211207/p10#a211207p10

2020

https://www.techmeme.com/201029/p14#a201029p14

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2235651-surprise-contender-honeywell-enters-the-quantum-computing-race/

2019

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/quantum/2019/11/04/announcing-microsoft-azure-quantum/

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-09-05

The biggest story of the week is the advances in the crossover of art and science that will become increasingly democratized. Brave. New. World.

https://www.techmeme.com/250905/p4#a250905p4

There is a nostalgia meme that compares early computer graphics in popular games to their modern equivalent. So, imagine today’s Synthesia in a decade becoming the equivalent of a classic 1980s arcade game or early CGI in movies.

The implications of deepfake shifting from simulacrum to artifice to imperceptible is going to compound. Or, perhaps, in-person interviews and in-person certification examination will remain the standard for trust and non-repudiation.

Or…

https://bsky.app/profile/cuthrell.com/post/3lwdxmgv7rk22

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-09-06

Sometimes, $600B just comes out in polite conversation. Twice?

https://www.techmeme.com/250905/p14#a250905p14

Of course, one of the $600B by 2028 is hard to fathom considering the most recent number for 2025 is only $65B per Meta.

https://www.techmeme.com/250319/p42#a250319p42

What could $600B mean? Well, what if it applied to:

Selection of strategic global locations
- US Southwest, Northeast, and Central
- Sweden
- Australia
Commitment to 3 year "get to green’ AI datacenter designs
- strategic land purchases for thousands of acres
- state and regional vPPA negotiations with investments
Construction of data centers optimized for AI workloads
- procurement of best-in-class AI infrastructure
- construction of solar power generation sites
- construction of power-storage facilities
- commissioning SMR power infrastructure designs
Consumption of AI infrastructure
- procurement of best-in-class AI infrastructure
- evolving with the latest generation of AI chips
- begin transition to custom silicon AI chips
- begin addition of quantum computing
Give excess power back to the grid by 2030
- convert to 100% solar and SMR
- fully transition to custom silicon AI chips
- fully transition to custom silicon and quantum computing

This would be the equivalent of a cookie-cutter approach to building multiple sites with a Topaz Solar Farm, dual SMRs, and enough vPPA to keep an AI-first design datacenter footprint humming along. Also, by adding to and evolving the latest generation of AI chips with an eye towards the quantum computing future, it could easily use up $600B (or more) in less than 3 years.

Oh, and just by setting aside even ~$30B might enable some of that AI compute to be flying over our heads one day.

#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:

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-09-06

2025-09-06T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, $600B just comes out in polite conversation. Twice?

https://www.techmeme.com/250905/p14#a250905p14

Of course, one of the $600B by 2028 is hard to fathom considering the most recent number for 2025 is only $65B per Meta.

https://www.techmeme.com/250319/p42#a250319p42

What could $600B mean? Well, what if it applied to:

Selection of strategic global locations
- US Southwest, Northeast, and Central
- Sweden
- Australia
Commitment to 3 year "get to green’ AI datacenter designs
- strategic land purchases for thousands of acres
- state and regional vPPA negotiations with investments
Construction of data centers optimized for AI workloads
- procurement of best-in-class AI infrastructure
- construction of solar power generation sites
- construction of power-storage facilities
- commissioning SMR power infrastructure designs
Consumption of AI infrastructure
- procurement of best-in-class AI infrastructure
- evolving with the latest generation of AI chips
- begin transition to custom silicon AI chips
- begin addition of quantum computing
Give excess power back to the grid by 2030
- convert to 100% solar and SMR
- fully transition to custom silicon AI chips
- fully transition to custom silicon and quantum computing

Oh, and just by setting aside even ~$30B might enable some of that AI compute to be flying over our heads one day.

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-09-05

2025-09-05T00:00:00Z

The biggest story of the week is the advances in the crossover of art and science that will become increasingly democratized. Brave. New. World.

https://www.techmeme.com/250905/p4#a250905p4

Or…

https://bsky.app/profile/cuthrell.com/post/3lwdxmgv7rk22

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-09-04

2025-09-04T00:00:00Z

It’s time for a look at quantum computing again through the lens of Quantinuum.

2025

https://www.techmeme.com/250904/p26#a250904p26

2021

https://www.techmeme.com/210612/p5#a210612p5

https://www.techmeme.com/211207/p10#a211207p10

2020

https://www.techmeme.com/201029/p14#a201029p14

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2235651-surprise-contender-honeywell-enters-the-quantum-computing-race/

2019

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/quantum/2019/11/04/announcing-microsoft-azure-quantum/

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-09-03

2025-09-03T00:00:00Z

This isn’t a new video but I missed it somehow.

🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPBrA3sV90A

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-09-02

2025-09-02T00:00:00Z

First funding… and then something fun.

Funding

💰 + 🤖 + 🍪 + ⚛️ Funding flows for AI, electronics, and quantum companies.

Kite (Agentic AI web infrastructure): $18M
Aurasell (AI sales automation): $30M
OpenLight (silicon photonic chips): $34M
Phasecraft (quantum computing algorithms): $34M
Paragraf (graphene electronics): $55M
LayerX (AI back-office automation): $100M
Anthropic (AI platform company): $13B

Fun

Does Agentic AI spell the end of dial twiddlers?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCrrotz6Wms

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-09-01

2025-09-01T00:00:00Z

https://www.techmeme.com/250901/p11#a250901p11

https://www.techmeme.com/250901/p12#a250901p12

https://www.techmeme.com/250901/p1#a250901p1

🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-08-31

2025-08-31T00:00:00Z

Last Week

Last week saw a new NexusTek Winners Circle episode dropped, I joined the NC TECH Board of Advisors, and more NexusTek Insights.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/north-carolina-technology-association_nctechadvisors-activity-7367262400196005889-d8Gb

https://www.nexustek.com/insights/winners-circle-episode-4-resilient-technology-foundation

https://www.nexustek.com/insights/modern-hotel-technology-guest-experience

https://www.nexustek.com/insights/the-grok-wake-up-call

This Week

I have no travel plans and I’m looking forward to tuning up more automation.

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-08-25

My screener is getting closer!

Symbol	Company Name	% Change
ASTS	AST SpaceMobile, Inc.	+5.88%
RBLX	Roblox Corporation	+5.84%
NN	Nextnav Inc.	+5.36%

Wackyparse RetCon Thesis: AST SpaceMobile and Nextnav are focused on new connectivity and precision location infrastructure to… play Roblox? 🤣

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-08-26

💰 AI continues to attract huge amounts of capital

Casca (AI-powered loan origination tools): $29M
Blue Water Autonomy (AI-powered unmanned defense ships): $50M
Attio (Agentic AI-powered CRM service): $52M

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-08-27

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRtyMCeDw8o

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-08-28

Goole data centers articles over the years paint an interesting picture.

2025

https://www.techmeme.com/250828/p14#a250828p14

2020

https://www.techmeme.com/200226/p11#a200226p11

2016

https://www.techmeme.com/160322/p7#a160322p7

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-08-29

📶 🗼 🛜 I believe biggest story of the week was the sale of spectrum licenses.

Addition of spectrum can increase competitiveness and ORAN could (should?) expand.

https://www.techmeme.com/250826/p11#a250826p11

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-08-30

🌮 + 🍔 + 🍟 + 🥤 + 🗣️ + 🤖 = 🤔

When it works, you’ll know — eventually. In some use cases, there are reasons for tactile knobs, dials, and buttons are better than touch screens.

The same might be said for humans and mobile apps being better than the current imagination for AI powered fast-food ordering in a drive-thru.

In 2025, voice ordering from a standard drive-thru fast food menu connected to AI is still challenging.

https://www.techmeme.com/250829/p27#a250829p27

In 2024, the challenge was just as stark.

https://www.techmeme.com/240617/p5#a240617p5

In 2023, the learning curve was steep.

https://www.techmeme.com/230509/p13#a230509p13

In 2019, the aspirational goals were just starting to form.

https://www.techmeme.com/191023/p19#a191023p19

#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:

My Fediverse Digest for August 2025

2025-08-31T00:00:00Z

Aug 02

12:16 AM

Turtle Island
Renee Christine
#music

https://youtu.be/NJoWqITKtFs?feature=shared

Source

Aug 05

08:54 PM

I am once again asking for your vote / heart 🗳️ ❤️

https://participate.sxsw.com/flow/sxsw/sxsw26/community-voting-sxsw/page/community-voting/session/1750894477655001RMA9

Source

Aug 17

11:26 PM

#mastoadmin #mastodonadmin note on v4.4.3

None.

YMMV

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.4.3

Source

Aug 22

07:18 AM

Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/20/microsoft-guidance-probably-includes-gutting-volume-discounts-analyst.html

Source

Aug 30

08:43 PM

🤔 When the prompt “Create an image that convinces knowledge workers to return to office” renders this, we’ll know we’ve achieved AGI 🤖🧠🐱

Source

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-08-30

2025-08-30T00:00:00Z

🌮 + 🍔 + 🍟 + 🥤 + 🗣️ + 🤖 = 🤔

When it works, you’ll know — eventually. In some use cases, there are reasons for tactile knobs, dials, and buttons are better than touch screens.

The same might be said for humans and mobile apps being better than the current imagination for AI powered fast-food ordering in a drive-thru.

In 2025, voice ordering from a standard drive-thru fast food menu connected to AI is still challenging.

https://www.techmeme.com/250829/p27#a250829p27

In 2024, the challenge was just as stark.

https://www.techmeme.com/240617/p5#a240617p5

In 2023, the learning curve was steep.

https://www.techmeme.com/230509/p13#a230509p13

In 2019, the aspirational goals were just starting to form.

https://www.techmeme.com/191023/p19#a191023p19

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-08-29

2025-08-29T00:00:00Z

📶 🗼 🛜 I believe biggest story of the week was the sale of spectrum licenses.

Addition of spectrum can increase competitiveness and ORAN could (should?) expand.

https://www.techmeme.com/250826/p11#a250826p11

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-08-28

2025-08-28T00:00:00Z

Goole data centers articles over the years paint an interesting picture.

2025

https://www.techmeme.com/250828/p14#a250828p14

2020

https://www.techmeme.com/200226/p11#a200226p11

2016

https://www.techmeme.com/160322/p7#a160322p7

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-08-27

2025-08-27T00:00:00Z

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRtyMCeDw8o

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-08-26

2025-08-26T00:00:00Z

💰 AI continues to attract huge amounts of capital

Casca (AI-powered loan origination tools): $29M
Blue Water Autonomy (AI-powered unmanned defense ships): $50M
Attio (Agentic AI-powered CRM service): $52M

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-08-25

2025-08-25T00:00:00Z

My screener is getting closer!

Symbol	Company Name	% Change
ASTS	AST SpaceMobile, Inc.	+5.88%
RBLX	Roblox Corporation	+5.84%
NN	Nextnav Inc.	+5.36%

Wackyparse RetCon Thesis: AST SpaceMobile and Nextnav are focused on new connectivity and precision location infrastructure to… play Roblox? 🤣

🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-08-24

2025-08-24T00:00:00Z

Last week

I was fortunate to contribute a few comments for NexusTek, in an article on CNBC regarding recent Microsoft licensing changes. We also published more details on NexusTek Insights.

https://www.nexustek.com/insights/microsofts-licensing-evolution-and-what-it-means-for-customers

Also, Jason Pullo of ESP, a NexusTek company shared his thoughts on how technology is making dining experiences smarter than ever before.

https://www.nexustek.com/insights/ai-cloud-technology-modern-restaurants

Finally, Jason Thatcher of NexusTek joined NexusTek Winners Circle to share perspectives on why managed detection and response (MDR) gives back time to busy security teams.

https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/20887/650826

This week

No travel! I’m looking forward to refinements on automation.

Hot Fudge Daily Digest

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-08-18

Another week of iteration on my screener shows progress.

Of course. Here is the enriched markdown table with clickable Google Finance links for each symbol.

Symbol	Company Name	% Change
APLD	Applied Digital Corp	13.77%
DUOL	Duolingo Inc	11.45%
RIOT	Riot Platforms Inc	8.04%
BTDR	Bitdeer Technologies Group	6.75%
LQDA	Liquidia Corp	6.39%
TEM	Tempus AI Inc	5.95%
TTD	Trade Desk Inc	5.15%
UUUU	Energy Fuels Inc	5.14%

Comparison…

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-08-19

💰 + 🤖 Funding for AI-anything companies continues

Firecrawl (open-source web crawler): $14.5M
Keychain (AI manufacturing management): $30M
Pylon (AI customer service automation): $31M
Functionize (AI software testing): $41M
Eight Sleep (AI-powered mattress cover): $100M

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-08-20

And the random video of the week goes to…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpCO6CUH8Zc

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-08-21

A look back at a decade of Apple App Store vs. Epic Games

2025

https://www.techmeme.com/250821/p35#a250821p35

2020

https://www.techmeme.com/200821/p17#a200821p17

2015

https://www.techmeme.com/200813/p22#a200813p22

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-08-22

The biggest story of the week is Intel and the U.S. government.

https://www.techmeme.com/250822/p20#a250822p20

The second biggest story is the market reaction.

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-08-23

In case you missed this one in the Friday news dump:

https://www.techmeme.com/250822/p28#a250822p28

Balkanization of Internet has been a recurring dystopian theme since at least as far back as the 1990s. A “403 Forbidden” due to political power is still possible in the United States even in the year 205.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splinternet

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:

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-08-23

2025-08-23T00:00:00Z

In case you missed this one in the Friday news dump:

https://www.techmeme.com/250822/p28#a250822p28

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splinternet

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-08-22

2025-08-22T00:00:00Z

The biggest story of the week is Intel and the U.S. government.

https://www.techmeme.com/250822/p20#a250822p20

The second biggest story is the market reaction.

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-08-21

2025-08-21T00:00:00Z

A look back at a decade of Apple App Store vs. Epic Games

2025

https://www.techmeme.com/250821/p35#a250821p35

2020

https://www.techmeme.com/200821/p17#a200821p17

2015

https://www.techmeme.com/200813/p22#a200813p22

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-08-20

2025-08-20T00:00:00Z

And the random video of the week goes to…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpCO6CUH8Zc

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-08-19

2025-08-19T00:00:00Z

💰 + 🤖 Funding for AI-anything companies continues

Firecrawl (open-source web crawler): $14.5M
Keychain (AI manufacturing management): $30M
Pylon (AI customer service automation): $31M
Functionize (AI software testing): $41M
Eight Sleep (AI-powered mattress cover): $100M

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-08-18

2025-08-18T00:00:00Z

Another week of iteration on my screener shows progress.

Of course. Here is the enriched markdown table with clickable Google Finance links for each symbol.

Symbol	Company Name	% Change
APLD	Applied Digital Corp	13.77%
DUOL	Duolingo Inc	11.45%
RIOT	Riot Platforms Inc	8.04%
BTDR	Bitdeer Technologies Group	6.75%
LQDA	Liquidia Corp	6.39%
TEM	Tempus AI Inc	5.95%
TTD	Trade Desk Inc	5.15%
UUUU	Energy Fuels Inc	5.14%

Comparison…

🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-08-17

2025-08-17T13:05:49Z

Last Week

I made several updates to the workflow last week.

Hot Fudge Daily is now free and posted on fudge.org.
Unfurling of URLs is adding some splash to the look and feel.
Buttondown APIs are powering my writing workflow and Sunday email deliveries.

This Week

Once again, I will be making updates from the road.

✈️

💺

🛜

🤓

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-08-11

My second attempt at the screener approximation of Yahoo Finance screener is getting a little closer. More to do.

Symbol	Name	% Change
GRND	Grindr Inc	7.38%
IONQ	IONQ Inc	6.88%

By comparison…

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-08-12

💰 + 🤖 Funding for AI-anything companies continues.

Tahoe Therapeutics (building AI models of cells): $30M
Profound (optimizing brands for AI search): $35M
Squint (AI and AR for manufacturing): $40M
Merge Labs (OpenAI backed rival to Neuralink): $250M

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-08-13

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLpQ5bcxouw

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-08-14

Looking back on this day in tech history… Let’s take a look at what was making starkly different headlines in the tech world on this day many years ago.

2025

Google and Oracle trade AI clouds and models

https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/oracle-google-strike-ai-deal-6495180/

2010

Google and Oracle trade legal blows and barbs

https://www.cnet.com/culture/why-oracle-not-sun-sued-google-over-java/

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-08-15

I believe the biggest story this week was the reported deal that would require a 👀 15% (originally 20% depending on the news source) 👀 cut of revenue that would be paid directly to… a government. In this instance, the US government and two companies; NVIDIA and AMD.

https://www.techmeme.com/250811/p10#a250811p10

Of course, allegations, actions, and historical instances of pay-to-play is not a new thing. For such a young country, 100 years of US history goes by in the blink of an eye. So, if “data is the new oil” holds true, the future of our AI value chain might rhyme with history.

#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:

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-08-16

2025-08-16T00:00:00Z

Welcome to the story trying to avoid being noticed.

https://www.techmeme.com/250815/p25#a250815p25

I’ve joined many meetings with various screen recording utilities. However, I also attempt to remove the utilities or disable the utilities in my startup settings.

Here’s a useful website to bookmark as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_call_recording_laws

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-08-15

2025-08-15T00:00:00Z

https://www.techmeme.com/250811/p10#a250811p10

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-08-14

2025-08-14T00:00:00Z

Looking back on this day in tech history… Let’s take a look at what was making starkly different headlines in the tech world on this day many years ago.

2025

Google and Oracle trade AI clouds and models

https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/oracle-google-strike-ai-deal-6495180/

2010

Google and Oracle trade legal blows and barbs

https://www.cnet.com/culture/why-oracle-not-sun-sued-google-over-java/

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-08-13

2025-08-13T00:00:00Z

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLpQ5bcxouw

Bonus update

Do you remember the standardized test scene in “Spies Like Us” (1985)?

(YouTube spoiler link 📺)

Imagine the future of proctoring and interviewing “in-person” that will eventually require disclosure of human-machine augmentation / organoid compute symbiants / neural implants with off-body knowledge graph networking / etc.

Now, imagine the next future horizon where those same disclosures become coveted and the eventual future where such disclosures are vetted for modernity, currency, and liability due to more extreme regulatory requirements in increasingly adversarial environments such as military, litigation, etc.

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-08-12

2025-08-12T00:00:00Z

💰 + 🤖 Funding for AI-anything companies continues.

Tahoe Therapeutics (building AI models of cells): $30M
Profound (optimizing brands for AI search): $35M
Squint (AI and AR for manufacturing): $40M
Merge Labs (OpenAI backed rival to Neuralink): $250M

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-08-11

2025-08-11T00:00:00Z

My second attempt at the screener approximation of Yahoo Finance screener is getting a little closer. More to do.

Symbol	Name	% Change
GRND	Grindr Inc	7.38%
IONQ	IONQ Inc	6.88%

By comparison…

🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-08-10

2025-08-10T00:00:00Z

I’m testing a new format this week for the digest.

Last Week

A new NexusTek Winners Circle podcast landed.

https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/20887/650007

Also, NexusTek continued an award-winning streak.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nexustek-recognized-at-no-114-on-crns-fast-growth-150-list-for-2025-302524790.html

This Week

Once again, I’ll be traveling and the newsletter daily posts will be done from 37k feet, airports, hotels, etc. ✈️ 💺

Hot Fudge Daily Digest

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-08-04

My first attempt at a screener. I’m not happy with it yet, but it was time to start somewhere:

Symbol	Company Name	% Change (Mon Close vs. Fri Close)
VSAT	Viasat Inc	18.24%
QNTM	Quantum Biopharma Ltd	14.75%
ARQQ	Arqit Quantum Inc	8.33%
CABO	Cable One Inc	6.37%
GTLB	Gitlab Inc	5.28%
RBRK	Rubrik Inc	5.26%
XPEL	Xpel Inc	5.24%
VCEL	Vericel Corp	5.19%

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-08-05

💰 Funding for AI and quantum computing companies continues to be a trend.

Reflection AI (AI open-source LLMs): $1B+
Luma AI (AI video): $1B+
Runway (AI video): ~$500M
Clay (AI sales automation): $100M
Uzum (AI fintech): $65.5M
Alaan (AI spend management): $48M
QuamCore (quantum computing): $26M

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-08-06

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OUF7sfAuHA

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-08-07

Similar to my prior Markets Monday format change, I’m working on a historical format change for Throwback Thursday.

More soon…

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-08-08

I believe the biggest story this week was electrical power grid resilience and the law within datacenter friendly states like Texas.

https://www.techmeme.com/250807/p47#a250807p47

In modern datacenter site selection, the electrical power grid has become increasingly important. However, the ability to self-generate power in the form of on-site generation is becoming essential to operational excellence.

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-08-09

Friday arrives and the bury begins, or was it stage craft with storytelling savvy?

August 8

https://www.techmeme.com/250808/p25#a250808p25

Considering the theatrical notion of so-called backdoors, kill switches, etc. the coverage timing of value chain companies (TSMC, etc.) and the expedient outcome (capitulation?) of export policy logjams — the arguably sudden resolution for NVIDIA interests is a bit on the nose.

To see what I mean, let’s start by backing the news truck up a bit by [ checks notes… ] a whole week…

August 7

https://www.techmeme.com/250807/p14#a250807p14

August 6

https://www.techmeme.com/250806/p10#a250806p10

August 5

https://www.techmeme.com/250805/p5#a250805p5

August 3

https://www.techmeme.com/250803/p7#a250803p7

August 1

https://www.techmeme.com/250801/p20#a250801p20

#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:

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-08-09

2025-08-09T00:00:00Z

Friday arrives and the bury begins, or was it stage craft with storytelling savvy?

August 8

https://www.techmeme.com/250808/p25#a250808p25

To see what I mean, let’s start by backing the news truck up a bit by [ checks notes… ] a whole week…

August 7

https://www.techmeme.com/250807/p14#a250807p14

August 6

https://www.techmeme.com/250806/p10#a250806p10

August 5

https://www.techmeme.com/250805/p5#a250805p5

August 3

https://www.techmeme.com/250803/p7#a250803p7

August 1

https://www.techmeme.com/250801/p20#a250801p20

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-08-08

2025-08-08T00:00:00Z

I believe the biggest story this week was electrical power grid resilience and the law within datacenter friendly states like Texas.

https://www.techmeme.com/250807/p47#a250807p47

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-08-07

2025-08-07T00:00:00Z

Similar to my prior Markets Monday format change, I’m working on a historical format change for Throwback Thursday.

More soon…

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-08-06

2025-08-06T00:00:00Z

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OUF7sfAuHA

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-08-05

2025-08-05T00:00:00Z

💰 Funding for AI and quantum computing companies continues to be a trend.

Reflection AI (AI open-source LLMs): $1B+
Luma AI (AI video): $1B+
Runway (AI video): ~$500M
Clay (AI sales automation): $100M
Uzum (AI fintech): $65.5M
Alaan (AI spend management): $48M
QuamCore (quantum computing): $26M

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-08-04

2025-08-04T00:00:00Z

My first attempt at a screener. I’m not happy with it yet, but it was time to start somewhere:

Symbol	Company Name	% Change (Mon Close vs. Fri Close)
VSAT	Viasat Inc	18.24%
QNTM	Quantum Biopharma Ltd	14.75%
ARQQ	Arqit Quantum Inc	8.33%
CABO	Cable One Inc	6.37%
GTLB	Gitlab Inc	5.28%
RBRK	Rubrik Inc	5.26%
XPEL	Xpel Inc	5.24%
VCEL	Vericel Corp	5.19%

🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-08-03

2025-08-03T14:47:16Z

Last week

I’m excited to share the latest Winners Circle, a new podcast from NexusTek.

https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/20887/649500?utm_source=hot-fudge-daily&utm_medium=email

Also, NexusTek launched Data Modernization services, that are “designed to create a single source of truth needed for successful AI and advanced analytics solutions”.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/get-your-data-ready-for-ai-with-nexustek-302519834.html

This week

Once again, I’ll be traveling and the newsletter daily posts will be done from 37k feet, airports, hotels, etc. ✈️ 💺

Hot Fudge Daily Digest

I’m testing a new format below… I’m trying to get the newsletter to be leaner and get back to pure Markdown.

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-07-28

I’m stopping the screenshots for Markets Monday. Instead, I will begin looking back at the week over week on Monday using a screener.

More to come…

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-07-29

🤖 + 💰 AI, AI, and more AI funding continues.

Julius AI (AI data analyst): $10M
Delian Alliance Industries (AI defense tech): $14M
Sparrow (AI leave management): $35M
BlinkOps (AI cybersecurity agents): $50M
Whitefiber (AI infrastructure): $132.8M
Ambience Healthcare (AI healthcare admin): $243M
Groq (AI chip startup): $600M
Figma (AI design software): $1.2B
Anthropic (AI platform): $5B

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-07-30

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JeV53LZ8ag

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-07-31

3 Billion iPhones.

https://www.techmeme.com/250731/p50#a250731p50

18 years ago, rumors swirled.

https://gizmodo.com/rumor-3g-iphone-coming-227850

When the iPhone launched, it was $499.

If you had invested $499 in AAPL 18 years ago, you would have $20,421 today. That’s enough to buy about one dozen iPhone 16 Pro Max 1TB.

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-08-01

🤖 + 💰 The big story this week isn’t a single product launch but the staggering scale of AI value chain infrastructure investment.

Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet alone are set to drop the GDP equivalent of the entire Chilean economy on their AI value chain infrastructure just this year.

https://www.techmeme.com/250801/p30#a250801p30

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-08-02

The Friday news dump selection this week goes to…

https://www.techmeme.com/250801/p26#a250801p26

I’m not a lawyer but I would expect to see appeals from Tesla. I would also expect to see counsel at General Motors, Ford, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, and Kia watching closely for the line of business for keeping humans in a driver seat.

Meanwhile, driverless continues to be rack up miles with Waymo and Zoox in more places more of the time as humans shift to the backseat as riders. Also, there are companies such as Aurora, Nuro, and May Mobility that are challenging the need for human drivers within the supply chain of long haul and last mile logistics for both people and cargo.

#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:

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-08-02

2025-08-03T00:04:09Z

The Friday news dump selection this week goes to…

https://www.techmeme.com/250801/p26#a250801p26

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-08-01

2025-08-02T01:44:25Z

🤖 + 💰 The big story this week isn’t a single product launch but the staggering scale of AI value chain infrastructure investment.

Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet alone are set to drop the GDP equivalent of the entire Chilean economy on their AI value chain infrastructure just this year.

https://www.techmeme.com/250801/p30#a250801p30

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-07-31

2025-07-31T00:00:00Z

3 Billion iPhones.

https://www.techmeme.com/250731/p50#a250731p50

18 years ago, rumors swirled.

https://gizmodo.com/rumor-3g-iphone-coming-227850

When the iPhone launched, it was $499.

If you had invested $499 in AAPL 18 years ago, you would have $20,421 today. That’s enough to buy about one dozen iPhone 16 Pro Max 1TB.

My Fediverse Digest for July 2025

2025-07-31T00:00:00Z

Jul 02

08:36 AM

#mastodonadmin note on v4.3.9

None

YMMV

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.3.9

Source

Jul 04

08:33 PM

Awaiting “Section 174” realizations

Source

Jul 05

03:02 PM

Reset button

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojYK6CW8gdw

Source

10:11 PM

Read an article with the phrase “due to the loss of critical data” and wacky parsed it as “due to the loss of critical thinking” but it was true both past and present.

Source

Jul 11

12:54 AM

Testing…

Source

09:27 PM

This.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-NXLTXreFo

Source

Jul 13

08:45 PM

Time to think about what I can do with 245M #ripeatlas credits that I’ve collected since 2019.

Source

Jul 22

10:21 PM

Gonna attempt a full-upgrade. YOLO.

Source

10:26 PM

LOL

{“errors”: [{“reason”: “Currently in maintenance mode. All endpoints are temporarily unavailable.”}]}

Source

10:29 PM

Looks like I picked the wrong day to attempt do-release-upgrade

https://status.linode.com/incidents/0fxtps51r8st

Source

11:36 PM

Well that was interesting.

Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS localhost ttyS0

Source

Jul 23

08:50 AM

Nostalgia

Source

10:42 PM

#mastoadmin #mastodonadmin note on v4.4.2

None.

YMMV

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.4.2

Source

Jul 24

10:31 PM

Yes, Starlink went brrrrrrpt for a bit.

Source

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-07-30

2025-07-30T00:00:00Z

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JeV53LZ8ag

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-07-29

2025-07-29T00:00:00Z

🤖 + 💰 AI, AI, and more AI funding continues.

Julius AI (AI data analyst): $10M
Delian Alliance Industries (AI defense tech): $14M
Sparrow (AI leave management): $35M
BlinkOps (AI cybersecurity agents): $50M
Whitefiber (AI infrastructure): $132.8M
Ambience Healthcare (AI healthcare admin): $243M
Groq (AI chip startup): $600M
Figma (AI design software): $1.2B
Anthropic (AI platform): $5B

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-07-28

2025-07-28T00:00:00Z

I’m stopping the screenshots for Markets Monday. Instead, I will begin looking back at the week over week on Monday using a screener.

More to come…

🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-07-27

2025-07-27T00:00:00Z

Last week

In what I hope becomes a trend, I’m excited to share the latest Winners Circle, a new podcast from NexusTek.

https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/20887/648732?utm_source=hot-fudge-daily&utm_medium=email

This week

I’ll be traveling and the newsletter daily posts will be done from 37k feet, airports, hotels, etc. ✈️ 💺

Hot Fudge Daily Digest

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-07-21

Less spicy.

Last week

Quantum Computing, AI, Software, and Space

This week

Less spicy.

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

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-07-22

💰 + 🤖 Funding for AI-anything companies continues.

Poseidon
(decentralized AI data layer):
**
$15M
**
Composio
(AI agent development tools):
**
$25M
**
Asylon
(AI robot guard dogs):
**
$26M
**
Delve
(AI compliance startup):
**
$32M
**
Inforcer
(AI for SMB):
**
$35M
**
Ashby
(AI-powered HR platform):
**
$50M
**
Reka AI
(AI efficient LLMs):
**
$110M
**
xAI
(AI research and development):
**
$12B
**

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-07-23

The most interesting shared link in Slack communities:

(safe for work link)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e6motL4QMc

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-07-24

One outage story that caught my eye today: Starlink

https://www.techmeme.com/250724/p50#a250724p50

Indeed. I even managed to capture it with a RIPE probe.

packet loss

For perspective, a Starlink outage becoming newsworthy (i.e. longer than a few hours) this isn’t that common. You would need to look back ~3 years for a similar coverage.

https://www.techmeme.com/220830/p16#a220830p16

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-07-25

💰 + 🤖 The big tech story for the week was Google capex forecast jumping from $75B to $85B.

https://www.techmeme.com/250723/p34#a250723p34

As context, this increase seems to confirm that Google infrastructure will continue to get even more Googleier.

https://techstrong.ai/aiops/ai-infrastructure-gets-googleier/

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-07-26

Typically, I select 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.

This week, that turned out to be an early Saturday morning publishing cycle. Considering the event appears to be “mid-July” there is probably some combination of timing, deadlines, and decisions when it comes to this disclosure.

https://www.techmeme.com/250726/p8#a250726p8

This is interesting on two levels. First, cyber incidents are “when not if” (so #hugops to the Allianz security and marcom teams responding as well as their technology partners) eventualities. Second, this eventuality reinforces Allianz Risk Barometer findings.

Cyber incidents top the list

Source:
https://commercial.allianz.com/news-and-insights/reports/allianz-risk-barometer.html

#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:

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-07-26

2025-07-26T15:28:36Z

Typically, I select 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.

https://www.techmeme.com/250726/p8#a250726p8

Cyber incidents top the list

Source:
https://commercial.allianz.com/news-and-insights/reports/allianz-risk-barometer.html

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-07-25

2025-07-26T02:04:46Z

💰 + 🤖 The big tech story for the week was Google capex forecast jumping from $75B to $85B.

https://www.techmeme.com/250723/p34#a250723p34

As context, this increase seems to confirm that Google infrastructure will continue to get even more Googleier.

https://techstrong.ai/aiops/ai-infrastructure-gets-googleier/

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-07-24

2025-07-25T03:04:51Z

One outage story that caught my eye today: Starlink

https://www.techmeme.com/250724/p50#a250724p50

Indeed. I even managed to capture it with a RIPE probe.

packet loss

For perspective, a Starlink outage becoming newsworthy (i.e. longer than a few hours) this isn’t that common. You would need to look back ~3 years for a similar coverage.

https://www.techmeme.com/220830/p16#a220830p16

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-07-23

2025-07-24T02:36:31Z

The most interesting shared link in Slack communities:

(safe for work link)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e6motL4QMc

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-07-22

2025-07-23T01:35:38Z

💰 + 🤖 Funding for AI-anything companies continues.

Poseidon
(decentralized AI data layer):
**
$15M
**
Composio
(AI agent development tools):
**
$25M
**
Asylon
(AI robot guard dogs):
**
$26M
**
Delve
(AI compliance startup):
**
$32M
**
Inforcer
(AI for SMB):
**
$35M
**
Ashby
(AI-powered HR platform):
**
$50M
**
Reka AI
(AI efficient LLMs):
**
$110M
**
xAI
(AI research and development):
**
$12B
**

SXSW 2026: Look, up in the sky! It's Super SMB!

2025-07-23T00:00:00Z

I submitted a proposal for a panel at SXSW 2026. If you are reading this, I would make the argument that you should submit a panel too.

I am serious. If you haven’t spoken at SXSW before, you should submit a panel.

Oh… please vote 🗳️ / heart ❤️ my submission:

https://participate.sxsw.com/flow/sxsw/sxsw26/community-voting-sxsw/page/community-voting/session/1750894477655001RMA9

Thanks!

Getting Informed

Curious? Check out my past PanelPicker 101.

What I am submitting

✅ I just submitted my PanelPicker proposal for SXSW 2026

🦸 Title: “Look, up in the sky! It’s Super SMB!”

🎭 Intended Audience: Managed Intelligence Providers (MIPs) are evolving from Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to enable Superpowers for Small Medium Business (SMB) distinct competitive advantage over larger Enterprise companies.

🤓 Summary: If you ask AI and business luminaries, the first AI fueled one-person unicorn (OPU) is still up for grabs. But beyond valuations, the democratization of AI is having profound impact on small and medium sized business (SMB) beyond basic knowledge work. In this session, we’ll explore how Managed Intelligence Providers (MIPs) are evolving from Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to enable Superpowers for SMB with distinct competitive advantages over larger Enterprise companies.

🤔 Takeaway 1️⃣ : Smaller is better when it comes to the AI models that will matter in the physical world

🤔 Takeaway 2️⃣ : AI Marketplaces are going to be the vending machines that enable SMB to snack their way to greater success

🤔 Takeaway 3️⃣ : The droids, Jawas, farmers in Star Wars and not far off from Dirty Jobs with cobots, SLM AI enabled devices, at the vast edge of the network.

🧐 What does the speaker know about the evolution of service providers?

📺 Sample: 2010 A Service Odyssey with Jay Cuthrell (2025)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhQS4NoOWOw

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-07-21

2025-07-22T00:42:51Z

Less spicy.

Last week

Quantum Computing, AI, Software, and Space

This week

Less spicy.

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

🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-07-20

2025-07-20T16:00:00Z

Last week

I’m excited to share the latest Winners Circle, a new podcast from NexusTek.

https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/20887/647704

https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/20887/648238

This week

I’ll continue working on automation ideas for the newsletter.

Hot Fudge Daily Digest

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-07-14

Spicier!

Lastweek

Not so spicy…

This week

Quantum Computing, AI, Software, and Space

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

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-07-15

💰 + 🤖 Funding for AI-anything companies continues.

Motor AI (autonomous driving software): $20M
Portola (AI companion app): $20M
NetBox Labs (manage networks): $35M
Unify (AI-powered revenue tools): $40M
Moonvalley (ethical AI video models): $84M
OpenEvidence (AI search for doctors): $210M
Thinking Machines Lab (Mira Murati’s AI startup): $2B

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-07-16

The most interesting shared link in Slack communities:

(safe for work link)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/14/germany-tarantulas-customs-cake-bozes

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-07-17

One convergence story that caught my eye this week: Android will soon combine with ChromeOS

https://www.techmeme.com/250714/p6#a250714p6

For perspective, 20 years ago, Android was acquired by Google.

https://www.cnet.com/culture/google-buys-android/

Less than 5 years later, Google launched ChromeOS.

https://techcrunch.com/2009/10/13/a-first-glimpse-of-chrome-os-in-the-flesh-at-least-the-browser-part/

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-07-18

💰 + ₿ The big tech story for the week was coverage of crypto market value exceeding $4T.

https://www.techmeme.com/250718/p9#a250718p9

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-07-19

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.

https://www.techmeme.com/250718/p7#a250718p7

Comments turned off too…

Of course. Of course.

#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:

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-07-19

2025-07-19T23:28:17Z

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.

https://www.techmeme.com/250718/p7#a250718p7

Comments turned off too…

Of course. Of course.

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-07-18

2025-07-19T03:10:56Z

💰 + ₿ The big tech story for the week was coverage of crypto market value exceeding $4T.

https://www.techmeme.com/250718/p9#a250718p9

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-07-17

2025-07-17T22:31:45Z

One convergence story that caught my eye this week: Android will soon combine with ChromeOS

https://www.techmeme.com/250714/p6#a250714p6

For perspective, 20 years ago, Android was acquired by Google.

https://www.cnet.com/culture/google-buys-android/

Less than 5 years later, Google launched ChromeOS.

https://techcrunch.com/2009/10/13/a-first-glimpse-of-chrome-os-in-the-flesh-at-least-the-browser-part/

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-07-16

2025-07-16T23:51:01Z

The most interesting shared link in Slack communities:

(safe for work link)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/14/germany-tarantulas-customs-cake-bozes

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-07-15

2025-07-15T23:05:20Z

💰 + 🤖 Funding for AI-anything companies continues.

Motor AI (autonomous driving software): $20M
Portola (AI companion app): $20M
NetBox Labs (manage networks): $35M
Unify (AI-powered revenue tools): $40M
Moonvalley (ethical AI video models): $84M
OpenEvidence (AI search for doctors): $210M
Thinking Machines Lab (Mira Murati’s AI startup): $2B

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-07-14

2025-07-14T23:54:08Z

Spicier!

Lastweek

Not so spicy…

This week

Quantum Computing, AI, Software, and Space

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

🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-07-13

2025-07-13T13:00:00Z

Thanks again for sticking with new formats and redirects. 🤓

Last week

I enjoyed Tuesday’s Triangle Biotech but couldn’t make it back for First Friday’s Founded.

This week

I continue to streamline my process and believe I am getting closer to the level of automation I want from past POSSE inspiration with workflow ideas.

Hot Fudge Daily Digest

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-07-07

It’s much less spicy this week.

Lastweek

Mergers and Quantumania!

More spicy!

This Week

Not so spicy…

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

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-07-08

💰 + 🤖 Funding for AI-anything companies continues.

AirGarage (AI parking data analysis): $23M
Arago (photonic AI chip development): $26M
SiPearl (ARM-based AI chip): $152M
Xpanceo (AI powered contact lenses): $250M
Mistral AI (AI model development): $1B

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-07-09

The most interesting shared link in Slack communities:

(safe for work link)

https://bsky.app/profile/sprobeforebros.bsky.social/post/3ltcn6rlxjs2p

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-07-10

One theme that caught my eye this week: Power

https://www.techmeme.com/250710/p6#a250710p6

https://www.techmeme.com/250710/p7#a250710p7

Power truly matters when it is taken away from data centers… suddenly.

https://fudge.org/archive/throwback-thursday-for-2025-05-08/

I’ve been tracking datacenter use of SMR power for a while now.

https://fudge.org/archive/final-thoughts-friday-for-2024-10-18/

Then there is the larger nuclear power options for data centers.

https://fudge.org/archive/final-thoughts-friday-for-2024-09-20/

But the dream of a carbon free future lives on… via unlisted YouTube videos?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S163YUdfckg

And the power hungry nature of data centers is not new.

https://fudge.org/archive/throwback-thursday-for-2024-08-29/

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-07-11

🦜🔗 + 💰 The big tech story for the week was LangChain.

https://www.techmeme.com/250709/p42#a250709p42

What’s that you say?

Did you know Austin LangChain Meetup has +1.3k members? 🤯

Did you know /r/LangChain has +66k members? 🤯

🦜🔗 Yep. Zero to thriving community in < 1000 days. 🤯

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-07-12

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.

https://www.techmeme.com/250711/p11#a250711p11

Top 10 what? Intel isn’t in the Top 10 by what measurement?

So, everyone loves a stack ranking or Top 10 list. But, the question is what Top number would Intel be now and by what measure?

So, perhaps, this is more about a CEO with compensation tied to stock price.

https://fortune.com/2025/03/15/intel-new-ceo-lip-bu-tan-pay-package-stock-options-bonus-69-million/

Surely, this isn’t about Top 10 by revenue. Even with declining revenue (~$50B), Intel has revenue that would easily keep it in a Top 10 list.

Of course, stock price performance is a brutal comparison over 5 years. Also, the “too late” quip about NVIDIA makes more sense in this stock price performance view.

Ouch.

So, let’s look at Intel’s Market Cap performance… and…

Ouch.

If Market Cap is the only measurement, then Intel is well outside of the Top 10 list of semiconductor companies. If the downward trend continues, Intel will be at risk of staying in the Top 20 list of semiconductor companies.

Of course, even with this Friday news coverage there is something to be said for rewinding back in the week. What else was communicated in the news cycle?

Indeed, other news this week was the continuation of layoffs at Intel. Also, expect to see more actions like selling off parts of the Intel business that are not considered part of the core or outside of the restructuring lines.

https://www.techmeme.com/250711/p5#a250711p5

https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2025/07/intel-layoffs-begin-chipmaker-is-cutting-many-thousands-of-jobs.html

While 5 days isn’t the same as 5 years… news travels fast.

Intel “outperformed” NVIDIA… this week.

#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:

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-07-12

2025-07-12T16:10:58Z

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.

https://www.techmeme.com/250711/p11#a250711p11

Top 10 what? Intel isn’t in the Top 10 by what measurement?

So, everyone loves a stack ranking or Top 10 list. But, the question is what Top number would Intel be now and by what measure?

So, perhaps, this is more about a CEO with compensation tied to stock price.

https://fortune.com/2025/03/15/intel-new-ceo-lip-bu-tan-pay-package-stock-options-bonus-69-million/

Surely, this isn’t about Top 10 by revenue. Even with declining revenue (~$50B), Intel has revenue that would easily keep it in a Top 10 list.

Of course, stock price performance is a brutal comparison over 5 years. Also, the “too late” quip about NVIDIA makes more sense in this stock price performance view.

Ouch.

So, let’s look at Intel’s Market Cap performance… and…

Ouch.

Of course, even with this Friday news coverage there is something to be said for rewinding back in the week. What else was communicated in the news cycle?

https://www.techmeme.com/250711/p5#a250711p5

https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2025/07/intel-layoffs-begin-chipmaker-is-cutting-many-thousands-of-jobs.html

While 5 days isn’t the same as 5 years… news travels fast.

Intel “outperformed” NVIDIA… this week.

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-07-11

2025-07-12T02:42:25Z

🦜🔗 + 💰 The big tech story for the week was LangChain.

https://www.techmeme.com/250709/p42#a250709p42

What’s that you say?

Did you know Austin LangChain Meetup has +1.3k members? 🤯

Did you know /r/LangChain has +66k members? 🤯

🦜🔗 Yep. Zero to thriving community in < 1000 days. 🤯

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-07-10

2025-07-10T23:36:54Z

One theme that caught my eye this week: Power

https://www.techmeme.com/250710/p6#a250710p6

https://www.techmeme.com/250710/p7#a250710p7

Power truly matters when it is taken away from data centers… suddenly.

https://fudge.org/archive/throwback-thursday-for-2025-05-08/

I’ve been tracking datacenter use of SMR power for a while now.

https://fudge.org/archive/final-thoughts-friday-for-2024-10-18/

Then there is the larger nuclear power options for data centers.

https://fudge.org/archive/final-thoughts-friday-for-2024-09-20/

But the dream of a carbon free future lives on… via unlisted YouTube videos?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S163YUdfckg

And the power hungry nature of data centers is not new.

https://fudge.org/archive/throwback-thursday-for-2024-08-29/

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-07-09

2025-07-10T02:23:19Z

The most interesting shared link in Slack communities:

(safe for work link)

https://bsky.app/profile/sprobeforebros.bsky.social/post/3ltcn6rlxjs2p

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-07-08

2025-07-09T03:15:34Z

💰 + 🤖 Funding for AI-anything companies continues.

AirGarage (AI parking data analysis): $23M
Arago (photonic AI chip development): $26M
SiPearl (ARM-based AI chip): $152M
Xpanceo (AI powered contact lenses): $250M
Mistral AI (AI model development): $1B

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-07-07

2025-07-08T02:28:17Z

It’s much less spicy this week.

Lastweek

Mergers and Quantumania!

More spicy!

This Week

Not so spicy…

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

🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-07-06

2025-07-06T14:40:01Z

As I mentioned last week, Buttondown continues to be my trusted newsletter delivery service. My simple Buttondown and Mastodon related python scripts handle the replication to fudge.org now.

Last week

Last week was short but NexusTek kept rockin’ again!

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nexustek-ranked-on-channel-partners-2025-msp-501tech-industrys-most-prestigious-list-of-managed-service-providers-worldwide-302496065.html

This week

Depending on the weather in Raleigh-Durham this week, I’m looking forward to Tuesday’s Triangle Biotech and hope to make it back for First Friday’s Founded too.

Hot Fudge Daily Digest

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-06-30

It’s triple the spicy this week.

Lastweek

AI, space satellites, and AI related networking!

Not so spicy…

This week

Mergers and Quantumania!

More spicy!

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

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-07-01

💰 + 🤖 Funding for AI-anything companies continues.

Campfire (accounting services): $35M
Tandem Health (medical copilot): $50M
Levelpath (procurement software): $55M
Cato Networks (network security): $359M
Surge AI (data labeling): $1B
xAI (platform): $10B

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-07-02

The most interesting shared link in Slack communities:

(safe for work link)

https://jacksonpollock.org/

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-07-03

One story that caught my eye this week:

https://www.techmeme.com/250703/p13#a250703p13

It’s important to remember this is the year 2025.

CEOs claiming AI will replace people in current jobs is click bait at best and sensationalizing for rage clicks at worst. Where are the results?

Surveys are plentiful in characterizing CEO confidence but the same was true of “digital transformation” before this and “big data” of years before that. Results matter.

