Episode 452: Write the letters

This week, we examine the balancing act CEOs face between maintaining operations and pursuing growth, the IRS's attempt to automate tax filing, and defining success in thought leadership.

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Runner-up Titles

Know the rules

Until you reach infinity

When you’re washing your full ass, don’t half-ass your shower door.

All-in on Minecraft

Eminent domain for digital transformation.

There’s usually a stray banana in the Hilton Garden Buffet.

Rundown

Alphabet Shares Fall After Search Revenue Misses Estimates

Microsoft beats Q2 earnings on AI, cloud strength, shares flat

The CEO and the Three Envelopes - Kevin Kruse

Direct File | Internal Revenue Service

DX: Developer Experience Insights Platform

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Michael Leonard on LinkedIn: r/vmware

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Truly shocks me how many people use Apple Mail

Amazon’s $1.4B iRobot deal is dead. Now what?

Arc Search combines browser, search engine, and AI into something new and different

Startup Funding Simulator

Streaming media company Plex raises $40M as it nears profitability

Porsche Hands Infotainment Keys To Apple, iPhone Can Now Rule The Cockpit

Kids spent 60% more time on TikTok than YouTube last year, 20% tried OpenAI's ChatGPT

ChatGPT is leaking passwords from private conversations of its users, Ars reader says

Musk Risks Losing World’s Richest Title After Pay Package Voided

Inside the Numbers: The KubeCon + CloudNativeCon selection process for Europe 2024

Delaware Tells Musk ‘No’; Alphabet and Microsoft’s AI-Driven Earnings

But they got back online quickly -- because their trading system used a Novell Netware server that the ransomware didn't understand.

Nonsense

Fifty Years Ago Today (D&D;)

I built my own 16-Bit CPU in Excel

More things that blow my American mind about living in Australia

Make it Taylors Version

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