December 15, 2024

🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2024-12-15

This week, I shared insights from the Gartner Conference and spotlighted a reader #OpenToWork.

Welcome to the latest Hot Fudge Daily. Each day of the week you get thematic value.

• 🌶️ Spicy Edition Sunday FREE (Hot Fudge Sunday weekly newsletter captures the best of Hot Fudge Daily and the most clicked links for the week.)

• 📈 Markets Monday $ (Hot Fudge Daily: What is moving markets and why does it matter for the week ahead?)

• 🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday $ (Hot Fudge Daily: Get fast unfiltered thoughts on news of the day with just a dash of snark.)

• 🤪 Wacky Wednesday $ (Hot Fudge Daily: Catch up on the wild and wooly memes from a variety of deep web #random channels.)

• 🔙 Throwback Thursday $ (Hot Fudge Daily: Examine recent news in a thought provoking Shot and Chaser format.)

• ✅ Final Thoughts Friday $ (Hot Fudge Daily: A clear eyed look back on the week that was and could have been.)

• 🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday $ (Hot Fudge Daily: Steady and sober unpacking of the slow news day where muted press releases and disclosure stories try to get buried before the weekend takes all the attention.)

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Hot Fudge Daily Digest

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jaycuthrell_gartner-activity-7272029637310926848-D25n?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

✈️ 🌵 🤓 Last week I represented NexusTek in Las Vegas for Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies (IOCS) Conference. I captured a few notes using the official conference app — which was limited to text only with no hashtags — and I opted for LinkedIn vs. Mastodon and Bluesky. My end of week KoMex mini-trip was a success! 🇰🇷🇲🇽🌯

LinkedIn #OpenToWork Weekly

Per our reader survey, each week, I’m going to be highlighting a newsletter community reader that is #OpenToWork.

This week I’m highlighting Rich Green.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rich-green-5304804_opentowork-activity-7254266936497168384-81x7?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

More about 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 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 on LinkedIn

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📈 Markets Monday for 2024-12-09

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…

This week…

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 Takes Tuesday for 2024-12-10

Two hot takes on two stories that caught my eye on Tuesday.

💰 + 🇫🇷 Again, if you aren’t investing in France then you aren’t taking advantage of unique IP protections — and this time, $48M worth of reasons to consider quantum computing has entered the chat.

Techmeme: Paris-based Aqemia, which aims to scale drug discovery using quantum algorithms and AI, raised $38M led by Cathay Innovation, after raising €30M in January 2024 (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

By Paul Sawers / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.

💰 + 💁 If you had told me there would be $40M seed round for detecting sassy responses… I’d assume you were funding a dystopian trope.

Techmeme: WaveForms, which aims to create AI assistants that pick up on emotional cues from verbal interactions, raised a $40M seed from a16z at a $200M valuation (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)

By Rachel Metz / Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2024-12-11

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. 🙈

Japan's Lawson Convenience Store Chain Launched a Drinkable Mayonnaise: Nomu Mayo

Lawson, a Japanese convenience store chain, is putting Nomu Mayo, its new drinkable mayonnaise, through a "test sale period" to see how customers respond.

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2024-12-12

Here in the US, a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) is a fairly recent part of our telecom history.

~20 years ago, there was a Google Phone and a Yahoo! Phone and even a Disney Phone.

And now… a recent $73M Series-B is making it even easier for MVNO ambitions to be set in motion.

Techmeme: Gigs, which helps companies become mobile virtual network operators, raised a $73M Series B led by Ribbit Capital, after a $20M Series A in September 2022 (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

By Paul Sawers / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.

You get a mobile phone network!

And you get a mobile phone network!

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✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2024-12-13

The tech news story that caught my eye this week was Microsoft claiming next-generation closed-loop cooling data center designs will consume zero water.

Techmeme: Microsoft unveils a data center design that uses zero water for cooling, down from the 125M+ liters per year a typical center uses, rolling out since August (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

By Dina Bass / Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.

For example, when you hear statistics such as AI queries use up a bottle of water per prompt, widening adoption of this Microsoft design could mean AI data centers become less thirsty.

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2024-12-14

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 👀

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.

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

Techmeme: Document: Trump's transition team seeks to remove a crash-reporting rule opposed by Tesla and other car makers and “liberalize” autonomous vehicle regulation (Reuters)

From Reuters. View the full context on Techmeme.

Insert Ceiling Cat Meme

Techmeme: Trump plans to appoint Truth Social CEO Devin Nunes to lead the President's Intelligence Advisory Board, which oversees the US intelligence community (Politico)

From Politico. View the full context on Techmeme.

Insert We're All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Meme

Techmeme: The EU finds it breached its own privacy rules in a 2023 ad campaign on X that intended to sway opinion for a proposal to force messaging apps to scan for CSAM (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)

By Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.

Insert That Wasn't Me, That Was Patricia Meme

Techmeme: OpenAI says ChatGPT's three-hour outage on December 11 was caused by a new telemetry service configuration deployed to collect Kubernetes control plane metrics (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

By Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.

Insert Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Meme

Techmeme: Broadcom's stock closes up 24.43%+ a day after the company reported Q4 results with strong AI revenue growth, pushing its market cap over $1T for the first time (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

By Ashley Capoot / CNBC. View the full context on Techmeme.

Note: Some images via Unsplash

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Cuthrell Consulting LLC
Attn: Jay Cuthrell
1903 Live Oak St #92
Beaufort, NC 28516-0092

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