A year ago, I attended “Life After Big Tech: Where Are Laid Off Workers Now?“ at SXSW 2024. Here are some of my notes:

Trends leading to where we are today
Over hiring
Bloated and overstuffed organizations
AI and automation rendering some amount of labor reductions
Debates
Layoffs as a mask for poor performance
Instead of 20 staff with a speciality, you’ll need 2 because of AI
If you can be Upwork’d you can be AI’d
There are freelancers doing top 1% work getting a 16% increase in their rates and 12% more revenue from AI as their toolchain

Source:

https://fudge.org/archive/sxsw-2024-days-1-3/

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-07-04

💸 + 💰 The big tech story for the week was “Section 174”

https://www.techmeme.com/250704/p12#a250704p12

While I don’t think that a regression to prior R&D related tax code will suddenly reverse software developer roster shrinkage — there will be an impact to offshore and nearshore software development companies. US company software related over-hiring is probably not going to happen (again?) as we are several years past ZIRP.

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-07-05

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. Also, July 4th is a great time to go below the radar in US media.

https://www.techmeme.com/250704/p11#a250704p11

AI TRiSM aside, a shift in focus to military superiority in later stage institutional AI work means the concept of ESTEEM and programs like ESTEEM (NCSU) are even more important in early stage institutional AI work. Arguably, societies risk the eventual export of military grade dystopian fever dream panopticons into more widespread commercial application.

#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:

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-07-05

2025-07-05T15:27:57Z

https://www.techmeme.com/250704/p11#a250704p11

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-07-04

2025-07-05T04:56:54Z

💸 + 💰 The big tech story for the week was “Section 174”

https://www.techmeme.com/250704/p12#a250704p12

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-07-03

2025-07-04T04:08:40Z

One story that caught my eye this week:

https://www.techmeme.com/250703/p13#a250703p13

It’s important to remember this is the year 2025.

CEOs claiming AI will replace people in current jobs is click bait at best and sensationalizing for rage clicks at worst. Where are the results?

Surveys are plentiful in characterizing CEO confidence but the same was true of “digital transformation” before this and “big data” of years before that. Results matter.

A year ago, I attended “Life After Big Tech: Where Are Laid Off Workers Now?“ at SXSW 2024. Here are some of my notes:

Trends leading to where we are today
Over hiring
Bloated and overstuffed organizations
AI and automation rendering some amount of labor reductions
Debates
Layoffs as a mask for poor performance
Instead of 20 staff with a speciality, you’ll need 2 because of AI
If you can be Upwork’d you can be AI’d
There are freelancers doing top 1% work getting a 16% increase in their rates and 12% more revenue from AI as their toolchain

Source:

https://fudge.org/archive/sxsw-2024-days-1-3/

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-07-02

2025-07-03T02:41:17Z

The most interesting shared link in Slack communities:

(safe for work link)

https://jacksonpollock.org/

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-07-01

2025-07-02T04:01:23Z

💰 + 🤖 Funding for AI-anything companies continues.

Campfire (accounting services): $35M
Tandem Health (medical copilot): $50M
Levelpath (procurement software): $55M
Cato Networks (network security): $359M
Surge AI (data labeling): $1B
xAI (platform): $10B

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-06-30

2025-06-30T22:11:09Z

It’s triple the spicy this week.

Lastweek

AI, space satellites, and AI related networking!

Not so spicy…

This week

Mergers and Quantumania!

More spicy!

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

My Fediverse Digest for June 2025

2025-06-30T00:00:00Z

Jun 09

10:20 AM

Big Emoji will stop at nothing in their shameless and incessant need for viral marketing stunts 🦓

https://apnews.com/video/zebra-that-eluded-searchers-for-days-captured-and-airlifted-in-tennessee-cfd0216b7df74fe3a37c2b0b642d5c06

Source

Jun 11

10:44 PM

Reset button

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5QLod7F0Yk

Source

Jun 24

03:07 PM

Jumping between node (my blog) and python (frontmatter changes) today was fun but I made an oops with #activepieces 😂 which then required more python (bulk deletes) which then required making edits to mastodon/config/initializers
/rack_attack.rb

Sorry to those I spammed on the #fediverse today

Source

03:31 PM

And scene

https://github.com/JayCuthrell/mastodon-oops

Source

Jun 26

04:01 PM

On the one hand, good.
On the other hand, still good.

https://github.com/creativecommons/cc-signals

Source

🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-06-29

2025-06-29T13:00:00Z

This week is a shorter vacation edition of 🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday. During vacation, I worked out how to mirror all prior fudge.org Buttondown hosted content (~370+ posts) on fudge.org and will be collapsing the archives there soon with a redirect.

Once web archives are migrated, Buttondown will continue to be my trusted newsletter delivery service. In case you are interested, I ended up adding two simple Buttondown and Mastodon related python scripts to handle manual migration and a mistake I made with automation while testing.

https://github.com/JayCuthrell/buttondown-python-scripts

Last week

Last week I toook a glorious vacation, but NexusTek kept rockin’ without me!

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nexustek-appoints-new-cfo-joseph-ohara-302492427.html

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/enterprise-grade-nexustek-cloud-management-solutions-now-on-aws-marketplace-302490091.html

This week

🪫 ➡️ 🔋 I’m recharged from vacation and looking forward to getting back into the groove again.

Hot Fudge Daily Digest

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-06-23

Last week

Quantumania!

Even more spicy!

This week

AI, space satellites, and AI related networking!

Not so spicy…

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

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-06-24

💰 + 🤖 Funding for AI-anything companies continues.

Eventual (developer of Daft) (multimodal AI data processing): $27.5M
Wispr Flow (voice AI dictation): $30M
Abridge (AI clinical notes): $300M

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-06-25

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

Enjoy the WeatherStar 4000 simulator!

https://weatherstar.netbymatt.com/

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-06-26

🟦 + ⬛️ One story that caught my eye this week

It seems that Microsoft will be changing the classic (mid 90s era) Blue Sreen of Death (BSOD) to…

[checks notes]

Black Screen of Dealth. (so, still BSOD?)

https://www.techmeme.com/250626/p30#a250626p30

RIP BSOD (1993-2025)

Long Live BSOD (2025-???)

(and my commentary on Blacksky… I mean Bluesky)

https://bsky.app/profile/cuthrell.com/post/3lsjvvvgh522s

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-06-27

🛜 + 💰 The big tech story for the week was continuation of US broadband subsidies.

https://www.techmeme.com/250627/p16#a250627p16

Amid the buzz around AI funding, the success of the Universal Service Fund (USF) and its E-Rate program remains fundamental to American connectivity. Since the late 1990s, USF programs have significantly mitigated the digital divide. It is vital that schools, libraries, and NTCA members continue their effective management of these funds to maintain crucial access for rural communities, students, and low-income families. 🇺🇸

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-06-28

I select a Friday news dump selection that reaches a peak level of trope, cliché, or bromide on the slowest news day that may be attempting to avoid wider coverage.

https://www.techmeme.com/250627/p11#a250627p11

So, while Microsoft’s AI chips struggle, the past two weeks have seen positive coverage of Google’s AI chips and AWS’s AI chips.

#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:

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-06-28

2025-06-28T13:08:50Z

I select a Friday news dump selection that reaches a peak level of trope, cliché, or bromide on the slowest news day that may be attempting to avoid wider coverage.

https://www.techmeme.com/250627/p11#a250627p11

So, while Microsoft’s AI chips struggle, the past two weeks have seen positive coverage of Google’s AI chips and AWS’s AI chips.

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-06-27

2025-06-28T06:24:57Z

🛜 + 💰 The big tech story for the week was continuation of US broadband subsidies.

https://www.techmeme.com/250627/p16#a250627p16

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-06-26

2025-06-26T20:40:26Z

🟦 + ⬛️ One story that caught my eye this week

It seems that Microsoft will be changing the classic (mid 90s era) Blue Sreen of Death (BSOD) to…

[checks notes]

Black Screen of Dealth. (so, still BSOD?)

https://www.techmeme.com/250626/p30#a250626p30

RIP BSOD (1993-2025)

Long Live BSOD (2025-???)

(and my commentary on Blacksky… I mean Bluesky)

https://bsky.app/profile/cuthrell.com/post/3lsjvvvgh522s

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-06-25

2025-06-25T13:22:34Z

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

Enjoy the WeatherStar 4000 simulator!

https://weatherstar.netbymatt.com/

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-06-24

2025-06-24T20:50:40Z

💰 + 🤖 Funding for AI-anything companies continues.

Eventual (developer of Daft) (multimodal AI data processing): $27.5M
Wispr Flow (voice AI dictation): $30M
Abridge (AI clinical notes): $300M

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-06-23

2025-06-23T20:19:47Z

Last week

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

Last week

Quantumania!

Even more spicy!

This week

AI, space satellites, and AI related networking!

Not so spicy…

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

🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-06-22

2025-06-22T15:00:00Z

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.

More spicy!

This week

Quantumania!

Even more spicy!

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:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iecffd3h0EI?feature=shared

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:

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-06-21

2025-06-21T15:36:09Z

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 👀

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

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

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

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-06-20

2025-06-21T01:28:40Z

🪖 + 🧑‍💻 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:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iecffd3h0EI?feature=shared

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.

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-06-19

2025-06-20T01:44:41Z

📡 + 💰 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.

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-06-18

2025-06-18T23:31:47Z

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

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-06-17

2025-06-18T01:40:59Z

💰 + 🤖 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

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-06-16

2025-06-17T00:45:32Z

Last week

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

More spicy!

This week

Quantumania!

Even more spicy!

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

🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-06-15

2025-06-15T13:55:44Z

This week continues our new shortened format. Thanks again to readers for all the helpful replies and survey feedback.

Last week

NexusTek attended Triangle Biotech Tuesday!

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nexustek_trianglebiotechtuesday-biotech-lifesciences-activity-7338600713188425728-wAcL?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAACk1T7oBu6QkP2p3bHgknv3R55ktER0dzqc

NexusTek presented at an amazing business leader event in NYC on Wednesday!

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7333870764112171008/

NexusTek hosted an exclusive 🎟️🛥️🌃 event in NYC on on Thursday!

🎟️ 🛥️ 🌃

This week

I’m going to experiment with a new meeting maker landing page — just click if you want to catch up soon!

https://info.nexustek.com/request-a-meeting-with-jay-cuthrell

Hot Fudge Daily Digest

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-06-09

Last week

Much less spicy…

This week

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

More spicy!

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

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-06-10

💰 + 🤖 Funding for AI in search and security continues but on a long enough timeline they will likely converge.

https://www.techmeme.com/250610/p33#a250610p33

https://www.techmeme.com/250610/p20#a250610p20

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-06-11

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://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-untold-story-of-new-years-novelty-glasses

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-06-12

🤖 + 🕸️ One story caught my eye this week was the growth in AI crawlers that are gathering instant results for users of various alternatives to web search. Some coverage uses the “bot” name as an inside baseball style reference to robots.txt.

https://www.techmeme.com/250612/p13#a250612p13

As for “bots”, if you look back at coverage of early web crawlers, there are some familiar patterns. 20 years ago, coverage of Google Base was mixed but provided a roadmap for where the increasingly machine readable web was heading.

https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/11/first-base.html

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-06-13

☁️ + 🚨 The story that caught my eye this week was the still newsworthy nature of a cloud scale outage.

https://www.techmeme.com/250612/p42#a250612p42

Back in the ancient times of 2021, I wrote this piece on the theme of Cloud in Public: Status Dashboards

https://fudge.org/archive/fudge-sunday-cloud-in-public-status-dashboards/

These days, one can easily see just how offline something truly is… and often get a root cause analysis in record time.

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-06-14

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 👀

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

https://www.techmeme.com/250613/p12#a250613p12

https://www.techmeme.com/250614/p1#a250614p1

#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:

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-06-14

2025-06-14T20:21:12Z

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 👀

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

https://www.techmeme.com/250613/p12#a250613p12

https://www.techmeme.com/250614/p1#a250614p1

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-06-13

2025-06-14T02:30:48Z

☁️ + 🚨 The story that caught my eye this week was the still newsworthy nature of a cloud scale outage.

https://www.techmeme.com/250612/p42#a250612p42

Back in the ancient times of 2021, I wrote this piece on the theme of Cloud in Public: Status Dashboards

https://fudge.org/archive/fudge-sunday-cloud-in-public-status-dashboards/

These days, one can easily see just how offline something truly is… and often get a root cause analysis in record time.

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-06-12

2025-06-13T03:48:34Z

https://www.techmeme.com/250612/p13#a250612p13

https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/11/first-base.html

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-06-11

2025-06-12T01:49:47Z

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://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-untold-story-of-new-years-novelty-glasses

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-06-10

2025-06-11T03:30:24Z

💰 + 🤖 Funding for AI in search and security continues but on a long enough timeline they will likely converge.

https://www.techmeme.com/250610/p33#a250610p33

https://www.techmeme.com/250610/p20#a250610p20

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-06-09

2025-06-10T02:06:53Z

Last week

Much less spicy…

This week

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

More spicy!

Source:

🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-06-08

2025-06-08T20:21:59Z

This week continues our new shortened format. Thanks again to readers for all the helpful replies and survey feedback.

Last week

I’m excited to share that NexusTek is now on the Azure Marketplace. 🤓

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nexustek-brings-advanced-managed-and-professional-services-to-the-azure-marketplace-302474333.html

This week

Are you going to be in NYC next week on June 11-12?

An amazing business leader event is coming to NYC on June 11.

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7333870764112171008/

Also, if you are an owner/operator in Hospitality / Leisure / Travel, let me know if you’d like to be invited to an exclusive event in NYC on June 12! 🎟️🛥️🌃

🎟️ 🛥️ 🌃

(or, if you know someone in NYC that might be interest — please forward this newsletter along)

Hot Fudge Daily Digest

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-06-02

Last week

Slightly more spicy!

This week

Much less spicy…

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-06-03

💰 + 🤯 There are the prevailing PE narratives… and then is PE that operates on another level of reality.

https://www.techmeme.com/250603/p7#a250603p7

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-06-04

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://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AKAwjtzd4w

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-06-05

🤖 + 🧫 One story caught my eye this week was Cortical Labs announcing the shipping of their biological computer this summer.

https://www.techmeme.com/250604/p7#a250604p7

For perspective, organoid computing and organoid intelligence running atop biological operating system… (BIOs — get it?) has been getting more coverage lately.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk6YMYuvATc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EURpmKn49ps

Back in 2009, even Intel was describing our biological computing future.

During the 1970s, if you watched the TV series, Tomorrow People, then you might remember their biotic computer, TIM.

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-06-06

🤖 + 🚁 The story that caught my eye this week was the expansion of drone delivery in Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Orlando, and Tampa.

https://www.techmeme.com/250605/p41#a250605p41

To understand the impact of this expansion, consider the speed in which is has arrived in less than 10 years.

https://www.techmeme.com/161110/p12#a161110p12

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-06-07

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 👀

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

https://www.techmeme.com/250606/p27#a250606p27

https://www.techmeme.com/250606/p10#a250606p10

#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:

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-06-07

2025-06-07T20:19:36Z

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 👀

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

https://www.techmeme.com/250606/p27#a250606p27

https://www.techmeme.com/250606/p10#a250606p10

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-06-06

2025-06-07T20:09:30Z

🤖 + 🚁 The story that caught my eye this week was the expansion of drone delivery in Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Orlando, and Tampa.

https://www.techmeme.com/250605/p41#a250605p41

To understand the impact of this expansion, consider the speed in which is has arrived in less than 10 years.

https://www.techmeme.com/161110/p12#a161110p12

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-06-05

2025-06-06T04:14:36Z

🤖 + 🧫 One story caught my eye this week was Cortical Labs announcing the shipping of their biological computer this summer.

https://www.techmeme.com/250604/p7#a250604p7

For perspective, organoid computing and organoid intelligence running atop biological operating system… (BIOs — get it?) has been getting more coverage lately.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk6YMYuvATc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EURpmKn49ps

Back in 2009, even Intel was describing our biological computing future.

During the 1970s, if you watched the TV series, Tomorrow People, then you might remember their biotic computer, TIM.

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-06-04

2025-06-05T05:05:46Z

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://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AKAwjtzd4w

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-06-03

2025-06-05T04:41:55Z

💰 + 🤯 There are the prevailing PE narratives… and then is PE that operates on another level of reality.

https://www.techmeme.com/250603/p7#a250603p7

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-06-02

2025-06-03T05:33:27Z

Last week

Slightly more spicy!

This week

Much less spicy…

🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-06-01

2025-06-01T20:27:45Z

This week continues our new shortened format. Thanks again to readers for all the helpful replies and survey feedback.

Last week

Last week was a shorter week due to the holiday weekend.

It was nice to see NexusTek recognized for a 7th year in a row!

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nexustek-named-to-crn-solution-provider-500-list-for-2025-302467361.html

Next week

Are you going to be in NYC next week on June 11-12?

An amazing business leader event is coming to NYC on June 11.

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7333870764112171008/

Also, if you are an owner/operator in Hospitality / Leisure / Travel, let me know if you’d like to be invited to an invitation for an exclusive event in NYC on June 12! 🎟️🛥️🌃

(or, if you know someone in NYC that might be interest — please forward this newsletter along)

Hot Fudge Daily Digest

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-05-26

U.S. stock markets were closed on Monday, May 26th 2025 in observance of Memorial Day.

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-05-27

Two hot takes on the market.

Tuesday arrived with tech stock movement after Monday markets being closed for observance of Memorial Day.

Tuesday also arrived with two acquisitions that were long overdue: Red Canary and Informatica

https://www.techmeme.com/250527/p35#a250527p35

https://www.techmeme.com/250527/p13#a250527p13

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-05-28

Each Wednesday I go through dozens of Slack communities.

I then select the most interesting shared link.

This will always be a safe for work link. 🙈

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

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-05-29

🤖 + 💰 One story caught my eye this week was the recent Series A raised by Chalk AI. Who? These folks:

https://www.techmeme.com/250529/p12#a250529p12

Chalk AI is interesting because of the origin story and founding team background but also because while some companies are building on top of Snowflake, Databricks, etc. it is companies like Chalk AI looking to be the companies that come after Snowflake, Databricks, etc.

In fact, it is just 18 months since Chalk AI got Seed funding.

https://chalk.ai/blog/announcing-chalk-10m-seed-funding

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-05-30

🤖 + 🔮 The story that caught my eye this week was a tale of two white collar worker realities… the banal and the existential threat of AI to gainful employment. However, I suspect the truth may not be somewhere in the middle… but is instead playing in another small town nearby in an empty lot just waiting to be discovered.

https://www.techmeme.com/250525/p16#a250525p16

https://www.techmeme.com/250529/p8#a250529p8

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-05-31

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 👀

A long list this week…

https://www.techmeme.com/250531/p1#a250531p1

https://www.techmeme.com/250529/p49#a250529p49

https://www.techmeme.com/250529/p43#a250529p43

#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:

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-05-31

2025-05-31T16:12:17Z

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 👀

A long list this week…

https://www.techmeme.com/250531/p1#a250531p1

https://www.techmeme.com/250529/p49#a250529p49

https://www.techmeme.com/250529/p43#a250529p43

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-05-30

2025-05-31T04:15:11Z

https://www.techmeme.com/250525/p16#a250525p16

https://www.techmeme.com/250529/p8#a250529p8

My Fediverse Digest for May 2025

2025-05-31T00:00:00Z

May 03

05:53 PM

Neato. https://www.nrel.gov/docs/gen/fy25/94502.jpg

Source

May 06

08:03 PM

#mastodonadmin note on v4.3.8

None

YMMV

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.3.8

Source

May 07

10:53 PM

🥩 Join NexusTek & Arctic Wolf on May 15 to learn the latest cyber insurance trends, how security operations impact coverage, and what insurers are really looking for. Register & complete a quick intro meeting by June 30th for a $100 Crowd Cow gift card:
https://cybersecurity.arcticwolf.com/WBR-PTNRFY26Q125-05-15NexusTekWhatsatSteakwithYourCybersecurityCyberInsuranceWebinar_NEWRegPage.html

Source

May 09

01:59 AM

🤯

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmg1f3p4CSo

Source

May 18

03:19 PM

Making progress… https://fudge.org

Source

May 26

11:26 AM

I just published ‘🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-05-25’.

https://hot.fudge.org/archive/hot-fudge-sunday-for-2025-05-25/

Source

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-05-29

2025-05-29T23:08:58Z

🤖 + 💰 One story caught my eye this week was the recent Series A raised by Chalk AI. Who? These folks:

https://www.techmeme.com/250529/p12#a250529p12

In fact, it is just 18 months since Chalk AI got Seed funding.

https://chalk.ai/blog/announcing-chalk-10m-seed-funding

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-05-28

2025-05-29T03:54:01Z

Each Wednesday I go through dozens of Slack communities.

I then select the most interesting shared link.

This will always be a safe for work link. 🙈

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

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-05-27

2025-05-28T02:47:02Z

Two hot takes on the market.

Tuesday arrived with tech stock movement after Monday markets being closed for observance of Memorial Day.

Tuesday also arrived with two acquisitions that were long overdue: Red Canary and Informatica

https://www.techmeme.com/250527/p35#a250527p35

https://www.techmeme.com/250527/p13#a250527p13

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-05-26

2025-05-28T02:34:47Z

U.S. stock markets were closed on Monday, May 26th 2025 in observance of Memorial Day.

🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-05-25

2025-05-26T15:33:24Z

I surveyed readers about offering a shorter version of the newsletter. Results were mixed so I’m shortening the newsletter and moving sections around this week.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nexustek-launches-new-private-cloud-offerings-to-power-the-next-era-of-digital-business-302460874.html

Hot Fudge Daily Digest

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-05-19

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.

This week:

2 is more than 0

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-05-20

Two hot takes on bills and banks.

⚖️ + 🤖 I guess if you wanted to say anything goes with AI you could just make a law that says anything goes with AI, right?

https://www.techmeme.com/250519/p43#a250519p43

🤖 + 🏦 If you do, then I guess you could literally take that to the bank, right?

https://www.techmeme.com/250520/p25#a250520p25

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-05-21

Each Wednesday I go through dozens of Slack communities.

I then select the most interesting shared link.

This will always be a safe for work link. 🙈

https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-wienie-500-is-the-most-american-motorsport-event-ever-devised/

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-05-22

📡 🛰️ One story caught my eye this week — the gap in LEO satellite broadband services deployment.

https://www.techmeme.com/250522/p11#a250522p11

Back in the ancient times of 2018… the satellite broadband services market was only being served by a few seemingly legacy providers.

https://www.techmeme.com/180222/p16#a180222p16

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-05-23

🤖 + 🔮 The story that caught my eye this week was Waymo reaching 10M paid rides. Granted, even 10M total rides is a mere drop in the bucket compared to human operated Lyft and Uber rides every day.

Waymo will disrupt the gig economy slowly as it ramps. Just as the human switchboard operator role had a peak, that peak gave way increasingly automated digital telecommunications solutions.

https://www.techmeme.com/250520/p56#a250520p56

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-05-24

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.

Insert Let’s See Who This Really Is Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250523/p12#a250523p12

#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 have transitioned from to their next career adventure.

Alumni 🎉

Those in my network that are #OpenToWork:

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-05-24

2025-05-26T14:58:58Z

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 👀

Insert Let’s See Who This Really Is Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250523/p12#a250523p12

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-05-23

2025-05-25T07:05:27Z

Waymo will disrupt the gig economy slowly as it ramps. Just as the human switchboard operator role had a peak, that peak gave way increasingly automated digital telecommunications solutions.

https://www.techmeme.com/250520/p56#a250520p56

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-05-22

2025-05-23T06:33:17Z

📡 🛰️ One story caught my eye this week — the gap in LEO satellite broadband services deployment.

https://www.techmeme.com/250522/p11#a250522p11

Back in the ancient times of 2018… the satellite broadband services market was only being served by a few seemingly legacy providers.

https://www.techmeme.com/180222/p16#a180222p16

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-05-21

2025-05-23T06:13:23Z

Each Wednesday I go through dozens of Slack communities.

I then select the most interesting shared link.

This will always be a safe for work link. 🙈

https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-wienie-500-is-the-most-american-motorsport-event-ever-devised/

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-05-20

2025-05-21T02:20:46Z

Two hot takes on bills and banks.

⚖️ + 🤖 I guess if you wanted to say anything goes with AI you could just make a law that says anything goes with AI, right?

https://www.techmeme.com/250519/p43#a250519p43

🤖 + 🏦 If you do, then I guess you could literally take that to the bank, right?

https://www.techmeme.com/250520/p25#a250520p25

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-05-19

2025-05-20T03:27:17Z

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.

This week:

2 is more than 0

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 Fudge Sunday for 2025-05-18

2025-05-18T18:43:53Z

This week I’m testing out a shorter version of the newsletter.

Last week

Last week, I was fortunate to represent NexusTek at Qlik Connect in Orlando May 13 - 15, 2025 as Tech Field Day Experience delegate.

This was my 2nd Qlik Connect. I’ve published my reflections on Qlik Connect 2025 on the NexusTek Insights blog.

This week and next month

This week will be busy as well.

CISO Fireside Chat: The Impact of AI on MSPs

On Tuesday May 20, I’ll be speaking with Jason Manar, CISO at Kaseya about the impact of AI on Managed Service Providers in a fireside chat.

📅 Date: Tuesday, May 20th, 2025

🕒 Time: 1:00pm-2:00pm ET

📍 Location: Webinar

RSVP here:

AI & Beyond: Shaping the Future of Business

On Wednesday May 21, I’ll be back in Orlando with Microsoft to lead a discussion of how AI is shaping the future of business.

📅 Date: Wednesday, May 21st, 2025

🕒 Time: 6:00pm-9:00pm ET

📍 Location: Orlando, FL

RSVP here:

https://go.nexustek.com/event-ai-and-beyond-shaping-the-future-of-business/

Modernization & Mimosas

Next month on Friday June 6, I’ll be in Tampa with Microsoft to lead a discussion of modernization

📅 Date: Friday, June 6th, 2025

🕒 Time: 11:15am-2:00pm ET

📍 Location: Tampa, FL

RSVP here:

https://go.nexustek.com/event-modernization-mimosas/

#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 Jarrod Weise 🎉

Congrats Karl Edwards 🎉

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:

Hot Fudge Daily Digest

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-05-12

Readers have shared that the measurement I’ve been using paints a stark picture on Monday. So, what about looking at the end of the week instead?

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-05-13

Playful naming and elements of whimsy are on the decline but it is fascinating to see how long some design elements last.

https://www.techmeme.com/250513/p46#a250513p46

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-05-14

Enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wof0xPUmW38

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-05-15

2005: Big things have small beginnings.

2025: And so it begins…

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/montana-becomes-first-state-close-law-enforcement-data-broker-loophole

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-05-16

There’s an old saying about “Ma Bell” reforming again but with a different name to dominate modern communications within the US. Recent M&A activity seems to support that prophetic direction for cable and broadband.

https://www.techmeme.com/250516/p9#a250516p9

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-05-17

Ah yes, the plot thickens as full vertical integration by ever larger tech companies — from services to software to silicon to the solitary generation of electrons underpinning all of it — comes into focus.

https://www.techmeme.com/250516/p32#a250516p32

🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-05-11

2025-05-11T17:45:10Z

Last week

It was another a big week! 🎉

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nexustek-expands-mdr-offering-with-integrated-remediation-services-302446423.html

More to come… 🤓

This week

I’ll be representing NexusTek at Qlik Connect in Orlando May 13 - 15, 2025 for Tech Field Day

https://techfieldday.com/event/qlikconnect25/

Then…

🥩 🥩 🥩 🥩

Join NexusTek and Arctic Wolf on May 15 to learn
what’s at… steak

🥩 🥩 🥩 🥩

We’ll discuss the latest cyber insurance trends,
how security operations impact coverage,
and what insurers are really looking for.

#OpenToWork Weekly

I believe in #NeverSearchAlone. Previously, I participated in a #JSC for a year after leaving IBM, rebooting Cuthrell Consulting, and joining NexusTek.

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 Jarrod Weise 🎉

Congrats Karl Edwards 🎉

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:

Hot Fudge Daily Digest

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-05-05

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:

Return of spicy level 1!

This week:

And… no spicy.

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 2025-05-05

Two hot takes on funding and an entanglement too!

⚖️ + 💰 TAR and CAR aside, an AI revolution is coming to the legal field.

https://www.techmeme.com/250506/p48#a250506p48

🤖 + 💰 Soon, the “Uhhh. What does this code do?” questions will be answered… but alas, the “But why does it exist?” will likely continue for eons.

https://www.techmeme.com/250506/p25#a250506p25

⚛️ + 🔮 Multiverse > Multicast amrite?

https://www.techmeme.com/250506/p41#a250506p41

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-05-07

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=JmYXrf0TMis

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/05/dont-watermark-your-legal-pdfs-with-purple-dragons-in-suits/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtM-5lhZ-yo

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-05-08

📡 🛰️ One story caught my eye this week — power and politics… no, the kind of power involving electrons.

https://www.techmeme.com/250508/p3#a250508p3

Thinking back to days when power loss made the news…

2013… No Such AI

2006… the day the glitter backgrounds stopped

We’ve come a long way but there is a long road ahead to implicit resilience ubiquity.

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-05-09

🤖 + 🔮 The story that caught my eye this week was actually the same AI success story through two different lenses.

Lens 1: Generic application of AI results in 25% success.

https://www.techmeme.com/250508/p10#a250508p10

Lens 2: Specific application of AI results in 70% better outcome.

https://www.techmeme.com/250509/p3#a250509p3

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-05-10

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 👀

Insert Let’s See Who This Really Is Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250509/p12#a250509p12

Insert Ceiling Cat Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250509/p23#a250509p23

Insert We’re All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250509/p14#a250509p14

Insert That Wasn’t Me, That Was Patricia Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250509/p19#a250509p19

Insert Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250509/p4#a250509p4

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-05-10

2025-05-10T18:30:40Z

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 👀

Insert Let’s See Who This Really Is Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250509/p12#a250509p12

Insert Ceiling Cat Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250509/p23#a250509p23

Insert We’re All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250509/p14#a250509p14

Insert That Wasn’t Me, That Was Patricia Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250509/p19#a250509p19

Insert Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250509/p4#a250509p4

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-05-09

2025-05-10T04:31:15Z

🤖 + 🔮 The story that caught my eye this week was actually the same AI success story through two different lenses.

Lens 1: Generic application of AI results in 25% success.

https://www.techmeme.com/250508/p10#a250508p10

Lens 2: Specific application of AI results in 70% better outcome.

https://www.techmeme.com/250509/p3#a250509p3

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-05-08

2025-05-09T06:50:09Z

📡 🛰️ One story caught my eye this week — power and politics… no, the kind of power involving electrons.

https://www.techmeme.com/250508/p3#a250508p3

Thinking back to days when power loss made the news…

2013… No Such AI

2006… the day the glitter backgrounds stopped

We’ve come a long way but there is a long road ahead to implicit resilience ubiquity.

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-05-07

2025-05-09T05:48:16Z

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=JmYXrf0TMis

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/05/dont-watermark-your-legal-pdfs-with-purple-dragons-in-suits/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtM-5lhZ-yo

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-05-06

2025-05-07T03:06:09Z

Two hot takes on funding and an entanglement too!

⚖️ + 💰 TAR and CAR aside, an AI revolution is coming to the legal field.

https://www.techmeme.com/250506/p48#a250506p48

🤖 + 💰 Soon, the “Uhhh. What does this code do?” questions will be answered… but alas, the “But why does it exist?” will likely continue for eons.

https://www.techmeme.com/250506/p25#a250506p25

⚛️ + 🔮 Multiverse > Multicast amrite?

https://www.techmeme.com/250506/p41#a250506p41

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-05-05

2025-05-06T04:31:24Z

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:

Return of spicy level 1!

This week:

And… no spicy.

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 Fudge Sunday for 2025-05-04

2025-05-04T21:49:36Z

Recap

This week was a big week! 🎉

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nexustek-named-to-crns-2025-tech-elite-250-list-302443164.html

More to come… 🤓

#OpenToWork Weekly

I believe in #NeverSearchAlone. Previously, I participated in a #JSC for a year after leaving IBM, rebooting Cuthrell Consulting, and joining NexusTek.

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 Karl Edwards 🎉

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:

Hot Fudge Daily Digest

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-04-28

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:

No spicy (2 weeks in a row)

This week:

Return of spicy level 1!

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 2025-04-29

Two hot takes on funding on Tuesday.

🏙️ + 💰 Typically, a Tuesday would be about funding a startup — but this time it is a state and it might not be the last.

https://www.techmeme.com/250429/p2#a250429p2

🤖 + 💰 Not to get all McLuhan-ish but… it is sometimes said that humans are unique in that we build machines that build other machines. Welp…

https://www.techmeme.com/250428/p18#a250428p18

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-04-30

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://apnews.com/article/woodpecker-rockport-massachusetts-car-mirrors-afd3f553060a32baac2172f60856259a

https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/04/monty-python-and-the-holy-grail-turns-50/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlrpeYdm9Ec

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-05-01

📡 🛰️ One story caught my eye this week — Amazon Kuiper.

https://www.techmeme.com/250428/p28#a250428p28

📡 🛰️ Six years goes by fast.

https://www.techmeme.com/190404/p8#a190404p8

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-05-02

🔐 + 🔮 The story that caught my eye this week was the move by Microsoft to accelerate the embrace of passkeys.

https://www.techmeme.com/250502/p7#a250502p7

For context, I’ve written about this topic before… but it was back in September 2024 and it was the move by Google to accelerate the embrace of passkeys.

https://fudge.org/archive/hot-fudge-sunday-for-2024-09-22/

Progress!!

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-05-03

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 👀

Insert Let’s See Who This Really Is Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250502/p15#a250502p15

Insert Ceiling Cat Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250502/p3#a250502p3

Insert We’re All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250502/p26#a250502p26

Insert That Wasn’t Me, That Was Patricia Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250502/p21#a250502p21

Insert Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250502/p27#a250502p27

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-05-03

2025-05-03T22:18:36Z

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 👀

Insert Let’s See Who This Really Is Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250502/p15#a250502p15

Insert Ceiling Cat Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250502/p3#a250502p3

Insert We’re All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250502/p26#a250502p26

Insert That Wasn’t Me, That Was Patricia Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250502/p21#a250502p21

Insert Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250502/p27#a250502p27

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-05-02

2025-05-03T04:40:49Z

🔐 + 🔮 The story that caught my eye this week was the move by Microsoft to accelerate the embrace of passkeys.

https://www.techmeme.com/250502/p7#a250502p7

For context, I’ve written about this topic before… but it was back in September 2024 and it was the move by Google to accelerate the embrace of passkeys.

https://fudge.org/archive/hot-fudge-sunday-for-2024-09-22/

Progress!!

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-05-01

2025-05-02T02:13:54Z

📡 🛰️ One story caught my eye this week — Amazon Kuiper.

https://www.techmeme.com/250428/p28#a250428p28

📡 🛰️ Six years goes by fast.

https://www.techmeme.com/190404/p8#a190404p8

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-04-30

2025-05-01T06:01:45Z

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://apnews.com/article/woodpecker-rockport-massachusetts-car-mirrors-afd3f553060a32baac2172f60856259a

https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/04/monty-python-and-the-holy-grail-turns-50/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlrpeYdm9Ec

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-04-29

2025-04-30T03:20:10Z

Two hot takes on funding on Tuesday.

🏙️ + 💰 Typically, a Tuesday would be about funding a startup — but this time it is a state and it might not be the last.

https://www.techmeme.com/250429/p2#a250429p2

🤖 + 💰 Not to get all McLuhan-ish but… it is sometimes said that humans are unique in that we build machines that build other machines. Welp…

https://www.techmeme.com/250428/p18#a250428p18

My Fediverse Digest for April 2025

2025-04-30T00:00:00Z

Apr 05

06:03 PM

Kudos to the many protestors today in downtown Beaufort, NC — may our freedom to peacefully assemble and air grievances be an enduring right of our citizenry forever

Source

11:08 PM

#mastodonadmin note on v4.3.7

None

YMMV

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.3.7

Source

Apr 06

12:13 PM

Things to watch every 6 months

[https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/[#search](https://cuthrell.com/tags/search)/from%3Acron+subject%3Acertbot+success](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#search/from%3Acron+subject%3Acertbot+success)

#mastodonadmin

Source

Apr 09

12:02 AM

This.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LGHtc_D328

Source

Apr 12

08:05 PM

YouTube observation:

“Hi there! In this episode I’ll show you a quick and easy way for you to avoid eating more processed food. Homemade food is so much better for you! Let’s get started.”

[ camera pan to neatly organized food ingredients ]

[ puts food processor on the counter ]

[ puts food in food processor ]

[ creates processed food ]

🙄

Source

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-04-28

2025-04-29T03:05:28Z

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:

No spicy (2 weeks in a row)

This week:

Return of spicy level 1!

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 Fudge Sunday for 2025-04-27

2025-04-28T01:44:33Z

Recap

This week was a big week! 🎉

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nexustek-expands-secure-by-design-solutions-to-accelerate-innovation-in-life-sciences-302437577.html

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nexustek-recognized-on-crns-2025-msp-500-list-302432599.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2lfhcZbInA?feature=shared

More to come… 🤓

#OpenToWork Weekly

I believe in #NeverSearchAlone. Previously, I participated in a #JSC for a year after leaving IBM, rebooting Cuthrell Consulting, and joining NexusTek.

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:

Hot Fudge Daily Digest

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-04-21

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:

No spicy

This week:

No spicy (2 weeks in a row)

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 2025-04-22

Two hot takes on funding on Tuesday.

🔥 + 💰 There’s always money in the banana stand applies to open-source alternatives to wildly successful platforms.

https://www.techmeme.com/250422/p20#a250422p20

✅ + 💰 There’s also a never ending battle against the digital bad guys.

https://www.techmeme.com/250422/p31#a250422p31

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-04-24

Three years goes by fast and one story caught my eye this week.

Are you verified?

By…

LinkedIn?

https://www.techmeme.com/250424/p12#a250424p12

Just two years ago, LinkedIn opened identity verification by company emails on a global basis.

https://www.techmeme.com/230412/p21#a230412p21

And only three years ago, LinkedIn entered the identity verification space.

https://www.techmeme.com/221025/p43#a221025p43

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-04-25

🔐 + 💰 The stories that caught my eye this week were both ends of the security spectrum: Agentic AI advisory vCISO to attestation for a software supply chains

https://www.techmeme.com/250423/p25#a250423p25

https://www.techmeme.com/250423/p23#a250423p23

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-04-26

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 👀

Insert Let’s See Who This Really Is Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250425/p28#a250425p28

Insert Ceiling Cat Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250426/p2#a250426p2

Insert We’re All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250425/p26#a250425p26

Insert That Wasn’t Me, That Was Patricia Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250425/p29#a250425p29

Insert Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250425/p32#a250425p32

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-04-26

2025-04-27T02:38:40Z

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 👀

Insert Let’s See Who This Really Is Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250425/p28#a250425p28

Insert Ceiling Cat Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250426/p2#a250426p2

Insert We’re All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250425/p26#a250425p26

Insert That Wasn’t Me, That Was Patricia Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250425/p29#a250425p29

Insert Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250425/p32#a250425p32

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-04-25

2025-04-26T02:00:07Z

🔐 + 💰 The stories that caught my eye this week were both ends of the security spectrum: Agentic AI advisory vCISO to attestation for a software supply chains

https://www.techmeme.com/250423/p25#a250423p25

https://www.techmeme.com/250423/p23#a250423p23

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-04-24

2025-04-25T04:45:37Z

Three years goes by fast and one story caught my eye this week.

Are you verified?

By…

LinkedIn?

https://www.techmeme.com/250424/p12#a250424p12

Just two years ago, LinkedIn opened identity verification by company emails on a global basis.

https://www.techmeme.com/230412/p21#a230412p21

And only three years ago, LinkedIn entered the identity verification space.

https://www.techmeme.com/221025/p43#a221025p43

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-04-23

2025-04-24T03:06:29Z

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.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyqqz9mr6yo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xS68sl2D70

https://jdhwilkins.com/information-at-a-glance-do-your-charts-suck/

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-04-22

2025-04-23T20:25:44Z

Two hot takes on funding on Tuesday.

🔥 + 💰 There’s always money in the banana stand applies to open-source alternatives to wildly successful platforms.

https://www.techmeme.com/250422/p20#a250422p20

✅ + 💰 There’s also a never ending battle against the digital bad guys.

https://www.techmeme.com/250422/p31#a250422p31

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-04-21

2025-04-22T03:37:17Z

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:

No spicy

This week:

No spicy (2 weeks in a row)

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 Fudge Sunday for 2025-04-20

2025-04-21T00:30:00Z

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.

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:

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

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 👀

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

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-04-19

2025-04-20T00:46:00Z

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 👀

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

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-04-18

2025-04-20T00:32:37Z

🤖 + 💰 The story that caught my eye this week was Hammerspace taking $100M.

https://www.techmeme.com/250416/p21#a250416p21

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-04-17

2025-04-20T00:15:25Z

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.

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-04-16

2025-04-17T04:54:00Z

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

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-04-15

2025-04-16T04:34:25Z

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

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-04-14

2025-04-15T04:16:51Z

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

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 Fudge Sunday for 2025-04-13

2025-04-13T20:10:00Z

Hot Fudge Sunday 🤔 💡 🤯 🤓 is a free weekly newsletter containing a digest of the Hot Fudge Daily paid newsletter at fudge.org in a single easy to reach URL. This free weekly edition is posted every… wait for it… Sunday.

Reminder

AI Infrastructure Field Day 2 is just a week away!

https://techfieldday.com/event/aiifd2/

#OpenToWork Weekly

I believe in #NeverSearchAlone. I have participated in a #JSC for a year since leaving IBM, rebooting Cuthrell Consulting, and joining NexusTek.

This week was my first week without a #JSC to join. In truth, for the past few months I was missing #JSC meetings.

My work travel time commitments were starting to turn me into that person that is on the invite but doesn’t show. Even if I like to think that’s not me, I learned a lesson about availability.

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:

Hot Fudge Daily Digest

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-04-07

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:

Not so spicy returns

This week:

)
Spicy Level 19!

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 2025-04-08

Tariffs Tuesday? I’ll let other newsletters handle that…

Two hot takes on funding on Tuesday.

🛜 + 💰 I am a happy long time Tailscale customer and this is pleasing to see as they are the only exception I have to saying VPN stands for Vexing Productivity Neutralizer.

https://www.techmeme.com/250408/p12#a250408p12

🤖 + 💰 I am reminded of Mr. Rogers looking for the helpers among the increasingly dystopian drone warfare landscape.

https://www.techmeme.com/250408/p23#a250408p23

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-04-09

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=lil_bBN8QQ0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky0YOo7_Y0o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am-faoBgwt8

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-04-10

One headline for Thursday Throwback caught my eye.

🧂 + 🛜 The herd of packets has been heard.

https://www.techmeme.com/250410/p39#a250410p39

Previously… Salt Typhoon was seemingly a blip in the news because some other shiny object squirrels appeared to knock it out of the headlines.

https://www.techmeme.com/250122/p3#a250122p3

Why Typhoon? Reasons.

https://www.techmeme.com/230419/p28#a230419p28

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-04-11

The story that caught my eye this week was Agent2Agent (A2A).

https://www.techmeme.com/250409/p42#a250409p42

If you haven’t heard buzz around Model Context Protocol (MCP) then I’ll try making this a cooking contest television show.

MCP would be like different chefs competing on a cooking contest show. It’s entertaining but the chefs are focused on their unique recipes and making their courses unique.

A2A would be like getting different chefs to be able to collaborate as a team for the best meal possible within a budget that considers dietary restrictions. It’s not just entertaining — it’s arguably going to result in a better and more complete meal experience that seeks the culinary experience optima.

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-04-12

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 👀

In that spirit, here are a few stories that you might have missed on the slow news of a Friday.

Insert Let’s See Who This Really Is Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250411/p20#a250411p20

Insert Ceiling Cat Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250411/p13#a250411p13

Insert We’re All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250411/p10#a250411p10

Insert That Wasn’t Me, That Was Patricia Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250411/p1#a250411p1

Insert Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250411/p16#a250411p16

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-04-12

2025-04-13T00:45:58Z

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 👀

In that spirit, here are a few stories that you might have missed on the slow news of a Friday.

Insert Let’s See Who This Really Is Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250411/p20#a250411p20

Insert Ceiling Cat Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250411/p13#a250411p13

Insert We’re All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250411/p10#a250411p10

Insert That Wasn’t Me, That Was Patricia Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250411/p1#a250411p1

Insert Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250411/p16#a250411p16

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-04-11

2025-04-12T05:38:33Z

The story that caught my eye this week was Agent2Agent (A2A).

https://www.techmeme.com/250409/p42#a250409p42

If you haven’t heard buzz around Model Context Protocol (MCP) then I’ll try making this a cooking contest television show.

MCP would be like different chefs competing on a cooking contest show. It’s entertaining but the chefs are focused on their unique recipes and making their courses unique.

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-04-10

2025-04-11T04:59:18Z

One headline for Thursday Throwback caught my eye.

🧂 + 🛜 The herd of packets has been heard.

https://www.techmeme.com/250410/p39#a250410p39

Previously… Salt Typhoon was seemingly a blip in the news because some other shiny object squirrels appeared to knock it out of the headlines.

https://www.techmeme.com/250122/p3#a250122p3

Why Typhoon? Reasons.

https://www.techmeme.com/230419/p28#a230419p28

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-04-09

2025-04-10T01:40:08Z

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=lil_bBN8QQ0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky0YOo7_Y0o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am-faoBgwt8

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-04-08

2025-04-09T04:03:29Z

Tariffs Tuesday? I’ll let other newsletters handle that…

Two hot takes on funding on Tuesday.

🛜 + 💰 I am a happy long time Tailscale customer and this is pleasing to see as they are the only exception I have to saying VPN stands for Vexing Productivity Neutralizer.

https://www.techmeme.com/250408/p12#a250408p12

🤖 + 💰 I am reminded of Mr. Rogers looking for the helpers among the increasingly dystopian drone warfare landscape.

https://www.techmeme.com/250408/p23#a250408p23

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-04-07

2025-04-08T00:26:57Z

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:

Not so spicy returns

This week:

)
Spicy Level 19!

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 Fudge Sunday for 2025-04-06

2025-04-06T21:30:00Z

Quick Recaps

It has been a busy week.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nexustek-announces-2025-commitment-for-cmmc-2-0-compliance-302412350.html

#OpenToWork Weekly

I believe in #NeverSearchAlone. I have participated in a #JSC for a year since leaving IBM, rebooting Cuthrell Consulting, and joining NexusTek.

