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Episode 385: Armchair Strategist


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This week we discuss Cloud Growth Rates, Corporate Security, Meta’s Strategy and Elon’s Twitter Takeover. Plus, some thoughts on bike locks and a parenting post mortem.

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Runner-up Titles
  • Cormac will give her a ride home
  • The Baby is asleep
  • Maybe she will get angry.
  • Lectures don’t work
  • See you on Mars, motherfucker!
  • You can have 1 piece of dog walk
  • It’s only stupid until it works.
  • Make big bets, but don’t tell anyone until you win.
  • Armchair strategists.
  • I forgot the Nokia thing, that was kind of a big deal.
  • How long have I been working
  • The CTA of Twitter
  • An exercise for the listener
  • Rundown
    • As overall cloud infrastructure market growth dips to 24%, AWS reports slowdown
    • Cloud Giants Update
    • Amazon's cloud business just recorded its weakest growth to date and missed analysts' estimates
    • Meta
      • Meta Myths
      • Meta shares plummet on weak fourth-quarter forecast and earnings miss
      • Meta shares dip is proof metaverse plan never really had legs
      • Jim Cramer cries and issues a public apology after being wrong about $META
      • Maybe they’ve maxed out on TAM-by-user
      • Twitter
        • Elon Musk completes Twitter purchase, immediately fires CEO and other execs
        • Elon Musk’s First Move Is To Fire The Person Most Responsible For Twitter’s Strong Free Speech Stance
        • Welcome to hell, Elon
        • Relevant to your Interests
          • Apple to put USB-C connectors in iPhones to comply with EU rules
          • Documentary Film “Inside Prometheus” Highlights Open Source Impact and the Innovators That Make it Happen
          • Inside Prometheus: new film showcases the impact and the innovators
          • What a combined Broadcom and VMware can deliver to our customers
          • Microsoft (MSFT) Q1 2023 Earnings Call Transcript @themotleyfool #stocks $MSFT
          • Big Tech's ranks swelled last year
          • Apple beats earnings during tech stock meltdown
          • Everything we know so far about Jack Dorsey’s brand new app
          • List of KubeCon Sponsors
          • Was Jack Welch the Greatest C.E.O. of His Day—or the Worst?
          • Google reportedly spends $100 million on avatars to take on TikTok
          • DevOps de los Muertos
          • Prepare Now for Critical Flaw in OpenSSL, Security Experts Warn
          • Netflix is acquiring cozy game developer Spry Fox
          • IBM to launch database-as-a-service version of Db2
          • Singapore to phase out checks by 205
          • Cutting R&D to Grow GTM Spend
          • 1Password acquires Texas-based Passage to fuel push into passkeys
          • Sponsors
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            • Nonsense
              • Wirecutter Recommendation
              • Tiny toiletries forever? The future of TSA, from liquids to shoes.
              • Conferences
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                  • Recommendations
                    • Brandon:
                      • Southwest Airlines Lost and Found
                      • The Cloudcast: Reviewing KubeCon Detroit
                      • Coté: micro.blog. Coté’s setup over there (for blogging too!). Also, you can still register to see my legacy trap talk tomorrow, maybe see the replay?
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