🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-05-04
Celebrating alumni success and spotlighting those #OpenToWork in my network this week! 🎉
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🤪 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.)
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Recap
This week was a big week! 🎉
NexusTek Named to CRN's 2025 Tech Elite 250 List
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#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 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:
- Kelly Britt - Experienced Talent Acquisition Specialist
- Jarrod Weise - Strategic Partnerships & Business Development Leader
- Dan Kelleher - Program & Technical Project Manager | CSM
- Barbara Hadley, EdM, SPHR - Strategic HR Leader | Employee Engagement Expert
- Andrew Webber - Proven Leader | Consumer Product Innovation & Scaling
- Lida Tohidi - Award-Winning Product & Marketing Leader | Startup Advisor
- Nathan Clyker - Strategic Sales & Business Development | IT Solutions Expert
- Gina (Gina Minks) Rosenthal - Global Product Marketing Manager | Technical Content Strategist
- Janel Van Beek - Business Strategist & Master Coach | Leadership & Change Expert
- Greg Phillips - Cloud Platform & Strategic Marketing Leader
- Tamera Rousseau King - Technical Program Manager | Agile Product Owner | People Leader
- Ricardo Perez - Virtualization Architect | PowerFlex & VxRail Specialist
- Mike Berteletti, CISSP - Experienced IT Professional | Infrastructure & Security
- Chris Mojica - Technical Sales & Solutions Architect
- Matthew Leib - Data Center, Cloud & Storage Architect | Technical Writer & Analyst
- Michael Joffe - Global Technology Leader | P&L Management | SaaS & OEM
- Colleen Coll - Event Technology & Digital Media Specialist | Live Reporting
- Thomas Chatham - Engineering Leader | SaaS & Converged Infrastructure
- Sam Aiello, Ph.D. - Cybersecurity & Technology Strategist | Pre-Sales Leadership
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:
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 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.
Techmeme: Washington state lawmakers pass new taxes amid a record budget deficit, targeting Amazon, Microsoft, and others to raise $9B+; Governor Ferguson can now sign (Anna Edgerton/Bloomberg)
By Anna Edgerton / Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.
🤖 + 💰 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…
Techmeme: P-1 AI, which is developing AI engineering agent Archie and hopes that AI can eventually design future complex machines, emerges from stealth with a $23M seed (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)
By Sharon Goldman / Fortune. View the full context on Techmeme.
🤪 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. 🙈
A huge woodpecker is breaking car windows in a small Massachusetts town | AP News
During the War of 1812, residents of Rockport, Massachusetts, hurled rocks at British soldiers using their stockings as slings.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail turns 50 - Ars Technica
Ars staffers reflect upon the things they love most about this masterpiece of absurdist comedy.
🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-05-01
📡 🛰️ One story caught my eye this week — Amazon Kuiper.
Techmeme: Amazon launches 27 satellites for its Project Kuiper broadband internet program, the first batch of 3,236 satellites that it plans to send into low-Earth orbit (Joey Roulette/Reuters)
By Joey Roulette / Reuters. View the full context on Techmeme.
📡 🛰️ Six years goes by fast.
Techmeme: Amazon confirms Project Kuiper, its new initiative to launch a constellation of low Earth orbit satellites to provide broadband around the world (Alan Boyle/GeekWire)
By Alan Boyle / GeekWire. View the full context on Techmeme.
✅ 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.
Techmeme: Microsoft says new accounts will be “passwordless by default”, asking people to use more secure methods like passkeys, push notifications, and security keys (Umar Shakir/The Verge)
By Umar Shakir / The Verge. View the full context on Techmeme.
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.
🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2024-09-22
This week's edition dives into market insights, AI funding, and Google's new passkey management!
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 👀
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.
Insert Let's See Who This Really Is Meme
Techmeme: An investigation finds 70+ content-farm YouTube channels using AI to produce cartoon content featuring gore and child abuse, featuring characters like minions (Laura Holliday/Wired)
By Laura Holliday / Wired. View the full context on Techmeme.
Insert Ceiling Cat Meme
Techmeme: A California man pleads guilty to illegally accessing Disney's Slack channels and stealing 1.1TB+ of data in 2024; he later posed as hacktivist group NullBulge (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
By Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer. View the full context on Techmeme.
Insert We're All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Meme
Techmeme: A hacking group called DragonForce takes credit for ransomware attacks targeting British retailers M&S, Harrods, and Co-Op over the past two weeks (Ryan Gallagher/Bloomberg)
By Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.
Insert That Wasn't Me, That Was Patricia Meme
Techmeme: OpenAI shares details on how an update to GPT-4o inadvertently increased the model's sycophancy, why OpenAI failed to catch it, and the changes it is planning (OpenAI)
From OpenAI. View the full context on Techmeme.
Insert Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Meme
Techmeme: Source: Anthropic offers to buy back shares from current and former employees, the first transaction of its kind for Anthropic, valuing the startup at $61.5B (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
By Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information. View the full context on Techmeme.
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