Since late last year, I’ve been highlighting those in my network that are #OpenToWork by linking to their LinkedIn and quoting their LinkedIn About section. I strongly encouraged my readers to view the LinkedIn profiles of these professionals, connect, and reach out to them.

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 with over 8 years of experience in technical recruitment and team leadership. I excel at building high-performing teams through strategic hiring initiatives and fostering collaborative environments that align with company values. My expertise spans sourcing top technical talent, streamlining hiring processes, and driving organizational growth.
Key strengths:
• Mentoring and developing recruitment teams
• Enhancing onboarding efficiency
• Improving employee engagement and retention
• Designing competitive compensation strategies
• Cultivating strong client and candidate relationships
With a detail-focused approach and the ability to manage multiple priorities in fast-paced environments, I consistently deliver exceptional hiring outcomes. Passionate about talent acquisition, I am committed to driving successful recruitment strategies and fostering a thriving workplace culture.
Source: Kelly Britt

Jarrod Weise

I bring over 15 years of comprehensive experience in strategic partnerships and business development, primarily within the high-paced technology sector. Currently serving as the Director of Partnerships Development at CoreStack, I am at the forefront of devising and implementing strategies that enhance our channel partnerships and advance our digital strategy initiatives. My role is pivotal in cultivating solid and productive relationships with key partners and aligning our business goals with innovative digital solutions.
Source: Jarrod Weise

Dan Kelleher

Accomplished Program Manager | Technical Project Manager | Certified Scrum Master
With 25+ years of proven success leading high-impact initiatives in IT, Healthcare, and Engineering, I bring expertise in managing complex programs, driving cross-functional collaboration, and delivering innovative solutions. Adept at navigating multi-million-dollar budgets, mitigating risks, and ensuring successful outcomes throughout the entire program lifecycle. Known for building strong, lasting relationships with stakeholders, C-suite executives, partners, and teams, I excel at aligning diverse groups to bring large-scale solutions to fruition. My approach combines strategic planning, continuous oversight, and flexibility to meet goals, while maintaining a sharp focus on quality, cost, and performance.
Source: Dan Kelleher

Barbara Hadley, EdM, SPHR

Empowering People, Elevating Businesses:
A strategic HR professional with a contagious enthusiasm for empowering employees. Expertise in crafting dynamic work environments that foster high engagement and drive results utilizing a data-driven approach to implement solutions that support both employee satisfaction and organizational success.
Source: Barbara Hadley, EdM, SPHR

Andrew Webber

I’m a passionate leader with a proven track record of building and scaling innovative consumer products. As the Co-founder & CEO of Corsair Distillery, I grew the company from concept to a multi-million dollar operation with a national presence and 400 awards for quality and innovation. I’m adept at identifying unique market opportunities, developing award-winning products, and building high-performing teams.
Source: Andrew Webber

Lida Tohidi

🏆 Recognized as a Top 20 Visionary in Media & Tech by Adello and Top 15 Coach by Influence Digest
🚀 Career Highlights
15+ years of experience in product management, digital marketing, and strategic planning

7+ years advising, consulting, and investing in mission-driven startups and SMBs
Led teams to win the Google Startup Battle (out of 1000+ teams) and other national awards
Advised startups that have collectively raised over $500 million
Launched a successful national incubator

Source: Lida Tohidi

Nathan Clyker

Successful Sales and Business Development Professional with a demonstrated 21 year history of working in the IT industry. Expert skills in Management, Sales, Enterprise Software and Hardware, Partner Management, Storage, Go-to-market Strategy creation/execution, and Sales Operations. Strong sales professional with a BS in International Business from University of Colorado, Denver and an intense focus on customer satisfaction via strong business and interpersonal relationships.
Source: Nathan Clyker

Gina (Gina Minks) Rosenthal

Over 10 years’ experience as a global and fractional product marketing manager for global technology companies (up to 120K employees) as well as and startups.

Over the last 5 years leading Digital Sunshine Solutions, generated over 150 blog posts, 26 case studies, and a range of messaging documents, launch plans, white papers, product datasheets, and solution briefs.
Bootstrapped quarterly cross-company “Think Tanks” to create strong feedback loops between executives, product, marketing, and engineering teams.
Created technical content and improved product positioning using sales and customer feedback. Served as the voice of the customer for enterprise clients exploring SaaS products.
Planned, researched, and developed over twenty podcast episodes covering AI and infrastructure over two years.

The experience on my resume is definitely not traditional! But because there is a string connecting it all, I bring a unique blend of technical expertise and creative marketing strategy to the table. With over a decade of experience working with industry leaders like EMC, Dell, and VMware, I’ve honed an in-depth understanding of the challenges IT executives face—and more importantly, how to solve them. However, since I come from a sysadmin/operator audience, I easily craft messaging that resonates and builds trust with them too.
Source: Gina (Gina Minks) Rosenthal

Janel Van Beek

For Humans: I intellectually help organizations and leaders grow and keep great teams, and lead change into the future. My favorite skills and experiences are strategy, program management, product, and organization and leadership effectiveness. My detailed resume is available here: https://www.francievanwirkus.com/resume
For Data Searches: Janel Van Beek (formerly Janel Lanza), SPC 6.0, FLMI, CCTP II, is a business strategist and certified Master Coach, helping people do what seems impossible. She is a digital transformation, OCM, leadership development, and product expert. She is strategy and business consultant. She has financial, health, entrepreneur, retail and services product experience. She has deep experience in strategy, change, instructional design and training as well as in being a turn-around people leader.
Source: Janel Van Beek

Greg Phillips

At IBM, my focus as a Cloud Platform Leader has been on fostering strategic partnerships and driving innovative marketing strategies. With a strong background in corporate marketing and a hands-on approach to customer relationship management, my recent work has centered on extending IBM’s cloud alliances globally.
The team has successfully leveraged my skills in strategic and online marketing to create impactful campaigns, positioning us at the forefront of cloud solutions. Our collaborative efforts have not only filled the sales funnel but also strengthened IBM’s presence in the competitive cloud marketplace.
Source: Greg Phillips

Tamera Rousseau King

A highly skilled Technical Project Manager, Agile Product Owner, and people leader with a proven track record in managing large-scale marketing technology programs and building high-performing teams. Demonstrated ability to build strong cross-functional relationships to align on project scope, prioritize business requirements, and develop effective risk mitigation strategies, ensuring project goals were achieved on time and under budget. Adept at leveraging Agile methodologies to establish operational excellence, driving repeated success, and ensuring program accountability.
Source: Tamera Rousseau King

Ricardo Perez

With a deep-seated passion for pioneering virtualization solutions, my tenure at Dell EMC, Xerox, etc. has been marked by architecting and deploying PowerFlex and VxRail systems. My expertise lies in comprehensive lifecycle management, with a proven track record in steering projects from conception to completion, delivering high-performance and scalable virtual environments.
Source: Ricardo Perez

Mike Berteletti, CISSP

Experienced Information Technology Professional with a broad and deep knowledge of many information technology products and services found in large enterprises to small and medium businesses. Specialties include Converged Infrastructure, Cloud Computing, Information Storage Solutions, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows Infrastructure, Information Systems Security, Enterprise Network Design, Data Protection, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, IT Strategy, IT Leadership, Business Liaison and Career Development.
Source: Mike Berteletti, CISSP

Chris Mojica

Seasoned technical sales professional and technologist with proven pre and post sales engineering experience. Experience includes supporting startups, system integrators, vendors, channel partners/VARs, OEMs and end customers. I am always open to Solutions Architect or Sales/Systems Engineering opportunities.
Source: Chris Mojica

Matthew Leib

After many years as an engineer and presales architect, with specialties in datacenter, cloud, virtualization and most particularly storage, I’ve become noted for my writing and analytical expertise in those categories. My blogging has been ongoing since 2009, and I use those writing and focused IT value propositions to write for a number of analytics firms. I specialize in architectures surrounding Kubernetes, Converged and hyper-converged architectures in storage, cloud, AI, and virtualization, containers focused.
Source: Matthew Leib

Michael Joffe

Dynamic global technology leader and Military veteran. P&L responsibility for business lines ranging from $10M to $150M in annual recurring revenue—direct management of high-performing teams ranging from 10 to 75 professionals across the globe. Exceptional at driving growth with Series C, PE-backed, and large-cap multi-national companies. Extensive experience with technology solution co-creation and GTM execution across the OEM, ISV, and SaaS ecosystems.
Source: Michael Joffe

Colleen Coll

“Allow myself to introduce…myself.” - Austin Powers
Ever feel like you’re juggling flaming torches planning events—trying to keep all the details in the air while something’s always about to catch fire? Yep, I’ve been there. Events have a way of throwing curveballs, and when tech and tools aren’t playing nice, chaos can easily take over.
That’s where I come in. I love turning event madness into magic. Whether it’s on-site event coverage using digital media, live reporting, or behind-the-scenes management, I make sure everything runs like clockwork. I’m also a huge fan of using There.App, which simplifies on-location event management by keeping everyone in sync and streamlining the entire process, so no detail gets lost in the shuffle.
From tech conferences to startup launches, I capture the moments that matter and keep things smooth, whether it’s happening live or behind the scenes. And when I’m not on the ground, I’m writing—blogs, articles, and ghostwriting for tech leaders to tell the bigger story behind the event, brand, or mission.
So, let’s make your next event one to remember, with every detail in place and every moment captured. Reach out! I’m always game for a brainstorm or a quick chat about how to make your event shine (without all the stress).
Source: Colleen Coll

Karl Edwards, PMP

An innovative, strategic and results-oriented technical program manager and network strategist with twenty-two years of experience in the telecommunications and technology industries. I can interact with and contribute to technical discussions with engineers as well as communicate program updates, strategy and roadmap to senior executives. For the last seven years at Cox Communications, I managed the three largest and most strategic programs within the technology portfolio: DOCSIS 3.1 program, Remote PHY program and DOCSIS 4.0 program. I have an inherent bias for action and have successfully operated in an environment where I managed cross-functional and cross-organizational teams without authority every day.
Source: Karl Edwards, PMP

Thomas Chatham

Engineering leader and technologist with over 20 years of experience in the Enterprise technology industry, most recently specializing in engineering and validation for Dell’s enterprise software as a service (SaaS) subscriptions. My expertise lies in management, particularly in leading end-to-end development and integration of various Converged Infrastructure platforms. This includes spearheading formation of a global engineering organization to create next-gen automated converged systems.
Source: Thomas Chatham

Sam Aiello, Ph.D.

Experienced cybersecurity and technology strategist with a proven record of delivering innovative, tailored solutions by collaborating with C-suite executives and cross-functional teams across Sales, Product, Engineering, and Marketing. Adept at driving business growth and client success through strategic insights, technology leadership, and effective pre-sales engagement. A self-driven contributor with expertise in technology strategy, client advocacy, and sales enablement, recognized for enhancing company visibility through impactful presentations and industry event participation. Seeking a dynamic pre-sales role that leverages cross-functional collaboration to create transformative solutions while maintaining a balanced scope of responsibility and work-life integration.
Source: Sam Aiello, Ph.D.

Hot Fudge Daily Digest

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-03-31

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 23!

This week:

Not so spicy returns

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 2025-04-01

(Yes, I’m avoiding things today would be known for.)

Two hot takes on funding on Tuesday.

🤖 + 💰 Learn to code they said… well. Yes, still learn.

https://www.techmeme.com/250401/p43#a250401p43

🤖 + 💰 Robots won’t take jobs… oh wait. Scratch that.

https://www.techmeme.com/250401/p31#a250401p31

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-04-02

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=9shZslfbaS0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSe1izplce0

https://spectrum.ieee.org/electric-eraser

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-04-03

One headline for Thursday Throwback caught my eye.

🤝 + 🍪 If you can’t beat or buy em… try a joint-venture.

2025

https://www.techmeme.com/250403/p27#a250403p27

2024

https://www.techmeme.com/240604/p37#a240604p37

2018

https://www.techmeme.com/181018/p36#a181018p36

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-04-04

The story that caught my eye this week was not the stock market and tariffs… it was silicon photonics.

https://www.techmeme.com/250401/p16#a250401p16

Assume every cloud service provider is simultaneously buying every GPU they can while also accelerating their own custom silicon production. This buys time for what comes next.

What comes next are the innovations in silicon photonics that will fundamentally alter these current assumptions.

Silicon photonics will change existing AI workload architectural designs that would not otherwise be able to satisfy exponential growth in AI workloads in the years to come — silicon photonics is what’s needed next.

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-04-05

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 👀

In that spirit, here are a few stories that you might have missed on the slow news of a Friday.

Insert Let’s See Who This Really Is Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250404/p2#a250404p2

Insert Ceiling Cat Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250404/p9#a250404p9

Insert We’re All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250404/p8#a250404p8

Insert That Wasn’t Me, That Was Patricia Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250404/p26#a250404p26

Insert Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250404/p35#a250404p35

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-04-05

2025-04-06T02:03:08Z

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 👀

In that spirit, here are a few stories that you might have missed on the slow news of a Friday.

Insert Let’s See Who This Really Is Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250404/p2#a250404p2

Insert Ceiling Cat Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250404/p9#a250404p9

Insert We’re All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250404/p8#a250404p8

Insert That Wasn’t Me, That Was Patricia Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250404/p26#a250404p26

Insert Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250404/p35#a250404p35

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-04-04

2025-04-05T03:46:03Z

The story that caught my eye this week was not the stock market and tariffs… it was silicon photonics.

https://www.techmeme.com/250401/p16#a250401p16

Assume every cloud service provider is simultaneously buying every GPU they can while also accelerating their own custom silicon production. This buys time for what comes next.

What comes next are the innovations in silicon photonics that will fundamentally alter these current assumptions.

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-04-03

2025-04-04T03:22:38Z

One headline for Thursday Throwback caught my eye.

🤝 + 🍪 If you can’t beat or buy em… try a joint-venture.

2025

https://www.techmeme.com/250403/p27#a250403p27

2024

https://www.techmeme.com/240604/p37#a240604p37

2018

https://www.techmeme.com/181018/p36#a181018p36

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-04-02

2025-04-03T04:28:40Z

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=9shZslfbaS0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSe1izplce0

https://spectrum.ieee.org/electric-eraser

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-04-01

2025-04-02T02:25:47Z

(Yes, I’m avoiding things today would be known for.)

Two hot takes on funding on Tuesday.

🤖 + 💰 Learn to code they said… well. Yes, still learn.

https://www.techmeme.com/250401/p43#a250401p43

🤖 + 💰 Robots won’t take jobs… oh wait. Scratch that.

https://www.techmeme.com/250401/p31#a250401p31

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-03-31

2025-04-01T13:00:15Z

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 23!

This week:

Not so spicy returns

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

My Fediverse Digest for March 2025

2025-03-31T00:00:00Z

Mar 01

09:58 PM

RIP #18f https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/03/gsa-eliminates-18f/403400/

Source

Mar 02

01:01 PM

#whentaken #369 (02.03.2025)

I scored 639/1000🎗️

1️⃣📍214 km - 🗓️8 yrs - 🥇181/200
2️⃣📍6.8K km - 🗓️4 yrs - 🥉109/200
3️⃣📍2.8K km - 🗓️9 yrs - 🥈129/200
4️⃣📍14.5K km - 🗓️16 yrs - 🥉67/200
5️⃣📍446 km - 🗓️16 yrs - 🥈153/200

https://whentaken.com

Source

Mar 05

08:33 PM

This. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i21cliuoXo

Source

Mar 06

09:55 AM

My schedule for for #sxsw

https://schedule.sxsw.com/favorite/user/985f8ae425a0ca54469639ae92234564491ace14

Source

08:33 PM

Time for Cooper’s 🍖 then badging 🪪 #sxsw2025

Source

Mar 12

07:55 AM

Pilot on flight this morning sounds like Les Claypool

Source

Mar 13

02:54 PM

Hi NYC. Looking good this morning.

Source

Mar 17

01:51 PM

All I’m saying is… movie plots of the past often become present day imbroglio https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087979/

Source

Mar 21

06:03 PM

Years later…. the Four Tet remix of Bicep’s ‘Opal’ still hits right in the feels

#music

Source

Mar 22

12:13 AM

#mastodonadmin note on v4.3.5

None

YMMV

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.3.5

Source

12:13 AM

#mastodonadmin note on v4.3.6

None

YMMV

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.3.6

Source

04:30 PM

I purchased a #plaud NOTE and #limitless pendant.

Next, I captured 15+ hours in real world settings. “AI” results ranged from passable to awful to useless.

For their current generation designs, I cannot recommend either for capturing ambient conference dialog – the technology just isn’t there yet.

I’m returning the Plaud.

I’m keeping the Limitless.

If you already have an iPhone or Android device capable of creating voice memos and performing rudimentary transcription — stick with that.

Source

Mar 25

10:30 AM

Indeed https://flic.kr/p/6zeUVs

Source

🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-03-30

2025-03-30T23:00:00Z

Quick Recaps

My updates on SXSW 2025 and All Things Open AI will be published on NexusTek Insights in the coming weeks. Also, for the balance of 2025, I am changing my workflow again after reviewing reader feedback.

Also, if you missed my webinar last week on the AI POC Spin Cycle, on-demand playback is now available:

https://events.futureb2b.com/on-demand/2516/are-you-stuck-in-the-ai-poc-spin-cycle/

#OpenToWork Weekly

I believe in #NeverSearchAlone. I also continue to participate in a #JSC.

As a reminder, per our reader survey, each week, I’m going to be highlighting those in my network that are #OpenToWork by linking to their LinkedIn and quoting their LinkedIn About section. I strongly encourage my readers to view the LinkedIn profiles of these professionals, connect, and reach out to them.

I’m also pleased to add an Alumni 🎉 section this week for those that have transitioned from #OpenToWork to their next career adventure.

Alumni 🎉

Update: Congrats Shianna Maxwell 🎉

Congrats Richard Arnesen! 🎉

Kelly Britt

Experienced Talent Acquisition Specialist with over 8 years of experience in technical recruitment and team leadership. I excel at building high-performing teams through strategic hiring initiatives and fostering collaborative environments that align with company values. My expertise spans sourcing top technical talent, streamlining hiring processes, and driving organizational growth.
Key strengths:
• Mentoring and developing recruitment teams
• Enhancing onboarding efficiency
• Improving employee engagement and retention
• Designing competitive compensation strategies
• Cultivating strong client and candidate relationships
With a detail-focused approach and the ability to manage multiple priorities in fast-paced environments, I consistently deliver exceptional hiring outcomes. Passionate about talent acquisition, I am committed to driving successful recruitment strategies and fostering a thriving workplace culture.
Source: Kelly Britt

Jarrod Weise

I bring over 15 years of comprehensive experience in strategic partnerships and business development, primarily within the high-paced technology sector. Currently serving as the Director of Partnerships Development at CoreStack, I am at the forefront of devising and implementing strategies that enhance our channel partnerships and advance our digital strategy initiatives. My role is pivotal in cultivating solid and productive relationships with key partners and aligning our business goals with innovative digital solutions.
Source: Jarrod Weise

Dan Kelleher

Accomplished Program Manager | Technical Project Manager | Certified Scrum Master
With 25+ years of proven success leading high-impact initiatives in IT, Healthcare, and Engineering, I bring expertise in managing complex programs, driving cross-functional collaboration, and delivering innovative solutions. Adept at navigating multi-million-dollar budgets, mitigating risks, and ensuring successful outcomes throughout the entire program lifecycle. Known for building strong, lasting relationships with stakeholders, C-suite executives, partners, and teams, I excel at aligning diverse groups to bring large-scale solutions to fruition. My approach combines strategic planning, continuous oversight, and flexibility to meet goals, while maintaining a sharp focus on quality, cost, and performance.
Source: Dan Kelleher

Rich Green

I am an experienced technology and sales professional who has worked in pre-sales, post-sales, and Customer Operations roles over my career. I am a self starter who works well both independently and in a team environment. Some of my professional achievements include helping launch the Iridium Satellite Phone System while at Motorola SATCOM and taking a startup Internet Service Provider (SoftAware) to the next level to be acquired by Digital Island. I have consistently exceeded multimillion dollar annual sales quotas selling into the Enterprise, SMB, and SLED space while at Hughes, EMC, Brocade, Broadcom and Faction. I continue to utilize the multiple skills I have learned throughout my career including solution selling, technical account management, objection handling, project management, and utilizing public/private/hybrid cloud environments to achieve business outcomes. I am also continuing to learn new technologies such as AI/ML and Cyber Security fundamentals. I know that I will be an asset to any organization that I join. I am also willing to relocate for the right opportunity.
In my spare time I work with Special Needs individuals who are non or minimally speaking to help give them their voice using alternative technologies.
Source: Rich Green

Barbara Hadley, EdM, SPHR

Empowering People, Elevating Businesses:
A strategic HR professional with a contagious enthusiasm for empowering employees. Expertise in crafting dynamic work environments that foster high engagement and drive results utilizing a data-driven approach to implement solutions that support both employee satisfaction and organizational success.
Source: Barbara Hadley, EdM, SPHR

Andrew Webber

I’m a passionate leader with a proven track record of building and scaling innovative consumer products. As the Co-founder & CEO of Corsair Distillery, I grew the company from concept to a multi-million dollar operation with a national presence and 400 awards for quality and innovation. I’m adept at identifying unique market opportunities, developing award-winning products, and building high-performing teams.
Source: Andrew Webber

Lida Tohidi

🏆 Recognized as a Top 20 Visionary in Media & Tech by Adello and Top 15 Coach by Influence Digest
🚀 Career Highlights

15+ years of experience in product management, digital marketing, and strategic planning
7+ years advising, consulting, and investing in mission-driven startups and SMBs
Led teams to win the Google Startup Battle (out of 1000+ teams) and other national awards
Advised startups that have collectively raised over $500 million
Launched a successful national incubator

Source: Lida Tohidi

Nathan Clyker

Successful Sales and Business Development Professional with a demonstrated 21 year history of working in the IT industry. Expert skills in Management, Sales, Enterprise Software and Hardware, Partner Management, Storage, Go-to-market Strategy creation/execution, and Sales Operations. Strong sales professional with a BS in International Business from University of Colorado, Denver and an intense focus on customer satisfaction via strong business and interpersonal relationships.
Source: Nathan Clyker

Gina (Gina Minks) Rosenthal

Over 10 years’ experience as a global and fractional product marketing manager for global technology companies (up to 120K employees) as well as and startups.
Over the last 5 years leading Digital Sunshine Solutions, generated over 150 blog posts, 26 case studies, and a range of messaging documents, launch plans, white papers, product datasheets, and solution briefs.
Bootstrapped quarterly cross-company “Think Tanks” to create strong feedback loops between executives, product, marketing, and engineering teams.
Created technical content and improved product positioning using sales and customer feedback. Served as the voice of the customer for enterprise clients exploring SaaS products.
Planned, researched, and developed over twenty podcast episodes covering AI and infrastructure over two years.

The experience on my resume is definitely not traditional! But because there is a string connecting it all, I bring a unique blend of technical expertise and creative marketing strategy to the table. With over a decade of experience working with industry leaders like EMC, Dell, and VMware, I’ve honed an in-depth understanding of the challenges IT executives face—and more importantly, how to solve them. However, since I come from a sysadmin/operator audience, I easily craft messaging that resonates and builds trust with them too.
Source: Gina (Gina Minks) Rosenthal

Janel Van Beek

For Humans: I intellectually help organizations and leaders grow and keep great teams, and lead change into the future. My favorite skills and experiences are strategy, program management, product, and organization and leadership effectiveness. My detailed resume is available here: https://www.francievanwirkus.com/resume
For Data Searches: Janel Van Beek (formerly Janel Lanza), SPC 6.0, FLMI, CCTP II, is a business strategist and certified Master Coach, helping people do what seems impossible. She is a digital transformation, OCM, leadership development, and product expert. She is strategy and business consultant. She has financial, health, entrepreneur, retail and services product experience. She has deep experience in strategy, change, instructional design and training as well as in being a turn-around people leader.
Source: Janel Van Beek

Greg Phillips

At IBM, my focus as a Cloud Platform Leader has been on fostering strategic partnerships and driving innovative marketing strategies. With a strong background in corporate marketing and a hands-on approach to customer relationship management, my recent work has centered on extending IBM’s cloud alliances globally.
The team has successfully leveraged my skills in strategic and online marketing to create impactful campaigns, positioning us at the forefront of cloud solutions. Our collaborative efforts have not only filled the sales funnel but also strengthened IBM’s presence in the competitive cloud marketplace.
Source: Greg Phillips

Sheri Gearhart

Innovative Technology Architect | Solution Designer | Collaborative Leader
Passionate about driving technological innovation and delivering cutting-edge solutions, I thrive on exploring and implementing new technologies to solve complex problems. With a keen eye for evaluating the benefits of emerging tools within solution stacks, I excel in leading proofs of concept and translating technical insights into actionable strategies for stakeholders, maximizing the return on investment through increasing revenue. My strengths lie in developing comprehensive presentations, providing expert training, and fostering collaboration across diverse teams. As a natural leader, I inspire and influence through my technical expertise and vision, without the constraints of formal management roles. My ideal position leverages my skills in architecting solutions, knowledge sharing, and project leadership, while allowing me to focus on the technical aspects of innovation rather than sales-driven engagements.
Source: Sheri Gearhart

Tamera Rousseau King

A highly skilled Technical Project Manager, Agile Product Owner, and people leader with a proven track record in managing large-scale marketing technology programs and building high-performing teams. Demonstrated ability to build strong cross-functional relationships to align on project scope, prioritize business requirements, and develop effective risk mitigation strategies, ensuring project goals were achieved on time and under budget. Adept at leveraging Agile methodologies to establish operational excellence, driving repeated success, and ensuring program accountability.
Source: Tamera Rousseau King

Ricardo Perez

With a deep-seated passion for pioneering virtualization solutions, my tenure at Dell EMC, Xerox, etc. has been marked by architecting and deploying PowerFlex and VxRail systems. My expertise lies in comprehensive lifecycle management, with a proven track record in steering projects from conception to completion, delivering high-performance and scalable virtual environments.
Source: Ricardo Perez

Mike Berteletti, CISSP

Experienced Information Technology Professional with a broad and deep knowledge of many information technology products and services found in large enterprises to small and medium businesses. Specialties include Converged Infrastructure, Cloud Computing, Information Storage Solutions, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows Infrastructure, Information Systems Security, Enterprise Network Design, Data Protection, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, IT Strategy, IT Leadership, Business Liaison and Career Development.
Source: Mike Berteletti, CISSP

Bob Lima, PMP

Experienced Senior Program Manager with 15+ years of successfully managing end-to-end lifecycles of large, cross-functional, and transformational programs. Expertise in delivering complex projects within scope, timeline, and budget while driving process improvements and ensuring strategic alignment with business goals. Adept at utilizing Agile, Waterfall, and Lean Six Sigma methodologies, with a proven ability to manage risks, resolve conflicts, and optimize resource allocation. Skilled communicator, capable of presenting technical concepts to senior leadership and influencing business decisions for maximizing ROI. A leader focused on mentorship, team empowerment, and continuous improvement.
323-513-6011
Source: Bob Lima, PMP

Chris Mojica

Seasoned technical sales professional and technologist with proven pre and post sales engineering experience. Experience includes supporting startups, system integrators, vendors, channel partners/VARs, OEMs and end customers. I am always open to Solutions Architect or Sales/Systems Engineering opportunities.
Source: Chris Mojica

Matthew Leib

After many years as an engineer and presales architect, with specialties in datacenter, cloud, virtualization and most particularly storage, I’ve become noted for my writing and analytical expertise in those categories. My blogging has been ongoing since 2009, and I use those writing and focused IT value propositions to write for a number of analytics firms. I specialize in architectures surrounding Kubernetes, Converged and hyper-converged architectures in storage, cloud, AI, and virtualization, containers focused.
Source: Matthew Leib

Michael Joffe

Dynamic global technology leader and Military veteran. P&L responsibility for business lines ranging from $10M to $150M in annual recurring revenue—direct management of high-performing teams ranging from 10 to 75 professionals across the globe. Exceptional at driving growth with Series C, PE-backed, and large-cap multi-national companies. Extensive experience with technology solution co-creation and GTM execution across the OEM, ISV, and SaaS ecosystems.
Source: Michael Joffe

Colleen Coll

“Allow myself to introduce…myself.” - Austin Powers
Ever feel like you’re juggling flaming torches planning events—trying to keep all the details in the air while something’s always about to catch fire? Yep, I’ve been there. Events have a way of throwing curveballs, and when tech and tools aren’t playing nice, chaos can easily take over.
That’s where I come in. I love turning event madness into magic. Whether it’s on-site event coverage using digital media, live reporting, or behind-the-scenes management, I make sure everything runs like clockwork. I’m also a huge fan of using There.App, which simplifies on-location event management by keeping everyone in sync and streamlining the entire process, so no detail gets lost in the shuffle.
From tech conferences to startup launches, I capture the moments that matter and keep things smooth, whether it’s happening live or behind the scenes. And when I’m not on the ground, I’m writing—blogs, articles, and ghostwriting for tech leaders to tell the bigger story behind the event, brand, or mission.
So, let’s make your next event one to remember, with every detail in place and every moment captured. Reach out! I’m always game for a brainstorm or a quick chat about how to make your event shine (without all the stress).
Source: Colleen Coll

Karl Edwards, PMP

An innovative, strategic and results-oriented technical program manager and network strategist with twenty-two years of experience in the telecommunications and technology industries. I can interact with and contribute to technical discussions with engineers as well as communicate program updates, strategy and roadmap to senior executives. For the last seven years at Cox Communications, I managed the three largest and most strategic programs within the technology portfolio: DOCSIS 3.1 program, Remote PHY program and DOCSIS 4.0 program. I have an inherent bias for action and have successfully operated in an environment where I managed cross-functional and cross-organizational teams without authority every day.
Source: Karl Edwards, PMP

Paul Lysko

Results-oriented Product Management Executive and former Air Force officer with 20+ years of experience across B2B software, retail technology solutions, FP&A, and operations. Skilled in driving business growth through strategic product management, P&L ownership, and customer focus. Repeatedly managed P&Ls of up to $225 million, consistently delivering impactful results. Passionate leader with a track record of hiring and managing teams of 10+.
Source: Paul Lysko

Thomas Chatham

Engineering leader and technologist with over 20 years of experience in the Enterprise technology industry, most recently specializing in engineering and validation for Dell’s enterprise software as a service (SaaS) subscriptions. My expertise lies in management, particularly in leading end-to-end development and integration of various Converged Infrastructure platforms. This includes spearheading formation of a global engineering organization to create next-gen automated converged systems.
Source: Thomas Chatham

Sam Aiello, Ph.D.

Experienced cybersecurity and technology strategist with a proven record of delivering innovative, tailored solutions by collaborating with C-suite executives and cross-functional teams across Sales, Product, Engineering, and Marketing. Adept at driving business growth and client success through strategic insights, technology leadership, and effective pre-sales engagement. A self-driven contributor with expertise in technology strategy, client advocacy, and sales enablement, recognized for enhancing company visibility through impactful presentations and industry event participation. Seeking a dynamic pre-sales role that leverages cross-functional collaboration to create transformative solutions while maintaining a balanced scope of responsibility and work-life integration.
Source: Sam Aiello, Ph.D.

Hot Fudge Daily Digest

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-03-24

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 7!

This week:

Spicy Level 23!

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 2025-03-25

(Yes, I’m avoiding a hot take on the bigger headline.)

Four hot takes on one story that caught my eye on Tuesday.

☁️ + 🗺️ If you can imagine what data sovereignty looks like in 2025, try to imagine a fully balkanized hybrid cloud that is inextricably tied to a landmass by law.

☁️ + 📡 Next, try to imagine a hybrid cloud datacenter 1st tier primary / backup that is 20-40 milliseconds away.

☁️ + 🛰️ Next, try to imagine a hybrid cloud datacenter 2nd tier primary / backup that is 500-700 milliseconds away.

☁️ + 🌕 Now, try to imagine a hybrid cloud datacenter 3rd tier primary / backup that is 2-3 seconds away and tidally locked to Earth.

https://www.techmeme.com/250325/p1#a250325p1

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-03-26

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://tree.fm/

https://laughingsquid.com/library-uses-bats-to-protect-books-from-insects/

https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/distillations-pod/butter-vs-margarine/

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-03-27

One headline for Thursday Throwback caught my eye.

⚛️ + 🔮 It takes time to make the random… more random?

2025…

https://www.techmeme.com/250327/p7#a250327p7

2019…

https://www.techmeme.com/190617/p25#a190617p25

2014…

https://www.techmeme.com/140423/p14#a140423p14

2011…

https://www.techmeme.com/110901/p12#a110901p12

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-03-28

The story that caught my eye this week was how Signal was catapulted into mainstream news… but for all the wrong reasons.

https://www.techmeme.com/250324/p30#a250324p30

So, in the hope of educating those that might not have gotten the gist of why Signal before, here is Meredith Whittaker, President of Signal being awesome on stage at SXSW.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyH7zoP-JOg

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-03-29

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 👀

In that spirit, here are a few stories that you might have missed on the slow news of a Friday.

Insert Let’s See Who This Really Is Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250328/p35#a250328p35

Insert Ceiling Cat Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250328/p30#a250328p30

Insert We’re All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250327/p42#a250327p42

Insert That Wasn’t Me, That Was Patricia Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250328/p33#a250328p33

Insert Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250328/p36#a250328p36

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-03-29

2025-03-29T22:35:49Z

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 👀

In that spirit, here are a few stories that you might have missed on the slow news of a Friday.

Insert Let’s See Who This Really Is Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250328/p35#a250328p35

Insert Ceiling Cat Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250328/p30#a250328p30

Insert We’re All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250327/p42#a250327p42

Insert That Wasn’t Me, That Was Patricia Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250328/p33#a250328p33

Insert Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250328/p36#a250328p36

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-03-28

2025-03-29T02:08:36Z

The story that caught my eye this week was how Signal was catapulted into mainstream news… but for all the wrong reasons.

https://www.techmeme.com/250324/p30#a250324p30

So, in the hope of educating those that might not have gotten the gist of why Signal before, here is Meredith Whittaker, President of Signal being awesome on stage at SXSW.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyH7zoP-JOg

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-03-27

2025-03-28T03:12:13Z

One headline for Thursday Throwback caught my eye.

⚛️ + 🔮 It takes time to make the random… more random?

2025…

https://www.techmeme.com/250327/p7#a250327p7

2019…

https://www.techmeme.com/190617/p25#a190617p25

2014…

https://www.techmeme.com/140423/p14#a140423p14

2011…

https://www.techmeme.com/110901/p12#a110901p12

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-03-26

2025-03-27T04:16:40Z

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://tree.fm/

https://laughingsquid.com/library-uses-bats-to-protect-books-from-insects/

https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/distillations-pod/butter-vs-margarine/

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-03-25

2025-03-26T02:29:47Z

(Yes, I’m avoiding a hot take on the bigger headline.)

Four hot takes on one story that caught my eye on Tuesday.

☁️ + 🗺️ If you can imagine what data sovereignty looks like in 2025, try to imagine a fully balkanized hybrid cloud that is inextricably tied to a landmass by law.

☁️ + 📡 Next, try to imagine a hybrid cloud datacenter 1st tier primary / backup that is 20-40 milliseconds away.

☁️ + 🛰️ Next, try to imagine a hybrid cloud datacenter 2nd tier primary / backup that is 500-700 milliseconds away.

☁️ + 🌕 Now, try to imagine a hybrid cloud datacenter 3rd tier primary / backup that is 2-3 seconds away and tidally locked to Earth.

https://www.techmeme.com/250325/p1#a250325p1

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-03-24

2025-03-25T01:42:39Z

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 7!

This week:

Spicy Level 23!

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 Fudge Sunday for 2025-03-23

2025-03-24T00:30:00Z

Quick Recaps

The past few weeks have been a whirlwind. Expect updates on SXSW 2025 and All Things Open AI to come soon. Along with these updates, I am changing my workflow for the balance of 2025.

Alright, let’s talk about the Plaud and Limitless AI devices that I mentioned last week.

https://www.plaud.ai/?utm_source=hot-fudge-daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=hot-fudge-sunday-for-2025-03-16

https://www.limitless.ai/?utm_source=hot-fudge-daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=hot-fudge-sunday-for-2025-03-16

I’ve been testing them out, and here’s the lowdown. The Limitless AI pendant is definitely the winner in terms of size and portability. It’s small, compact, and the magnetic clasp makes it super easy to wear – I’ve been clipping it to my shirt, even my hat. It connects to my iPhone via Bluetooth for file transfer, which is a bit slow, while the Plaud has built-in Wi-Fi for faster transfers. Both devices struggle with background noise in busy environments, but the Limitless AI pendant’s small size is a definite plus.

Notably, the Plaud does offer more flexibility in terms of AI services. You can create your own prompts and have more control over exporting files. The Plaud uses an ASR format by default, which means you’ll need to take extra steps to export to other formats such as MP3 or settings to also capture RAW WAV. The Plaud also offers transcription in various formats, including SRT for captions and markdown for summaries.

The AI on both platforms can format transcription notes into a blog format. The Limitless pendant can connect to my Google account to try and find relevance or hints around what’s in my calendar. One major drawback for both devices is that they don’t capture both sides of a conversation when I’m using headphones so a “speaker phone” mode is the only useful mode I could determine.

Ultimately, I can’t recommend either device wholeheartedly because of the current audio input limitations. YMMV.

And… I’m heading to AI Infrastructure Field Day 2 Electric Boogaloo!

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jaycuthrell_aiifd2-activity-7309383091121238016-atcv?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAACk1T7oBu6QkP2p3bHgknv3R55ktER0dzqc

#OpenToWork Weekly

I believe in #NeverSearchAlone. I also continue to participate in a #JSC.

I’m also pleased to add an Alumni 🎉 section this week for those that have transitioned from #OpenToWork to their next career adventure.

Alumni 🎉

Update: Congrats Shianna Maxwell 🎉

Congrats Richard Arnesen! 🎉

Kelly Britt

Experienced Talent Acquisition Specialist with over 8 years of experience in technical recruitment and team leadership. I excel at building high-performing teams through strategic hiring initiatives and fostering collaborative environments that align with company values. My expertise spans sourcing top technical talent, streamlining hiring processes, and driving organizational growth.
Key strengths:
• Mentoring and developing recruitment teams
• Enhancing onboarding efficiency
• Improving employee engagement and retention
• Designing competitive compensation strategies
• Cultivating strong client and candidate relationships
With a detail-focused approach and the ability to manage multiple priorities in fast-paced environments, I consistently deliver exceptional hiring outcomes. Passionate about talent acquisition, I am committed to driving successful recruitment strategies and fostering a thriving workplace culture.
Source: Kelly Britt

Jarrod Weise

I bring over 15 years of comprehensive experience in strategic partnerships and business development, primarily within the high-paced technology sector. Currently serving as the Director of Partnerships Development at CoreStack, I am at the forefront of devising and implementing strategies that enhance our channel partnerships and advance our digital strategy initiatives. My role is pivotal in cultivating solid and productive relationships with key partners and aligning our business goals with innovative digital solutions.
Source: Jarrod Weise

Dan Kelleher

Accomplished Program Manager | Technical Project Manager | Certified Scrum Master
With 25+ years of proven success leading high-impact initiatives in IT, Healthcare, and Engineering, I bring expertise in managing complex programs, driving cross-functional collaboration, and delivering innovative solutions. Adept at navigating multi-million-dollar budgets, mitigating risks, and ensuring successful outcomes throughout the entire program lifecycle. Known for building strong, lasting relationships with stakeholders, C-suite executives, partners, and teams, I excel at aligning diverse groups to bring large-scale solutions to fruition. My approach combines strategic planning, continuous oversight, and flexibility to meet goals, while maintaining a sharp focus on quality, cost, and performance.
Source: Dan Kelleher

Rich Green

I am an experienced technology and sales professional who has worked in pre-sales, post-sales, and Customer Operations roles over my career. I am a self starter who works well both independently and in a team environment. Some of my professional achievements include helping launch the Iridium Satellite Phone System while at Motorola SATCOM and taking a startup Internet Service Provider (SoftAware) to the next level to be acquired by Digital Island. I have consistently exceeded multimillion dollar annual sales quotas selling into the Enterprise, SMB, and SLED space while at Hughes, EMC, Brocade, Broadcom and Faction. I continue to utilize the multiple skills I have learned throughout my career including solution selling, technical account management, objection handling, project management, and utilizing public/private/hybrid cloud environments to achieve business outcomes. I am also continuing to learn new technologies such as AI/ML and Cyber Security fundamentals. I know that I will be an asset to any organization that I join. I am also willing to relocate for the right opportunity.
In my spare time I work with Special Needs individuals who are non or minimally speaking to help give them their voice using alternative technologies.
Source: Rich Green

Barbara Hadley, EdM, SPHR

Empowering People, Elevating Businesses:
A strategic HR professional with a contagious enthusiasm for empowering employees. Expertise in crafting dynamic work environments that foster high engagement and drive results utilizing a data-driven approach to implement solutions that support both employee satisfaction and organizational success.
Source: Barbara Hadley, EdM, SPHR

Andrew Webber

I’m a passionate leader with a proven track record of building and scaling innovative consumer products. As the Co-founder & CEO of Corsair Distillery, I grew the company from concept to a multi-million dollar operation with a national presence and 400 awards for quality and innovation. I’m adept at identifying unique market opportunities, developing award-winning products, and building high-performing teams.
Source: Andrew Webber

Lida Tohidi

🏆 Recognized as a Top 20 Visionary in Media & Tech by Adello and Top 15 Coach by Influence Digest
🚀 Career Highlights

15+ years of experience in product management, digital marketing, and strategic planning
7+ years advising, consulting, and investing in mission-driven startups and SMBs
Led teams to win the Google Startup Battle (out of 1000+ teams) and other national awards
Advised startups that have collectively raised over $500 million
Launched a successful national incubator

Source: Lida Tohidi

Nathan Clyker

Successful Sales and Business Development Professional with a demonstrated 21 year history of working in the IT industry. Expert skills in Management, Sales, Enterprise Software and Hardware, Partner Management, Storage, Go-to-market Strategy creation/execution, and Sales Operations. Strong sales professional with a BS in International Business from University of Colorado, Denver and an intense focus on customer satisfaction via strong business and interpersonal relationships.
Source: Nathan Clyker

Gina (Gina Minks) Rosenthal

Over 10 years’ experience as a global and fractional product marketing manager for global technology companies (up to 120K employees) as well as and startups.
Over the last 5 years leading Digital Sunshine Solutions, generated over 150 blog posts, 26 case studies, and a range of messaging documents, launch plans, white papers, product datasheets, and solution briefs.
Bootstrapped quarterly cross-company “Think Tanks” to create strong feedback loops between executives, product, marketing, and engineering teams.
Created technical content and improved product positioning using sales and customer feedback. Served as the voice of the customer for enterprise clients exploring SaaS products.
Planned, researched, and developed over twenty podcast episodes covering AI and infrastructure over two years.

