Topic 1: “Return on Character” Exchange Traded Fund focuses on companies run by a character!

But, somehow, Tesla and Meta are not part of the index. Perhaps too much character is just too much.

Links:

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220324005096/en/ROC-Investments-Launches-the-World%E2%80%99s-First-%E2%80%98Return-On-Character%C2%AE%E2%80%99-ETF 

Related article from Harvard on the role of “character” on business success:

https://hbr.org/2015/04/measuring-the-return-on-character 

 

Topic 2: The Shift Away from Reseller Models Accelerates … But Are MSPs Ready to Adapt?

Not a technology conversation, per se … but a conversation about the business of technology. The shift to recurring revenue, consumption economics, and an ecosystem approach to customer engagement / support has been coming for years. Last week Microsoft stepped on the accelerator and not all partners are thrilled with the change.

Links

https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/microsoft-introduces-new-solutions-partner-score-plans-program-name-change

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/entire-technology-industry-should-watching-microsoft-story-jay-mcbain/?trackingId=wgA7j4qoYNsukXrREykzjg%3D%3D#

https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/new-petition-calls-new-microsoft-partner-score-impossible-

 

Topic 3: AI to help troubled kids

Links:

https://www.protocol.com/newsletters/protocol-enterprise/trevor-project-ai-lapsus-hacking?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1

 

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