The experience on my resume is definitely not traditional! But because there is a string connecting it all, I bring a unique blend of technical expertise and creative marketing strategy to the table. With over a decade of experience working with industry leaders like EMC, Dell, and VMware, I’ve honed an in-depth understanding of the challenges IT executives face—and more importantly, how to solve them. However, since I come from a sysadmin/operator audience, I easily craft messaging that resonates and builds trust with them too.
Source: Gina (Gina Minks) Rosenthal

Janel Van Beek

For Humans: I intellectually help organizations and leaders grow and keep great teams, and lead change into the future. My favorite skills and experiences are strategy, program management, product, and organization and leadership effectiveness. My detailed resume is available here: https://www.francievanwirkus.com/resume
For Data Searches: Janel Van Beek (formerly Janel Lanza), SPC 6.0, FLMI, CCTP II, is a business strategist and certified Master Coach, helping people do what seems impossible. She is a digital transformation, OCM, leadership development, and product expert. She is strategy and business consultant. She has financial, health, entrepreneur, retail and services product experience. She has deep experience in strategy, change, instructional design and training as well as in being a turn-around people leader.
Source: Janel Van Beek

Greg Phillips

At IBM, my focus as a Cloud Platform Leader has been on fostering strategic partnerships and driving innovative marketing strategies. With a strong background in corporate marketing and a hands-on approach to customer relationship management, my recent work has centered on extending IBM’s cloud alliances globally.
The team has successfully leveraged my skills in strategic and online marketing to create impactful campaigns, positioning us at the forefront of cloud solutions. Our collaborative efforts have not only filled the sales funnel but also strengthened IBM’s presence in the competitive cloud marketplace.
Source: Greg Phillips

Sheri Gearhart

Innovative Technology Architect | Solution Designer | Collaborative Leader
Passionate about driving technological innovation and delivering cutting-edge solutions, I thrive on exploring and implementing new technologies to solve complex problems. With a keen eye for evaluating the benefits of emerging tools within solution stacks, I excel in leading proofs of concept and translating technical insights into actionable strategies for stakeholders, maximizing the return on investment through increasing revenue. My strengths lie in developing comprehensive presentations, providing expert training, and fostering collaboration across diverse teams. As a natural leader, I inspire and influence through my technical expertise and vision, without the constraints of formal management roles. My ideal position leverages my skills in architecting solutions, knowledge sharing, and project leadership, while allowing me to focus on the technical aspects of innovation rather than sales-driven engagements.
Source: Sheri Gearhart

Tamera Rousseau King

A highly skilled Technical Project Manager, Agile Product Owner, and people leader with a proven track record in managing large-scale marketing technology programs and building high-performing teams. Demonstrated ability to build strong cross-functional relationships to align on project scope, prioritize business requirements, and develop effective risk mitigation strategies, ensuring project goals were achieved on time and under budget. Adept at leveraging Agile methodologies to establish operational excellence, driving repeated success, and ensuring program accountability.
Source: Tamera Rousseau King

Ricardo Perez

With a deep-seated passion for pioneering virtualization solutions, my tenure at Dell EMC, Xerox, etc. has been marked by architecting and deploying PowerFlex and VxRail systems. My expertise lies in comprehensive lifecycle management, with a proven track record in steering projects from conception to completion, delivering high-performance and scalable virtual environments.
Source: Ricardo Perez

Mike Berteletti, CISSP

Experienced Information Technology Professional with a broad and deep knowledge of many information technology products and services found in large enterprises to small and medium businesses. Specialties include Converged Infrastructure, Cloud Computing, Information Storage Solutions, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows Infrastructure, Information Systems Security, Enterprise Network Design, Data Protection, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, IT Strategy, IT Leadership, Business Liaison and Career Development.
Source: Mike Berteletti, CISSP

Bob Lima, PMP

Experienced Senior Program Manager with 15+ years of successfully managing end-to-end lifecycles of large, cross-functional, and transformational programs. Expertise in delivering complex projects within scope, timeline, and budget while driving process improvements and ensuring strategic alignment with business goals. Adept at utilizing Agile, Waterfall, and Lean Six Sigma methodologies, with a proven ability to manage risks, resolve conflicts, and optimize resource allocation. Skilled communicator, capable of presenting technical concepts to senior leadership and influencing business decisions for maximizing ROI. A leader focused on mentorship, team empowerment, and continuous improvement.
323-513-6011
Source: Bob Lima, PMP

Chris Mojica

Seasoned technical sales professional and technologist with proven pre and post sales engineering experience. Experience includes supporting startups, system integrators, vendors, channel partners/VARs, OEMs and end customers. I am always open to Solutions Architect or Sales/Systems Engineering opportunities.
Source: Chris Mojica

Matthew Leib

After many years as an engineer and presales architect, with specialties in datacenter, cloud, virtualization and most particularly storage, I’ve become noted for my writing and analytical expertise in those categories. My blogging has been ongoing since 2009, and I use those writing and focused IT value propositions to write for a number of analytics firms. I specialize in architectures surrounding Kubernetes, Converged and hyper-converged architectures in storage, cloud, AI, and virtualization, containers focused.
Source: Matthew Leib

Michael Joffe

Dynamic global technology leader and Military veteran. P&L responsibility for business lines ranging from $10M to $150M in annual recurring revenue—direct management of high-performing teams ranging from 10 to 75 professionals across the globe. Exceptional at driving growth with Series C, PE-backed, and large-cap multi-national companies. Extensive experience with technology solution co-creation and GTM execution across the OEM, ISV, and SaaS ecosystems.
Source: Michael Joffe

Colleen Coll

“Allow myself to introduce…myself.” - Austin Powers
Ever feel like you’re juggling flaming torches planning events—trying to keep all the details in the air while something’s always about to catch fire? Yep, I’ve been there. Events have a way of throwing curveballs, and when tech and tools aren’t playing nice, chaos can easily take over.
That’s where I come in. I love turning event madness into magic. Whether it’s on-site event coverage using digital media, live reporting, or behind-the-scenes management, I make sure everything runs like clockwork. I’m also a huge fan of using There.App, which simplifies on-location event management by keeping everyone in sync and streamlining the entire process, so no detail gets lost in the shuffle.
From tech conferences to startup launches, I capture the moments that matter and keep things smooth, whether it’s happening live or behind the scenes. And when I’m not on the ground, I’m writing—blogs, articles, and ghostwriting for tech leaders to tell the bigger story behind the event, brand, or mission.
So, let’s make your next event one to remember, with every detail in place and every moment captured. Reach out! I’m always game for a brainstorm or a quick chat about how to make your event shine (without all the stress).
Source: Colleen Coll

Karl Edwards, PMP

An innovative, strategic and results-oriented technical program manager and network strategist with twenty-two years of experience in the telecommunications and technology industries. I can interact with and contribute to technical discussions with engineers as well as communicate program updates, strategy and roadmap to senior executives. For the last seven years at Cox Communications, I managed the three largest and most strategic programs within the technology portfolio: DOCSIS 3.1 program, Remote PHY program and DOCSIS 4.0 program. I have an inherent bias for action and have successfully operated in an environment where I managed cross-functional and cross-organizational teams without authority every day.
Source: Karl Edwards, PMP

Paul Lysko

Results-oriented Product Management Executive and former Air Force officer with 20+ years of experience across B2B software, retail technology solutions, FP&A, and operations. Skilled in driving business growth through strategic product management, P&L ownership, and customer focus. Repeatedly managed P&Ls of up to $225 million, consistently delivering impactful results. Passionate leader with a track record of hiring and managing teams of 10+.
Source: Paul Lysko

Thomas Chatham

Engineering leader and technologist with over 20 years of experience in the Enterprise technology industry, most recently specializing in engineering and validation for Dell’s enterprise software as a service (SaaS) subscriptions. My expertise lies in management, particularly in leading end-to-end development and integration of various Converged Infrastructure platforms. This includes spearheading formation of a global engineering organization to create next-gen automated converged systems.
Source: Thomas Chatham

Sam Aiello, Ph.D.

Experienced cybersecurity and technology strategist with a proven record of delivering innovative, tailored solutions by collaborating with C-suite executives and cross-functional teams across Sales, Product, Engineering, and Marketing. Adept at driving business growth and client success through strategic insights, technology leadership, and effective pre-sales engagement. A self-driven contributor with expertise in technology strategy, client advocacy, and sales enablement, recognized for enhancing company visibility through impactful presentations and industry event participation. Seeking a dynamic pre-sales role that leverages cross-functional collaboration to create transformative solutions while maintaining a balanced scope of responsibility and work-life integration.
Source: Sam Aiello, Ph.D.

Hot Fudge Daily Digest

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-03-17

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:

No spicy for you!

This week:

Spicy Level 7!

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 2025-03-18

Two hot takes on one story that caught my eye on Tuesday.

🔐 + 💰 Oh did we say $23B…

https://www.techmeme.com/240714/p5

(A few months later…)

🔐 + 💰 Sorry! We meant $32B!

https://www.techmeme.com/250318/p17#a250318p17

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-03-19

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=WTlgMPQcGqA

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

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9843r0dz3go

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-03-20

One headline for Thursday Throwback caught my eye.

⚛️ + 📉 Question: What happens when one CEO utters a few ill chosen words that wipes away BILLIONS in market cap of OTHER companies?

https://www.techmeme.com/250108/p19#a250108p19

⚛️ + 📈 Answer: ~10 weeks later, that one CEO might say mea culpa and invite those OTHER companies on stage and allow them to retort.

https://www.techmeme.com/250320/p45#a250320p45

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-03-21

The story that caught my eye this week was Apple getting more… Siri-ous about Siri. If you’ve wondered by Siri has such low utility after 15 years, perhaps the next 15 years will be better, or at least a bit different.

https://www.techmeme.com/250320/p31#a250320p31

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-03-22

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 👀

In that spirit, here are a few stories that you might have missed on the slow news of a Friday.

Insert Let’s See Who This Really Is Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250321/p25#a250321p25

Insert Ceiling Cat Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250321/p12#a250321p12

Insert We’re All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250321/p14#a250321p14

Insert That Wasn’t Me, That Was Patricia Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250321/p7#a250321p7

Insert Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250321/p10#a250321p10

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-03-22

2025-03-23T23:28:29Z

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 👀

In that spirit, here are a few stories that you might have missed on the slow news of a Friday.

Insert Let’s See Who This Really Is Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250321/p25#a250321p25

Insert Ceiling Cat Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250321/p12#a250321p12

Insert We’re All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250321/p14#a250321p14

Insert That Wasn’t Me, That Was Patricia Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250321/p7#a250321p7

Insert Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250321/p10#a250321p10

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-03-21

2025-03-23T23:14:04Z

https://www.techmeme.com/250320/p31#a250320p31

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-03-20

2025-03-23T23:03:25Z

One headline for Thursday Throwback caught my eye.

⚛️ + 📉 Question: What happens when one CEO utters a few ill chosen words that wipes away BILLIONS in market cap of OTHER companies?

https://www.techmeme.com/250108/p19#a250108p19

⚛️ + 📈 Answer: ~10 weeks later, that one CEO might say mea culpa and invite those OTHER companies on stage and allow them to retort.

https://www.techmeme.com/250320/p45#a250320p45

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-03-19

2025-03-20T16:57:43Z

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=WTlgMPQcGqA

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

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9843r0dz3go

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-03-18

2025-03-19T02:12:14Z

Two hot takes on one story that caught my eye on Tuesday.

🔐 + 💰 Oh did we say $23B…

https://www.techmeme.com/240714/p5

(A few months later…)

🔐 + 💰 Sorry! We meant $32B!

https://www.techmeme.com/250318/p17#a250318p17

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-03-17

2025-03-18T01:52:13Z

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:

No spicy for you!

This week:

Spicy Level 7!

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 Fudge Sunday for 2025-03-16

2025-03-17T00:00:00Z

Quick Recaps

An update to my SXSW 2025 post is coming soon. Along with the update, I’ll be changing up my workflow for the balance of 2025.

https://fudge.org/archive/my-sxsw-2025-post/

Previously, I’ve experimented with iPhone Voice Memos transcription and Obsidian using built-in iPhone transcription. Next up, I’ll also be experimenting with two new devices and their respective “AI” services.

https://www.limitless.ai

https://www.plaud.ai

My goal is to see how transcription and use of pre-trained models for generating highlights can benefit my workflow. We shall see.

#OpenToWork Weekly

I believe in #NeverSearchAlone. I also continue to participate in a #JSC.

I’m also pleased to add an Alumni 🎉 section this week for those that have transitioned from #OpenToWork to their next career adventure.

Alumni 🎉

Update: Congrats Shianna Maxwell 🎉

Congrats Richard Arnesen! 🎉

Kelly Britt

Experienced Talent Acquisition Specialist with over 8 years of experience in technical recruitment and team leadership. I excel at building high-performing teams through strategic hiring initiatives and fostering collaborative environments that align with company values. My expertise spans sourcing top technical talent, streamlining hiring processes, and driving organizational growth.
Key strengths:
• Mentoring and developing recruitment teams
• Enhancing onboarding efficiency
• Improving employee engagement and retention
• Designing competitive compensation strategies
• Cultivating strong client and candidate relationships
With a detail-focused approach and the ability to manage multiple priorities in fast-paced environments, I consistently deliver exceptional hiring outcomes. Passionate about talent acquisition, I am committed to driving successful recruitment strategies and fostering a thriving workplace culture.
Source: Kelly Britt

Jarrod Weise

I bring over 15 years of comprehensive experience in strategic partnerships and business development, primarily within the high-paced technology sector. Currently serving as the Director of Partnerships Development at CoreStack, I am at the forefront of devising and implementing strategies that enhance our channel partnerships and advance our digital strategy initiatives. My role is pivotal in cultivating solid and productive relationships with key partners and aligning our business goals with innovative digital solutions.
Source: Jarrod Weise

Dan Kelleher

Accomplished Program Manager | Technical Project Manager | Certified Scrum Master
With 25+ years of proven success leading high-impact initiatives in IT, Healthcare, and Engineering, I bring expertise in managing complex programs, driving cross-functional collaboration, and delivering innovative solutions. Adept at navigating multi-million-dollar budgets, mitigating risks, and ensuring successful outcomes throughout the entire program lifecycle. Known for building strong, lasting relationships with stakeholders, C-suite executives, partners, and teams, I excel at aligning diverse groups to bring large-scale solutions to fruition. My approach combines strategic planning, continuous oversight, and flexibility to meet goals, while maintaining a sharp focus on quality, cost, and performance.
Source: Dan Kelleher

Rich Green

I am an experienced technology and sales professional who has worked in pre-sales, post-sales, and Customer Operations roles over my career. I am a self starter who works well both independently and in a team environment. Some of my professional achievements include helping launch the Iridium Satellite Phone System while at Motorola SATCOM and taking a startup Internet Service Provider (SoftAware) to the next level to be acquired by Digital Island. I have consistently exceeded multimillion dollar annual sales quotas selling into the Enterprise, SMB, and SLED space while at Hughes, EMC, Brocade, Broadcom and Faction. I continue to utilize the multiple skills I have learned throughout my career including solution selling, technical account management, objection handling, project management, and utilizing public/private/hybrid cloud environments to achieve business outcomes. I am also continuing to learn new technologies such as AI/ML and Cyber Security fundamentals. I know that I will be an asset to any organization that I join. I am also willing to relocate for the right opportunity.
In my spare time I work with Special Needs individuals who are non or minimally speaking to help give them their voice using alternative technologies.
Source: Rich Green

Barbara Hadley, EdM, SPHR

Empowering People, Elevating Businesses:
A strategic HR professional with a contagious enthusiasm for empowering employees. Expertise in crafting dynamic work environments that foster high engagement and drive results utilizing a data-driven approach to implement solutions that support both employee satisfaction and organizational success.
Source: Barbara Hadley, EdM, SPHR

Andrew Webber

I’m a passionate leader with a proven track record of building and scaling innovative consumer products. As the Co-founder & CEO of Corsair Distillery, I grew the company from concept to a multi-million dollar operation with a national presence and 400 awards for quality and innovation. I’m adept at identifying unique market opportunities, developing award-winning products, and building high-performing teams.
Source: Andrew Webber

Lida Tohidi

🏆 Recognized as a Top 20 Visionary in Media & Tech by Adello and Top 15 Coach by Influence Digest
🚀 Career Highlights

15+ years of experience in product management, digital marketing, and strategic planning
7+ years advising, consulting, and investing in mission-driven startups and SMBs
Led teams to win the Google Startup Battle (out of 1000+ teams) and other national awards
Advised startups that have collectively raised over $500 million
Launched a successful national incubator

Source: Lida Tohidi

Nathan Clyker

Successful Sales and Business Development Professional with a demonstrated 21 year history of working in the IT industry. Expert skills in Management, Sales, Enterprise Software and Hardware, Partner Management, Storage, Go-to-market Strategy creation/execution, and Sales Operations. Strong sales professional with a BS in International Business from University of Colorado, Denver and an intense focus on customer satisfaction via strong business and interpersonal relationships.
Source: Nathan Clyker

Gina (Gina Minks) Rosenthal

Over 10 years’ experience as a global and fractional product marketing manager for global technology companies (up to 120K employees) as well as and startups.
Over the last 5 years leading Digital Sunshine Solutions, generated over 150 blog posts, 26 case studies, and a range of messaging documents, launch plans, white papers, product datasheets, and solution briefs.
Bootstrapped quarterly cross-company “Think Tanks” to create strong feedback loops between executives, product, marketing, and engineering teams.
Created technical content and improved product positioning using sales and customer feedback. Served as the voice of the customer for enterprise clients exploring SaaS products.
Planned, researched, and developed over twenty podcast episodes covering AI and infrastructure over two years.

The experience on my resume is definitely not traditional! But because there is a string connecting it all, I bring a unique blend of technical expertise and creative marketing strategy to the table. With over a decade of experience working with industry leaders like EMC, Dell, and VMware, I’ve honed an in-depth understanding of the challenges IT executives face—and more importantly, how to solve them. However, since I come from a sysadmin/operator audience, I easily craft messaging that resonates and builds trust with them too.
Source: Gina (Gina Minks) Rosenthal

Janel Van Beek

For Humans: I intellectually help organizations and leaders grow and keep great teams, and lead change into the future. My favorite skills and experiences are strategy, program management, product, and organization and leadership effectiveness. My detailed resume is available here: https://www.francievanwirkus.com/resume
For Data Searches: Janel Van Beek (formerly Janel Lanza), SPC 6.0, FLMI, CCTP II, is a business strategist and certified Master Coach, helping people do what seems impossible. She is a digital transformation, OCM, leadership development, and product expert. She is strategy and business consultant. She has financial, health, entrepreneur, retail and services product experience. She has deep experience in strategy, change, instructional design and training as well as in being a turn-around people leader.
Source: Janel Van Beek

Greg Phillips

At IBM, my focus as a Cloud Platform Leader has been on fostering strategic partnerships and driving innovative marketing strategies. With a strong background in corporate marketing and a hands-on approach to customer relationship management, my recent work has centered on extending IBM’s cloud alliances globally.
The team has successfully leveraged my skills in strategic and online marketing to create impactful campaigns, positioning us at the forefront of cloud solutions. Our collaborative efforts have not only filled the sales funnel but also strengthened IBM’s presence in the competitive cloud marketplace.
Source: Greg Phillips

Sheri Gearhart

Innovative Technology Architect | Solution Designer | Collaborative Leader
Passionate about driving technological innovation and delivering cutting-edge solutions, I thrive on exploring and implementing new technologies to solve complex problems. With a keen eye for evaluating the benefits of emerging tools within solution stacks, I excel in leading proofs of concept and translating technical insights into actionable strategies for stakeholders, maximizing the return on investment through increasing revenue. My strengths lie in developing comprehensive presentations, providing expert training, and fostering collaboration across diverse teams. As a natural leader, I inspire and influence through my technical expertise and vision, without the constraints of formal management roles. My ideal position leverages my skills in architecting solutions, knowledge sharing, and project leadership, while allowing me to focus on the technical aspects of innovation rather than sales-driven engagements.
Source: Sheri Gearhart

Tamera Rousseau King

A highly skilled Technical Project Manager, Agile Product Owner, and people leader with a proven track record in managing large-scale marketing technology programs and building high-performing teams. Demonstrated ability to build strong cross-functional relationships to align on project scope, prioritize business requirements, and develop effective risk mitigation strategies, ensuring project goals were achieved on time and under budget. Adept at leveraging Agile methodologies to establish operational excellence, driving repeated success, and ensuring program accountability.
Source: Tamera Rousseau King

Ricardo Perez

With a deep-seated passion for pioneering virtualization solutions, my tenure at Dell EMC, Xerox, etc. has been marked by architecting and deploying PowerFlex and VxRail systems. My expertise lies in comprehensive lifecycle management, with a proven track record in steering projects from conception to completion, delivering high-performance and scalable virtual environments.
Source: Ricardo Perez

Mike Berteletti, CISSP

Experienced Information Technology Professional with a broad and deep knowledge of many information technology products and services found in large enterprises to small and medium businesses. Specialties include Converged Infrastructure, Cloud Computing, Information Storage Solutions, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows Infrastructure, Information Systems Security, Enterprise Network Design, Data Protection, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, IT Strategy, IT Leadership, Business Liaison and Career Development.
Source: Mike Berteletti, CISSP

Bob Lima, PMP

Experienced Senior Program Manager with 15+ years of successfully managing end-to-end lifecycles of large, cross-functional, and transformational programs. Expertise in delivering complex projects within scope, timeline, and budget while driving process improvements and ensuring strategic alignment with business goals. Adept at utilizing Agile, Waterfall, and Lean Six Sigma methodologies, with a proven ability to manage risks, resolve conflicts, and optimize resource allocation. Skilled communicator, capable of presenting technical concepts to senior leadership and influencing business decisions for maximizing ROI. A leader focused on mentorship, team empowerment, and continuous improvement.
323-513-6011
Source: Bob Lima, PMP

Chris Mojica

Seasoned technical sales professional and technologist with proven pre and post sales engineering experience. Experience includes supporting startups, system integrators, vendors, channel partners/VARs, OEMs and end customers. I am always open to Solutions Architect or Sales/Systems Engineering opportunities.
Source: Chris Mojica

Matthew Leib

After many years as an engineer and presales architect, with specialties in datacenter, cloud, virtualization and most particularly storage, I’ve become noted for my writing and analytical expertise in those categories. My blogging has been ongoing since 2009, and I use those writing and focused IT value propositions to write for a number of analytics firms. I specialize in architectures surrounding Kubernetes, Converged and hyper-converged architectures in storage, cloud, AI, and virtualization, containers focused.
Source: Matthew Leib

Michael Joffe

Dynamic global technology leader and Military veteran. P&L responsibility for business lines ranging from $10M to $150M in annual recurring revenue—direct management of high-performing teams ranging from 10 to 75 professionals across the globe. Exceptional at driving growth with Series C, PE-backed, and large-cap multi-national companies. Extensive experience with technology solution co-creation and GTM execution across the OEM, ISV, and SaaS ecosystems.
Source: Michael Joffe

Colleen Coll

“Allow myself to introduce…myself.” - Austin Powers
Ever feel like you’re juggling flaming torches planning events—trying to keep all the details in the air while something’s always about to catch fire? Yep, I’ve been there. Events have a way of throwing curveballs, and when tech and tools aren’t playing nice, chaos can easily take over.
That’s where I come in. I love turning event madness into magic. Whether it’s on-site event coverage using digital media, live reporting, or behind-the-scenes management, I make sure everything runs like clockwork. I’m also a huge fan of using There.App, which simplifies on-location event management by keeping everyone in sync and streamlining the entire process, so no detail gets lost in the shuffle.
From tech conferences to startup launches, I capture the moments that matter and keep things smooth, whether it’s happening live or behind the scenes. And when I’m not on the ground, I’m writing—blogs, articles, and ghostwriting for tech leaders to tell the bigger story behind the event, brand, or mission.
So, let’s make your next event one to remember, with every detail in place and every moment captured. Reach out! I’m always game for a brainstorm or a quick chat about how to make your event shine (without all the stress).
Source: Colleen Coll

Karl Edwards, PMP

An innovative, strategic and results-oriented technical program manager and network strategist with twenty-two years of experience in the telecommunications and technology industries. I can interact with and contribute to technical discussions with engineers as well as communicate program updates, strategy and roadmap to senior executives. For the last seven years at Cox Communications, I managed the three largest and most strategic programs within the technology portfolio: DOCSIS 3.1 program, Remote PHY program and DOCSIS 4.0 program. I have an inherent bias for action and have successfully operated in an environment where I managed cross-functional and cross-organizational teams without authority every day.
Source: Karl Edwards, PMP

Paul Lysko

Results-oriented Product Management Executive and former Air Force officer with 20+ years of experience across B2B software, retail technology solutions, FP&A, and operations. Skilled in driving business growth through strategic product management, P&L ownership, and customer focus. Repeatedly managed P&Ls of up to $225 million, consistently delivering impactful results. Passionate leader with a track record of hiring and managing teams of 10+.
Source: Paul Lysko

Thomas Chatham

Engineering leader and technologist with over 20 years of experience in the Enterprise technology industry, most recently specializing in engineering and validation for Dell’s enterprise software as a service (SaaS) subscriptions. My expertise lies in management, particularly in leading end-to-end development and integration of various Converged Infrastructure platforms. This includes spearheading formation of a global engineering organization to create next-gen automated converged systems.
Source: Thomas Chatham

Sam Aiello, Ph.D.

Experienced cybersecurity and technology strategist with a proven record of delivering innovative, tailored solutions by collaborating with C-suite executives and cross-functional teams across Sales, Product, Engineering, and Marketing. Adept at driving business growth and client success through strategic insights, technology leadership, and effective pre-sales engagement. A self-driven contributor with expertise in technology strategy, client advocacy, and sales enablement, recognized for enhancing company visibility through impactful presentations and industry event participation. Seeking a dynamic pre-sales role that leverages cross-functional collaboration to create transformative solutions while maintaining a balanced scope of responsibility and work-life integration.
Source: Sam Aiello, Ph.D.

Hot Fudge Daily Digest

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-03-10

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 2.

This week:

No spicy for you!

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 2025-03-11

Two hot takes on two stories that caught my eye on Tuesday.

🌈 + 💰 Photonics chiplets promising 14.4Tbps are fascinating as is a $2.5B valuation.

https://www.techmeme.com/250311/p13#a250311p13

🔐 + 💰 Trusted “Tupperware” software solutions command a $3.5B valuation.

https://www.techmeme.com/250311/p7#a250311p7

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-03-12

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.today.com/food/trends/cheetozard-pokemon-shaped-cheeto-sells-at-auction-rcna194921

https://thesmallermajority.com/2016/02/01/lungless-and-happy-about-it/

https://www.creativeboom.com/insight/getting-lost-in-a-world-of-search-and-find-illustration/

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-03-13

One headline for Thursday Throwback caught my eye.

🐟 + 🤖 If you ever imagined putting something in your ear that would translate languages for you… well, here we are.

https://www.techmeme.com/250313/p43#a250313p43

Part of me wonders if Apple will (one day) perfect an organoid intelligence that permits a near permanent insertion of such a novel device.

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-03-14

The story that caught my eye this week was Rich Communication Service (RCS) interoperability End-to-end encryption (E2EE) using Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol.

https://www.techmeme.com/250314/p6#a250314p6

Here’s to making the world of blue and green chat bubbles more secure in flight over the network.

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-03-15

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 👀

In that spirit, here are a few stories that you might have missed on the slow news of a Friday.

Insert Let’s See Who This Really Is Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250314/p8#a250314p8

Insert Ceiling Cat Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250314/p13#a250314p13

Insert We’re All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250314/p7#a250314p7

Insert That Wasn’t Me, That Was Patricia Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250314/p18#a250314p18

Insert Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250314/p1#a250314p1

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-03-15

2025-03-16T03:14:36Z

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 👀

In that spirit, here are a few stories that you might have missed on the slow news of a Friday.

Insert Let’s See Who This Really Is Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250314/p8#a250314p8

Insert Ceiling Cat Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250314/p13#a250314p13

Insert We’re All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250314/p7#a250314p7

Insert That Wasn’t Me, That Was Patricia Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250314/p18#a250314p18

Insert Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250314/p1#a250314p1

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-03-14

2025-03-15T02:28:36Z

The story that caught my eye this week was Rich Communication Service (RCS) interoperability End-to-end encryption (E2EE) using Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol.

https://www.techmeme.com/250314/p6#a250314p6

Here’s to making the world of blue and green chat bubbles more secure in flight over the network.

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-03-13

2025-03-13T23:25:26Z

One headline for Thursday Throwback caught my eye.

🐟 + 🤖 If you ever imagined putting something in your ear that would translate languages for you… well, here we are.

https://www.techmeme.com/250313/p43#a250313p43

Part of me wonders if Apple will (one day) perfect an organoid intelligence that permits a near permanent insertion of such a novel device.

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-03-12

2025-03-13T00:58:41Z

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.today.com/food/trends/cheetozard-pokemon-shaped-cheeto-sells-at-auction-rcna194921

https://thesmallermajority.com/2016/02/01/lungless-and-happy-about-it/

https://www.creativeboom.com/insight/getting-lost-in-a-world-of-search-and-find-illustration/

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-03-11

2025-03-12T03:19:15Z

Two hot takes on two stories that caught my eye on Tuesday.

🌈 + 💰 Photonics chiplets promising 14.4Tbps are fascinating as is a $2.5B valuation.

https://www.techmeme.com/250311/p13#a250311p13

🔐 + 💰 Trusted “Tupperware” software solutions command a $3.5B valuation.

https://www.techmeme.com/250311/p7#a250311p7

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-03-10

2025-03-11T01:56:06Z

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 2.

This week:

No spicy for you!

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 Fudge Sunday for 2025-03-09

2025-03-09T17:30:00Z

Quick Recaps

📺🔁🤖🧠🔮🔜 If you missed our NexusTek #AgenticAI webinar, check out the replay of Chris Marks of Pax8 and me being interviewed by Jessica Steinbach of ActualTech

https://events.actualtechmedia.com/on-demand/2279/agentic-ai-is-not-the-future-its-now/

#OpenToWork Weekly

I believe in #NeverSearchAlone. I also continue to participate in a #JSC.

I’m also pleased to add an Alumni 🎉 section this week for those that have transitioned from #OpenToWork to their next career adventure.

Alumni 🎉

Update: Congrats Shianna Maxwell 🎉🎉🎉🎉

Congrats Richard Arnesen! 🎉

Kelly Britt

Experienced Talent Acquisition Specialist with over 8 years of experience in technical recruitment and team leadership. I excel at building high-performing teams through strategic hiring initiatives and fostering collaborative environments that align with company values. My expertise spans sourcing top technical talent, streamlining hiring processes, and driving organizational growth.
Key strengths:
• Mentoring and developing recruitment teams
• Enhancing onboarding efficiency
• Improving employee engagement and retention
• Designing competitive compensation strategies
• Cultivating strong client and candidate relationships
With a detail-focused approach and the ability to manage multiple priorities in fast-paced environments, I consistently deliver exceptional hiring outcomes. Passionate about talent acquisition, I am committed to driving successful recruitment strategies and fostering a thriving workplace culture.
Source: Kelly Britt

Jarrod Weise

I bring over 15 years of comprehensive experience in strategic partnerships and business development, primarily within the high-paced technology sector. Currently serving as the Director of Partnerships Development at CoreStack, I am at the forefront of devising and implementing strategies that enhance our channel partnerships and advance our digital strategy initiatives. My role is pivotal in cultivating solid and productive relationships with key partners and aligning our business goals with innovative digital solutions.
Source: Jarrod Weise

Dan Kelleher

Accomplished Program Manager | Technical Project Manager | Certified Scrum Master
With 25+ years of proven success leading high-impact initiatives in IT, Healthcare, and Engineering, I bring expertise in managing complex programs, driving cross-functional collaboration, and delivering innovative solutions. Adept at navigating multi-million-dollar budgets, mitigating risks, and ensuring successful outcomes throughout the entire program lifecycle. Known for building strong, lasting relationships with stakeholders, C-suite executives, partners, and teams, I excel at aligning diverse groups to bring large-scale solutions to fruition. My approach combines strategic planning, continuous oversight, and flexibility to meet goals, while maintaining a sharp focus on quality, cost, and performance.
Source: Dan Kelleher

Rich Green

I am an experienced technology and sales professional who has worked in pre-sales, post-sales, and Customer Operations roles over my career. I am a self starter who works well both independently and in a team environment. Some of my professional achievements include helping launch the Iridium Satellite Phone System while at Motorola SATCOM and taking a startup Internet Service Provider (SoftAware) to the next level to be acquired by Digital Island. I have consistently exceeded multimillion dollar annual sales quotas selling into the Enterprise, SMB, and SLED space while at Hughes, EMC, Brocade, Broadcom and Faction. I continue to utilize the multiple skills I have learned throughout my career including solution selling, technical account management, objection handling, project management, and utilizing public/private/hybrid cloud environments to achieve business outcomes. I am also continuing to learn new technologies such as AI/ML and Cyber Security fundamentals. I know that I will be an asset to any organization that I join. I am also willing to relocate for the right opportunity.
In my spare time I work with Special Needs individuals who are non or minimally speaking to help give them their voice using alternative technologies.
Source: Rich Green

Barbara Hadley, EdM, SPHR

Empowering People, Elevating Businesses:
A strategic HR professional with a contagious enthusiasm for empowering employees. Expertise in crafting dynamic work environments that foster high engagement and drive results utilizing a data-driven approach to implement solutions that support both employee satisfaction and organizational success.
Source: Barbara Hadley, EdM, SPHR

Andrew Webber

I’m a passionate leader with a proven track record of building and scaling innovative consumer products. As the Co-founder & CEO of Corsair Distillery, I grew the company from concept to a multi-million dollar operation with a national presence and 400 awards for quality and innovation. I’m adept at identifying unique market opportunities, developing award-winning products, and building high-performing teams.
Source: Andrew Webber

Lida Tohidi

🏆 Recognized as a Top 20 Visionary in Media & Tech by Adello and Top 15 Coach by Influence Digest
🚀 Career Highlights

15+ years of experience in product management, digital marketing, and strategic planning
7+ years advising, consulting, and investing in mission-driven startups and SMBs
Led teams to win the Google Startup Battle (out of 1000+ teams) and other national awards
Advised startups that have collectively raised over $500 million
Launched a successful national incubator

Source: Lida Tohidi

Nathan Clyker

Successful Sales and Business Development Professional with a demonstrated 21 year history of working in the IT industry. Expert skills in Management, Sales, Enterprise Software and Hardware, Partner Management, Storage, Go-to-market Strategy creation/execution, and Sales Operations. Strong sales professional with a BS in International Business from University of Colorado, Denver and an intense focus on customer satisfaction via strong business and interpersonal relationships.
Source: Nathan Clyker

Gina (Gina Minks) Rosenthal

Over 10 years’ experience as a global and fractional product marketing manager for global technology companies (up to 120K employees) as well as and startups.
Over the last 5 years leading Digital Sunshine Solutions, generated over 150 blog posts, 26 case studies, and a range of messaging documents, launch plans, white papers, product datasheets, and solution briefs.
Bootstrapped quarterly cross-company “Think Tanks” to create strong feedback loops between executives, product, marketing, and engineering teams.
Created technical content and improved product positioning using sales and customer feedback. Served as the voice of the customer for enterprise clients exploring SaaS products.
Planned, researched, and developed over twenty podcast episodes covering AI and infrastructure over two years.

The experience on my resume is definitely not traditional! But because there is a string connecting it all, I bring a unique blend of technical expertise and creative marketing strategy to the table. With over a decade of experience working with industry leaders like EMC, Dell, and VMware, I’ve honed an in-depth understanding of the challenges IT executives face—and more importantly, how to solve them. However, since I come from a sysadmin/operator audience, I easily craft messaging that resonates and builds trust with them too.
Source: Gina (Gina Minks) Rosenthal

Janel Van Beek

For Humans: I intellectually help organizations and leaders grow and keep great teams, and lead change into the future. My favorite skills and experiences are strategy, program management, product, and organization and leadership effectiveness. My detailed resume is available here: https://www.francievanwirkus.com/resume
For Data Searches: Janel Van Beek (formerly Janel Lanza), SPC 6.0, FLMI, CCTP II, is a business strategist and certified Master Coach, helping people do what seems impossible. She is a digital transformation, OCM, leadership development, and product expert. She is strategy and business consultant. She has financial, health, entrepreneur, retail and services product experience. She has deep experience in strategy, change, instructional design and training as well as in being a turn-around people leader.
Source: Janel Van Beek

Greg Phillips

At IBM, my focus as a Cloud Platform Leader has been on fostering strategic partnerships and driving innovative marketing strategies. With a strong background in corporate marketing and a hands-on approach to customer relationship management, my recent work has centered on extending IBM’s cloud alliances globally.
The team has successfully leveraged my skills in strategic and online marketing to create impactful campaigns, positioning us at the forefront of cloud solutions. Our collaborative efforts have not only filled the sales funnel but also strengthened IBM’s presence in the competitive cloud marketplace.
Source: Greg Phillips

Sheri Gearhart

Innovative Technology Architect | Solution Designer | Collaborative Leader
Passionate about driving technological innovation and delivering cutting-edge solutions, I thrive on exploring and implementing new technologies to solve complex problems. With a keen eye for evaluating the benefits of emerging tools within solution stacks, I excel in leading proofs of concept and translating technical insights into actionable strategies for stakeholders, maximizing the return on investment through increasing revenue. My strengths lie in developing comprehensive presentations, providing expert training, and fostering collaboration across diverse teams. As a natural leader, I inspire and influence through my technical expertise and vision, without the constraints of formal management roles. My ideal position leverages my skills in architecting solutions, knowledge sharing, and project leadership, while allowing me to focus on the technical aspects of innovation rather than sales-driven engagements.
Source: Sheri Gearhart

Tamera Rousseau King

A highly skilled Technical Project Manager, Agile Product Owner, and people leader with a proven track record in managing large-scale marketing technology programs and building high-performing teams. Demonstrated ability to build strong cross-functional relationships to align on project scope, prioritize business requirements, and develop effective risk mitigation strategies, ensuring project goals were achieved on time and under budget. Adept at leveraging Agile methodologies to establish operational excellence, driving repeated success, and ensuring program accountability.
Source: Tamera Rousseau King

Ricardo Perez

With a deep-seated passion for pioneering virtualization solutions, my tenure at Dell EMC, Xerox, etc. has been marked by architecting and deploying PowerFlex and VxRail systems. My expertise lies in comprehensive lifecycle management, with a proven track record in steering projects from conception to completion, delivering high-performance and scalable virtual environments.
Source: Ricardo Perez

Mike Berteletti, CISSP

Experienced Information Technology Professional with a broad and deep knowledge of many information technology products and services found in large enterprises to small and medium businesses. Specialties include Converged Infrastructure, Cloud Computing, Information Storage Solutions, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows Infrastructure, Information Systems Security, Enterprise Network Design, Data Protection, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, IT Strategy, IT Leadership, Business Liaison and Career Development.
Source: Mike Berteletti, CISSP

Bob Lima, PMP

Experienced Senior Program Manager with 15+ years of successfully managing end-to-end lifecycles of large, cross-functional, and transformational programs. Expertise in delivering complex projects within scope, timeline, and budget while driving process improvements and ensuring strategic alignment with business goals. Adept at utilizing Agile, Waterfall, and Lean Six Sigma methodologies, with a proven ability to manage risks, resolve conflicts, and optimize resource allocation. Skilled communicator, capable of presenting technical concepts to senior leadership and influencing business decisions for maximizing ROI. A leader focused on mentorship, team empowerment, and continuous improvement.
323-513-6011
Source: Bob Lima, PMP

Chris Mojica

Seasoned technical sales professional and technologist with proven pre and post sales engineering experience. Experience includes supporting startups, system integrators, vendors, channel partners/VARs, OEMs and end customers. I am always open to Solutions Architect or Sales/Systems Engineering opportunities.
Source: Chris Mojica

Matthew Leib

After many years as an engineer and presales architect, with specialties in datacenter, cloud, virtualization and most particularly storage, I’ve become noted for my writing and analytical expertise in those categories. My blogging has been ongoing since 2009, and I use those writing and focused IT value propositions to write for a number of analytics firms. I specialize in architectures surrounding Kubernetes, Converged and hyper-converged architectures in storage, cloud, AI, and virtualization, containers focused.
Source: Matthew Leib

Michael Joffe

Dynamic global technology leader and Military veteran. P&L responsibility for business lines ranging from $10M to $150M in annual recurring revenue—direct management of high-performing teams ranging from 10 to 75 professionals across the globe. Exceptional at driving growth with Series C, PE-backed, and large-cap multi-national companies. Extensive experience with technology solution co-creation and GTM execution across the OEM, ISV, and SaaS ecosystems.
Source: Michael Joffe

Colleen Coll

“Allow myself to introduce…myself.” - Austin Powers
Ever feel like you’re juggling flaming torches planning events—trying to keep all the details in the air while something’s always about to catch fire? Yep, I’ve been there. Events have a way of throwing curveballs, and when tech and tools aren’t playing nice, chaos can easily take over.
That’s where I come in. I love turning event madness into magic. Whether it’s on-site event coverage using digital media, live reporting, or behind-the-scenes management, I make sure everything runs like clockwork. I’m also a huge fan of using There.App, which simplifies on-location event management by keeping everyone in sync and streamlining the entire process, so no detail gets lost in the shuffle.
From tech conferences to startup launches, I capture the moments that matter and keep things smooth, whether it’s happening live or behind the scenes. And when I’m not on the ground, I’m writing—blogs, articles, and ghostwriting for tech leaders to tell the bigger story behind the event, brand, or mission.
So, let’s make your next event one to remember, with every detail in place and every moment captured. Reach out! I’m always game for a brainstorm or a quick chat about how to make your event shine (without all the stress).
Source: Colleen Coll

Karl Edwards, PMP

An innovative, strategic and results-oriented technical program manager and network strategist with twenty-two years of experience in the telecommunications and technology industries. I can interact with and contribute to technical discussions with engineers as well as communicate program updates, strategy and roadmap to senior executives. For the last seven years at Cox Communications, I managed the three largest and most strategic programs within the technology portfolio: DOCSIS 3.1 program, Remote PHY program and DOCSIS 4.0 program. I have an inherent bias for action and have successfully operated in an environment where I managed cross-functional and cross-organizational teams without authority every day.
Source: Karl Edwards, PMP

Paul Lysko

Results-oriented Product Management Executive and former Air Force officer with 20+ years of experience across B2B software, retail technology solutions, FP&A, and operations. Skilled in driving business growth through strategic product management, P&L ownership, and customer focus. Repeatedly managed P&Ls of up to $225 million, consistently delivering impactful results. Passionate leader with a track record of hiring and managing teams of 10+.
Source: Paul Lysko

Thomas Chatham

Engineering leader and technologist with over 20 years of experience in the Enterprise technology industry, most recently specializing in engineering and validation for Dell’s enterprise software as a service (SaaS) subscriptions. My expertise lies in management, particularly in leading end-to-end development and integration of various Converged Infrastructure platforms. This includes spearheading formation of a global engineering organization to create next-gen automated converged systems.
Source: Thomas Chatham

Sam Aiello, Ph.D.

Experienced cybersecurity and technology strategist with a proven record of delivering innovative, tailored solutions by collaborating with C-suite executives and cross-functional teams across Sales, Product, Engineering, and Marketing. Adept at driving business growth and client success through strategic insights, technology leadership, and effective pre-sales engagement. A self-driven contributor with expertise in technology strategy, client advocacy, and sales enablement, recognized for enhancing company visibility through impactful presentations and industry event participation. Seeking a dynamic pre-sales role that leverages cross-functional collaboration to create transformative solutions while maintaining a balanced scope of responsibility and work-life integration.
Source: Sam Aiello, Ph.D.

Hot Fudge Daily Digest

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-03-03

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:

Not So Spicy Level 1?

This week:

Spicy Level 2.

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 2025-03-04

Two hot takes on two stories that caught my eye on Tuesday.

🤖 + 💰 I expect to see more vertical M&A combinations in 2025 that create defensive moats and offensive bundles as the next mega rounds of investments are weighed against deploying capital for increasingly competitive buys.

https://www.techmeme.com/250304/p31#a250304p31

🤖 + 💰 Even a number like $3.5B is starting to sound normal in the ever shifting Overton window of AI related funding routs.

https://www.techmeme.com/250303/p29#a250303p29

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-03-05

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://notes.stlartsupply.com/the-golden-age-of-japanese-pencils-1952-1967/

https://368chickens.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNwHnHL2Pgs

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-03-06

One headline for Thursday Throwback caught my eye.

🥛 + 🤖 Considering the sheer amounts of data generated McDonald’s it is useful to remember it should not be known only for a shake machine is down meme — and effective use of predictive analytics could make that meme a historical footnote.

https://www.techmeme.com/250307/p2#a250307p2

The progression of technology adoption at McDonald’s is real.

Around 8 years ago, mobile ordering appeared.

Around 11 years ago, paying by phone appeared.

Around 12 years ago, an app for that appeared.

Around 16 years ago, free Wi-Fi prevailed.

Around 20 years ago, paid Wi-Fi was coming to the menu.

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-03-07

The story that caught my eye this week was Apple delaying the delayed thing that had previously seen a delay.

https://www.techmeme.com/250307/p12#a250307p12

Said another way, this Apple AI version of Siri was probably going to be “Apple Maps bad” and an adult decision needed to be made.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVq1wgIN62E

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-03-08

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 👀

In that spirit, here are a few stories that you might have missed on the slow news of a Friday.

Insert Let’s See Who This Really Is Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250307/p27#a250307p27

Insert Ceiling Cat Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250307/p24#a250307p24

Insert We’re All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250307/p19#a250307p19

Insert That Wasn’t Me, That Was Patricia Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250307/p31#a250307p31

Insert Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250307/p18#a250307p18

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-03-08

2025-03-09T04:46:18Z

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 👀

In that spirit, here are a few stories that you might have missed on the slow news of a Friday.

Insert Let’s See Who This Really Is Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250307/p27#a250307p27

Insert Ceiling Cat Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250307/p24#a250307p24

Insert We’re All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250307/p19#a250307p19

Insert That Wasn’t Me, That Was Patricia Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250307/p31#a250307p31

Insert Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250307/p18#a250307p18

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-03-07

2025-03-09T04:35:32Z

The story that caught my eye this week was Apple delaying the delayed thing that had previously seen a delay.

https://www.techmeme.com/250307/p12#a250307p12

Said another way, this Apple AI version of Siri was probably going to be “Apple Maps bad” and an adult decision needed to be made.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVq1wgIN62E

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-03-06

2025-03-08T04:57:39Z

One headline for Thursday Throwback caught my eye.

https://www.techmeme.com/250307/p2#a250307p2

The progression of technology adoption at McDonald’s is real.

Around 8 years ago, mobile ordering appeared.

Around 11 years ago, paying by phone appeared.

Around 12 years ago, an app for that appeared.

Around 16 years ago, free Wi-Fi prevailed.

Around 20 years ago, paid Wi-Fi was coming to the menu.

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-03-05

2025-03-06T03:54:39Z

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://notes.stlartsupply.com/the-golden-age-of-japanese-pencils-1952-1967/

https://368chickens.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNwHnHL2Pgs

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-03-04

2025-03-05T23:21:07Z

Two hot takes on two stories that caught my eye on Tuesday.

https://www.techmeme.com/250304/p31#a250304p31

🤖 + 💰 Even a number like $3.5B is starting to sound normal in the ever shifting Overton window of AI related funding routs.

https://www.techmeme.com/250303/p29#a250303p29

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-03-03

2025-03-04T04:33:23Z

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:

Not So Spicy Level 1?

This week:

Spicy Level 2.

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 Fudge Sunday for 2025-03-02

2025-03-02T17:04:38Z

Quick Recaps

📺🔁🤖🧠🔮🔜 If you missed our NexusTek #AgenticAI webinar, check out the replay of Chris Marks of Pax8 and me being interviewed by Jessica Steinbach of ActualTech

https://events.actualtechmedia.com/on-demand/2279/agentic-ai-is-not-the-future-its-now/

#OpenToWork Weekly

I believe in #NeverSearchAlone. I also continue to participate in a #JSC.

I’m also pleased to add an Alumni 🎉 section this week for those that have transitioned from #OpenToWork to their next career adventure.

Alumni 🎉

Congrats Richard Arnesen! 🎉

Kelly Britt

Experienced Talent Acquisition Specialist with over 8 years of experience in technical recruitment and team leadership. I excel at building high-performing teams through strategic hiring initiatives and fostering collaborative environments that align with company values. My expertise spans sourcing top technical talent, streamlining hiring processes, and driving organizational growth.
Key strengths:
• Mentoring and developing recruitment teams
• Enhancing onboarding efficiency
• Improving employee engagement and retention
• Designing competitive compensation strategies
• Cultivating strong client and candidate relationships
With a detail-focused approach and the ability to manage multiple priorities in fast-paced environments, I consistently deliver exceptional hiring outcomes. Passionate about talent acquisition, I am committed to driving successful recruitment strategies and fostering a thriving workplace culture.
Source: Kelly Britt

Jarrod Weise

I bring over 15 years of comprehensive experience in strategic partnerships and business development, primarily within the high-paced technology sector. Currently serving as the Director of Partnerships Development at CoreStack, I am at the forefront of devising and implementing strategies that enhance our channel partnerships and advance our digital strategy initiatives. My role is pivotal in cultivating solid and productive relationships with key partners and aligning our business goals with innovative digital solutions.
Source: Jarrod Weise

Dan Kelleher

Accomplished Program Manager | Technical Project Manager | Certified Scrum Master
With 25+ years of proven success leading high-impact initiatives in IT, Healthcare, and Engineering, I bring expertise in managing complex programs, driving cross-functional collaboration, and delivering innovative solutions. Adept at navigating multi-million-dollar budgets, mitigating risks, and ensuring successful outcomes throughout the entire program lifecycle. Known for building strong, lasting relationships with stakeholders, C-suite executives, partners, and teams, I excel at aligning diverse groups to bring large-scale solutions to fruition. My approach combines strategic planning, continuous oversight, and flexibility to meet goals, while maintaining a sharp focus on quality, cost, and performance.
Source: Dan Kelleher

Rich Green

I am an experienced technology and sales professional who has worked in pre-sales, post-sales, and Customer Operations roles over my career. I am a self starter who works well both independently and in a team environment. Some of my professional achievements include helping launch the Iridium Satellite Phone System while at Motorola SATCOM and taking a startup Internet Service Provider (SoftAware) to the next level to be acquired by Digital Island. I have consistently exceeded multimillion dollar annual sales quotas selling into the Enterprise, SMB, and SLED space while at Hughes, EMC, Brocade, Broadcom and Faction. I continue to utilize the multiple skills I have learned throughout my career including solution selling, technical account management, objection handling, project management, and utilizing public/private/hybrid cloud environments to achieve business outcomes. I am also continuing to learn new technologies such as AI/ML and Cyber Security fundamentals. I know that I will be an asset to any organization that I join. I am also willing to relocate for the right opportunity.
In my spare time I work with Special Needs individuals who are non or minimally speaking to help give them their voice using alternative technologies.
Source: Rich Green

Barbara Hadley, EdM, SPHR

Empowering People, Elevating Businesses:
A strategic HR professional with a contagious enthusiasm for empowering employees. Expertise in crafting dynamic work environments that foster high engagement and drive results utilizing a data-driven approach to implement solutions that support both employee satisfaction and organizational success.
Source: Barbara Hadley, EdM, SPHR

Andrew Webber

I’m a passionate leader with a proven track record of building and scaling innovative consumer products. As the Co-founder & CEO of Corsair Distillery, I grew the company from concept to a multi-million dollar operation with a national presence and 400 awards for quality and innovation. I’m adept at identifying unique market opportunities, developing award-winning products, and building high-performing teams.
Source: Andrew Webber

Lida Tohidi

🏆 Recognized as a Top 20 Visionary in Media & Tech by Adello and Top 15 Coach by Influence Digest

🚀 Career Highlights

15+ years of experience in product management, digital marketing, and strategic planning
7+ years advising, consulting, and investing in mission-driven startups and SMBs
Led teams to win the Google Startup Battle (out of 1000+ teams) and other national awards
Advised startups that have collectively raised over $500 million
Launched a successful national incubator

Source: Lida Tohidi

Nathan Clyker

Successful Sales and Business Development Professional with a demonstrated 21 year history of working in the IT industry. Expert skills in Management, Sales, Enterprise Software and Hardware, Partner Management, Storage, Go-to-market Strategy creation/execution, and Sales Operations. Strong sales professional with a BS in International Business from University of Colorado, Denver and an intense focus on customer satisfaction via strong business and interpersonal relationships.
Source: Nathan Clyker

Gina (Gina Minks) Rosenthal

* Over 10 years’ experience as a global and fractional product marketing manager for global technology companies (up to 120K employees) as well as and startups. * Over the last 5 years leading Digital Sunshine Solutions, generated over 150 blog posts, 26 case studies, and a range of messaging documents, launch plans, white papers, product datasheets, and solution briefs. * Bootstrapped quarterly cross-company “Think Tanks” to create strong feedback loops between executives, product, marketing, and engineering teams. * Created technical content and improved product positioning using sales and customer feedback. Served as the voice of the customer for enterprise clients exploring SaaS products. * Planned, researched, and developed over twenty podcast episodes covering AI and infrastructure over two years.

The experience on my resume is definitely not traditional! But because there is a string connecting it all, I bring a unique blend of technical expertise and creative marketing strategy to the table. With over a decade of experience working with industry leaders like EMC, Dell, and VMware, I’ve honed an in-depth understanding of the challenges IT executives face—and more importantly, how to solve them. However, since I come from a sysadmin/operator audience, I easily craft messaging that resonates and builds trust with them too.
Source: Gina (Gina Minks) Rosenthal

Janel Van Beek

For Humans: I intellectually help organizations and leaders grow and keep great teams, and lead change into the future. My favorite skills and experiences are strategy, program management, product, and organization and leadership effectiveness. My detailed resume is available here: https://www.francievanwirkus.com/resume
For Data Searches: Janel Van Beek (formerly Janel Lanza), SPC 6.0, FLMI, CCTP II, is a business strategist and certified Master Coach, helping people do what seems impossible. She is a digital transformation, OCM, leadership development, and product expert. She is strategy and business consultant. She has financial, health, entrepreneur, retail and services product experience. She has deep experience in strategy, change, instructional design and training as well as in being a turn-around people leader.
Source: Janel Van Beek

Greg Phillips

At IBM, my focus as a Cloud Platform Leader has been on fostering strategic partnerships and driving innovative marketing strategies. With a strong background in corporate marketing and a hands-on approach to customer relationship management, my recent work has centered on extending IBM’s cloud alliances globally.
The team has successfully leveraged my skills in strategic and online marketing to create impactful campaigns, positioning us at the forefront of cloud solutions. Our collaborative efforts have not only filled the sales funnel but also strengthened IBM’s presence in the competitive cloud marketplace.
Source: Greg Phillips

Sheri Gearhart

Innovative Technology Architect | Solution Designer | Collaborative Leader
Passionate about driving technological innovation and delivering cutting-edge solutions, I thrive on exploring and implementing new technologies to solve complex problems. With a keen eye for evaluating the benefits of emerging tools within solution stacks, I excel in leading proofs of concept and translating technical insights into actionable strategies for stakeholders, maximizing the return on investment through increasing revenue. My strengths lie in developing comprehensive presentations, providing expert training, and fostering collaboration across diverse teams. As a natural leader, I inspire and influence through my technical expertise and vision, without the constraints of formal management roles. My ideal position leverages my skills in architecting solutions, knowledge sharing, and project leadership, while allowing me to focus on the technical aspects of innovation rather than sales-driven engagements.
Source: Sheri Gearhart

Tamera Rousseau King

A highly skilled Technical Project Manager, Agile Product Owner, and people leader with a proven track record in managing large-scale marketing technology programs and building high-performing teams. Demonstrated ability to build strong cross-functional relationships to align on project scope, prioritize business requirements, and develop effective risk mitigation strategies, ensuring project goals were achieved on time and under budget. Adept at leveraging Agile methodologies to establish operational excellence, driving repeated success, and ensuring program accountability.
Source: Tamera Rousseau King

Ricardo Perez

With a deep-seated passion for pioneering virtualization solutions, my tenure at Dell EMC, Xerox, etc. has been marked by architecting and deploying PowerFlex and VxRail systems. My expertise lies in comprehensive lifecycle management, with a proven track record in steering projects from conception to completion, delivering high-performance and scalable virtual environments.
Source: Ricardo Perez

Mike Berteletti, CISSP

Experienced Information Technology Professional with a broad and deep knowledge of many information technology products and services found in large enterprises to small and medium businesses. Specialties include Converged Infrastructure, Cloud Computing, Information Storage Solutions, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows Infrastructure, Information Systems Security, Enterprise Network Design, Data Protection, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, IT Strategy, IT Leadership, Business Liason and Career Development.

ISC2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
EMC Proven Professional Technology Architect

Source: Mike Berteletti, CISSP

Bob Lima, PMP

Experienced Senior Program Manager with 15+ years of successfully managing end-to-end lifecycles of large, cross-functional, and transformational programs. Expertise in delivering complex projects within scope, timeline, and budget while driving process improvements and ensuring strategic alignment with business goals. Adept at utilizing Agile, Waterfall, and Lean Six Sigma methodologies, with a proven ability to manage risks, resolve conflicts, and optimize resource allocation. Skilled communicator, capable of presenting technical concepts to senior leadership and influencing business decisions for maximizing ROI. A leader focused on mentorship, team empowerment, and continuous improvement.
323-513-6011
Source: Bob Lima, PMP

Chris Mojica

Seasoned technical sales professional and technologist with proven pre and post sales engineering experience. Experience includes supporting startups, system integrators, vendors, channel partners/VARs, OEMs and end customers. I am always open to Solutions Architect or Sales/Systems Engineering opportunities.
Source: Chris Mojica

Matthew Leib

After many years as an engineer and presales architect, with specialties in datacenter, cloud, virtualization and most particularly storage, I’ve become noted for my writing and analytical expertise in those categories. My blogging has been ongoing since 2009, and I use those writing and focused IT value propositions to write for a number of analytics firms. I specialize in architectures surrounding Kubernetes, Converged and hyper-converged architectures in storage, cloud, AI, and virtualization, containers focused.
Source: Matthew Leib

Michael Joffe

Dynamic global technology leader and Military veteran. P&L responsibility for business lines ranging from $10M to $150M in annual recurring revenue—direct management of high-performing teams ranging from 10 to 75 professionals across the globe. Exceptional at driving growth with Series C, PE-backed, and large-cap multi-national companies. Extensive experience with technology solution co-creation and GTM execution across the OEM, ISV, and SaaS ecosystems.
Source: Michael Joffe

Colleen Coll

“Allow myself to introduce…myself.” - Austin Powers
Ever feel like you’re juggling flaming torches planning events—trying to keep all the details in the air while something’s always about to catch fire? Yep, I’ve been there. Events have a way of throwing curveballs, and when tech and tools aren’t playing nice, chaos can easily take over.
That’s where I come in. I love turning event madness into magic. Whether it’s on-site event coverage using digital media, live reporting, or behind-the-scenes management, I make sure everything runs like clockwork. I’m also a huge fan of using There.App, which simplifies on-location event management by keeping everyone in sync and streamlining the entire process, so no detail gets lost in the shuffle.
From tech conferences to startup launches, I capture the moments that matter and keep things smooth, whether it’s happening live or behind the scenes. And when I’m not on the ground, I’m writing—blogs, articles, and ghostwriting for tech leaders to tell the bigger story behind the event, brand, or mission.
So, let’s make your next event one to remember, with every detail in place and every moment captured. Reach out! I’m always game for a brainstorm or a quick chat about how to make your event shine (without all the stress).
Source: Colleen Coll

Karl Edwards, PMP

An innovative, strategic and results-oriented technical program manager and network strategist with twenty-two years of experience in the telecommunications and technology industries. I can interact with and contribute to technical discussions with engineers as well as communicate program updates, strategy and roadmap to senior executives. For the last seven years at Cox Communications, I managed the three largest and most strategic programs within the technology portfolio: DOCSIS 3.1 program, Remote PHY program and DOCSIS 4.0 program. I have an inherent bias for action and have successfully operated in an environment where I managed cross-functional and cross-organizational teams without authority every day.
Source: Karl Edwards, PMP

Shianna Maxwell

Creative and independent graphic design and marketing professional with a keen eye for detail and a strong background in digital brand management, logo design, and layout design. Passionate about delivering high-quality projects on time, with a proven ability to collaborate effectively with global teams, manage tight deadlines, and handle multiple projects simultaneously. Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft Office Suite, with excellent time management and problem-solving skills that enable me to work autonomously while fostering strong teamwork.
Source: Shianna Maxwell

Paul Lysko

Results-oriented Product Management Executive and former Air Force officer with 20+ years of experience across B2B software, retail technology solutions, FP&A, and operations. Skilled in driving business growth through strategic product management, P&L ownership, and customer focus. Repeatedly managed P&Ls of up to $225 million, consistently delivering impactful results. Passionate leader with a track record of hiring and managing teams of 10+.
Source: Paul Lysko

Thomas Chatham

Engineering leader and technologist with over 20 years of experience in the Enterprise technology industry, most recently specializing in engineering and validation for Dell’s enterprise software as a service (SaaS) subscriptions. My expertise lies in management, particularly in leading end-to-end development and integration of various Converged Infrastructure platforms. This includes spearheading formation of a global engineering organization to create next-gen automated converged systems.
Source: Thomas Chatham

Sam Aiello, Ph.D.

Experienced cybersecurity and technology strategist with a proven record of delivering innovative, tailored solutions by collaborating with C-suite executives and cross-functional teams across Sales, Product, Engineering, and Marketing. Adept at driving business growth and client success through strategic insights, technology leadership, and effective pre-sales engagement. A self-driven contributor with expertise in technology strategy, client advocacy, and sales enablement, recognized for enhancing company visibility through impactful presentations and industry event participation. Seeking a dynamic pre-sales role that leverages cross-functional collaboration to create transformative solutions while maintaining a balanced scope of responsibility and work-life integration.
Source: Sam Aiello, Ph.D.

Hot Fudge Daily Digest

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-02-24

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 10 resting place?

This week:

Not So Spicy Level 1?

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 2025-02-25

Two hot takes on two stories that caught my eye on Tuesday.

My early career was in telecom and ISPs. However, this was not with the large telecom companies, but with the small rural and very much fiercely independent operators. The common name for these companies was rural local exchange companies or RLECs.

Eventually, my career did involve working with the very largest telecom providers on the planet. However, my affection for the independent operators continues, and I have enduring respect for their public private partnerships that have enabled Internet access for many that would not otherwise have received it from the largest telecom providers.

As for the lawsuit mentioned in these articles from the large telecom providers, I would only suggest that they spend more time thinking about what is happening literally above their heads in LEO and how they will respond instead of trying to litigate entry-level tiers of service as terrestrial facilities based broadband providers.

Less courtroom tactics. More high ground strategy.

https://www.techmeme.com/250225/p4#a250225p4

https://www.techmeme.com/250225/p30#a250225p30

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-02-26

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://virtualvacation.us/guess

https://www.ebay.com/itm/376021234177

https://futurism.com/null-name-trouble-computer-systems

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-02-27

One headline for a Thursday Throwback caught my eye.

⚛️ + ☁️ Microsoft Majorana quantum chip news last week has been met with AWS Ocelot quantum chip news this week.

https://www.techmeme.com/250227/p12#a250227p12

However, like Microsoft Majorana quantum chip, AWS quantum computing services i.e. Amazon Braket have existed for quite a while too.

https://www.techmeme.com/191202/p18#a191202p18

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-02-28

The story that caught my eye this week was the impending demise of Skype as Microsoft Teams consumes the remaining holdouts.

https://www.techmeme.com/250228/p10#a250228p10

While I’ve not used Skype in many years, I still remember when Skype came to the iPhone in 2009.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/jcuthrell/3400987272/

Source: https://flic.kr/p/6bwX2A

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-03-01

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 👀

In that spirit, here are a few stories that you might have missed on the slow news of a Friday.

Insert Let’s See Who This Really Is Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250228/p28#a250228p28

Insert Ceiling Cat Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250228/p18#a250228p18

Insert We’re All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250228/p11#a250228p11

Insert That Wasn’t Me, That Was Patricia Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250301/p1#a250301p1

Insert Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250228/p14#a250228p14

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-03-01

2025-03-02T01:26:20Z

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 👀

In that spirit, here are a few stories that you might have missed on the slow news of a Friday.

Insert Let’s See Who This Really Is Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250228/p28#a250228p28

Insert Ceiling Cat Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250228/p18#a250228p18

Insert We’re All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250228/p11#a250228p11

Insert That Wasn’t Me, That Was Patricia Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250301/p1#a250301p1

Insert Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250228/p14#a250228p14

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-02-28

2025-03-01T03:05:32Z

The story that caught my eye this week was the impending demise of Skype as Microsoft Teams consumes the remaining holdouts.

https://www.techmeme.com/250228/p10#a250228p10

While I’ve not used Skype in many years, I still remember when Skype came to the iPhone in 2009.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/jcuthrell/3400987272/

Source: https://flic.kr/p/6bwX2A

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-02-27

2025-02-28T02:03:33Z

One headline for a Thursday Throwback caught my eye.

⚛️ + ☁️ Microsoft Majorana quantum chip news last week has been met with AWS Ocelot quantum chip news this week.

https://www.techmeme.com/250227/p12#a250227p12

However, like Microsoft Majorana quantum chip, AWS quantum computing services i.e. Amazon Braket have existed for quite a while too.

https://www.techmeme.com/191202/p18#a191202p18

My Fediverse Digest for February 2025

2025-02-28T00:00:00Z

Feb 06

03:12 AM

🔥⏲️ Fudge Sunday #newsletter “”
(via #activepieces)

Source

03:25 AM

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(via #activepieces)

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03:36 AM

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(via #activepieces)

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03:44 AM

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(via #activepieces)

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03:52 AM

🔥⏲️ Fudge Sunday #newsletter “”
(via #activepieces)

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03:57 AM

🔥⏲️ Fudge Sunday #newsletter “”
(via #activepieces)

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10:32 AM

🔥⏲️ Fudge Sunday #newsletter “”
(via #activepieces)

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10:38 AM

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10:45 AM

🔥⏲️ Fudge Sunday #newsletter “”
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10:51 AM

🔥⏲️ Fudge Sunday #newsletter “”
(via #activepieces)

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10:59 AM

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11:06 AM

🔥⏲️ Fudge Sunday #newsletter “”
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11:14 AM

🔥⏲️ Fudge Sunday #newsletter “”
(via #activepieces)

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11:19 AM

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(via #activepieces)

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11:25 AM

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11:34 AM

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11:39 AM

🔥⏲️ Fudge Sunday #newsletter “”
(via #activepieces)

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Feb 08

09:57 PM

I don’t care what your political leanings are or are not. What is the logic for spending tax dollars to remove this page from our NASA website?

https://web.archive.org/web/20231206220911/https://www.nasa.gov/universe/nasa-intern-found-hope-in-the-moon-2/

Source

Feb 10

01:05 AM

🔥⏲️ Fudge Sunday #newsletter “My SXSW 2025 Post” https://fudge.org/archive/my-sxsw-2025-post/
(via #activepieces)

Source

Feb 11

09:23 AM

My list grows… #sxsw

https://fudge.org/archive/my-sxsw-2025-post/

Source

Feb 16

07:18 PM

Do I have this right?

U.S. Government Accountability Office (U.S. GAO) = Craigslist

DOGE = Fever dream HN tech bro posts claiming they have totally replaced Craigslist in less than a weekend of h4x0rzing

Source

07:21 PM

Thank you Internet for being you https://gulfof.mapquest.com/?name=Leeroy+Jenkins

Source

Feb 18

08:38 AM

Sir, charge.

Source

Feb 25

07:40 PM

Imagining a non-profit indexing service the runs search engine queries using Agentic AI personas to determine bias weighting by CIDR / ASN for residential broadband (aka red vs blue towns) to determine how various search engines and social platforms return “engagement” results in the algorithmic feed

Example: My results in rural NC (red) are different than over tailscale through Atlanta (blue) egress in unauthenticated private browser sessions

Source

09:32 PM

Suggested Federal Employees Top 5 Bullet Points Template

1. Facilitated effective project execution improvement by 25%
2. Updated procedures to improve efficiency by 15%
3. Collaborated with cross-functional teams to increase output by 10%
4. Kept costs 33% below lowest watermark in prior 3 years
5. Utilized 100% of available hours at maximum effort to retire 20% of backlog

(Hint: Will the AI find the secret message inside?)

Is there a generator style landing page with a clever domain yet?

Source

Feb 26

04:50 AM

If you are looking for #agenticai stories on Friday, I have you covered.

https://events.futureb2b.com/register-now/2279/agentic-ai-is-not-the-future-its-now/

Source

Feb 27

08:04 PM

#mastodonadmin note on v4.3.4

None

YMMV

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.3.4

Source

09:01 PM

I just wrote ‘🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-02-27’.

https://hot.fudge.org/archive/throwback-thursday-for-2025-02-27/

Source

Feb 28

08:10 PM

Elegant encapsulation of the mortal coil

Source

10:06 PM

I just wrote ‘✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-02-28’.

https://hot.fudge.org/archive/final-thoughts-friday-for-2025-02-28/

Source

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-02-26

2025-02-27T02:54:25Z

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://virtualvacation.us/guess

https://www.ebay.com/itm/376021234177

https://futurism.com/null-name-trouble-computer-systems

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-02-25

2025-02-26T03:06:18Z

Two hot takes on two stories that caught my eye on Tuesday.

Less courtroom tactics. More high ground strategy.

https://www.techmeme.com/250225/p4#a250225p4

https://www.techmeme.com/250225/p30#a250225p30

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-02-24

2025-02-25T03:15:45Z

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 10 resting place?

This week:

Not So Spicy Level 1?

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 Fudge Sunday for 2025-02-23

2025-02-24T01:30:00Z

Quick Recaps

A few more blog posts this week:

#OpenToWork Weekly

I believe in #NeverSearchAlone. I also continue to participate in a #JSC.

I’m also pleased to add an Alumni 🎉 section this week for those that have transitioned from #OpenToWork to their next career adventure.

Alumni 🎉

Congrats Richard Arnesen! 🎉

Jarrod Weise

I bring over 15 years of comprehensive experience in strategic partnerships and business development, primarily within the high-paced technology sector. Currently serving as the Director of Partnerships Development at CoreStack, I am at the forefront of devising and implementing strategies that enhance our channel partnerships and advance our digital strategy initiatives. My role is pivotal in cultivating solid and productive relationships with key partners and aligning our business goals with innovative digital solutions.
Source: Jarrod Weise

Dan Kelleher

Accomplished Program Manager | Technical Project Manager | Certified Scrum Master
With 25+ years of proven success leading high-impact initiatives in IT, Healthcare, and Engineering, I bring expertise in managing complex programs, driving cross-functional collaboration, and delivering innovative solutions. Adept at navigating multi-million-dollar budgets, mitigating risks, and ensuring successful outcomes throughout the entire program lifecycle. Known for building strong, lasting relationships with stakeholders, C-suite executives, partners, and teams, I excel at aligning diverse groups to bring large-scale solutions to fruition. My approach combines strategic planning, continuous oversight, and flexibility to meet goals, while maintaining a sharp focus on quality, cost, and performance.
Source: Dan Kelleher

Rich Green

I am an experienced technology and sales professional who has worked in pre-sales, post-sales, and Customer Operations roles over my career. I am a self starter who works well both independently and in a team environment. Some of my professional achievements include helping launch the Iridium Satellite Phone System while at Motorola SATCOM and taking a startup Internet Service Provider (SoftAware) to the next level to be acquired by Digital Island. I have consistently exceeded multimillion dollar annual sales quotas selling into the Enterprise, SMB, and SLED space while at Hughes, EMC, Brocade, Broadcom and Faction. I continue to utilize the multiple skills I have learned throughout my career including solution selling, technical account management, objection handling, project management, and utilizing public/private/hybrid cloud environments to achieve business outcomes. I am also continuing to learn new technologies such as AI/ML and Cyber Security fundamentals. I know that I will be an asset to any organization that I join. I am also willing to relocate for the right opportunity.
In my spare time I work with Special Needs individuals who are non or minimally speaking to help give them their voice using alternative technologies.
Source: Rich Green

Barbara Hadley, EdM, SPHR

Empowering People, Elevating Businesses:
A strategic HR professional with a contagious enthusiasm for empowering employees. Expertise in crafting dynamic work environments that foster high engagement and drive results utilizing a data-driven approach to implement solutions that support both employee satisfaction and organizational success.
Source: Barbara Hadley, EdM, SPHR

Andrew Webber

I’m a passionate leader with a proven track record of building and scaling innovative consumer products. As the Co-founder & CEO of Corsair Distillery, I grew the company from concept to a multi-million dollar operation with a national presence and 400 awards for quality and innovation. I’m adept at identifying unique market opportunities, developing award-winning products, and building high-performing teams.
Source: Andrew Webber

Lida Tohidi

🏆 Recognized as a Top 20 Visionary in Media & Tech by Adello and Top 15 Coach by Influence Digest

🚀 Career Highlights

15+ years of experience in product management, digital marketing, and strategic planning
7+ years advising, consulting, and investing in mission-driven startups and SMBs
Led teams to win the Google Startup Battle (out of 1000+ teams) and other national awards
Advised startups that have collectively raised over $500 million
Launched a successful national incubator

Source: Lida Tohidi

Nathan Clyker

Successful Sales and Business Development Professional with a demonstrated 21 year history of working in the IT industry. Expert skills in Management, Sales, Enterprise Software and Hardware, Partner Management, Storage, Go-to-market Strategy creation/execution, and Sales Operations. Strong sales professional with a BS in International Business from University of Colorado, Denver and an intense focus on customer satisfaction via strong business and interpersonal relationships.
Source: Nathan Clyker

Gina (Gina Minks) Rosenthal

Over 10 years’ experience as a global and fractional product marketing manager for global technology companies (up to 120K employees) as well as and startups.
Over the last 5 years leading Digital Sunshine Solutions, generated over 150 blog posts, 26 case studies, and a range of messaging documents, launch plans, white papers, product datasheets, and solution briefs.
Bootstrapped quarterly cross-company “Think Tanks” to create strong feedback loops between executives, product, marketing, and engineering teams.
Created technical content and improved product positioning using sales and customer feedback. Served as the voice of the customer for enterprise clients exploring SaaS products.
Planned, researched, and developed over twenty podcast episodes covering AI and infrastructure over two years.

The experience on my resume is definitely not traditional! But because there is a string connecting it all, I bring a unique blend of technical expertise and creative marketing strategy to the table. With over a decade of experience working with industry leaders like EMC, Dell, and VMware, I’ve honed an in-depth understanding of the challenges IT executives face—and more importantly, how to solve them. However, since I come from a sysadmin/operator audience, I easily craft messaging that resonates and builds trust with them too.
Source: Gina (Gina Minks) Rosenthal

Janel Van Beek

For Humans: I intellectually help organizations and leaders grow and keep great teams, and lead change into the future. My favorite skills and experiences are strategy, program management, product, and organization and leadership effectiveness. My detailed resume is available here: https://www.francievanwirkus.com/resume
For Data Searches: Janel Van Beek (formerly Janel Lanza), SPC 6.0, FLMI, CCTP II, is a business strategist and certified Master Coach, helping people do what seems impossible. She is a digital transformation, OCM, leadership development, and product expert. She is strategy and business consultant. She has financial, health, entrepreneur, retail and services product experience. She has deep experience in strategy, change, instructional design and training as well as in being a turn-around people leader.
Source: Janel Van Beek

Greg Phillips

At IBM, my focus as a Cloud Platform Leader has been on fostering strategic partnerships and driving innovative marketing strategies. With a strong background in corporate marketing and a hands-on approach to customer relationship management, my recent work has centered on extending IBM’s cloud alliances globally.
The team has successfully leveraged my skills in strategic and online marketing to create impactful campaigns, positioning us at the forefront of cloud solutions. Our collaborative efforts have not only filled the sales funnel but also strengthened IBM’s presence in the competitive cloud marketplace.
Source: Greg Phillips

Sheri Gearhart

Innovative Technology Architect | Solution Designer | Collaborative Leader
Passionate about driving technological innovation and delivering cutting-edge solutions, I thrive on exploring and implementing new technologies to solve complex problems. With a keen eye for evaluating the benefits of emerging tools within solution stacks, I excel in leading proofs of concept and translating technical insights into actionable strategies for stakeholders, maximizing the return on investment through increasing revenue. My strengths lie in developing comprehensive presentations, providing expert training, and fostering collaboration across diverse teams. As a natural leader, I inspire and influence through my technical expertise and vision, without the constraints of formal management roles. My ideal position leverages my skills in architecting solutions, knowledge sharing, and project leadership, while allowing me to focus on the technical aspects of innovation rather than sales-driven engagements.
Source: Sheri Gearhart

Tamera Rousseau King

A highly skilled Technical Project Manager, Agile Product Owner, and people leader with a proven track record in managing large-scale marketing technology programs and building high-performing teams. Demonstrated ability to build strong cross-functional relationships to align on project scope, prioritize business requirements, and develop effective risk mitigation strategies, ensuring project goals were achieved on time and under budget. Adept at leveraging Agile methodologies to establish operational excellence, driving repeated success, and ensuring program accountability.
Source: Tamera Rousseau King

Ricardo Perez

With a deep-seated passion for pioneering virtualization solutions, my tenure at Dell EMC, Xerox, etc. has been marked by architecting and deploying PowerFlex and VxRail systems. My expertise lies in comprehensive lifecycle management, with a proven track record in steering projects from conception to completion, delivering high-performance and scalable virtual environments.
Source: Ricardo Perez

Mike Berteletti, CISSP

Experienced Information Technology Professional with a broad and deep knowledge of many information technology products and services found in large enterprises to small and medium businesses. Specialties include Converged Infrastructure, Cloud Computing, Information Storage Solutions, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows Infrastructure, Information Systems Security, Enterprise Network Design, Data Protection, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, IT Strategy, IT Leadership, Business Liason and Career Development.

ISC2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
EMC Proven Professional Technology Architect

Source: Mike Berteletti, CISSP

Bob Lima, PMP

Experienced Senior Program Manager with 15+ years of successfully managing end-to-end lifecycles of large, cross-functional, and transformational programs. Expertise in delivering complex projects within scope, timeline, and budget while driving process improvements and ensuring strategic alignment with business goals. Adept at utilizing Agile, Waterfall, and Lean Six Sigma methodologies, with a proven ability to manage risks, resolve conflicts, and optimize resource allocation. Skilled communicator, capable of presenting technical concepts to senior leadership and influencing business decisions for maximizing ROI. A leader focused on mentorship, team empowerment, and continuous improvement.
323-513-6011
Source: Bob Lima, PMP

Chris Mojica

Seasoned technical sales professional and technologist with proven pre and post sales engineering experience. Experience includes supporting startups, system integrators, vendors, channel partners/VARs, OEMs and end customers. I am always open to Solutions Architect or Sales/Systems Engineering opportunities.
Source: Chris Mojica

Matthew Leib

After many years as an engineer and presales architect, with specialties in datacenter, cloud, virtualization and most particularly storage, I’ve become noted for my writing and analytical expertise in those categories. My blogging has been ongoing since 2009, and I use those writing and focused IT value propositions to write for a number of analytics firms. I specialize in architectures surrounding Kubernetes, Converged and hyper-converged architectures in storage, cloud, AI, and virtualization, containers focused.
Source: Matthew Leib

Michael Joffe

Dynamic global technology leader and Military veteran. P&L responsibility for business lines ranging from $10M to $150M in annual recurring revenue—direct management of high-performing teams ranging from 10 to 75 professionals across the globe. Exceptional at driving growth with Series C, PE-backed, and large-cap multi-national companies. Extensive experience with technology solution co-creation and GTM execution across the OEM, ISV, and SaaS ecosystems.
Source: Michael Joffe

Colleen Coll

“Allow myself to introduce…myself.” - Austin Powers
Ever feel like you’re juggling flaming torches planning events—trying to keep all the details in the air while something’s always about to catch fire? Yep, I’ve been there. Events have a way of throwing curveballs, and when tech and tools aren’t playing nice, chaos can easily take over.
That’s where I come in. I love turning event madness into magic. Whether it’s on-site event coverage using digital media, live reporting, or behind-the-scenes management, I make sure everything runs like clockwork. I’m also a huge fan of using There.App, which simplifies on-location event management by keeping everyone in sync and streamlining the entire process, so no detail gets lost in the shuffle.
From tech conferences to startup launches, I capture the moments that matter and keep things smooth, whether it’s happening live or behind the scenes. And when I’m not on the ground, I’m writing—blogs, articles, and ghostwriting for tech leaders to tell the bigger story behind the event, brand, or mission.
So, let’s make your next event one to remember, with every detail in place and every moment captured. Reach out! I’m always game for a brainstorm or a quick chat about how to make your event shine (without all the stress).
Source: Colleen Coll

Karl Edwards, PMP

An innovative, strategic and results-oriented technical program manager and network strategist with twenty-two years of experience in the telecommunications and technology industries. I can interact with and contribute to technical discussions with engineers as well as communicate program updates, strategy and roadmap to senior executives. For the last seven years at Cox Communications, I managed the three largest and most strategic programs within the technology portfolio: DOCSIS 3.1 program, Remote PHY program and DOCSIS 4.0 program. I have an inherent bias for action and have successfully operated in an environment where I managed cross-functional and cross-organizational teams without authority every day.
Source: Karl Edwards, PMP

Shianna Maxwell

Creative and independent graphic design and marketing professional with a keen eye for detail and a strong background in digital brand management, logo design, and layout design. Passionate about delivering high-quality projects on time, with a proven ability to collaborate effectively with global teams, manage tight deadlines, and handle multiple projects simultaneously. Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft Office Suite, with excellent time management and problem-solving skills that enable me to work autonomously while fostering strong teamwork.
Source: Shianna Maxwell

Paul Lysko

Results-oriented Product Management Executive and former Air Force officer with 20+ years of experience across B2B software, retail technology solutions, FP&A, and operations. Skilled in driving business growth through strategic product management, P&L ownership, and customer focus. Repeatedly managed P&Ls of up to $225 million, consistently delivering impactful results. Passionate leader with a track record of hiring and managing teams of 10+.
Source: Paul Lysko

Thomas Chatham

Engineering leader and technologist with over 20 years of experience in the Enterprise technology industry, most recently specializing in engineering and validation for Dell’s enterprise software as a service (SaaS) subscriptions. My expertise lies in management, particularly in leading end-to-end development and integration of various Converged Infrastructure platforms. This includes spearheading formation of a global engineering organization to create next-gen automated converged systems.
Source: Thomas Chatham

Sam Aiello, Ph.D.

Experienced cybersecurity and technology strategist with a proven record of delivering innovative, tailored solutions by collaborating with C-suite executives and cross-functional teams across Sales, Product, Engineering, and Marketing. Adept at driving business growth and client success through strategic insights, technology leadership, and effective pre-sales engagement. A self-driven contributor with expertise in technology strategy, client advocacy, and sales enablement, recognized for enhancing company visibility through impactful presentations and industry event participation. Seeking a dynamic pre-sales role that leverages cross-functional collaboration to create transformative solutions while maintaining a balanced scope of responsibility and work-life integration.
Source: Sam Aiello, Ph.D.

Hot Fudge Daily Digest

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-02-17

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 16 Unlocked!

This week:

Spicy Level 10 resting place?

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 2025-02-18

Two hot takes on a story and event that caught my eye on Tuesday.

⚖️ + 💰 If AI can simplify the rendering of legal boilerplate into more easily understood language, there is a case to be made for finding legal needles in haystacks of legalese too.

https://www.techmeme.com/250218/p9#a250218p9

⚖️ + 🧠 Technology assisted review (TAR) and computer assisted review (CAR) are making bigger impact in the legal field of eDiscovery where the expectation of sifting through electronically stored information (ESI) grows larger as more information is being stored digitally. So, it’s time to hear from legal technologists, TAR/CAR experts, and network with those at the forefront of innovation.

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-02-19

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=zprSxCMlECA

https://www.nativecos.com/collections/limited-edition-dunkin

https://bsky.app/profile/tylerjameshill.com/post/3liillvsnhc2m

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-02-20

One headline for a Thursday Throwback caught my eye.

⚛️ + ☁️ I was tipped to the recent Majorana news.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jaycuthrell_majorana-activity-7298823652937007105-kqCH?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAACk1T7oBu6QkP2p3bHgknv3R55ktER0dzqc

In fact, the Microsoft quantum computing related news goes back quite far… to at least 10+ years ago.

https://www.techmeme.com/140624/p6#a140624p6

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-02-21

The story that caught my eye this week was Apple taking a loud (principled) stance most likely in response to alleged government demands for “backdoors” to be built into Apple encryption.

https://www.techmeme.com/250221/p12#a250221p12

Warrant canary aside, this action may further reasoned discussion on balancing for the merits of end to end encryption (E2EE), individual freedoms, individual privacy, national security, willful government ignorance of maths, and government overreach.

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-02-22

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 👀

In that spirit, here are a few stories that you might have missed on the slow news of a Friday.

Insert Let’s See Who This Really Is Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250221/p11#a250221p11

Insert Ceiling Cat Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250221/p24#a250221p24

Insert We’re All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250221/p22#a250221p22

Insert That Wasn’t Me, That Was Patricia Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250221/p9#a250221p9

Insert Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250221/p21#a250221p21

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-02-22

2025-02-23T00:04:26Z

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 👀

In that spirit, here are a few stories that you might have missed on the slow news of a Friday.

Insert Let’s See Who This Really Is Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250221/p11#a250221p11

Insert Ceiling Cat Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250221/p24#a250221p24

Insert We’re All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250221/p22#a250221p22

Insert That Wasn’t Me, That Was Patricia Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250221/p9#a250221p9

Insert Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250221/p21#a250221p21

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-02-21

2025-02-22T23:40:44Z

The story that caught my eye this week was Apple taking a loud (principled) stance most likely in response to alleged government demands for “backdoors” to be built into Apple encryption.

https://www.techmeme.com/250221/p12#a250221p12

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-02-20

2025-02-22T19:02:58Z

One headline for a Thursday Throwback caught my eye.

⚛️ + ☁️ I was tipped to the recent Majorana news.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jaycuthrell_majorana-activity-7298823652937007105-kqCH?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAACk1T7oBu6QkP2p3bHgknv3R55ktER0dzqc

In fact, the Microsoft quantum computing related news goes back quite far… to at least 10+ years ago.

https://www.techmeme.com/140624/p6#a140624p6

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-02-19

2025-02-22T18:44:34Z

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=zprSxCMlECA

https://www.nativecos.com/collections/limited-edition-dunkin

https://bsky.app/profile/tylerjameshill.com/post/3liillvsnhc2m

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-02-18

2025-02-22T17:57:48Z

Two hot takes on a story and event that caught my eye on Tuesday.

⚖️ + 💰 If AI can simplify the rendering of legal boilerplate into more easily understood language, there is a case to be made for finding legal needles in haystacks of legalese too.

https://www.techmeme.com/250218/p9#a250218p9

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-02-17

2025-02-18T03:58:36Z

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 16 Unlocked!

This week:

Spicy Level 10 resting place?

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 Fudge Sunday for 2025-02-16

2025-02-16T22:30:00Z

Quick Recaps

I published the first of a series of AI Field Day 6 posts on the NexusTek Insights blog. Check it out to learn more about ML Commons.

More to come!

#OpenToWork Weekly

I believe in #NeverSearchAlone. I also continue to participate in a #JSC.

I’m also pleased to add an Alumni 🎉 section this week for those that have transitioned from #OpenToWork to their next career adventure.

Alumni 🎉

Congrats Richard Arnesen! 🎉

Jarrod Weise

I bring over 15 years of comprehensive experience in strategic partnerships and business development, primarily within the high-paced technology sector. Currently serving as the Director of Partnerships Development at CoreStack, I am at the forefront of devising and implementing strategies that enhance our channel partnerships and advance our digital strategy initiatives. My role is pivotal in cultivating solid and productive relationships with key partners and aligning our business goals with innovative digital solutions.
Source: Jarrod Weise

Dan Kelleher

Accomplished Program Manager | Technical Project Manager | Certified Scrum Master
With 25+ years of proven success leading high-impact initiatives in IT, Healthcare, and Engineering, I bring expertise in managing complex programs, driving cross-functional collaboration, and delivering innovative solutions. Adept at navigating multi-million-dollar budgets, mitigating risks, and ensuring successful outcomes throughout the entire program lifecycle. Known for building strong, lasting relationships with stakeholders, C-suite executives, partners, and teams, I excel at aligning diverse groups to bring large-scale solutions to fruition. My approach combines strategic planning, continuous oversight, and flexibility to meet goals, while maintaining a sharp focus on quality, cost, and performance.
Source: Dan Kelleher

Rich Green

I am an experienced technology and sales professional who has worked in pre-sales, post-sales, and Customer Operations roles over my career. I am a self starter who works well both independently and in a team environment. Some of my professional achievements include helping launch the Iridium Satellite Phone System while at Motorola SATCOM and taking a startup Internet Service Provider (SoftAware) to the next level to be acquired by Digital Island. I have consistently exceeded multimillion dollar annual sales quotas selling into the Enterprise, SMB, and SLED space while at Hughes, EMC, Brocade, Broadcom and Faction. I continue to utilize the multiple skills I have learned throughout my career including solution selling, technical account management, objection handling, project management, and utilizing public/private/hybrid cloud environments to achieve business outcomes. I am also continuing to learn new technologies such as AI/ML and Cyber Security fundamentals. I know that I will be an asset to any organization that I join. I am also willing to relocate for the right opportunity.
In my spare time I work with Special Needs individuals who are non or minimally speaking to help give them their voice using alternative technologies.
Source: Rich Green

Barbara Hadley, EdM, SPHR

Empowering People, Elevating Businesses:
A strategic HR professional with a contagious enthusiasm for empowering employees. Expertise in crafting dynamic work environments that foster high engagement and drive results utilizing a data-driven approach to implement solutions that support both employee satisfaction and organizational success.
Source: Barbara Hadley, EdM, SPHR

Andrew Webber

I’m a passionate leader with a proven track record of building and scaling innovative consumer products. As the Co-founder & CEO of Corsair Distillery, I grew the company from concept to a multi-million dollar operation with a national presence and 400 awards for quality and innovation. I’m adept at identifying unique market opportunities, developing award-winning products, and building high-performing teams.
Source: Andrew Webber

Lida Tohidi

🏆 Recognized as a Top 20 Visionary in Media & Tech by Adello and Top 15 Coach by Influence Digest

🚀 Career Highlights

15+ years of experience in product management, digital marketing, and strategic planning
7+ years advising, consulting, and investing in mission-driven startups and SMBs
Led teams to win the Google Startup Battle (out of 1000+ teams) and other national awards
Advised startups that have collectively raised over $500 million
Launched a successful national incubator

Source: Lida Tohidi

Nathan Clyker

Successful Sales and Business Development Professional with a demonstrated 21 year history of working in the IT industry. Expert skills in Management, Sales, Enterprise Software and Hardware, Partner Management, Storage, Go-to-market Strategy creation/execution, and Sales Operations. Strong sales professional with a BS in International Business from University of Colorado, Denver and an intense focus on customer satisfaction via strong business and interpersonal relationships.
Source: Nathan Clyker

Gina (Gina Minks) Rosenthal

Over 10 years’ experience as a global and fractional product marketing manager for global technology companies (up to 120K employees) as well as and startups.
Over the last 5 years leading Digital Sunshine Solutions, generated over 150 blog posts, 26 case studies, and a range of messaging documents, launch plans, white papers, product datasheets, and solution briefs.
Bootstrapped quarterly cross-company “Think Tanks” to create strong feedback loops between executives, product, marketing, and engineering teams.
Created technical content and improved product positioning using sales and customer feedback. Served as the voice of the customer for enterprise clients exploring SaaS products.
Planned, researched, and developed over twenty podcast episodes covering AI and infrastructure over two years.

The experience on my resume is definitely not traditional! But because there is a string connecting it all, I bring a unique blend of technical expertise and creative marketing strategy to the table. With over a decade of experience working with industry leaders like EMC, Dell, and VMware, I’ve honed an in-depth understanding of the challenges IT executives face—and more importantly, how to solve them. However, since I come from a sysadmin/operator audience, I easily craft messaging that resonates and builds trust with them too.
Source: Gina (Gina Minks) Rosenthal

Janel Van Beek

For Humans: I intellectually help organizations and leaders grow and keep great teams, and lead change into the future. My favorite skills and experiences are strategy, program management, product, and organization and leadership effectiveness. My detailed resume is available here: https://www.francievanwirkus.com/resume
For Data Searches: Janel Van Beek (formerly Janel Lanza), SPC 6.0, FLMI, CCTP II, is a business strategist and certified Master Coach, helping people do what seems impossible. She is a digital transformation, OCM, leadership development, and product expert. She is strategy and business consultant. She has financial, health, entrepreneur, retail and services product experience. She has deep experience in strategy, change, instructional design and training as well as in being a turn-around people leader.
Source: Janel Van Beek

Greg Phillips

At IBM, my focus as a Cloud Platform Leader has been on fostering strategic partnerships and driving innovative marketing strategies. With a strong background in corporate marketing and a hands-on approach to customer relationship management, my recent work has centered on extending IBM’s cloud alliances globally.
The team has successfully leveraged my skills in strategic and online marketing to create impactful campaigns, positioning us at the forefront of cloud solutions. Our collaborative efforts have not only filled the sales funnel but also strengthened IBM’s presence in the competitive cloud marketplace.
Source: Greg Phillips

Sheri Gearhart

Innovative Technology Architect | Solution Designer | Collaborative Leader
Passionate about driving technological innovation and delivering cutting-edge solutions, I thrive on exploring and implementing new technologies to solve complex problems. With a keen eye for evaluating the benefits of emerging tools within solution stacks, I excel in leading proofs of concept and translating technical insights into actionable strategies for stakeholders, maximizing the return on investment through increasing revenue. My strengths lie in developing comprehensive presentations, providing expert training, and fostering collaboration across diverse teams. As a natural leader, I inspire and influence through my technical expertise and vision, without the constraints of formal management roles. My ideal position leverages my skills in architecting solutions, knowledge sharing, and project leadership, while allowing me to focus on the technical aspects of innovation rather than sales-driven engagements.
Source: Sheri Gearhart

Tamera Rousseau King

A highly skilled Technical Project Manager, Agile Product Owner, and people leader with a proven track record in managing large-scale marketing technology programs and building high-performing teams. Demonstrated ability to build strong cross-functional relationships to align on project scope, prioritize business requirements, and develop effective risk mitigation strategies, ensuring project goals were achieved on time and under budget. Adept at leveraging Agile methodologies to establish operational excellence, driving repeated success, and ensuring program accountability.
Source: Tamera Rousseau King

Ricardo Perez

With a deep-seated passion for pioneering virtualization solutions, my tenure at Dell EMC, Xerox, etc. has been marked by architecting and deploying PowerFlex and VxRail systems. My expertise lies in comprehensive lifecycle management, with a proven track record in steering projects from conception to completion, delivering high-performance and scalable virtual environments.
Source: Ricardo Perez

Mike Berteletti, CISSP

Experienced Information Technology Professional with a broad and deep knowledge of many information technology products and services found in large enterprises to small and medium businesses. Specialties include Converged Infrastructure, Cloud Computing, Information Storage Solutions, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows Infrastructure, Information Systems Security, Enterprise Network Design, Data Protection, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, IT Strategy, IT Leadership, Business Liason and Career Development.

ISC2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
EMC Proven Professional Technology Architect

Source: Mike Berteletti, CISSP

Bob Lima, PMP

Experienced Senior Program Manager with 15+ years of successfully managing end-to-end lifecycles of large, cross-functional, and transformational programs. Expertise in delivering complex projects within scope, timeline, and budget while driving process improvements and ensuring strategic alignment with business goals. Adept at utilizing Agile, Waterfall, and Lean Six Sigma methodologies, with a proven ability to manage risks, resolve conflicts, and optimize resource allocation. Skilled communicator, capable of presenting technical concepts to senior leadership and influencing business decisions for maximizing ROI. A leader focused on mentorship, team empowerment, and continuous improvement.
323-513-6011
Source: Bob Lima, PMP

Chris Mojica

Seasoned technical sales professional and technologist with proven pre and post sales engineering experience. Experience includes supporting startups, system integrators, vendors, channel partners/VARs, OEMs and end customers. I am always open to Solutions Architect or Sales/Systems Engineering opportunities.
Source: Chris Mojica

Matthew Leib

After many years as an engineer and presales architect, with specialties in datacenter, cloud, virtualization and most particularly storage, I’ve become noted for my writing and analytical expertise in those categories. My blogging has been ongoing since 2009, and I use those writing and focused IT value propositions to write for a number of analytics firms. I specialize in architectures surrounding Kubernetes, Converged and hyper-converged architectures in storage, cloud, AI, and virtualization, containers focused.
Source: Matthew Leib

Michael Joffe

Dynamic global technology leader and Military veteran. P&L responsibility for business lines ranging from $10M to $150M in annual recurring revenue—direct management of high-performing teams ranging from 10 to 75 professionals across the globe. Exceptional at driving growth with Series C, PE-backed, and large-cap multi-national companies. Extensive experience with technology solution co-creation and GTM execution across the OEM, ISV, and SaaS ecosystems.
Source: Michael Joffe

Colleen Coll

“Allow myself to introduce…myself.” - Austin Powers
Ever feel like you’re juggling flaming torches planning events—trying to keep all the details in the air while something’s always about to catch fire? Yep, I’ve been there. Events have a way of throwing curveballs, and when tech and tools aren’t playing nice, chaos can easily take over.
That’s where I come in. I love turning event madness into magic. Whether it’s on-site event coverage using digital media, live reporting, or behind-the-scenes management, I make sure everything runs like clockwork. I’m also a huge fan of using There.App, which simplifies on-location event management by keeping everyone in sync and streamlining the entire process, so no detail gets lost in the shuffle.
From tech conferences to startup launches, I capture the moments that matter and keep things smooth, whether it’s happening live or behind the scenes. And when I’m not on the ground, I’m writing—blogs, articles, and ghostwriting for tech leaders to tell the bigger story behind the event, brand, or mission.
So, let’s make your next event one to remember, with every detail in place and every moment captured. Reach out! I’m always game for a brainstorm or a quick chat about how to make your event shine (without all the stress).
Source: Colleen Coll

Karl Edwards, PMP

An innovative, strategic and results-oriented technical program manager and network strategist with twenty-two years of experience in the telecommunications and technology industries. I can interact with and contribute to technical discussions with engineers as well as communicate program updates, strategy and roadmap to senior executives. For the last seven years at Cox Communications, I managed the three largest and most strategic programs within the technology portfolio: DOCSIS 3.1 program, Remote PHY program and DOCSIS 4.0 program. I have an inherent bias for action and have successfully operated in an environment where I managed cross-functional and cross-organizational teams without authority every day.
Source: Karl Edwards, PMP

Shianna Maxwell

Creative and independent graphic design and marketing professional with a keen eye for detail and a strong background in digital brand management, logo design, and layout design. Passionate about delivering high-quality projects on time, with a proven ability to collaborate effectively with global teams, manage tight deadlines, and handle multiple projects simultaneously. Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft Office Suite, with excellent time management and problem-solving skills that enable me to work autonomously while fostering strong teamwork.
Source: Shianna Maxwell

Paul Lysko

Results-oriented Product Management Executive and former Air Force officer with 20+ years of experience across B2B software, retail technology solutions, FP&A, and operations. Skilled in driving business growth through strategic product management, P&L ownership, and customer focus. Repeatedly managed P&Ls of up to $225 million, consistently delivering impactful results. Passionate leader with a track record of hiring and managing teams of 10+.
Source: Paul Lysko

Thomas Chatham

Engineering leader and technologist with over 20 years of experience in the Enterprise technology industry, most recently specializing in engineering and validation for Dell’s enterprise software as a service (SaaS) subscriptions. My expertise lies in management, particularly in leading end-to-end development and integration of various Converged Infrastructure platforms. This includes spearheading formation of a global engineering organization to create next-gen automated converged systems.
Source: Thomas Chatham

Sam Aiello, Ph.D.

Experienced cybersecurity and technology strategist with a proven record of delivering innovative, tailored solutions by collaborating with C-suite executives and cross-functional teams across Sales, Product, Engineering, and Marketing. Adept at driving business growth and client success through strategic insights, technology leadership, and effective pre-sales engagement. A self-driven contributor with expertise in technology strategy, client advocacy, and sales enablement, recognized for enhancing company visibility through impactful presentations and industry event participation. Seeking a dynamic pre-sales role that leverages cross-functional collaboration to create transformative solutions while maintaining a balanced scope of responsibility and work-life integration.
Source: Sam Aiello, Ph.D.

Hot Fudge Daily Digest

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-02-10

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 4 returns!

This week:

Spicy Level 16 Unlocked!

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 2025-02-11

Two hot takes for two stories that caught my eye on Tuesday.

🍪 + 💰 Chips are back in season again so it makes sense to see a grab for vertical integration and custom silicon ambitions to offset NVIDIA only procurement at scale outside the US — and especially if there are dithering tariffs to be considered.

https://www.techmeme.com/250211/p29#a250211p29

🍪 + 💰 That said, the appeal of manufacturing chips close to home within the US is another way to avoid dithering tariffs by investing in the US as a quasi-home team advantage.

https://www.techmeme.com/250211/p41#a250211p41

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-02-12

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/shorts/9ZJu12sbn1g

https://weirdkatharine.tumblr.com/post/649665308709339137/my-favorite-things-27-cave-pearls

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scho-Ka-Kola

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-02-13

One headline for a Thursday Throwback caught my eye.

🔐 + 💰 CyberArk went shopping again — this time for Zilla Security.

https://www.techmeme.com/250213/p29#a250213p29

🔐 + 💰 In fact, CyberArk gobbled up Venafi back in May 2024.

https://www.techmeme.com/240520/p7#a240520p7

But M&A is not new for CyberArk. For example, it has been almost 10 years since the acquisition of Viewfinity in 2015.

While these aren’t Wiz size numbers, it does show that consolidation is happening in some parts of cybersecurity landscape even as it continuously expands to address the ever expanding threats landscape.

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-02-14

🤖🤖🤖❤️💰 3 robot funding stories caught my eye this week.

https://www.techmeme.com/250214/p32#a250214p32

https://www.techmeme.com/250214/p12#a250214p12

https://www.techmeme.com/250213/p18#a250213p18

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-02-15

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 👀

In that spirit, here are a few stories that you might have missed on the slow news of a Friday.

Insert Let’s See Who This Really Is Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250214/p30#a250214p30

Insert Ceiling Cat Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250214/p6#a250214p6

Insert We’re All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250214/p7#a250214p7

Insert That Wasn’t Me, That Was Patricia Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250214/p14#a250214p14

Insert Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250214/p21#a250214p21

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-02-15

2025-02-16T03:25:57Z

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 👀

In that spirit, here are a few stories that you might have missed on the slow news of a Friday.

Insert Let’s See Who This Really Is Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250214/p30#a250214p30

Insert Ceiling Cat Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250214/p6#a250214p6

Insert We’re All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250214/p7#a250214p7

Insert That Wasn’t Me, That Was Patricia Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250214/p14#a250214p14

Insert Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250214/p21#a250214p21

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-02-14

2025-02-15T05:35:44Z

🤖🤖🤖❤️💰 3 robot funding stories caught my eye this week.

https://www.techmeme.com/250214/p32#a250214p32

https://www.techmeme.com/250214/p12#a250214p12

https://www.techmeme.com/250213/p18#a250213p18

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-02-13

2025-02-14T05:41:32Z

One headline for a Thursday Throwback caught my eye.

🔐 + 💰 CyberArk went shopping again — this time for Zilla Security.

https://www.techmeme.com/250213/p29#a250213p29

🔐 + 💰 In fact, CyberArk gobbled up Venafi back in May 2024.

https://www.techmeme.com/240520/p7#a240520p7

But M&A is not new for CyberArk. For example, it has been almost 10 years since the acquisition of Viewfinity in 2015.

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-02-12

2025-02-13T07:03:35Z

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/shorts/9ZJu12sbn1g

https://weirdkatharine.tumblr.com/post/649665308709339137/my-favorite-things-27-cave-pearls

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scho-Ka-Kola

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-02-11

2025-02-12T02:56:35Z

Two hot takes for two stories that caught my eye on Tuesday.

https://www.techmeme.com/250211/p29#a250211p29

🍪 + 💰 That said, the appeal of manufacturing chips close to home within the US is another way to avoid dithering tariffs by investing in the US as a quasi-home team advantage.

https://www.techmeme.com/250211/p41#a250211p41

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-02-10

2025-02-11T05:31:02Z

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 4 returns!

This week:

Spicy Level 16 Unlocked!

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 Fudge Sunday for 2025-02-09

2025-02-10T00:39:38Z

Quick recaps

It was a busy week. I participated in an amazing panel at Cohesity in San Jose for Consortium of Information Systems Executives (CISE) with Omer Ayfer Julia Lake Kannan Perumal. Our interactive audience included Xi Liu Frank Tawil Elizabeth Marks McAndrew Debra Radford Rand Shamas Todd Dekkinga Matthew McAndrew Karl Mosgofian Jon Roller Vince Ernani Vinay Gogineni Peggy Florence Vidhya Jambunathan Stephanie Dwight Shyamala S. Nate Aschenbach (he/him/his) Mudit Agarwal Kathryn Shugart Devesh Gupta Blake VandeVelde Archana Deshpande Andrew McAllister Al Linke and many more.

Big thanks to Omer Ayfer for the tomato plants and Benevento Marmo seeds from Bene Seeds Inc 🍅🍅🍅🍅

Benevento Marmo seeds from beneseeds.com

#OpenToWork Weekly

I believe in #NeverSearchAlone. I also continue to participate in a #JSC.

I’m also pleased to add an Alumni 🎉 section this week for those that have transitioned from #OpenToWork to their next career adventure.

Alumni 🎉 Richard Arnesen

Congrats Richard Arnesen! 🎉

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/richard-arnesen_im-happy-to-share-that-im-starting-a-new-activity-7290099022084616192-QjYm?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

Jarrod Weise

I bring over 15 years of comprehensive experience in strategic partnerships and business development, primarily within the high-paced technology sector. Currently serving as the Director of Partnerships Development at CoreStack, I am at the forefront of devising and implementing strategies that enhance our channel partnerships and advance our digital strategy initiatives. My role is pivotal in cultivating solid and productive relationships with key partners and aligning our business goals with innovative digital solutions.

Before my current position, I was a Senior Partner Development Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where my responsibilities included leading strategic partnership frameworks and initiatives. In this capacity, I successfully launched four new offers integrated with professional and managed services. My efforts led to transformative changes in partner processes and metrics, improving the results of our partnerships by 50%. These achievements were instrumental in driving significant growth and enhancing the overall partner ecosystem at AWS.

Before AWS, I managed business development solutions at Insight, focusing on cloud and datacenter transformations. My work involved optimizing key business segments, managing substantial investments, and directing innovative solution architectures that accounted for 80% of Cisco’s $1 billion business. My strategic initiatives resulted in a 39% revenue increase and an 11% growth in services in FY20 alone.

Throughout my career, I have been deeply involved in program development, digital marketing, and integrating marketing strategies that amplify community outreach and fundraising efforts. My approach has consistently been to leverage digital media and marketing to expand reach and impact, underscoring my commitment to not just meeting but exceeding organizational goals.

My professional journey has been marked by a steadfast commitment to excellence, innovation, and a strategic vision that has been recognized and awarded in various capacities. I am passionate about driving business strategy and digital transformation, ensuring that each initiative I lead delivers tangible results and enhances the strategic positioning of the organization.

If you catch me outside of work, I’m an adventurous traveler - 10 countries and counting - and an avid love of the outdoors.

I also like meeting new people over a cup of coffee. Feel free to reach out via DM on X (formerly Twitter) @jarrodweise

Source: Jarrod Weise

Dan Kelleher

Accomplished Program Manager | Technical Project Manager | Certified Scrum Master
With 25+ years of proven success leading high-impact initiatives in IT, Healthcare, and Engineering, I bring expertise in managing complex programs, driving cross-functional collaboration, and delivering innovative solutions. Adept at navigating multi-million-dollar budgets, mitigating risks, and ensuring successful outcomes throughout the entire program lifecycle. Known for building strong, lasting relationships with stakeholders, C-suite executives, partners, and teams, I excel at aligning diverse groups to bring large-scale solutions to fruition. My approach combines strategic planning, continuous oversight, and flexibility to meet goals, while maintaining a sharp focus on quality, cost, and performance.
Key Strengths:
Expert in program lifecycle management with a focus on risk management, cost control, and delivery timelines

Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence stakeholders at all levels
Skilled at integrating Agile and Waterfall methodologies to streamline processes and drive results
Deep expertise in managing multi-million-dollar budgets and scaling complex programs
Track record of mentoring and developing high-performance teams

Source: Dan Kelleher

Rich Green

I am an experienced technology and sales professional who has worked in pre-sales, post-sales, and Customer Operations roles over my career. I am a self starter who works well both independently and in a team environment. Some of my professional achievements include helping launch the Iridium Satellite Phone System while at Motorola SATCOM and taking a startup Internet Service Provider (SoftAware) to the next level to be acquired by Digital Island. I have consistently exceeded multimillion dollar annual sales quotas selling into the Enterprise, SMB, and SLED space while at Hughes, EMC, Brocade, Broadcom and Faction. I continue to utilize the multiple skills I have learned throughout my career including solution selling, technical account management, objection handling, project management, and utilizing public/private/hybrid cloud environments to achieve business outcomes. I am also continuing to learn new technologies such as AI/ML and Cyber Security fundamentals. I know that I will be an asset to any organization that I join. I am also willing to relocate for the right opportunity.
In my spare time I work with Special Needs individuals who are non or minimally speaking to help give them their voice using alternative technologies.
Source: Rich Green

Barbara Hadley, EdM, SPHR

Empowering People, Elevating Businesses:
A strategic HR professional with a contagious enthusiasm for empowering employees. Expertise in crafting dynamic work environments that foster high engagement and drive results utilizing a data-driven approach to implement solutions that support both employee satisfaction and organizational success.
Source: Barbara Hadley, EdM, SPHR

Andrew Webber

I’m a passionate leader with a proven track record of building and scaling innovative consumer products. As the Co-founder & CEO of Corsair Distillery, I grew the company from concept to a multi-million dollar operation with a national presence and 400 awards for quality and innovation. I’m adept at identifying unique market opportunities, developing award-winning products, and building high-performing teams.
My expertise lies in:
Innovation: I have a relentless curiosity and a passion for bringing disruptive ideas to life.

Strategy: I excel at translating market insights into winning product strategies and brand positioning.
Operations: I have a proven track record of building and scaling operations from the ground up.
Leadership: I thrive on building and motivating teams to achieve ambitious goals.

Source: Andrew Webber

Lida Tohidi

🏆 Recognized as a Top 20 Visionary in Media & Tech by Adello and Top 15 Coach by Influence Digest

🚀 Career Highlights

15+ years of experience in product management, digital marketing, and strategic planning
7+ years advising, consulting, and investing in mission-driven startups and SMBs
Led teams to win the Google Startup Battle (out of 1000+ teams) and other national awards
Advised startups that have collectively raised over $500 million
Launched a successful national incubator

🌟 Speaking Engagements

Delivered keynotes and workshops at 35+ prestigious conferences including:
Tech Giants: Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn, Twitch, Tencent
Fortune 500: Capital One, Wells Fargo
Innovators: Anaplan, Mavenlink, Mobify, ThoughtWorks

💡 Areas of Expertise

Product Management
Digital Marketing
Strategic Planning
Startup Advising & Investing
Diversity & Inclusion in Tech
Mindfulness in the Workplace

🌍 Global Experience

Initiated and led projects across 12 countries on 6 continents
Fluent in 3 languages, working proficiency in 3 more
Countries: Australia, Bénin, Canada, France, Italy, Japan, Malawi, Peru, Switzerland, Taiwan, UK, USA

🤝 Community Involvement

Active mentor and speaker for numerous tech and diversity initiatives:
ACT-W, Anita Borg Institute, Cleantech Open, Latinos in Tech, Tech Jobs Tour
Women in STEM, Women Entering and Staying in Tech (WEST), - Young Women in Business (YWiB)

🎯 Passion Projects

Champion for mindfulness in the tech industry
Advocate for diversity and inclusion in technology and beyond
Committed to empowering underrepresented groups in tech

Source: Lida Tohidi

Nathan Clyker

Successful Sales and Business Development Professional with a demonstrated 21 year history of working in the IT industry. Expert skills in Management, Sales, Enterprise Software and Hardware, Partner Management, Storage, Go-to-market Strategy creation/execution, and Sales Operations. Strong sales professional with a BS in International Business from University of Colorado, Denver and an intense focus on customer satisfaction via strong business and interpersonal relationships.
Source: Nathan Clyker

Gina (Gina Minks) Rosenthal

Over 10 years’ experience as a global and fractional product marketing manager for global technology companies (up to 120K employees) as well as and startups.
Over the last 5 years leading Digital Sunshine Solutions, generated over 150 blog posts, 26 case studies, and a range of messaging documents, launch plans, white papers, product datasheets, and solution briefs.
Bootstrapped quarterly cross-company “Think Tanks” to create strong feedback loops between executives, product, marketing, and engineering teams.
Created technical content and improved product positioning using sales and customer feedback. Served as the voice of the customer for enterprise clients exploring SaaS products.
Planned, researched, and developed over twenty podcast episodes covering AI and infrastructure over two years.

The experience on my resume is definitely not traditional! But because there is a string connecting it all, I bring a unique blend of technical expertise and creative marketing strategy to the table. With over a decade of experience working with industry leaders like EMC, Dell, and VMware, I’ve honed an in-depth understanding of the challenges IT executives face—and more importantly, how to solve them. However, since I come from a sysadmin/operator audience, I easily craft messaging that resonates and builds trust with them too.
Founding and leading Digital Sunshine Solutions for five years is one of the most fulfilling and proudest milestones of my career. Over the last five years, our team executed six product launches, developed over 150 blog posts, 26 case studies, and countless white papers, solution briefs, and product datasheets. And our work drove real impact. One of our clients saw a 150% growth in their social media presence!
I’m passionate about innovation and collaboration, particularly in areas like artificial intelligence and infrastructure technology. I want to connect the dots between complex products and the human stories they power. I believe there is infinite power in connecting everyone, inside and outside of an organization.
If you’re interested in telling the story of how your product turns customers in the hero of their own journey, let’s talk!
Source: Gina (Gina Minks) Rosenthal

Janel Van Beek

For Humans: I intellectually help organizations and leaders grow and keep great teams, and lead change into the future. My favorite skills and experiences are strategy, program management, product, and organization and leadership effectiveness. My detailed resume is available here: https://www.francievanwirkus.com/resume
For Data Searches: Janel Van Beek (formerly Janel Lanza), SPC 6.0, FLMI, CCTP II, is a business strategist and certified Master Coach, helping people do what seems impossible. She is a digital transformation, OCM, leadership development, and product expert. She is strategy and business consultant. She has financial, health, entrepreneur, retail and services product experience. She has deep experience in strategy, change, instructional design and training as well as in being a turn-around people leader.
As founder of Francie Van Wirkus LLC, an executive coaching and private yoga business, Janel is a keynote speaker, author of several books and executive coach and strategist. She has strategic product and portfolio experience. Janel also has deep experience in investment training, organization effectiveness, human resources, and instructional design. She is a dual-certified yoga instructor for group and private classes, and is an Ironman triathlete. Each day, Janel aims to hang around with people who do epic sh*t.
Certifications and Training

PESI Dialectical Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness
Globant Leadership Development
Globant AI
IC Agile ICP-ENT
IC Agile ICP-CAT
IC Agile- ICP-ORG
Scaled Agile Framework SPC 6.0, 2015-present
SAFe PMPO 5.0, Advanced Scrum Master, Lean Portfolio Management, Remote Trainer, LPM 5.1 AHF Agility Health Radar Facilitator, 2020
CCTP I and II Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, 2020
CPrime Product Agility: Discovery and Delivery, 2020
Integrative Yoga Therapy Instructor 200 hour, 2020
Harvard Business New Leader Program graduate, 2018
Breakthrough Leader Program graduate, 2018
Lean Greenbelt, 2015
Personal Kanban, 2014
Scrum Foundations, 2012
PROSCI Change Management, 2011
Certified Breakthrough Master Coach, 2006
Certified Agency Trainer, 2001
Past FINRA licenses 6, 7, 26 1998, 2000
FLMI 1998
ACS Customer Service 1998

Source: Janel Van Beek

Greg Phillips

At IBM, my focus as a Cloud Platform Leader has been on fostering strategic partnerships and driving innovative marketing strategies. With a strong background in corporate marketing and a hands-on approach to customer relationship management, my recent work has centered on extending IBM’s cloud alliances globally.
The team has successfully leveraged my skills in strategic and online marketing to create impactful campaigns, positioning us at the forefront of cloud solutions. Our collaborative efforts have not only filled the sales funnel but also strengthened IBM’s presence in the competitive cloud marketplace.
Source: Greg Phillips

Sheri Gearhart

Innovative Technology Architect | Solution Designer | Collaborative Leader
Passionate about driving technological innovation and delivering cutting-edge solutions, I thrive on exploring and implementing new technologies to solve complex problems. With a keen eye for evaluating the benefits of emerging tools within solution stacks, I excel in leading proofs of concept and translating technical insights into actionable strategies for stakeholders, maximizing the return on investment through increasing revenue. My strengths lie in developing comprehensive presentations, providing expert training, and fostering collaboration across diverse teams. As a natural leader, I inspire and influence through my technical expertise and vision, without the constraints of formal management roles. My ideal position leverages my skills in architecting solutions, knowledge sharing, and project leadership, while allowing me to focus on the technical aspects of innovation rather than sales-driven engagements.
I have held a wide array of positions throughout my career in technology. My path includes technical support, UNIX system administration, SAP Basis Administration, storage SAN architecture design and engineering, technical design analysis at customer sites, CTO, and system architecture spanning across on-premises and public/hybrid cloud platforms, Converged Systems and Hyper-Converged Systems. I have advanced knowledge of Dell EMC Storage, Dell EMC Data Protection, Cisco and Brocade SAN, Cisco UCS, and VMware vSphere. I hold several Dell EMC certifications, as well as ITIL and SAFe 4 Agilist certifications.
Specialties: architectural design, BCDR, cisco, customer relations, erp, hp - ux, nas, storage engineering, san, storage networking, NVMe-oF protocols, Red Hat Linux, SUSE Linux, SAP Basis, Solaris, strategic planning, system administration, technical training, vendor relations, Veritas Netbackup, EMC and HP storage technologies
Source: Sheri Gearhart

Tamera Rousseau King

A highly skilled Technical Project Manager, Agile Product Owner, and people leader with a proven track record in managing large-scale marketing technology programs and building high-performing teams. Demonstrated ability to build strong cross-functional relationships to align on project scope, prioritize business requirements, and develop effective risk mitigation strategies, ensuring project goals were achieved on time and under budget. Adept at leveraging Agile methodologies to establish operational excellence, driving repeated success, and ensuring program accountability.
Source: Tamera Rousseau King

Ricardo Perez

With a deep-seated passion for pioneering virtualization solutions, my tenure at Dell EMC, Xerox, etc. has been marked by architecting and deploying PowerFlex and VxRail systems. My expertise lies in comprehensive lifecycle management, with a proven track record in steering projects from conception to completion, delivering high-performance and scalable virtual environments.
At the core of my professional journey is a commitment to innovation and excellence in infrastructure transformation. Collaborating with C-level executives, I’ve honed my skills in presenting project visions and strategies, while my fluency in English and Spanish enhances our team’s ability to drive global initiatives. My credentials, including multiple VMware and Microsoft certifications, underscore my dedication to maintaining technical prowess in Systems Engineering.
Source: Ricardo Perez

Mike Berteletti, CISSP

Experienced Information Technology Professional with a broad and deep knowledge of many information technology products and services found in large enterprises to small and medium businesses. Specialties include Converged Infrastructure, Cloud Computing, Information Storage Solutions, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows Infrastructure, Information Systems Security, Enterprise Network Design, Data Protection, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, IT Strategy, IT Leadership, Business Liason and Career Development.

ISC2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
EMC Proven Professional Technology Architect

Source: Mike Berteletti, CISSP

Bob Lima, PMP

Experienced Senior Program Manager with 15+ years of successfully managing end-to-end lifecycles of large, cross-functional, and transformational programs. Expertise in delivering complex projects within scope, timeline, and budget while driving process improvements and ensuring strategic alignment with business goals. Adept at utilizing Agile, Waterfall, and Lean Six Sigma methodologies, with a proven ability to manage risks, resolve conflicts, and optimize resource allocation. Skilled communicator, capable of presenting technical concepts to senior leadership and influencing business decisions for maximizing ROI. A leader focused on mentorship, team empowerment, and continuous improvement.
323-513-6011
Source: Bob Lima, PMP

Chris Mojica

Seasoned technical sales professional and technologist with proven pre and post sales engineering experience. Experience includes supporting startups, system integrators, vendors, channel partners/VARs, OEMs and end customers. I am always open to Solutions Architect or Sales/Systems Engineering opportunities.
Technical backgrounds include the disciplines of HCI, Virtualization, Software Defined (SDN/SDS/SDC) storage area networks (SAN), network, and broadband technologies. Additionally, having supported various levels within multiple organizations demonstrates my ability to effectively conduct business and technical level discussions within each of these tiers.
Leveraging my knowledge, background and experience allows me to understand complex datacenter environments. This technical acumen allows me to propose creative solutions that maximize ROI and minimize TCO. Strong organizational skills and ability to support multiple projects allows me to meet multiple deadlines.
Source: Chris Mojica

Matthew Leib

After many years as an engineer and presales architect, with specialties in datacenter, cloud, virtualization and most particularly storage, I’ve become noted for my writing and analytical expertise in those categories. My blogging has been ongoing since 2009, and I use those writing and focused IT value propositions to write for a number of analytics firms. I specialize in architectures surrounding Kubernetes, Converged and hyper-converged architectures in storage, cloud, AI, and virtualization, containers focused.
Source: Matthew Leib

Michael Joffe

Dynamic global technology leader and Military veteran. P&L responsibility for business lines ranging from $10M to $150M in annual recurring revenue—direct management of high-performing teams ranging from 10 to 75 professionals across the globe. Exceptional at driving growth with Series C, PE-backed, and large-cap multi-national companies. Extensive experience with technology solution co-creation and GTM execution across the OEM, ISV, and SaaS ecosystems.
Source: Michael Joffe

Colleen Coll

“Allow myself to introduce…myself.” - Austin Powers
Ever feel like you’re juggling flaming torches planning events—trying to keep all the details in the air while something’s always about to catch fire? Yep, I’ve been there. Events have a way of throwing curveballs, and when tech and tools aren’t playing nice, chaos can easily take over.
That’s where I come in. I love turning event madness into magic. Whether it’s on-site event coverage using digital media, live reporting, or behind-the-scenes management, I make sure everything runs like clockwork. I’m also a huge fan of using There.App, which simplifies on-location event management by keeping everyone in sync and streamlining the entire process, so no detail gets lost in the shuffle.
From tech conferences to startup launches, I capture the moments that matter and keep things smooth, whether it’s happening live or behind the scenes. And when I’m not on the ground, I’m writing—blogs, articles, and ghostwriting for tech leaders to tell the bigger story behind the event, brand, or mission.
So, let’s make your next event one to remember, with every detail in place and every moment captured. Reach out! I’m always game for a brainstorm or a quick chat about how to make your event shine (without all the stress).
Source: Colleen Coll

Karl Edwards, PMP

An innovative, strategic and results-oriented technical program manager and network strategist with twenty-two years of experience in the telecommunications and technology industries. I can interact with and contribute to technical discussions with engineers as well as communicate program updates, strategy and roadmap to senior executives. For the last seven years at Cox Communications, I managed the three largest and most strategic programs within the technology portfolio: DOCSIS 3.1 program, Remote PHY program and DOCSIS 4.0 program. I have an inherent bias for action and have successfully operated in an environment where I managed cross-functional and cross-organizational teams without authority every day.
Source: Karl Edwards, PMP

Shianna Maxwell

Creative and independent graphic design and marketing professional with a keen eye for detail and a strong background in digital brand management, logo design, and layout design. Passionate about delivering high-quality projects on time, with a proven ability to collaborate effectively with global teams, manage tight deadlines, and handle multiple projects simultaneously. Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft Office Suite, with excellent time management and problem-solving skills that enable me to work autonomously while fostering strong teamwork.
Source: Shianna Maxwell

Paul Lysko

Results-oriented Product Management Executive and former Air Force officer with 20+ years of experience across B2B software, retail technology solutions, FP&A, and operations. Skilled in driving business growth through strategic product management, P&L ownership, and customer focus. Repeatedly managed P&Ls of up to $225 million, consistently delivering impactful results. Passionate leader with a track record of hiring and managing teams of 10+.
Source: Paul Lysko

Thomas Chatham

Engineering leader and technologist with over 20 years of experience in the Enterprise technology industry, most recently specializing in engineering and validation for Dell’s enterprise software as a service (SaaS) subscriptions. My expertise lies in management, particularly in leading end-to-end development and integration of various Converged Infrastructure platforms. This includes spearheading formation of a global engineering organization to create next-gen automated converged systems.
My portfolio boasts successful projects like the establishment of VCE’s Customer Technology Centers worldwide, where I managed multiple teams and streamlined product demonstration processes through automation. My leadership has consistently accelerated customer adoption of converged datacenter platforms.
Additionally, as a Solutions Architect, I’ve had the opportunity to provide pre-sales and implementation solutions for numerous vendors to meet customer business objectives, further solidifying my skills in storage, networking, VMware, high availability and cloud computing among others.
Source: Thomas Chatham

Sam Aiello, Ph.D.

Experienced cybersecurity and technology strategist with a proven record of delivering innovative, tailored solutions by collaborating with C-suite executives and cross-functional teams across Sales, Product, Engineering, and Marketing. Adept at driving business growth and client success through strategic insights, technology leadership, and effective pre-sales engagement. A self-driven contributor with expertise in technology strategy, client advocacy, and sales enablement, recognized for enhancing company visibility through impactful presentations and industry event participation. Seeking a dynamic pre-sales role that leverages cross-functional collaboration to create transformative solutions while maintaining a balanced scope of responsibility and work-life integration.
Source: Sam Aiello, Ph.D.

Hot Fudge Daily Digest

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-02-03

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:

Well, that’s different.

This week:

Spicy level 4 returns!

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 2025-02-04

Two hot takes on one story that caught my eye on Tuesday.

📧 + 💰 SailPoint was not on my bingo card for opening the SaaS IPO season for 2025, but Thoma Bravo has an impressive portfolio.

https://www.techmeme.com/250204/p38#a250204p38

In fact, this is arguably a pretty rapid turnaround considering all the other factors since SailPoint’s acquisition in April 2022.

https://www.thomabravo.com/press-releases/sailpoint-to-be-acquired-by-thoma-bravo-for-6.9-billion

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-02-05

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.bbc.com/news/articles/cp82jle12j7o

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4MhhxqAnie4

https://youtube.com/shorts/c7xHnatyO6M?si=7sPGjwecpYY_7wHW

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-02-06

One headline for a Thursday Throwback caught my eye.

https://www.techmeme.com/250206/p4#a250206p4

Back in the ancient AI times of January 2025, the distillation meme was causing lots of hand wringing but probably cost more than $50 to unseat hyperscaler-size trained models.

https://www.techmeme.com/250130/p57#a250130p57

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-02-07

This week turned out to be a week where disclosure, due diligence, or an alleged lack thereof made for sizzling headlines.

https://www.techmeme.com/250207/p27#a250207p27

https://www.techmeme.com/250207/p36#a250207p36

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-02-08

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 👀

In that spirit, here are a few stories that you might have missed on the slow news of a Friday.

Insert Let’s See Who This Really Is Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250207/p29#a250207p29

Insert Ceiling Cat Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250207/p7#a250207p7

Insert We’re All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250207/p22#a250207p22

Insert That Wasn’t Me, That Was Patricia Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250207/p1#a250207p1

Insert Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250207/p15#a250207p15

My SXSW 2025 Post

2025-02-10T00:00:00Z

I’m heading to Austin, Texas next month for SXSW 2025.

Will you be at SXSW 2025 too? ^[1]

Getting Informed

For perspective, this year (like last year) will not be an attempt to live blog SXSW. Once again, I will revisit this same post over the nine (9!) days of SXSW 2024 and send the final update as a regular Fudge Sunday update.

To give you an idea of just how oversubscribed I am for SXSW 2025, I’ve parsed my schedule as follows for Interactive, Film, and Music:

Friday, March 07, 2025

Featured Session: 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2025 - 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM, Austin Convention Center
Ballroom D
205 Trinity St
Austin TX 78701
Concurrent Events:
Strategic Foresight 101 (Core Class) - 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM, Austin Marriott Downtown
Waterloo Ballroom 4-6
304 E Cesar Chavez St.
Austin TX 78701
Behind the Quantum Tools Fueling Discoveries - 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown
Salon J
500 E 4th St.
Austin TX 78701
Featured Session: Speaking Truth to Crypto Power - 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown
Salon H
500 E 4th St.
Austin TX 78701

Saturday, March 08, 2025

Concurrent Events:

Featured Session: Amy Webb Launches 2025 Emerging Tech Trend Report - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, Austin Convention Center
Ballroom D
205 Trinity St
Austin TX 78701
*SXSW Pitch: HealthTech, MedTech, BioTech & Accessibility
* - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, Hilton Austin Downtown
Salon DE
500 E 4th St.
Austin TX 78701
The AI Arms Race - 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown
Salon G
500 E 4th St.
Austin TX 78701
Factors Influencing the Future (Core Class) - 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM, Austin Marriott Downtown
Waterloo Ballroom 4-6
304 E Cesar Chavez St.
Austin TX 78701
Concurrent Events:
Most AI Startups Are Doomed - 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown
Salon G
500 E 4th St.
Austin TX 78701
Spite Tracking: Why & How It’s Changing Women’s Healthcare - 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM, JW Marriott
Salon BC
110 E 2nd St.
Austin TX 78701
Today & Tomorrow: What Makes a Futurist? - 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM, Austin Marriott Downtown
Waterloo Ballroom 1-2
304 E Cesar Chavez St.
Austin TX 78701
The Accountant 2 - 09:00 PM - 11:04 PM, Paramount Theatre
713 Congress Ave.
Austin TX 78701

Sunday, March 09, 2025

Gen AI in Healthcare: Preserving the Human Touch - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, Austin Convention Center
SXSW Expo - Podcast Lounge - Exhibit Hall 3
205 Trinity St
Austin TX 78701
Concurrent Events:
Little Tech: Owning the Future of American Innovation - 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown
Salon J
500 E 4th St.
Austin TX 78701
Octavia Knew: How Black Women are Predicting the Future - 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM, Austin Marriott Downtown
Waterloo Ballroom 1-2
304 E Cesar Chavez St.
Austin TX 78701
Impact of Simulated Data on AI and the Future - 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown
Salon C
500 E 4th St.
Austin TX 78701
Want To Achieve Health Equity? Democratize Health Data - 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM, JW Marriott
Salon BC
110 E 2nd St.
Austin TX 78701
Concurrent Events:
The Accountant 2 - 02:30 PM - 04:34 PM, Hyatt Regency Austin
SXSW Film & TV Theater @ The Hyatt Regency
208 Barton Springs Rd.
Austin TX 78704
The Age of Disclosure - 02:30 PM - 04:19 PM, Paramount Theatre
713 Congress Ave.
Austin TX 78701
Moral Algorithms, Major Gains: The ROI of Ethical AI - 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM, JW Marriott
Salon 5
110 E 2nd St.
Austin TX 78701
“What If” Scenarios (Core Class) - 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM, Austin Marriott Downtown
Waterloo Ballroom 4-6
304 E Cesar Chavez St.
Austin TX 78701
Event Tech Meet Up - 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown
Room 410
500 E 4th St.
Austin TX 78701
Small Agency Meet Up - 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM, JW Marriott
Brazos Room
110 E 2nd St.
Austin TX 78701
The Future of Care: The Rise of Patient-Centered Clinical XR - 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM, JW Marriott
Salon BC
110 E 2nd St.
Austin TX 78701
Breaking the Cycle of Toxic Productivity - 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM, Austin Convention Center
Room 10AB
205 Trinity St
Austin TX 78701
Social Media in the Era of Cyber Threats, AI and Misinformation - 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown
Salon J
500 E 4th St.
Austin TX 78701
Preparing for a Quantum Leap - 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM, Austin Marriott Downtown
Waterloo Ballroom 1-2
304 E Cesar Chavez St.
Austin TX 78701
Tailored Therapies: Healthcare That’s as Unique as You Are - 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM, JW Marriott
Salon D
110 E 2nd St.
Austin TX 78701
Concurrent Events:
Featured Session: Breadth is the New Depth: Why the Future Favors Learn-it-alls Over Know-it-alls - 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown
Salon H
500 E 4th St.
Austin TX 78701
SXSW Pitch: Innovative World Technology - 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown
Salon DE
500 E 4th St.
Austin TX 78701
Mentor Session: Marshall E. Jackson, Jr. (McDermott Will & Emery LLP) - 04:00 PM - 05:15 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown
Room 400-402
500 E 4th St.
Austin TX 78701
Sober Space - 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM, JW Marriott
Brazos Room
110 E 2nd St.
Austin TX 78701
Artificial Intelligence: Significant Untapped Opportunities - 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown
Salon J
500 E 4th St.
Austin TX 78701
Guardians of Youth: Stem Cells & Human Longevity - 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM, JW Marriott
Salon D
110 E 2nd St.
Austin TX 78701
Foresight Improv - 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM, Austin Marriott Downtown
Waterloo Ballroom 1-2
304 E Cesar Chavez St.
Austin TX 78701
Openness Under Pressure: Navigating the Future of Open Access - 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown
Salon K
500 E 4th St.
Austin TX 78701
AI Beyond Machine Learning: What’s Next/Better? Why? How? - 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown
Salon C
500 E 4th St.
Austin TX 78701
Friendship - 05:30 PM - 07:10 PM, Alamo Lamar
Alamo Lamar 6
1120 S Lamar Blvd.
Austin TX 78704

Monday, March 10, 2025

Concurrent Events:

The Futurist Toolkit: Building a Business Strategy for 2050 - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, Austin Marriott Downtown
Waterloo Ballroom 3
304 E Cesar Chavez St.
Austin TX 78701
Viruses as Medicine: Shaping the Frontier of Gene Therapy - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, JW Marriott
Salon D
110 E 2nd St.
Austin TX 78701
Beyond Proof-of-Concept: Making AI Useful For Business - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, Hilton Austin Downtown
Salon DE
500 E 4th St.
Austin TX 78701
Featured Session: The Auto-Evolving Business: AI’s Agentic Near Future - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, Austin Convention Center
Ballroom EF
205 Trinity St
Austin TX 78701
Beyond the Hype: Building Reliable and Trustworthy AI - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, Hilton Austin Downtown
Salon C
500 E 4th St.
Austin TX 78701
Legal Tech Meet Up - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, Hilton Austin Downtown
Room 410
500 E 4th St.
Austin TX 78701
Embracing Innovation: A Leader’s Guide to No/Low Code - 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, Courtyard Marriott
Brazos I-II-III
300 E 4th St.
Austin TX 78701
LinkedIn Creators Meet Up - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, Hilton Austin Downtown
Room 406
500 E 4th St.
Austin TX 78701
Concurrent Events:
Featured Session: How Not to Screw up an AI Transformation While Shaping the Future of your Company - 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM, Austin Convention Center
Ballroom D
205 Trinity St
Austin TX 78701
Byte by Byte: Decoding AI’s Impact on Journalism - 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown
Salon C
500 E 4th St.
Austin TX 78701
Open Source AI Safety: A Chat with Meta’s Ella Irwin - 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown
Salon DE
500 E 4th St.
Austin TX 78701
Smart, Sustainable, Streamlined: Factories of the Future - 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM, Austin Marriott Downtown
Waterloo Ballroom 1-2
304 E Cesar Chavez St.
Austin TX 78701
Keynote: The Future of Social with Jay Graber, Bluesky CEO - 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM, Austin Convention Center
Ballroom D
205 Trinity St
Austin TX 78701
Concurrent Events:
Meet the Winners of the 2025 SXSW Pitch Competition - 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown
Salon G
500 E 4th St.
Austin TX 78701
Mentor Session: Eliel Carneiro de Oliveira (Connxus) - 02:30 PM - 03:45 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown
Room 400-402
500 E 4th St.
Austin TX 78701
Driving AI and Cloud Adoption Through Customer Success - 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown
Salon J
500 E 4th St.
Austin TX 78701
Outdoing Cancer is a Team Sport - 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM, Austin Convention Center
SXSW Expo - Podcast Lounge - Exhibit Hall 3
205 Trinity St
Austin TX 78701
Concurrent Events:
Mentor Session: John Jordan (Texas State University) - 04:00 PM - 05:15 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown
Room 400-402
500 E 4th St.
Austin TX 78701
The Global Impact of US Healthcare Trends - 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM, JW Marriott
Salon BC
110 E 2nd St.
Austin TX 78701
AI and Power Concentration: Building Tech to Empower Us All - 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown
Salon C
500 E 4th St.
Austin TX 78701
Super Charging Service: The High-Tech, Human Touch Solution - 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown
Salon J
500 E 4th St.
Austin TX 78701
Beyond the Mind: Psychedelics to Heal the Body - 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM, JW Marriott
Room 203-204
110 E 2nd St.
Austin TX 78701
SXSW Innovation Awards Ceremony - 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM, Austin Convention Center
Ballroom D
205 Trinity St
Austin TX 78701

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Daydream Twins - 01:00 AM - 01:50 AM, Valhalla
710 Red River St.
Austin TX 78701
Concurrent Events:
Mentor Session: Aderonke Komolafe (Advancing Integrated Health and Integrated Health Magazine) - 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM, Hilton Austin Downtown
Room 400-402
500 E 4th St.
Austin TX 78701
Mentor Session: Amber Featherstone-Uwague (Elsevier) - 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM, Hilton Austin Downtown
Room 400-402
500 E 4th St.
Austin TX 78701
Fast Forward to the Future of Medicine - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, JW Marriott
Salon BC
110 E 2nd St.
Austin TX 78701
Quantum Narratives - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, Austin Convention Center
Room 10AB
205 Trinity St
Austin TX 78701
Building the Future Through Advanced Manufacturing TX-MX - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, Hilton Austin Downtown
Salon K
500 E 4th St.
Austin TX 78701
Concurrent Events:
AI-Powered Organizations: Redefining the Future of Work - 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown
Salon DE
500 E 4th St.
Austin TX 78701
Turning up the Volume on Radiopharmaceuticals - 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM, JW Marriott
Salon D
110 E 2nd St.
Austin TX 78701
Concurrent Events:
SAAS Professionals Meet Up - 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown
Room 412
500 E 4th St.
Austin TX 78701
Featured Session: From Cages to the Real World: The Dawn of Physical AI - 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown
Salon H
500 E 4th St.
Austin TX 78701
Concurrent Events:
Myth Busting in the Age of Misinformation: Tackling Chronic Disease - 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM, JW Marriott
Salon BC
110 E 2nd St.
Austin TX 78701
How the AI Revolution Is Making Quantum Tech a Reality - 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown
Salon J
500 E 4th St.
Austin TX 78701
Super Connectors Meet Up - 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown
Room 412
500 E 4th St.
Austin TX 78701
The Age of Disclosure - 06:00 PM - 07:49 PM, Paramount Theatre
713 Congress Ave.
Austin TX 78701
lúpína - 08:00 PM - 08:40 PM, Shangri-La
1016 E 6th St.
Austin TX 78702
Jennifer Touch - 09:00 PM - 09:40 PM, Speakeasy
412 Congress Ave.
Austin TX 78701
Ash - 09:30 PM - 11:05 PM, Paramount Theatre
713 Congress Ave.
Austin TX 78701
The Astronaut - 09:45 PM - 11:15 PM, Hyatt Regency Austin
SXSW Film & TV Theater @ The Hyatt Regency
208 Barton Springs Rd.
Austin TX 78704

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Slash Need - 12:30 AM - 01:10 AM, Swan Dive
Swan Dive Patio
615 Red River St.
Austin TX 78701
Concurrent Events:
AI Meet Up - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, Hilton Austin Downtown
Room 410
500 E 4th St.
Austin TX 78701
Featured Session: Quantum Computing—What’s Now and What’s Next? - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, Hilton Austin Downtown
Salon H
500 E 4th St.
Austin TX 78701
The Makings of Curtis Mayfield - 11:00 AM - 12:37 PM, Violet Crown Cinema
Violet Crown Cinema 3
434 W 2nd St.
Austin TX 78701
Concurrent Events:
Realizing the Power of Quantum Computing Today and Tomorrow - 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM, Austin Convention Center
Room 6AB
205 Trinity St
Austin TX 78701
Facilitation Lab Meet Up - 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown
Room 412
500 E 4th St.
Austin TX 78701
Keynote: John Fogerty and Tom Morello - 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM, Austin Convention Center
Ballroom D
205 Trinity St
Austin TX 78701
Concurrent Events:
Seeing the Unseen: How CT Scanning is Revolutionizing Manufacturing - 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown
Salon J
500 E 4th St.
Austin TX 78701
Examining the Obstacles to Mainstream Quantum Computing - 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM, Austin Convention Center
Room 5ABC
205 Trinity St
Austin TX 78701
Immediate Action Required: Data Breaches and Encryption - 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown
Salon K
500 E 4th St.
Austin TX 78701
Open Source AI: Legal Issues at the Frontier - 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown
Salon C
500 E 4th St.
Austin TX 78701
Concurrent Events:
Cracking the ‘Cradle of Life’ Molecule with a Quantum Computer - 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM, Austin Convention Center
Room 6AB
205 Trinity St
Austin TX 78701
Tech Communications Professionals Meet Up - 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown
Room 410
500 E 4th St.
Austin TX 78701
Spreadsheet Champions - 09:30 PM - 10:56 PM, Rollins Theatre at The Long Center
701 W Riverside Dr.
Austin TX 78704

Thursday, March 13, 2025

Concurrent Events:

Why Digital Identity Matters to Individuals and Businesses - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, Hilton Austin Downtown
Salon J
500 E 4th St.
Austin TX 78701
AI Teammates: Methods to Use AI in Meetings & Workshops - 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, Courtyard Marriott
Brazos I-II-III
300 E 4th St.
Austin TX 78701
Ubuntu’s Role in Quantum Computing: A Collaborative Approach to Innovation - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, Austin Convention Center
Room 6AB
205 Trinity St
Austin TX 78701
Beyond AI Hype: Customer-Centric Tech Strategies - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, Hilton Austin Downtown
Salon C
500 E 4th St.
Austin TX 78701
Concurrent Events:
Featured Session: Rebooting AI from the Ground Up - 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown
Salon H
500 E 4th St.
Austin TX 78701
Quantum Applications: From Theory to Reality - 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM, Austin Convention Center
Room 5ABC
205 Trinity St
Austin TX 78701
Ultrafast Quantum Computing with Ultracold Atom Arrays at Quantum Speed Limit - 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM, Austin Convention Center
Room 6AB
205 Trinity St
Austin TX 78701
Revolutionizing Roadway Safety with V2X Connectivity - 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown
Salon G
500 E 4th St.
Austin TX 78701
Digital Minions: Tales from the AI Tsunami - 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown
Salon DE
500 E 4th St.
Austin TX 78701
Designed to Last: Circular Tech Without Obsolescence - 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown
Salon J
500 E 4th St.
Austin TX 78701
Creating a Quantum Computing Hub in Texas - 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM, Austin Convention Center
Room 5ABC
205 Trinity St
Austin TX 78701
Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt - 09:00 PM - 10:50 PM, AFS Cinema
6259 Middle Fiskville Rd.
Austin TX 78752

Saturday, March 15, 2025

The Spies Among Us - 12:00 PM - 01:34 PM, AFS Cinema
6259 Middle Fiskville Rd.
Austin TX 78752
Starman - 02:45 PM - 04:10 PM, Alamo Lamar
Alamo Lamar 8
1120 S Lamar Blvd.
Austin TX 78704
MC Frontalot - 08:00 PM - 08:25 PM, Flamingo Cantina
515 E 6th St.
Austin TX 78701
The Holiday Playgirls - 09:00 PM - 09:40 PM, Antone’s
305 E 5th St.
Austin TX 78701
Urban Heat - 11:00 PM - 11:40 PM, Elysium
705 Red River St.
Austin TX 78701

p.s. As I’ve gotten older, I have come to appreciate getting snail mail. If you have time to drop me a postcard that would be amazing. ✉️

Review my SXSW 2025 schedule picks to see if we can sit together or catch up after to discuss what we just heard and experienced. If you prefer alternatives, use my contact info. ↩︎

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-02-08

2025-02-08T23:39:37Z

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 👀

In that spirit, here are a few stories that you might have missed on the slow news of a Friday.

Insert Let’s See Who This Really Is Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250207/p29#a250207p29

Insert Ceiling Cat Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250207/p7#a250207p7

Insert We’re All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250207/p22#a250207p22

Insert That Wasn’t Me, That Was Patricia Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250207/p1#a250207p1

Insert Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250207/p15#a250207p15

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-02-07

2025-02-08T23:17:24Z

This week turned out to be a week where disclosure, due diligence, or an alleged lack thereof made for sizzling headlines.

https://www.techmeme.com/250207/p27#a250207p27

https://www.techmeme.com/250207/p36#a250207p36

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-02-06

2025-02-08T03:26:27Z

One headline for a Thursday Throwback caught my eye.

https://www.techmeme.com/250206/p4#a250206p4

Back in the ancient AI times of January 2025, the distillation meme was causing lots of hand wringing but probably cost more than $50 to unseat hyperscaler-size trained models.

https://www.techmeme.com/250130/p57#a250130p57

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-02-05

2025-02-06T04:09:24Z

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.bbc.com/news/articles/cp82jle12j7o

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4MhhxqAnie4

https://youtube.com/shorts/c7xHnatyO6M?si=7sPGjwecpYY_7wHW

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-02-04

2025-02-05T04:12:19Z

Two hot takes on one story that caught my eye on Tuesday.

📧 + 💰 SailPoint was not on my bingo card for opening the SaaS IPO season for 2025, but Thoma Bravo has an impressive portfolio.

https://www.techmeme.com/250204/p38#a250204p38

In fact, this is arguably a pretty rapid turnaround considering all the other factors since SailPoint’s acquisition in April 2022.

https://www.thomabravo.com/press-releases/sailpoint-to-be-acquired-by-thoma-bravo-for-6.9-billion

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-02-03

2025-02-04T01:55:30Z

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:

Well, that’s different.

This week:

Spicy level 4 returns!

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 Fudge Sunday for 2025-02-02

2025-02-02T19:56:12Z

#OpenToWork Weekly

I believe in #NeverSearchAlone. I also continue to participate in a #JSC.

Dan Kelleher

Accomplished Program Manager | Technical Project Manager | Certified Scrum Master
With 25+ years of proven success leading high-impact initiatives in IT, Healthcare, and Engineering, I bring expertise in managing complex programs, driving cross-functional collaboration, and delivering innovative solutions. Adept at navigating multi-million-dollar budgets, mitigating risks, and ensuring successful outcomes throughout the entire program lifecycle. Known for building strong, lasting relationships with stakeholders, C-suite executives, partners, and teams, I excel at aligning diverse groups to bring large-scale solutions to fruition. My approach combines strategic planning, continuous oversight, and flexibility to meet goals, while maintaining a sharp focus on quality, cost, and performance.
Key Strengths:
Expert in program lifecycle management with a focus on risk management, cost control,
and delivery timelines

Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence stakeholders at all levels
Skilled at integrating Agile and Waterfall methodologies to streamline processes and drive
results
Deep expertise in managing multi-million-dollar budgets and scaling complex programs
Track record of mentoring and developing high-performance teams

Source: Dan Kelleher

Rich Green

I am an experienced technology and sales professional who has worked in pre-sales, post-sales, and Customer Operations roles over my career. I am a self starter who works well both independently and in a team environment. Some of my professional achievements include helping launch the Iridium Satellite Phone System while at Motorola SATCOM and taking a startup Internet Service Provider (SoftAware) to the next level to be acquired by Digital Island. I have consistently exceeded multimillion dollar annual sales quotas selling into the Enterprise, SMB, and SLED space while at Hughes, EMC, Brocade, Broadcom and Faction. I continue to utilize the multiple skills I have learned throughout my career including solution selling, technical account management, objection handling, project management, and utilizing public/private/hybrid cloud environments to achieve business outcomes. I am also continuing to learn new technologies such as AI/ML and Cyber Security fundamentals. I know that I will be an asset to any organization that I join. I am also willing to relocate for the right opportunity.
In my spare time I work with Special Needs individuals who are non or minimally speaking to help give them their voice using alternative technologies.
Source: Rich Green

Barbara Hadley, EdM, SPHR

Empowering People, Elevating Businesses:
A strategic HR professional with a contagious enthusiasm for empowering employees. Expertise in crafting dynamic work environments that foster high engagement and drive results utilizing a data-driven approach to implement solutions that support both employee satisfaction and organizational success.
Source: Barbara Hadley, EdM, SPHR

Andrew Webber

I’m a passionate leader with a proven track record of building and scaling innovative consumer products. As the Co-founder & CEO of Corsair Distillery, I grew the company from concept to a multi-million dollar operation with a national presence and 400 awards for quality and innovation. I’m adept at identifying unique market opportunities, developing award-winning products, and building high-performing teams.
My expertise lies in:
Innovation: I have a relentless curiosity and a passion for bringing disruptive ideas to life.

Strategy: I excel at translating market insights into winning product strategies and brand positioning.
Operations: I have a proven track record of building and scaling operations from the ground up.
Leadership: I thrive on building and motivating teams to achieve ambitious goals.

Source: Andrew Webber

Lida Tohidi

🏆 Recognized as a Top 20 Visionary in Media & Tech by Adello and Top 15 Coach by Influence Digest

🚀 Career Highlights

15+ years of experience in product management, digital marketing, and strategic planning
7+ years advising, consulting, and investing in mission-driven startups and SMBs
Led teams to win the Google Startup Battle (out of 1000+ teams) and other national awards
Advised startups that have collectively raised over $500 million
Launched a successful national incubator

🌟 Speaking Engagements

Delivered keynotes and workshops at 35+ prestigious conferences including:
Tech Giants: Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn, Twitch, Tencent
Fortune 500: Capital One, Wells Fargo
Innovators: Anaplan, Mavenlink, Mobify, ThoughtWorks

💡 Areas of Expertise

Product Management
Digital Marketing
Strategic Planning
Startup Advising & Investing
Diversity & Inclusion in Tech
Mindfulness in the Workplace

🌍 Global Experience

Initiated and led projects across 12 countries on 6 continents
Fluent in 3 languages, working proficiency in 3 more
Countries: Australia, Bénin, Canada, France, Italy, Japan, Malawi, Peru, Switzerland, Taiwan, UK, USA

🤝 Community Involvement

Active mentor and speaker for numerous tech and diversity initiatives:
ACT-W, Anita Borg Institute, Cleantech Open, Latinos in Tech, Tech Jobs Tour
Women in STEM, Women Entering and Staying in Tech (WEST), - Young Women in Business (YWiB)

🎯 Passion Projects

Champion for mindfulness in the tech industry
Advocate for diversity and inclusion in technology and beyond
Committed to empowering underrepresented groups in tech

Source: Lida Tohidi

Nathan Clyker

Successful Sales and Business Development Professional with a demonstrated 21 year history of working in the IT industry. Expert skills in Management, Sales, Enterprise Software and Hardware, Partner Management, Storage, Go-to-market Strategy creation/execution, and Sales Operations. Strong sales professional with a BS in International Business from University of Colorado, Denver and an intense focus on customer satisfaction via strong business and interpersonal relationships.
Source: Nathan Clyker

Gina (Gina Minks) Rosenthal

Over 10 years’ experience as a global and fractional product marketing manager for global technology companies (up to 120K employees) as well as and startups.
Over the last 5 years leading Digital Sunshine Solutions, generated over 150 blog posts, 26 case studies, and a range of messaging documents, launch plans, white papers, product datasheets, and solution briefs.
Bootstrapped quarterly cross-company “Think Tanks” to create strong feedback loops between executives, product, marketing, and engineering teams.
Created technical content and improved product positioning using sales and customer feedback. Served as the voice of the customer for enterprise clients exploring SaaS products.
Planned, researched, and developed over twenty podcast episodes covering AI and infrastructure over two years.

The experience on my resume is definitely not traditional! But because there is a string connecting it all, I bring a unique blend of technical expertise and creative marketing strategy to the table. With over a decade of experience working with industry leaders like EMC, Dell, and VMware, I’ve honed an in-depth understanding of the challenges IT executives face—and more importantly, how to solve them. However, since I come from a sysadmin/operator audience, I easily craft messaging that resonates and builds trust with them too.
Founding and leading Digital Sunshine Solutions for five years is one of the most fulfilling and proudest milestones of my career. Over the last five years, our team executed six product launches, developed over 150 blog posts, 26 case studies, and countless white papers, solution briefs, and product datasheets. And our work drove real impact. One of our clients saw a 150% growth in their social media presence!
I’m passionate about innovation and collaboration, particularly in areas like artificial intelligence and infrastructure technology. I want to connect the dots between complex products and the human stories they power. I believe there is infinite power in connecting everyone, inside and outside of an organization.
If you’re interested in telling the story of how your product turns customers in the hero of their own journey, let’s talk!
Source: Gina (Gina Minks) Rosenthal

Richard Arnesen

Who am I? I am a proven problem solver who has a history of digging in and savings my employers millions of dollars in savings over my career. I am a hard worker who can dig into the details but also communicate to the executive suite to gain the buy-in to implement a solution. In addition to system or process issues I am an expert in digging in and fixing poor performing teams. How can I help you solve a problem today? Feel free to contact me if you have any problems in the following areas:

Program Delivery
Infrastructure/Cloud
Team Performance/Dynamics
Application Reliability
Strategic Roadmaps
Transformation
Leadership Development
Managed Services

Source: Richard Arnesen

Congrats Richard Arnesen! 🎉

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/richard-arnesen_im-happy-to-share-that-im-starting-a-new-activity-7290099022084616192-QjYm?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

Janel Van Beek

For Humans: I intellectually help organizations and leaders grow and keep great teams, and lead change into the future. My favorite skills and experiences are strategy, program management, product, and organization and leadership effectiveness. My detailed resume is available here: https://www.francievanwirkus.com/resume
For Data Searches: Janel Van Beek (formerly Janel Lanza), SPC 6.0, FLMI, CCTP II, is a business strategist and certified Master Coach, helping people do what seems impossible. She is a digital transformation, OCM, leadership development, and product expert. She is strategy and business consultant. She has financial, health, entrepreneur, retail and services product experience. She has deep experience in strategy, change, instructional design and training as well as in being a turn-around people leader.
As founder of Francie Van Wirkus LLC, an executive coaching and private yoga business, Janel is a keynote speaker, author of several books and executive coach and strategist. She has strategic product and portfolio experience. Janel also has deep experience in investment training, organization effectiveness, human resources, and instructional design. She is a dual-certified yoga instructor for group and private classes, and is an Ironman triathlete. Each day, Janel aims to hang around with people who do epic sh*t.
Certifications and Training

PESI Dialectical Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness
Globant Leadership Development
Globant AI
IC Agile ICP-ENT
IC Agile ICP-CAT
IC Agile- ICP-ORG
Scaled Agile Framework SPC 6.0, 2015-present
SAFe PMPO 5.0, Advanced Scrum Master, Lean Portfolio Management, Remote Trainer, LPM 5.1 AHF Agility Health Radar Facilitator, 2020
CCTP I and II Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, 2020
CPrime Product Agility: Discovery and Delivery, 2020
Integrative Yoga Therapy Instructor 200 hour, 2020
Harvard Business New Leader Program graduate, 2018
Breakthrough Leader Program graduate, 2018
Lean Greenbelt, 2015
Personal Kanban, 2014
Scrum Foundations, 2012
PROSCI Change Management, 2011
Certified Breakthrough Master Coach, 2006
Certified Agency Trainer, 2001
Past FINRA licenses 6, 7, 26 1998, 2000
FLMI 1998
ACS Customer Service 1998

Source: Janel Van Beek

Greg Phillips

At IBM, my focus as a Cloud Platform Leader has been on fostering strategic partnerships and driving innovative marketing strategies. With a strong background in corporate marketing and a hands-on approach to customer relationship management, my recent work has centered on extending IBM’s cloud alliances globally.
The team has successfully leveraged my skills in strategic and online marketing to create impactful campaigns, positioning us at the forefront of cloud solutions. Our collaborative efforts have not only filled the sales funnel but also strengthened IBM’s presence in the competitive cloud marketplace.
Source: Greg Phillips

Sheri Gearhart

Innovative Technology Architect | Solution Designer | Collaborative Leader
Passionate about driving technological innovation and delivering cutting-edge solutions, I thrive on exploring and implementing new technologies to solve complex problems. With a keen eye for evaluating the benefits of emerging tools within solution stacks, I excel in leading proofs of concept and translating technical insights into actionable strategies for stakeholders, maximizing the return on investment through increasing revenue. My strengths lie in developing comprehensive presentations, providing expert training, and fostering collaboration across diverse teams. As a natural leader, I inspire and influence through my technical expertise and vision, without the constraints of formal management roles. My ideal position leverages my skills in architecting solutions, knowledge sharing, and project leadership, while allowing me to focus on the technical aspects of innovation rather than sales-driven engagements.
I have held a wide array of positions throughout my career in technology. My path includes technical support, UNIX system administration, SAP Basis Administration, storage SAN architecture design and engineering, technical design analysis at customer sites, CTO, and system architecture spanning across on-premises and public/hybrid cloud platforms, Converged Systems and Hyper-Converged Systems. I have advanced knowledge of Dell EMC Storage, Dell EMC Data Protection, Cisco and Brocade SAN, Cisco UCS, and VMware vSphere. I hold several Dell EMC certifications, as well as ITIL and SAFe 4 Agilist certifications.
Specialties: architectural design, BCDR, cisco, customer relations, erp, hp - ux, nas, storage engineering, san, storage networking, NVMe-oF protocols, Red Hat Linux, SUSE Linux, SAP Basis, Solaris, strategic planning, system administration, technical training, vendor relations, Veritas Netbackup, EMC and HP storage technologies
Source: Sheri Gearhart

Tamera Rousseau King

A highly skilled Technical Project Manager, Agile Product Owner, and people leader with a proven track record in managing large-scale marketing technology programs and building high-performing teams. Demonstrated ability to build strong cross-functional relationships to align on project scope, prioritize business requirements, and develop effective risk mitigation strategies, ensuring project goals were achieved on time and under budget. Adept at leveraging Agile methodologies to establish operational excellence, driving repeated success, and ensuring program accountability.
Source: Tamera Rousseau King

Ricardo Perez

With a deep-seated passion for pioneering virtualization solutions, my tenure at Dell EMC, Xerox, etc. has been marked by architecting and deploying PowerFlex and VxRail systems. My expertise lies in comprehensive lifecycle management, with a proven track record in steering projects from conception to completion, delivering high-performance and scalable virtual environments.
At the core of my professional journey is a commitment to innovation and excellence in infrastructure transformation. Collaborating with C-level executives, I’ve honed my skills in presenting project visions and strategies, while my fluency in English and Spanish enhances our team’s ability to drive global initiatives. My credentials, including multiple VMware and Microsoft certifications, underscore my dedication to maintaining technical prowess in Systems Engineering.
Source: Ricardo Perez

Mike Berteletti, CISSP

Experienced Information Technology Professional with a broad and deep knowledge of many information technology products and services found in large enterprises to small and medium businesses. Specialties include Converged Infrastructure, Cloud Computing, Information Storage Solutions, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows Infrastructure, Information Systems Security, Enterprise Network Design, Data Protection, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, IT Strategy, IT Leadership, Business Liason and Career Development.

ISC2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
EMC Proven Professional Technology Architect

Source: Mike Berteletti, CISSP

Bob Lima, PMP

Experienced Senior Program Manager with 15+ years of successfully managing end-to-end lifecycles of large, cross-functional, and transformational programs. Expertise in delivering complex projects within scope, timeline, and budget while driving process improvements and ensuring strategic alignment with business goals. Adept at utilizing Agile, Waterfall, and Lean Six Sigma methodologies, with a proven ability to manage risks, resolve conflicts, and optimize resource allocation. Skilled communicator, capable of presenting technical concepts to senior leadership and influencing business decisions for maximizing ROI. A leader focused on mentorship, team empowerment, and continuous improvement.
323-513-6011
Source: Bob Lima, PMP

Chris Mojica

Seasoned technical sales professional and technologist with proven pre and post sales engineering experience. Experience includes supporting startups, system integrators, vendors, channel partners/VARs, OEMs and end customers. I am always open to Solutions Architect or Sales/Systems Engineering opportunities.
Technical backgrounds include the disciplines of HCI, Virtualization, Software Defined (SDN/SDS/SDC) storage area networks (SAN), network, and broadband technologies. Additionally, having supported various levels within multiple organizations demonstrates my ability to effectively conduct business and technical level discussions within each of these tiers.
Leveraging my knowledge, background and experience allows me to understand complex datacenter environments. This technical acumen allows me to propose creative solutions that maximize ROI and minimize TCO. Strong organizational skills and ability to support multiple projects allows me to meet multiple deadlines.
Source: Chris Mojica

Matthew Leib

After many years as an engineer and presales architect, with specialties in datacenter, cloud, virtualization and most particularly storage, I’ve become noted for my writing and analytical expertise in those categories. My blogging has been ongoing since 2009, and I use those writing and focused IT value propositions to write for a number of analytics firms. I specialize in architectures surrounding Kubernetes, Converged and hyper-converged architectures in storage, cloud, AI, and virtualization, containers focused.
Source: Matthew Leib

Michael Joffe

Dynamic global technology leader and Military veteran. P&L responsibility for business lines ranging from $10M to $150M in annual recurring revenue—direct management of high-performing teams ranging from 10 to 75 professionals across the globe. Exceptional at driving growth with Series C, PE-backed, and large-cap multi-national companies. Extensive experience with technology solution co-creation and GTM execution across the OEM, ISV, and SaaS ecosystems.
Source: Michael Joffe

Colleen Coll

“Allow myself to introduce…myself.” - Austin Powers
Ever feel like you’re juggling flaming torches planning events—trying to keep all the details in the air while something’s always about to catch fire? Yep, I’ve been there. Events have a way of throwing curveballs, and when tech and tools aren’t playing nice, chaos can easily take over.
That’s where I come in. I love turning event madness into magic. Whether it’s on-site event coverage using digital media, live reporting, or behind-the-scenes management, I make sure everything runs like clockwork. I’m also a huge fan of using There.App, which simplifies on-location event management by keeping everyone in sync and streamlining the entire process, so no detail gets lost in the shuffle.
From tech conferences to startup launches, I capture the moments that matter and keep things smooth, whether it’s happening live or behind the scenes. And when I’m not on the ground, I’m writing—blogs, articles, and ghostwriting for tech leaders to tell the bigger story behind the event, brand, or mission.
So, let’s make your next event one to remember, with every detail in place and every moment captured. Reach out! I’m always game for a brainstorm or a quick chat about how to make your event shine (without all the stress).
Source: Colleen Coll

Karl Edwards, PMP

An innovative, strategic and results-oriented technical program manager and network strategist with twenty-two years of experience in the telecommunications and technology industries. I can interact with and contribute to technical discussions with engineers as well as communicate program updates, strategy and roadmap to senior executives. For the last seven years at Cox Communications, I managed the three largest and most strategic programs within the technology portfolio: DOCSIS 3.1 program, Remote PHY program and DOCSIS 4.0 program. I have an inherent bias for action and have successfully operated in an environment where I managed cross-functional and cross-organizational teams without authority every day.
Source: Karl Edwards, PMP

Shianna Maxwell

Creative and independent graphic design and marketing professional with a keen eye for detail and a strong background in digital brand management, logo design, and layout design. Passionate about delivering high-quality projects on time, with a proven ability to collaborate effectively with global teams, manage tight deadlines, and handle multiple projects simultaneously. Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft Office Suite, with excellent time management and problem-solving skills that enable me to work autonomously while fostering strong teamwork.
Source: Shianna Maxwell

Paul Lysko

Results-oriented Product Management Executive and former Air Force officer with 20+ years of experience across B2B software, retail technology solutions, FP&A, and operations. Skilled in driving business growth through strategic product management, P&L ownership, and customer focus. Repeatedly managed P&Ls of up to $225 million, consistently delivering impactful results. Passionate leader with a track record of hiring and managing teams of 10+.
Source: Paul Lysko

Thomas Chatham

Engineering leader and technologist with over 20 years of experience in the Enterprise technology industry, most recently specializing in engineering and validation for Dell’s enterprise software as a service (SaaS) subscriptions. My expertise lies in management, particularly in leading end-to-end development and integration of various Converged Infrastructure platforms. This includes spearheading formation of a global engineering organization to create next-gen automated converged systems.
My portfolio boasts successful projects like the establishment of VCE’s Customer Technology Centers worldwide, where I managed multiple teams and streamlined product demonstration processes through automation. My leadership has consistently accelerated customer adoption of converged datacenter platforms.
Additionally, as a Solutions Architect, I’ve had the opportunity to provide pre-sales and implementation solutions for numerous vendors to meet customer business objectives, further solidifying my skills in storage, networking, VMware, high availability and cloud computing among others.
Source: Thomas Chatham

Sam Aiello, Ph.D.

Experienced cybersecurity and technology strategist with a proven record of delivering innovative, tailored solutions by collaborating with C-suite executives and cross-functional teams across Sales, Product, Engineering, and Marketing. Adept at driving business growth and client success through strategic insights, technology leadership, and effective pre-sales engagement. A self-driven contributor with expertise in technology strategy, client advocacy, and sales enablement, recognized for enhancing company visibility through impactful presentations and industry event participation. Seeking a dynamic pre-sales role that leverages cross-functional collaboration to create transformative solutions while maintaining a balanced scope of responsibility and work-life integration.
Source: Sam Aiello, Ph.D.

Hot Fudge Daily Digest

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-01-27

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.

This week:

Well, that’s different.

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 2025-01-28

Two hot takes on stories that caught my eye on Tuesday.

⚛️ + 💰 Tolerance of errors and faults in just 5 years is pretty ambitious but perhaps AI will be thrown into the mix to close the gaps.

https://www.techmeme.com/250128/p16#a250128p16

☢️ + 💰 I cannot wait until the DeLorean with a Mr. Fusion Home Energy Reactor meme appears in the tech blogosphere.

https://www.techmeme.com/250128/p21#a250128p21

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-01-29

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=quuw4HC96bE?si=qk83Ihf5lQPn2U1d

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieLPn0gdpEU?si=TyMLCq3Ni-5I2DvV

https://digitalnz.org/records/38626374/

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-01-30

One headline for a Thursday Throwback caught my eye.

https://www.techmeme.com/250130/p9#a250130p9

🤳🏻 🛰️ Amazing.

15 years ago, Vodafone enabled the first “World” phone by combining both CDMA and GSM networks in a single handheld consumer device.

20 years ago, Vodafone enabled precursors to the first mobile access routers with wifi for teams by collaborating with Linksys on their iconic ubiquitous Linksys WRT54 design that had just turned 2 years old.

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-01-31

This week turned out to be a moment of whipsawing and fragility in claims of supremacy all things AI boom related.

https://www.techmeme.com/250126/p13#a250126p13

https://www.techmeme.com/250127/p7#a250127p7

https://www.techmeme.com/250129/p2#a250129p2

https://www.techmeme.com/250130/p57#a250130p57

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-02-01

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 👀

In that spirit, here are a few stories that you might have missed on the slow news of a Friday.

Insert Let’s See Who This Really Is Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250131/p29#a250131p29

Insert Ceiling Cat Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250131/p32#a250131p32

Insert We’re All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250131/p25#a250131p25

Insert That Wasn’t Me, That Was Patricia Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250131/p18#a250131p18

Insert Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250130/p35#a250130p35

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-02-01

2025-02-02T19:46:40Z

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 👀

In that spirit, here are a few stories that you might have missed on the slow news of a Friday.

Insert Let’s See Who This Really Is Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250131/p29#a250131p29

Insert Ceiling Cat Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250131/p32#a250131p32

Insert We’re All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250131/p25#a250131p25

Insert That Wasn’t Me, That Was Patricia Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250131/p18#a250131p18

Insert Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250130/p35#a250130p35

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-01-31

2025-02-02T00:10:16Z

This week turned out to be a moment of whipsawing and fragility in claims of supremacy all things AI boom related.

https://www.techmeme.com/250126/p13#a250126p13

https://www.techmeme.com/250127/p7#a250127p7

https://www.techmeme.com/250129/p2#a250129p2

https://www.techmeme.com/250130/p57#a250130p57

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-01-30

2025-02-02T00:04:31Z

One headline for a Thursday Throwback caught my eye.

https://www.techmeme.com/250130/p9#a250130p9

🤳🏻 🛰️ Amazing.

15 years ago, Vodafone enabled the first “World” phone by combining both CDMA and GSM networks in a single handheld consumer device.

My Fediverse Digest for January 2025

2025-01-31T00:00:00Z

Jan 02

11:19 PM

New year. New tracks to come. #music #soundcloud

https://soundcloud.com/jaycuthrell/sets/newest-noodles-2025

Source

Jan 04

06:33 AM

That udm14.com exists as an AI-free Google search reminded me of the distance between the quaint origins of lmgtfy.com and today

https://udm14.com

Source

Jan 06

08:12 PM

If you had told me 40 years ago that I could one day speak into a handheld chunk of glass and aluminum that would do its best to transcribe my words and allow me to share them with the world, I would probably have asked what is stopping us from doing that right now?

Source

Jan 10

10:58 PM

I got a USB-C mega dongle. Now I can hook up the #maudio and the #presonus to #logicpro at the same time.

Living in the frugal future. #music #soundcloud

https://soundcloud.com/jaycuthrell/going-alone

Source

Jan 11

10:10 PM

More USB-C mega dongle output

#music #soundcloud

https://soundcloud.com/jaycuthrell/leaving-marks

Source

Jan 18

01:34 AM

#mastodonadmin note on v4.3.3

None

YMMV

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.3.3

Source

Jan 19

03:49 PM

Hickory Tik ory Tok indeed. #tiktok #tikorytok

ory = obvious response yeet

Source

05:20 PM

As predicted / predicated

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/83ae83bd-644c-4d6b-be21-0bdf968204ff#Z1za7b9s.copy

Source

Jan 22

10:04 PM

Happening. https://www.techmeme.com/250122/p48#a250122p48

Source

Jan 25

05:30 PM

Still going… https://thegriffinlist.com

Source

Jan 31

10:13 PM

Catching up on my Rick Beato episodes on YouTube… session guitarist Steve Lukather talks about his funk riff via DI with mild compression on this “Stevie track by Prince”… yep https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwS9BIqbffU

Source

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-01-29

2025-01-30T23:41:39Z

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=quuw4HC96bE?si=qk83Ihf5lQPn2U1d

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieLPn0gdpEU?si=TyMLCq3Ni-5I2DvV

https://digitalnz.org/records/38626374/

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-01-28

2025-01-29T06:52:28Z

Two hot takes on stories that caught my eye on Tuesday.

⚛️ + 💰 Tolerance of errors and faults in just 5 years is pretty ambitious but perhaps AI will be thrown into the mix to close the gaps.

https://www.techmeme.com/250128/p16#a250128p16

☢️ + 💰 I cannot wait until the DeLorean with a Mr. Fusion Home Energy Reactor meme appears in the tech blogosphere.

https://www.techmeme.com/250128/p21#a250128p21

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-01-27

2025-01-28T04:08:34Z

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:

Markets were closed in observance of MLK Day.

This week:

Well, that’s different.

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 Fudge Sunday for 2025-01-26

2025-01-26T17:00:00Z

#OpenToWork Weekly

I believe in #NeverSearchAlone. I also continue to participate in a #JSC.

Dan Kelleher

Accomplished Program Manager | Technical Project Manager | Certified Scrum Master
With 25+ years of proven success leading high-impact initiatives in IT, Healthcare, and Engineering, I bring expertise in managing complex programs, driving cross-functional collaboration, and delivering innovative solutions. Adept at navigating multi-million-dollar budgets, mitigating risks, and ensuring successful outcomes throughout the entire program lifecycle. Known for building strong, lasting relationships with stakeholders, C-suite executives, partners, and teams, I excel at aligning diverse groups to bring large-scale solutions to fruition. My approach combines strategic planning, continuous oversight, and flexibility to meet goals, while maintaining a sharp focus on quality, cost, and performance.
Key Strengths:
Expert in program lifecycle management with a focus on risk management, cost control,
and delivery timelines

Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence stakeholders at all levels
Skilled at integrating Agile and Waterfall methodologies to streamline processes and drive
results
Deep expertise in managing multi-million-dollar budgets and scaling complex programs
Track record of mentoring and developing high-performance teams

Source: Dan Kelleher

Rich Green

I am an experienced technology and sales professional who has worked in pre-sales, post-sales, and Customer Operations roles over my career. I am a self starter who works well both independently and in a team environment. Some of my professional achievements include helping launch the Iridium Satellite Phone System while at Motorola SATCOM and taking a startup Internet Service Provider (SoftAware) to the next level to be acquired by Digital Island. I have consistently exceeded multimillion dollar annual sales quotas selling into the Enterprise, SMB, and SLED space while at Hughes, EMC, Brocade, Broadcom and Faction. I continue to utilize the multiple skills I have learned throughout my career including solution selling, technical account management, objection handling, project management, and utilizing public/private/hybrid cloud environments to achieve business outcomes. I am also continuing to learn new technologies such as AI/ML and Cyber Security fundamentals. I know that I will be an asset to any organization that I join. I am also willing to relocate for the right opportunity.
In my spare time I work with Special Needs individuals who are non or minimally speaking to help give them their voice using alternative technologies.
Source: Rich Green

Barbara Hadley, EdM, SPHR

Empowering People, Elevating Businesses:
A strategic HR professional with a contagious enthusiasm for empowering employees. Expertise in crafting dynamic work environments that foster high engagement and drive results utilizing a data-driven approach to implement solutions that support both employee satisfaction and organizational success.
Source: Barbara Hadley, EdM, SPHR

Andrew Webber

I’m a passionate leader with a proven track record of building and scaling innovative consumer products. As the Co-founder & CEO of Corsair Distillery, I grew the company from concept to a multi-million dollar operation with a national presence and 400 awards for quality and innovation. I’m adept at identifying unique market opportunities, developing award-winning products, and building high-performing teams.
My expertise lies in:
Innovation: I have a relentless curiosity and a passion for bringing disruptive ideas to life.

Strategy: I excel at translating market insights into winning product strategies and brand positioning.
Operations: I have a proven track record of building and scaling operations from the ground up.
Leadership: I thrive on building and motivating teams to achieve ambitious goals.

Source: Andrew Webber

Lida Tohidi

🏆 Recognized as a Top 20 Visionary in Media & Tech by Adello and Top 15 Coach by Influence Digest

🚀 Career Highlights

15+ years of experience in product management, digital marketing, and strategic planning
7+ years advising, consulting, and investing in mission-driven startups and SMBs
Led teams to win the Google Startup Battle (out of 1000+ teams) and other national awards
Advised startups that have collectively raised over $500 million
Launched a successful national incubator

🌟 Speaking Engagements

Delivered keynotes and workshops at 35+ prestigious conferences including:
Tech Giants: Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn, Twitch, Tencent
Fortune 500: Capital One, Wells Fargo
Innovators: Anaplan, Mavenlink, Mobify, ThoughtWorks

💡 Areas of Expertise

Product Management
Digital Marketing
Strategic Planning
Startup Advising & Investing
Diversity & Inclusion in Tech
Mindfulness in the Workplace

🌍 Global Experience

Initiated and led projects across 12 countries on 6 continents
Fluent in 3 languages, working proficiency in 3 more
Countries: Australia, Bénin, Canada, France, Italy, Japan, Malawi, Peru, Switzerland, Taiwan, UK, USA

🤝 Community Involvement

Active mentor and speaker for numerous tech and diversity initiatives:
ACT-W, Anita Borg Institute, Cleantech Open, Latinos in Tech, Tech Jobs Tour
Women in STEM, Women Entering and Staying in Tech (WEST), - Young Women in Business (YWiB)

🎯 Passion Projects

Champion for mindfulness in the tech industry
Advocate for diversity and inclusion in technology and beyond
Committed to empowering underrepresented groups in tech

Source: Lida Tohidi

Nathan Clyker

Successful Sales and Business Development Professional with a demonstrated 21 year history of working in the IT industry. Expert skills in Management, Sales, Enterprise Software and Hardware, Partner Management, Storage, Go-to-market Strategy creation/execution, and Sales Operations. Strong sales professional with a BS in International Business from University of Colorado, Denver and an intense focus on customer satisfaction via strong business and interpersonal relationships.
Source: Nathan Clyker

Gina (Gina Minks) Rosenthal

Over 10 years’ experience as a global and fractional product marketing manager for global technology companies (up to 120K employees) as well as and startups.
Over the last 5 years leading Digital Sunshine Solutions, generated over 150 blog posts, 26 case studies, and a range of messaging documents, launch plans, white papers, product datasheets, and solution briefs.
Bootstrapped quarterly cross-company “Think Tanks” to create strong feedback loops between executives, product, marketing, and engineering teams.
Created technical content and improved product positioning using sales and customer feedback. Served as the voice of the customer for enterprise clients exploring SaaS products.
Planned, researched, and developed over twenty podcast episodes covering AI and infrastructure over two years.

The experience on my resume is definitely not traditional! But because there is a string connecting it all, I bring a unique blend of technical expertise and creative marketing strategy to the table. With over a decade of experience working with industry leaders like EMC, Dell, and VMware, I’ve honed an in-depth understanding of the challenges IT executives face—and more importantly, how to solve them. However, since I come from a sysadmin/operator audience, I easily craft messaging that resonates and builds trust with them too.
Founding and leading Digital Sunshine Solutions for five years is one of the most fulfilling and proudest milestones of my career. Over the last five years, our team executed six product launches, developed over 150 blog posts, 26 case studies, and countless white papers, solution briefs, and product datasheets. And our work drove real impact. One of our clients saw a 150% growth in their social media presence!
I’m passionate about innovation and collaboration, particularly in areas like artificial intelligence and infrastructure technology. I want to connect the dots between complex products and the human stories they power. I believe there is infinite power in connecting everyone, inside and outside of an organization.
If you’re interested in telling the story of how your product turns customers in the hero of their own journey, let’s talk!
Source: Gina (Gina Minks) Rosenthal

Richard Arnesen

Who am I? I am a proven problem solver who has a history of digging in and savings my employers millions of dollars in savings over my career. I am a hard worker who can dig into the details but also communicate to the executive suite to gain the buy-in to implement a solution. In addition to system or process issues I am an expert in digging in and fixing poor performing teams. How can I help you solve a problem today? Feel free to contact me if you have any problems in the following areas:

Program Delivery
Infrastructure/Cloud
Team Performance/Dynamics
Application Reliability
Strategic Roadmaps
Transformation
Leadership Development
Managed Services

Source: Richard Arnesen

Janel Van Beek

For Humans: I intellectually help organizations and leaders grow and keep great teams, and lead change into the future. My favorite skills and experiences are strategy, program management, product, and organization and leadership effectiveness. My detailed resume is available here: https://www.francievanwirkus.com/resume
For Data Searches: Janel Van Beek (formerly Janel Lanza), SPC 6.0, FLMI, CCTP II, is a business strategist and certified Master Coach, helping people do what seems impossible. She is a digital transformation, OCM, leadership development, and product expert. She is strategy and business consultant. She has financial, health, entrepreneur, retail and services product experience. She has deep experience in strategy, change, instructional design and training as well as in being a turn-around people leader.
As founder of Francie Van Wirkus LLC, an executive coaching and private yoga business, Janel is a keynote speaker, author of several books and executive coach and strategist. She has strategic product and portfolio experience. Janel also has deep experience in investment training, organization effectiveness, human resources, and instructional design. She is a dual-certified yoga instructor for group and private classes, and is an Ironman triathlete. Each day, Janel aims to hang around with people who do epic sh*t.
Certifications and Training

PESI Dialectical Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness
Globant Leadership Development
Globant AI
IC Agile ICP-ENT
IC Agile ICP-CAT
IC Agile- ICP-ORG
Scaled Agile Framework SPC 6.0, 2015-present
SAFe PMPO 5.0, Advanced Scrum Master, Lean Portfolio Management, Remote Trainer, LPM 5.1 AHF Agility Health Radar Facilitator, 2020
CCTP I and II Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, 2020
CPrime Product Agility: Discovery and Delivery, 2020
Integrative Yoga Therapy Instructor 200 hour, 2020
Harvard Business New Leader Program graduate, 2018
Breakthrough Leader Program graduate, 2018
Lean Greenbelt, 2015
Personal Kanban, 2014
Scrum Foundations, 2012
PROSCI Change Management, 2011
Certified Breakthrough Master Coach, 2006
Certified Agency Trainer, 2001
Past FINRA licenses 6, 7, 26 1998, 2000
FLMI 1998
ACS Customer Service 1998

Source: Janel Van Beek

Greg Phillips

At IBM, my focus as a Cloud Platform Leader has been on fostering strategic partnerships and driving innovative marketing strategies. With a strong background in corporate marketing and a hands-on approach to customer relationship management, my recent work has centered on extending IBM’s cloud alliances globally.
The team has successfully leveraged my skills in strategic and online marketing to create impactful campaigns, positioning us at the forefront of cloud solutions. Our collaborative efforts have not only filled the sales funnel but also strengthened IBM’s presence in the competitive cloud marketplace.
Source: Greg Phillips

Sheri Gearhart

Innovative Technology Architect | Solution Designer | Collaborative Leader
Passionate about driving technological innovation and delivering cutting-edge solutions, I thrive on exploring and implementing new technologies to solve complex problems. With a keen eye for evaluating the benefits of emerging tools within solution stacks, I excel in leading proofs of concept and translating technical insights into actionable strategies for stakeholders, maximizing the return on investment through increasing revenue. My strengths lie in developing comprehensive presentations, providing expert training, and fostering collaboration across diverse teams. As a natural leader, I inspire and influence through my technical expertise and vision, without the constraints of formal management roles. My ideal position leverages my skills in architecting solutions, knowledge sharing, and project leadership, while allowing me to focus on the technical aspects of innovation rather than sales-driven engagements.
I have held a wide array of positions throughout my career in technology. My path includes technical support, UNIX system administration, SAP Basis Administration, storage SAN architecture design and engineering, technical design analysis at customer sites, CTO, and system architecture spanning across on-premises and public/hybrid cloud platforms, Converged Systems and Hyper-Converged Systems. I have advanced knowledge of Dell EMC Storage, Dell EMC Data Protection, Cisco and Brocade SAN, Cisco UCS, and VMware vSphere. I hold several Dell EMC certifications, as well as ITIL and SAFe 4 Agilist certifications.
Specialties: architectural design, BCDR, cisco, customer relations, erp, hp - ux, nas, storage engineering, san, storage networking, NVMe-oF protocols, Red Hat Linux, SUSE Linux, SAP Basis, Solaris, strategic planning, system administration, technical training, vendor relations, Veritas Netbackup, EMC and HP storage technologies
Source: Sheri Gearhart

Tamera Rousseau King

A highly skilled Technical Project Manager, Agile Product Owner, and people leader with a proven track record in managing large-scale marketing technology programs and building high-performing teams. Demonstrated ability to build strong cross-functional relationships to align on project scope, prioritize business requirements, and develop effective risk mitigation strategies, ensuring project goals were achieved on time and under budget. Adept at leveraging Agile methodologies to establish operational excellence, driving repeated success, and ensuring program accountability.
Source: Tamera Rousseau King

Ricardo Perez

With a deep-seated passion for pioneering virtualization solutions, my tenure at Dell EMC, Xerox, etc. has been marked by architecting and deploying PowerFlex and VxRail systems. My expertise lies in comprehensive lifecycle management, with a proven track record in steering projects from conception to completion, delivering high-performance and scalable virtual environments.
At the core of my professional journey is a commitment to innovation and excellence in infrastructure transformation. Collaborating with C-level executives, I’ve honed my skills in presenting project visions and strategies, while my fluency in English and Spanish enhances our team’s ability to drive global initiatives. My credentials, including multiple VMware and Microsoft certifications, underscore my dedication to maintaining technical prowess in Systems Engineering.
Source: Ricardo Perez

Mike Berteletti, CISSP

Experienced Information Technology Professional with a broad and deep knowledge of many information technology products and services found in large enterprises to small and medium businesses. Specialties include Converged Infrastructure, Cloud Computing, Information Storage Solutions, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows Infrastructure, Information Systems Security, Enterprise Network Design, Data Protection, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, IT Strategy, IT Leadership, Business Liason and Career Development.

ISC2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
EMC Proven Professional Technology Architect

Source: Mike Berteletti, CISSP

Bob Lima, PMP

Experienced Senior Program Manager with 15+ years of successfully managing end-to-end lifecycles of large, cross-functional, and transformational programs. Expertise in delivering complex projects within scope, timeline, and budget while driving process improvements and ensuring strategic alignment with business goals. Adept at utilizing Agile, Waterfall, and Lean Six Sigma methodologies, with a proven ability to manage risks, resolve conflicts, and optimize resource allocation. Skilled communicator, capable of presenting technical concepts to senior leadership and influencing business decisions for maximizing ROI. A leader focused on mentorship, team empowerment, and continuous improvement.
323-513-6011
Source: Bob Lima, PMP

Chris Mojica

Seasoned technical sales professional and technologist with proven pre and post sales engineering experience. Experience includes supporting startups, system integrators, vendors, channel partners/VARs, OEMs and end customers. I am always open to Solutions Architect or Sales/Systems Engineering opportunities.
Technical backgrounds include the disciplines of HCI, Virtualization, Software Defined (SDN/SDS/SDC) storage area networks (SAN), network, and broadband technologies. Additionally, having supported various levels within multiple organizations demonstrates my ability to effectively conduct business and technical level discussions within each of these tiers.
Leveraging my knowledge, background and experience allows me to understand complex datacenter environments. This technical acumen allows me to propose creative solutions that maximize ROI and minimize TCO. Strong organizational skills and ability to support multiple projects allows me to meet multiple deadlines.
Source: Chris Mojica

Matthew Leib

After many years as an engineer and presales architect, with specialties in datacenter, cloud, virtualization and most particularly storage, I’ve become noted for my writing and analytical expertise in those categories. My blogging has been ongoing since 2009, and I use those writing and focused IT value propositions to write for a number of analytics firms. I specialize in architectures surrounding Kubernetes, Converged and hyper-converged architectures in storage, cloud, AI, and virtualization, containers focused.
Source: Matthew Leib

Michael Joffe

Dynamic global technology leader and Military veteran. P&L responsibility for business lines ranging from $10M to $150M in annual recurring revenue—direct management of high-performing teams ranging from 10 to 75 professionals across the globe. Exceptional at driving growth with Series C, PE-backed, and large-cap multi-national companies. Extensive experience with technology solution co-creation and GTM execution across the OEM, ISV, and SaaS ecosystems.
Source: Michael Joffe

Colleen Coll

“Allow myself to introduce…myself.” - Austin Powers
Ever feel like you’re juggling flaming torches planning events—trying to keep all the details in the air while something’s always about to catch fire? Yep, I’ve been there. Events have a way of throwing curveballs, and when tech and tools aren’t playing nice, chaos can easily take over.
That’s where I come in. I love turning event madness into magic. Whether it’s on-site event coverage using digital media, live reporting, or behind-the-scenes management, I make sure everything runs like clockwork. I’m also a huge fan of using There.App, which simplifies on-location event management by keeping everyone in sync and streamlining the entire process, so no detail gets lost in the shuffle.
From tech conferences to startup launches, I capture the moments that matter and keep things smooth, whether it’s happening live or behind the scenes. And when I’m not on the ground, I’m writing—blogs, articles, and ghostwriting for tech leaders to tell the bigger story behind the event, brand, or mission.
So, let’s make your next event one to remember, with every detail in place and every moment captured. Reach out! I’m always game for a brainstorm or a quick chat about how to make your event shine (without all the stress).
Source: Colleen Coll

Karl Edwards, PMP

An innovative, strategic and results-oriented technical program manager and network strategist with twenty-two years of experience in the telecommunications and technology industries. I can interact with and contribute to technical discussions with engineers as well as communicate program updates, strategy and roadmap to senior executives. For the last seven years at Cox Communications, I managed the three largest and most strategic programs within the technology portfolio: DOCSIS 3.1 program, Remote PHY program and DOCSIS 4.0 program. I have an inherent bias for action and have successfully operated in an environment where I managed cross-functional and cross-organizational teams without authority every day.
Source: Karl Edwards, PMP

Shianna Maxwell

Creative and independent graphic design and marketing professional with a keen eye for detail and a strong background in digital brand management, logo design, and layout design. Passionate about delivering high-quality projects on time, with a proven ability to collaborate effectively with global teams, manage tight deadlines, and handle multiple projects simultaneously. Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft Office Suite, with excellent time management and problem-solving skills that enable me to work autonomously while fostering strong teamwork.
Source: Shianna Maxwell

Paul Lysko

Results-oriented Product Management Executive and former Air Force officer with 20+ years of experience across B2B software, retail technology solutions, FP&A, and operations. Skilled in driving business growth through strategic product management, P&L ownership, and customer focus. Repeatedly managed P&Ls of up to $225 million, consistently delivering impactful results. Passionate leader with a track record of hiring and managing teams of 10+.
Source: Paul Lysko

Thomas Chatham

Engineering leader and technologist with over 20 years of experience in the Enterprise technology industry, most recently specializing in engineering and validation for Dell’s enterprise software as a service (SaaS) subscriptions. My expertise lies in management, particularly in leading end-to-end development and integration of various Converged Infrastructure platforms. This includes spearheading formation of a global engineering organization to create next-gen automated converged systems.
My portfolio boasts successful projects like the establishment of VCE’s Customer Technology Centers worldwide, where I managed multiple teams and streamlined product demonstration processes through automation. My leadership has consistently accelerated customer adoption of converged datacenter platforms.
Additionally, as a Solutions Architect, I’ve had the opportunity to provide pre-sales and implementation solutions for numerous vendors to meet customer business objectives, further solidifying my skills in storage, networking, VMware, high availability and cloud computing among others.
Source: Thomas Chatham

Sam Aiello, Ph.D.

Experienced cybersecurity and technology strategist with a proven record of delivering innovative, tailored solutions by collaborating with C-suite executives and cross-functional teams across Sales, Product, Engineering, and Marketing. Adept at driving business growth and client success through strategic insights, technology leadership, and effective pre-sales engagement. A self-driven contributor with expertise in technology strategy, client advocacy, and sales enablement, recognized for enhancing company visibility through impactful presentations and industry event participation. Seeking a dynamic pre-sales role that leverages cross-functional collaboration to create transformative solutions while maintaining a balanced scope of responsibility and work-life integration.
Source: Sam Aiello, Ph.D.

Hot Fudge Daily Digest

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-01-20

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 1… a new year calm returns.

This week:

Markets were closed in observance of MLK Day.

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 2025-01-21

Two hot takes on stories that caught my eye on Tuesday and a bonus third hot take.

🤖 + 💰 As someone that has seen joint-ventures gone right and wrong… It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of…

*[ checks notes ] *

Investing half a $T (!!!) in US AI infrastructure. 🤯

https://www.techmeme.com/250121/p26#a250121p26

🤖 + 💰 Speaking of infrastructure, exclusivity can be… well, expensive… so keep it open to other possibilities?

https://www.techmeme.com/250121/p28#a250121p28

🤖 + 💰 It’s like that old saying… If you can’t beat em, take a significant position in them.

https://www.techmeme.com/250122/p2#a250122p2

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-01-22

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.generalmills.com/news/press-releases/soup-you-can-suck-on-introducing-progresso-soup-drops-the-ultimate-cold-and-flu-season-comfort

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/g3lE3q418mU

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-01-23

One headline for a Thursday Throwback caught my eye. Specifically, the claim of ~5.6 Tbps of traffic during the peak of one DDoS attack.

https://www.techmeme.com/250122/p10#a250122p10

For perspective, in 2013 there was one DDoS attack that “almost broke the Internet” which was claimed to be ~0.085 Tbps of traffic.

https://www.techmeme.com/130327/p29#a130327p29

My point is, the comparisons are quite a bit different. The mitigation techniques and expansion of the Cloudflare business has likely changed.

Also likely is those differences have turned into a different kind of data claim for marketing purposes. So, I do wonder if the claims will one day relate to the theoretical throughput of a modern multi-Tbps Ethernet switch slot or a collection of switches at fully populated slot capacity.

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-01-24

This week turned another crank on the hype around Agentic AI, Agents, and Assistants — with new releases from the major players.

https://www.techmeme.com/250123/p35#a250123p35

https://www.techmeme.com/250122/p29#a250122p29

https://www.techmeme.com/250123/p40#a250123p40

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-01-25

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 👀

In that spirit, here are a few stories that you might have missed on the slow news of a Friday.

Insert Let’s See Who This Really Is Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250124/p13#a250124p13

Insert Ceiling Cat Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250124/p29#a250124p29

Insert We’re All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250124/p10#a250124p10

Insert That Wasn’t Me, That Was Patricia Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250125/p1#a250125p1

Insert Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250124/p9#a250124p9

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-01-25

2025-01-25T17:06:35Z

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 👀

In that spirit, here are a few stories that you might have missed on the slow news of a Friday.

Insert Let’s See Who This Really Is Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250124/p13#a250124p13

Insert Ceiling Cat Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250124/p29#a250124p29

Insert We’re All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250124/p10#a250124p10

Insert That Wasn’t Me, That Was Patricia Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250125/p1#a250125p1

Insert Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250124/p9#a250124p9

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-01-24

2025-01-25T03:44:14Z

This week turned another crank on the hype around Agentic AI, Agents, and Assistants — with new releases from the major players.

https://www.techmeme.com/250123/p35#a250123p35

https://www.techmeme.com/250122/p29#a250122p29

https://www.techmeme.com/250123/p40#a250123p40

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-01-23

2025-01-24T07:37:37Z

One headline for a Thursday Throwback caught my eye. Specifically, the claim of ~5.6 Tbps of traffic during the peak of one DDoS attack.

https://www.techmeme.com/250122/p10#a250122p10

For perspective, in 2013 there was one DDoS attack that “almost broke the Internet” which was claimed to be ~0.085 Tbps of traffic.

https://www.techmeme.com/130327/p29#a130327p29

My point is, the comparisons are quite a bit different. The mitigation techniques and expansion of the Cloudflare business has likely changed.

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-01-22

2025-01-23T03:01:55Z

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.generalmills.com/news/press-releases/soup-you-can-suck-on-introducing-progresso-soup-drops-the-ultimate-cold-and-flu-season-comfort

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/g3lE3q418mU

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-01-21

2025-01-22T06:47:03Z

Two hot takes on stories that caught my eye on Tuesday and a bonus third hot take.

🤖 + 💰 As someone that has seen joint-ventures gone right and wrong… It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of…

*[ checks notes ] *

Investing half a $T (!!!) in US AI infrastructure. 🤯

https://www.techmeme.com/250121/p26#a250121p26

🤖 + 💰 Speaking of infrastructure, exclusivity can be… well, expensive… so keep it open to other possibilities?

https://www.techmeme.com/250121/p28#a250121p28

🤖 + 💰 It’s like that old saying… If you can’t beat em, take a significant position in them.

https://www.techmeme.com/250122/p2#a250122p2

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-01-20

2025-01-21T15:15:37Z

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 1… a new year calm returns.

This week:

Markets were closed in observance of MLK Day.

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 Fudge Sunday for 2025-01-19

2025-01-19T19:30:00Z

#OpenToWork Weekly

I believe in #NeverSearchAlone. I also continue to participate in a #JSC.

Barbara Hadley, EdM, SPHR

Empowering People, Elevating Businesses:
A strategic HR professional with a contagious enthusiasm for empowering employees. Expertise in crafting dynamic work environments that foster high engagement and drive results utilizing a data-driven approach to implement solutions that support both employee satisfaction and organizational success.
Source: Barbara Hadley, EdM, SPHR

Andrew Webber

I’m a passionate leader with a proven track record of building and scaling innovative consumer products. As the Co-founder & CEO of Corsair Distillery, I grew the company from concept to a multi-million dollar operation with a national presence and 400 awards for quality and innovation. I’m adept at identifying unique market opportunities, developing award-winning products, and building high-performing teams.
My expertise lies in:
Innovation: I have a relentless curiosity and a passion for bringing disruptive ideas to life.

Strategy: I excel at translating market insights into winning product strategies and brand positioning.
Operations: I have a proven track record of building and scaling operations from the ground up.
Leadership: I thrive on building and motivating teams to achieve ambitious goals.

Source: Andrew Webber

Lida Tohidi

🏆 Recognized as a Top 20 Visionary in Media & Tech by Adello and Top 15 Coach by Influence Digest

🚀 Career Highlights

15+ years of experience in product management, digital marketing, and strategic planning
7+ years advising, consulting, and investing in mission-driven startups and SMBs
Led teams to win the Google Startup Battle (out of 1000+ teams) and other national awards
Advised startups that have collectively raised over $500 million
Launched a successful national incubator

🌟 Speaking Engagements

Delivered keynotes and workshops at 35+ prestigious conferences including:
Tech Giants: Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn, Twitch, Tencent
Fortune 500: Capital One, Wells Fargo
Innovators: Anaplan, Mavenlink, Mobify, ThoughtWorks

💡 Areas of Expertise

Product Management
Digital Marketing
Strategic Planning
Startup Advising & Investing
Diversity & Inclusion in Tech
Mindfulness in the Workplace

🌍 Global Experience

Initiated and led projects across 12 countries on 6 continents
Fluent in 3 languages, working proficiency in 3 more
Countries: Australia, Bénin, Canada, France, Italy, Japan, Malawi, Peru, Switzerland, Taiwan, UK, USA

🤝 Community Involvement

Active mentor and speaker for numerous tech and diversity initiatives:
ACT-W, Anita Borg Institute, Cleantech Open, Latinos in Tech, Tech Jobs Tour
Women in STEM, Women Entering and Staying in Tech (WEST), - Young Women in Business (YWiB)

🎯 Passion Projects

Champion for mindfulness in the tech industry
Advocate for diversity and inclusion in technology and beyond
Committed to empowering underrepresented groups in tech

Source: Lida Tohidi

Nathan Clyker

Successful Sales and Business Development Professional with a demonstrated 21 year history of working in the IT industry. Expert skills in Management, Sales, Enterprise Software and Hardware, Partner Management, Storage, Go-to-market Strategy creation/execution, and Sales Operations. Strong sales professional with a BS in International Business from University of Colorado, Denver and an intense focus on customer satisfaction via strong business and interpersonal relationships.
Source: Nathan Clyker

Gina (Gina Minks) Rosenthal

Over 10 years’ experience as a global and fractional product marketing manager for global technology companies (up to 120K employees) as well as and startups.
Over the last 5 years leading Digital Sunshine Solutions, generated over 150 blog posts, 26 case studies, and a range of messaging documents, launch plans, white papers, product datasheets, and solution briefs.
Bootstrapped quarterly cross-company “Think Tanks” to create strong feedback loops between executives, product, marketing, and engineering teams.
Created technical content and improved product positioning using sales and customer feedback. Served as the voice of the customer for enterprise clients exploring SaaS products.
Planned, researched, and developed over twenty podcast episodes covering AI and infrastructure over two years.

The experience on my resume is definitely not traditional! But because there is a string connecting it all, I bring a unique blend of technical expertise and creative marketing strategy to the table. With over a decade of experience working with industry leaders like EMC, Dell, and VMware, I’ve honed an in-depth understanding of the challenges IT executives face—and more importantly, how to solve them. However, since I come from a sysadmin/operator audience, I easily craft messaging that resonates and builds trust with them too.
Founding and leading Digital Sunshine Solutions for five years is one of the most fulfilling and proudest milestones of my career. Over the last five years, our team executed six product launches, developed over 150 blog posts, 26 case studies, and countless white papers, solution briefs, and product datasheets. And our work drove real impact. One of our clients saw a 150% growth in their social media presence!
I’m passionate about innovation and collaboration, particularly in areas like artificial intelligence and infrastructure technology. I want to connect the dots between complex products and the human stories they power. I believe there is infinite power in connecting everyone, inside and outside of an organization.
If you’re interested in telling the story of how your product turns customers in the hero of their own journey, let’s talk!
Source: Gina (Gina Minks) Rosenthal

Richard Arnesen

Who am I? I am a proven problem solver who has a history of digging in and savings my employers millions of dollars in savings over my career. I am a hard worker who can dig into the details but also communicate to the executive suite to gain the buy-in to implement a solution. In addition to system or process issues I am an expert in digging in and fixing poor performing teams. How can I help you solve a problem today? Feel free to contact me if you have any problems in the following areas:

Program Delivery
Infrastructure/Cloud
Team Performance/Dynamics
Application Reliability
Strategic Roadmaps
Transformation
Leadership Development
Managed Services

Source: Richard Arnesen

Janel Van Beek

For Humans: I intellectually help organizations and leaders grow and keep great teams, and lead change into the future. My favorite skills and experiences are strategy, program management, product, and organization and leadership effectiveness. My detailed resume is available here: https://www.francievanwirkus.com/resume
For Data Searches: Janel Van Beek (formerly Janel Lanza), SPC 6.0, FLMI, CCTP II, is a business strategist and certified Master Coach, helping people do what seems impossible. She is a digital transformation, OCM, leadership development, and product expert. She is strategy and business consultant. She has financial, health, entrepreneur, retail and services product experience. She has deep experience in strategy, change, instructional design and training as well as in being a turn-around people leader.
As founder of Francie Van Wirkus LLC, an executive coaching and private yoga business, Janel is a keynote speaker, author of several books and executive coach and strategist. She has strategic product and portfolio experience. Janel also has deep experience in investment training, organization effectiveness, human resources, and instructional design. She is a dual-certified yoga instructor for group and private classes, and is an Ironman triathlete. Each day, Janel aims to hang around with people who do epic sh*t.
Certifications and Training

PESI Dialectical Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness
Globant Leadership Development
Globant AI
IC Agile ICP-ENT
IC Agile ICP-CAT
IC Agile- ICP-ORG
Scaled Agile Framework SPC 6.0, 2015-present
SAFe PMPO 5.0, Advanced Scrum Master, Lean Portfolio Management, Remote Trainer, LPM 5.1 AHF Agility Health Radar Facilitator, 2020
CCTP I and II Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, 2020
CPrime Product Agility: Discovery and Delivery, 2020
Integrative Yoga Therapy Instructor 200 hour, 2020
Harvard Business New Leader Program graduate, 2018
Breakthrough Leader Program graduate, 2018
Lean Greenbelt, 2015
Personal Kanban, 2014
Scrum Foundations, 2012
PROSCI Change Management, 2011
Certified Breakthrough Master Coach, 2006
Certified Agency Trainer, 2001
Past FINRA licenses 6, 7, 26 1998, 2000
FLMI 1998
ACS Customer Service 1998

Source: Janel Van Beek

Greg Phillips

At IBM, my focus as a Cloud Platform Leader has been on fostering strategic partnerships and driving innovative marketing strategies. With a strong background in corporate marketing and a hands-on approach to customer relationship management, my recent work has centered on extending IBM’s cloud alliances globally.
The team has successfully leveraged my skills in strategic and online marketing to create impactful campaigns, positioning us at the forefront of cloud solutions. Our collaborative efforts have not only filled the sales funnel but also strengthened IBM’s presence in the competitive cloud marketplace.
Source: Greg Phillips

Sheri Gearhart

Innovative Technology Architect | Solution Designer | Collaborative Leader
Passionate about driving technological innovation and delivering cutting-edge solutions, I thrive on exploring and implementing new technologies to solve complex problems. With a keen eye for evaluating the benefits of emerging tools within solution stacks, I excel in leading proofs of concept and translating technical insights into actionable strategies for stakeholders, maximizing the return on investment through increasing revenue. My strengths lie in developing comprehensive presentations, providing expert training, and fostering collaboration across diverse teams. As a natural leader, I inspire and influence through my technical expertise and vision, without the constraints of formal management roles. My ideal position leverages my skills in architecting solutions, knowledge sharing, and project leadership, while allowing me to focus on the technical aspects of innovation rather than sales-driven engagements.
I have held a wide array of positions throughout my career in technology. My path includes technical support, UNIX system administration, SAP Basis Administration, storage SAN architecture design and engineering, technical design analysis at customer sites, CTO, and system architecture spanning across on-premises and public/hybrid cloud platforms, Converged Systems and Hyper-Converged Systems. I have advanced knowledge of Dell EMC Storage, Dell EMC Data Protection, Cisco and Brocade SAN, Cisco UCS, and VMware vSphere. I hold several Dell EMC certifications, as well as ITIL and SAFe 4 Agilist certifications.
Specialties: architectural design, BCDR, cisco, customer relations, erp, hp - ux, nas, storage engineering, san, storage networking, NVMe-oF protocols, Red Hat Linux, SUSE Linux, SAP Basis, Solaris, strategic planning, system administration, technical training, vendor relations, Veritas Netbackup, EMC and HP storage technologies
Source: Sheri Gearhart

Tamera Rousseau King

A highly skilled Technical Project Manager, Agile Product Owner, and people leader with a proven track record in managing large-scale marketing technology programs and building high-performing teams. Demonstrated ability to build strong cross-functional relationships to align on project scope, prioritize business requirements, and develop effective risk mitigation strategies, ensuring project goals were achieved on time and under budget. Adept at leveraging Agile methodologies to establish operational excellence, driving repeated success, and ensuring program accountability.
Source: Tamera Rousseau King

Ricardo Perez

With a deep-seated passion for pioneering virtualization solutions, my tenure at Dell EMC, Xerox, etc. has been marked by architecting and deploying PowerFlex and VxRail systems. My expertise lies in comprehensive lifecycle management, with a proven track record in steering projects from conception to completion, delivering high-performance and scalable virtual environments.
At the core of my professional journey is a commitment to innovation and excellence in infrastructure transformation. Collaborating with C-level executives, I’ve honed my skills in presenting project visions and strategies, while my fluency in English and Spanish enhances our team’s ability to drive global initiatives. My credentials, including multiple VMware and Microsoft certifications, underscore my dedication to maintaining technical prowess in Systems Engineering.
Source: Ricardo Perez

Mike Berteletti, CISSP

Experienced Information Technology Professional with a broad and deep knowledge of many information technology products and services found in large enterprises to small and medium businesses. Specialties include Converged Infrastructure, Cloud Computing, Information Storage Solutions, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows Infrastructure, Information Systems Security, Enterprise Network Design, Data Protection, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, IT Strategy, IT Leadership, Business Liason and Career Development.

ISC2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
EMC Proven Professional Technology Architect

Source: Mike Berteletti, CISSP

Bob Lima, PMP

Experienced Senior Program Manager with 15+ years of successfully managing end-to-end lifecycles of large, cross-functional, and transformational programs. Expertise in delivering complex projects within scope, timeline, and budget while driving process improvements and ensuring strategic alignment with business goals. Adept at utilizing Agile, Waterfall, and Lean Six Sigma methodologies, with a proven ability to manage risks, resolve conflicts, and optimize resource allocation. Skilled communicator, capable of presenting technical concepts to senior leadership and influencing business decisions for maximizing ROI. A leader focused on mentorship, team empowerment, and continuous improvement.
323-513-6011
Source: Bob Lima, PMP

Chris Mojica

Seasoned technical sales professional and technologist with proven pre and post sales engineering experience. Experience includes supporting startups, system integrators, vendors, channel partners/VARs, OEMs and end customers. I am always open to Solutions Architect or Sales/Systems Engineering opportunities.
Technical backgrounds include the disciplines of HCI, Virtualization, Software Defined (SDN/SDS/SDC) storage area networks (SAN), network, and broadband technologies. Additionally, having supported various levels within multiple organizations demonstrates my ability to effectively conduct business and technical level discussions within each of these tiers.
Leveraging my knowledge, background and experience allows me to understand complex datacenter environments. This technical acumen allows me to propose creative solutions that maximize ROI and minimize TCO. Strong organizational skills and ability to support multiple projects allows me to meet multiple deadlines.
Source: Chris Mojica

Rich Green

I am an seasoned technology and sales professional who has worked in both pre-sales and post-sales roles and in Customer Operations roles over my career. I am a self starter who works well both independently and in a team environment. I have been successful at every step of my career - whether it was helping launch the Iridium Satellite System while at Motorola SATCOM or taking a startup Internet Service Provider (SoftAware) to the next level to be acquired or selling into Enterprise, SMB, and SLED customers at Hughes, EMC, Brocade, Broadcom and Faction. I have learned and utilized multiple skills during my career including objection handling, technical account management, storage area networks, IP networks, network-attached storage, and cloud fundamentals. I have also continued to learn new technologies such as AI fundamentals and cyber security fundamentals. I feel that I am an asset to any organization that I join. I am willing to relocate for the right opportunity. Specialties: Sales Engineering, Solution Engineering, SAN, LAN, Storage, Technical Sales, Account Management
Source: Rich Green

Matthew Leib

After many years as an engineer and presales architect, with specialties in datacenter, cloud, virtualization and most particularly storage, I’ve become noted for my writing and analytical expertise in those categories. My blogging has been ongoing since 2009, and I use those writing and focused IT value propositions to write for a number of analytics firms. I specialize in architectures surrounding Kubernetes, Converged and hyper-converged architectures in storage, cloud, AI, and virtualization, containers focused.
Source: Matthew Leib

Michael Joffe

Dynamic global technology leader and Military veteran. P&L responsibility for business lines ranging from $10M to $150M in annual recurring revenue—direct management of high-performing teams ranging from 10 to 75 professionals across the globe. Exceptional at driving growth with Series C, PE-backed, and large-cap multi-national companies. Extensive experience with technology solution co-creation and GTM execution across the OEM, ISV, and SaaS ecosystems.
Source: Michael Joffe

Colleen Coll

“Allow myself to introduce…myself.” - Austin Powers
Ever feel like you’re juggling flaming torches planning events—trying to keep all the details in the air while something’s always about to catch fire? Yep, I’ve been there. Events have a way of throwing curveballs, and when tech and tools aren’t playing nice, chaos can easily take over.
That’s where I come in. I love turning event madness into magic. Whether it’s on-site event coverage using digital media, live reporting, or behind-the-scenes management, I make sure everything runs like clockwork. I’m also a huge fan of using There.App, which simplifies on-location event management by keeping everyone in sync and streamlining the entire process, so no detail gets lost in the shuffle.
From tech conferences to startup launches, I capture the moments that matter and keep things smooth, whether it’s happening live or behind the scenes. And when I’m not on the ground, I’m writing—blogs, articles, and ghostwriting for tech leaders to tell the bigger story behind the event, brand, or mission.
So, let’s make your next event one to remember, with every detail in place and every moment captured. Reach out! I’m always game for a brainstorm or a quick chat about how to make your event shine (without all the stress).
Source: Colleen Coll

Karl Edwards, PMP

An innovative, strategic and results-oriented technical program manager and network strategist with twenty-two years of experience in the telecommunications and technology industries. I can interact with and contribute to technical discussions with engineers as well as communicate program updates, strategy and roadmap to senior executives. For the last seven years at Cox Communications, I managed the three largest and most strategic programs within the technology portfolio: DOCSIS 3.1 program, Remote PHY program and DOCSIS 4.0 program. I have an inherent bias for action and have successfully operated in an environment where I managed cross-functional and cross-organizational teams without authority every day.
Source: Karl Edwards, PMP

Shianna Maxwell

Creative and independent graphic design and marketing professional with a keen eye for detail and a strong background in digital brand management, logo design, and layout design. Passionate about delivering high-quality projects on time, with a proven ability to collaborate effectively with global teams, manage tight deadlines, and handle multiple projects simultaneously. Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft Office Suite, with excellent time management and problem-solving skills that enable me to work autonomously while fostering strong teamwork.
Source: Shianna Maxwell

Paul Lysko

Results-oriented Product Management Executive and former Air Force officer with 20+ years of experience across B2B software, retail technology solutions, FP&A, and operations. Skilled in driving business growth through strategic product management, P&L ownership, and customer focus. Repeatedly managed P&Ls of up to $225 million, consistently delivering impactful results. Passionate leader with a track record of hiring and managing teams of 10+.
Source: Paul Lysko

Thomas Chatham

Engineering leader and technologist with over 20 years of experience in the Enterprise technology industry, most recently specializing in engineering and validation for Dell’s enterprise software as a service (SaaS) subscriptions. My expertise lies in management, particularly in leading end-to-end development and integration of various Converged Infrastructure platforms. This includes spearheading formation of a global engineering organization to create next-gen automated converged systems.
My portfolio boasts successful projects like the establishment of VCE’s Customer Technology Centers worldwide, where I managed multiple teams and streamlined product demonstration processes through automation. My leadership has consistently accelerated customer adoption of converged datacenter platforms.
Additionally, as a Solutions Architect, I’ve had the opportunity to provide pre-sales and implementation solutions for numerous vendors to meet customer business objectives, further solidifying my skills in storage, networking, VMware, high availability and cloud computing among others.
Source: Thomas Chatham

Sam Aiello, Ph.D.

Experienced cybersecurity and technology strategist with a proven record of delivering innovative, tailored solutions by collaborating with C-suite executives and cross-functional teams across Sales, Product, Engineering, and Marketing. Adept at driving business growth and client success through strategic insights, technology leadership, and effective pre-sales engagement. A self-driven contributor with expertise in technology strategy, client advocacy, and sales enablement, recognized for enhancing company visibility through impactful presentations and industry event participation. Seeking a dynamic pre-sales role that leverages cross-functional collaboration to create transformative solutions while maintaining a balanced scope of responsibility and work-life integration.
Source: Sam Aiello, Ph.D.

Hot Fudge Daily Digest

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-01-13

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 16… we’re back?

This week:

Spicy level 1… and the end of year calm returns.

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 2025-01-14

Two hot takes on stories that caught my eye on Tuesday.

🍪 + 💰 Granted, the name UALink (Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium) might not sound very familiar but the AI work being done for drastically less eye watering prices with systems that are not underpinned or based on NVIDIA is becoming an increasingly interesting space to keep an eye on. 2025 might just be the year where even the NVIDIA H100 based approaches are well within reach of mid-market Enterprise and even prosumers.

https://www.techmeme.com/250114/p25#a250114p25

💰 + 💰 And speaking of UALink promoter level members, Intel Capital (big fan) is likely to spin out… perhaps as something cleverly named… maybe “IC”? 😉 🤓

https://www.techmeme.com/250114/p28#a250114p28

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-01-15

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=wuN-bW_zS0Q

https://danielwirtz.com/blog/spot-the-difference-superpower

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jis1MC5Tm8k

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-01-16

Two headlines for a Thursday Throwback caught my eye.

https://www.techmeme.com/250116/p4#a250116p4

https://www.techmeme.com/250116/p11#a250116p11

For context…

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-01-17

As this week ends, I’m thinking about the implications of drones and all things autonomous as the hype around Agentic AI reaches a fever pitch.

https://www.techmeme.com/250117/p15#a250117p15

https://www.techmeme.com/250117/p31#a250117p31

https://www.techmeme.com/250116/p19#a250116p19

https://www.techmeme.com/250114/p33#a250114p33

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-01-18

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 👀

In that spirit, here are a few stories that you might have missed on the slow news of a Friday.

Insert Let’s See Who This Really Is Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250117/p21#a250117p21

Insert Ceiling Cat Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250117/p11#a250117p11

Insert We’re All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250116/p49#a250116p49

Insert That Wasn’t Me, That Was Patricia Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250117/p34#a250117p34

Insert Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250117/p5#a250117p5

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-01-18

2025-01-18T20:59:03Z

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 👀

In that spirit, here are a few stories that you might have missed on the slow news of a Friday.

Insert Let’s See Who This Really Is Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250117/p21#a250117p21

Insert Ceiling Cat Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250117/p11#a250117p11

Insert We’re All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250116/p49#a250116p49

Insert That Wasn’t Me, That Was Patricia Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250117/p34#a250117p34

Insert Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/250117/p5#a250117p5

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-01-17

2025-01-18T06:58:13Z

As this week ends, I’m thinking about the implications of drones and all things autonomous as the hype around Agentic AI reaches a fever pitch.

https://www.techmeme.com/250117/p15#a250117p15

https://www.techmeme.com/250117/p31#a250117p31

https://www.techmeme.com/250116/p19#a250116p19

https://www.techmeme.com/250114/p33#a250114p33

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-01-16

2025-01-17T06:04:26Z

Two headlines for a Thursday Throwback caught my eye.

https://www.techmeme.com/250116/p4#a250116p4

https://www.techmeme.com/250116/p11#a250116p11

For context…

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-01-15

2025-01-16T06:44:11Z

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=wuN-bW_zS0Q

https://danielwirtz.com/blog/spot-the-difference-superpower

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jis1MC5Tm8k

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-01-14

2025-01-15T03:24:20Z

Two hot takes on stories that caught my eye on Tuesday.

https://www.techmeme.com/250114/p25#a250114p25

💰 + 💰 And speaking of UALink promoter level members, Intel Capital (big fan) is likely to spin out… perhaps as something cleverly named… maybe “IC”? 😉 🤓

https://www.techmeme.com/250114/p28#a250114p28

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-01-13

2025-01-14T03:41:00Z

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 16… we’re back?

This week:

Spicy level 1… and the end of year calm returns.

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 Fudge Sunday for 2025-01-12

2025-01-12T17:00:00Z

#OpenToWork Weekly

I believe in #NeverSearchAlone. I also continue to participate in a #JSC.

Nathan Clyker

Successful Sales and Business Development Professional with a demonstrated 21 year history of working in the IT industry. Expert skills in Management, Sales, Enterprise Software and Hardware, Partner Management, Storage, Go-to-market Strategy creation/execution, and Sales Operations. Strong sales professional with a BS in International Business from University of Colorado, Denver and an intense focus on customer satisfaction via strong business and interpersonal relationships.
Source: Nathan Clyker

Gina (Gina Minks) Rosenthal

Over 10 years’ experience as a global and fractional product marketing manager for global technology companies (up to 120K employees) as well as and startups.
Over the last 5 years leading Digital Sunshine Solutions, generated over 150 blog posts, 26 case studies, and a range of messaging documents, launch plans, white papers, product datasheets, and solution briefs.
Bootstrapped quarterly cross-company “Think Tanks” to create strong feedback loops between executives, product, marketing, and engineering teams.
Created technical content and improved product positioning using sales and customer feedback. Served as the voice of the customer for enterprise clients exploring SaaS products.
Planned, researched, and developed over twenty podcast episodes covering AI and infrastructure over two years.

The experience on my resume is definitely not traditional! But because there is a string connecting it all, I bring a unique blend of technical expertise and creative marketing strategy to the table. With over a decade of experience working with industry leaders like EMC, Dell, and VMware, I’ve honed an in-depth understanding of the challenges IT executives face—and more importantly, how to solve them. However, since I come from a sysadmin/operator audience, I easily craft messaging that resonates and builds trust with them too.
Founding and leading Digital Sunshine Solutions for five years is one of the most fulfilling and proudest milestones of my career. Over the last five years, our team executed six product launches, developed over 150 blog posts, 26 case studies, and countless white papers, solution briefs, and product datasheets. And our work drove real impact. One of our clients saw a 150% growth in their social media presence!
I’m passionate about innovation and collaboration, particularly in areas like artificial intelligence and infrastructure technology. I want to connect the dots between complex products and the human stories they power. I believe there is infinite power in connecting everyone, inside and outside of an organization.
If you’re interested in telling the story of how your product turns customers in the hero of their own journey, let’s talk!
Source: Gina (Gina Minks) Rosenthal

Richard Arnesen

Who am I? I am a proven problem solver who has a history of digging in and savings my employers millions of dollars in savings over my career. I am a hard worker who can dig into the details but also communicate to the executive suite to gain the buy-in to implement a solution. In addition to system or process issues I am an expert in digging in and fixing poor performing teams. How can I help you solve a problem today? Feel free to contact me if you have any problems in the following areas:

Program Delivery
Infrastructure/Cloud
Team Performance/Dynamics
Application Reliability
Strategic Roadmaps
Transformation
Leadership Development
Managed Services

Source: Richard Arnesen

Janel Van Beek

For Humans: I intellectually help organizations and leaders grow and keep great teams, and lead change into the future. My favorite skills and experiences are strategy, program management, product, and organization and leadership effectiveness. My detailed resume is available here: https://www.francievanwirkus.com/resume
For Data Searches: Janel Van Beek (formerly Janel Lanza), SPC 6.0, FLMI, CCTP II, is a business strategist and certified Master Coach, helping people do what seems impossible. She is a digital transformation, OCM, leadership development, and product expert. She is strategy and business consultant. She has financial, health, entrepreneur, retail and services product experience. She has deep experience in strategy, change, instructional design and training as well as in being a turn-around people leader.
As founder of Francie Van Wirkus LLC, an executive coaching and private yoga business, Janel is a keynote speaker, author of several books and executive coach and strategist. She has strategic product and portfolio experience. Janel also has deep experience in investment training, organization effectiveness, human resources, and instructional design. She is a dual-certified yoga instructor for group and private classes, and is an Ironman triathlete. Each day, Janel aims to hang around with people who do epic sh*t.
Certifications and Training

PESI Dialectical Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness
Globant Leadership Development
Globant AI
IC Agile ICP-ENT
IC Agile ICP-CAT
IC Agile- ICP-ORG
Scaled Agile Framework SPC 6.0, 2015-present
SAFe PMPO 5.0, Advanced Scrum Master, Lean Portfolio Management, Remote Trainer, LPM 5.1 AHF Agility Health Radar Facilitator, 2020
CCTP I and II Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, 2020
CPrime Product Agility: Discovery and Delivery, 2020
Integrative Yoga Therapy Instructor 200 hour, 2020
Harvard Business New Leader Program graduate, 2018
Breakthrough Leader Program graduate, 2018
Lean Greenbelt, 2015
Personal Kanban, 2014
Scrum Foundations, 2012
PROSCI Change Management, 2011
Certified Breakthrough Master Coach, 2006
Certified Agency Trainer, 2001
Past FINRA licenses 6, 7, 26 1998, 2000
FLMI 1998
ACS Customer Service 1998

Source: Janel Van Beek

Greg Phillips

At IBM, my focus as a Cloud Platform Leader has been on fostering strategic partnerships and driving innovative marketing strategies. With a strong background in corporate marketing and a hands-on approach to customer relationship management, my recent work has centered on extending IBM’s cloud alliances globally.
The team has successfully leveraged my skills in strategic and online marketing to create impactful campaigns, positioning us at the forefront of cloud solutions. Our collaborative efforts have not only filled the sales funnel but also strengthened IBM’s presence in the competitive cloud marketplace.
Source: Greg Phillips

Sheri Gearhart

Innovative Technology Architect | Solution Designer | Collaborative Leader
Passionate about driving technological innovation and delivering cutting-edge solutions, I thrive on exploring and implementing new technologies to solve complex problems. With a keen eye for evaluating the benefits of emerging tools within solution stacks, I excel in leading proofs of concept and translating technical insights into actionable strategies for stakeholders, maximizing the return on investment through increasing revenue. My strengths lie in developing comprehensive presentations, providing expert training, and fostering collaboration across diverse teams. As a natural leader, I inspire and influence through my technical expertise and vision, without the constraints of formal management roles. My ideal position leverages my skills in architecting solutions, knowledge sharing, and project leadership, while allowing me to focus on the technical aspects of innovation rather than sales-driven engagements.
I have held a wide array of positions throughout my career in technology. My path includes technical support, UNIX system administration, SAP Basis Administration, storage SAN architecture design and engineering, technical design analysis at customer sites, CTO, and system architecture spanning across on-premises and public/hybrid cloud platforms, Converged Systems and Hyper-Converged Systems. I have advanced knowledge of Dell EMC Storage, Dell EMC Data Protection, Cisco and Brocade SAN, Cisco UCS, and VMware vSphere. I hold several Dell EMC certifications, as well as ITIL and SAFe 4 Agilist certifications.
Specialties: architectural design, BCDR, cisco, customer relations, erp, hp - ux, nas, storage engineering, san, storage networking, NVMe-oF protocols, Red Hat Linux, SUSE Linux, SAP Basis, Solaris, strategic planning, system administration, technical training, vendor relations, Veritas Netbackup, EMC and HP storage technologies
Source: Sheri Gearhart

Tamera Rousseau King

A highly skilled Technical Project Manager, Agile Product Owner, and people leader with a proven track record in managing large-scale marketing technology programs and building high-performing teams. Demonstrated ability to build strong cross-functional relationships to align on project scope, prioritize business requirements, and develop effective risk mitigation strategies, ensuring project goals were achieved on time and under budget. Adept at leveraging Agile methodologies to establish operational excellence, driving repeated success, and ensuring program accountability.
Source: Tamera Rousseau King

Ricardo Perez

With a deep-seated passion for pioneering virtualization solutions, my tenure at Dell EMC, Xerox, etc. has been marked by architecting and deploying PowerFlex and VxRail systems. My expertise lies in comprehensive lifecycle management, with a proven track record in steering projects from conception to completion, delivering high-performance and scalable virtual environments.
At the core of my professional journey is a commitment to innovation and excellence in infrastructure transformation. Collaborating with C-level executives, I’ve honed my skills in presenting project visions and strategies, while my fluency in English and Spanish enhances our team’s ability to drive global initiatives. My credentials, including multiple VMware and Microsoft certifications, underscore my dedication to maintaining technical prowess in Systems Engineering.
Source: Ricardo Perez

Mike Berteletti, CISSP

Experienced Information Technology Professional with a broad and deep knowledge of many information technology products and services found in large enterprises to small and medium businesses. Specialties include Converged Infrastructure, Cloud Computing, Information Storage Solutions, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows Infrastructure, Information Systems Security, Enterprise Network Design, Data Protection, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, IT Strategy, IT Leadership, Business Liason and Career Development.

ISC2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
EMC Proven Professional Technology Architect

Source: Mike Berteletti, CISSP

Bob Lima, PMP

Experienced Senior Program Manager with 15+ years of successfully managing end-to-end lifecycles of large, cross-functional, and transformational programs. Expertise in delivering complex projects within scope, timeline, and budget while driving process improvements and ensuring strategic alignment with business goals. Adept at utilizing Agile, Waterfall, and Lean Six Sigma methodologies, with a proven ability to manage risks, resolve conflicts, and optimize resource allocation. Skilled communicator, capable of presenting technical concepts to senior leadership and influencing business decisions for maximizing ROI. A leader focused on mentorship, team empowerment, and continuous improvement.
323-513-6011
Source: Bob Lima, PMP

Chris Mojica

Seasoned technical sales professional and technologist with proven pre and post sales engineering experience. Experience includes supporting startups, system integrators, vendors, channel partners/VARs, OEMs and end customers. I am always open to Solutions Architect or Sales/Systems Engineering opportunities.
Technical backgrounds include the disciplines of HCI, Virtualization, Software Defined (SDN/SDS/SDC) storage area networks (SAN), network, and broadband technologies. Additionally, having supported various levels within multiple organizations demonstrates my ability to effectively conduct business and technical level discussions within each of these tiers.
Leveraging my knowledge, background and experience allows me to understand complex datacenter environments. This technical acumen allows me to propose creative solutions that maximize ROI and minimize TCO. Strong organizational skills and ability to support multiple projects allows me to meet multiple deadlines.
Source: Chris Mojica

Rich Green

I am an seasoned technology and sales professional who has worked in both pre-sales and post-sales roles and in Customer Operations roles over my career. I am a self starter who works well both independently and in a team environment. I have been successful at every step of my career - whether it was helping launch the Iridium Satellite System while at Motorola SATCOM or taking a startup Internet Service Provider (SoftAware) to the next level to be acquired or selling into Enterprise, SMB, and SLED customers at Hughes, EMC, Brocade, Broadcom and Faction. I have learned and utilized multiple skills during my career including objection handling, technical account management, storage area networks, IP networks, network-attached storage, and cloud fundamentals. I have also continued to learn new technologies such as AI fundamentals and cyber security fundamentals. I feel that I am an asset to any organization that I join. I am willing to relocate for the right opportunity. Specialties: Sales Engineering, Solution Engineering, SAN, LAN, Storage, Technical Sales, Account Management
Source: Rich Green

Matthew Leib

After many years as an engineer and presales architect, with specialties in datacenter, cloud, virtualization and most particularly storage, I’ve become noted for my writing and analytical expertise in those categories. My blogging has been ongoing since 2009, and I use those writing and focused IT value propositions to write for a number of analytics firms. I specialize in architectures surrounding Kubernetes, Converged and hyper-converged architectures in storage, cloud, AI, and virtualization, containers focused.
Source: Matthew Leib

Michael Joffe

Dynamic global technology leader and Military veteran. P&L responsibility for business lines ranging from $10M to $150M in annual recurring revenue—direct management of high-performing teams ranging from 10 to 75 professionals across the globe. Exceptional at driving growth with Series C, PE-backed, and large-cap multi-national companies. Extensive experience with technology solution co-creation and GTM execution across the OEM, ISV, and SaaS ecosystems.
Source: Michael Joffe

Colleen Coll

“Allow myself to introduce…myself.” - Austin Powers
Ever feel like you’re juggling flaming torches planning events—trying to keep all the details in the air while something’s always about to catch fire? Yep, I’ve been there. Events have a way of throwing curveballs, and when tech and tools aren’t playing nice, chaos can easily take over.
That’s where I come in. I love turning event madness into magic. Whether it’s on-site event coverage using digital media, live reporting, or behind-the-scenes management, I make sure everything runs like clockwork. I’m also a huge fan of using There.App, which simplifies on-location event management by keeping everyone in sync and streamlining the entire process, so no detail gets lost in the shuffle.
From tech conferences to startup launches, I capture the moments that matter and keep things smooth, whether it’s happening live or behind the scenes. And when I’m not on the ground, I’m writing—blogs, articles, and ghostwriting for tech leaders to tell the bigger story behind the event, brand, or mission.
So, let’s make your next event one to remember, with every detail in place and every moment captured. Reach out! I’m always game for a brainstorm or a quick chat about how to make your event shine (without all the stress).
Source: Colleen Coll

Karl Edwards, PMP

An innovative, strategic and results-oriented technical program manager and network strategist with twenty-two years of experience in the telecommunications and technology industries. I can interact with and contribute to technical discussions with engineers as well as communicate program updates, strategy and roadmap to senior executives. For the last seven years at Cox Communications, I managed the three largest and most strategic programs within the technology portfolio: DOCSIS 3.1 program, Remote PHY program and DOCSIS 4.0 program. I have an inherent bias for action and have successfully operated in an environment where I managed cross-functional and cross-organizational teams without authority every day.
Source: Karl Edwards, PMP

Shianna Maxwell

Creative and independent graphic design and marketing professional with a keen eye for detail and a strong background in digital brand management, logo design, and layout design. Passionate about delivering high-quality projects on time, with a proven ability to collaborate effectively with global teams, manage tight deadlines, and handle multiple projects simultaneously. Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft Office Suite, with excellent time management and problem-solving skills that enable me to work autonomously while fostering strong teamwork.
Source: Shianna Maxwell

Paul Lysko

Results-oriented Product Management Executive and former Air Force officer with 20+ years of experience across B2B software, retail technology solutions, FP&A, and operations. Skilled in driving business growth through strategic product management, P&L ownership, and customer focus. Repeatedly managed P&Ls of up to $225 million, consistently delivering impactful results. Passionate leader with a track record of hiring and managing teams of 10+.
Source: Paul Lysko

Thomas Chatham

Engineering leader and technologist with over 20 years of experience in the Enterprise technology industry, most recently specializing in engineering and validation for Dell’s enterprise software as a service (SaaS) subscriptions. My expertise lies in management, particularly in leading end-to-end development and integration of various Converged Infrastructure platforms. This includes spearheading formation of a global engineering organization to create next-gen automated converged systems.
My portfolio boasts successful projects like the establishment of VCE’s Customer Technology Centers worldwide, where I managed multiple teams and streamlined product demonstration processes through automation. My leadership has consistently accelerated customer adoption of converged datacenter platforms.
Additionally, as a Solutions Architect, I’ve had the opportunity to provide pre-sales and implementation solutions for numerous vendors to meet customer business objectives, further solidifying my skills in storage, networking, VMware, high availability and cloud computing among others.
Source: Thomas Chatham

Sam Aiello, Ph.D.

Experienced cybersecurity and technology strategist with a proven record of delivering innovative, tailored solutions by collaborating with C-suite executives and cross-functional teams across Sales, Product, Engineering, and Marketing. Adept at driving business growth and client success through strategic insights, technology leadership, and effective pre-sales engagement. A self-driven contributor with expertise in technology strategy, client advocacy, and sales enablement, recognized for enhancing company visibility through impactful presentations and industry event participation. Seeking a dynamic pre-sales role that leverages cross-functional collaboration to create transformative solutions while maintaining a balanced scope of responsibility and work-life integration.
Source: Sam Aiello, Ph.D.

Hot Fudge Daily Digest

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-01-06

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 1… and the end of year calm arrives.

This week:

Spicy level 16… we’re back?

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 2025-01-07

Two hot takes on stories that caught my eye on Tuesday.

🖼️ + 💰 If a picture is worth a thousand words, then those building AI models being trained will be paying a pretty penny for those words.

https://www.techmeme.com/250107/p14#a250107p14

💰 + 💰 This feels very “Yo Dawg…” about investing money for investing your money.

https://www.techmeme.com/250107/p38#a250107p38

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-01-08

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=8sm4U4RRadE

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/05/this-tiny-robot-cat-will-blow-on-your-coffee-to-cool-it-off/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDr6_cMtfdA

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-01-09

I noticed the aggregated coverage of Wiz on Techmeme.

https://www.techmeme.com/250109/p20#a250109p20

Looking back on my (still) most popular LinkedIn post of my time on the site is fascinating.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jaycuthrell_wiz-ceo-2024-will-be-the-year-of-acquisitions-activity-7182523881671282688-mGaO?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

Now, imagine the post-IPO capabilities for M&A of a cybersecurity juggernaut in an economic period where post-ZIRP funded cybersecurity companies can be combined, aligned, and unified.

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-01-10

🍪 + 🚘 The tech news stories that caught my eye this week were less about new chips in new cars and more about having to think of the implications of more drones on wheels in more places.

https://www.techmeme.com/250106/p40#a250106p40

https://www.techmeme.com/250106/p6#a250106p6

https://www.techmeme.com/250107/p12#a250107p12

https://www.techmeme.com/250107/p16#a250107p16

https://www.techmeme.com/250106/p6#a250106p6

Here comes the software-defined vehicles buzzword variations and the “I, Robot” / “Minority Report” trope explainers.

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-01-11

2025-01-11T22:45:06Z

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.