🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-06-22
NexusTek wins two Pax8 awards, and I'm gearing up for my first vacation since 2024!
🙏 And a big thanks to all our sponsors! 🙏
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This week continues our new shortened format. Next week will be a shorter vacation edition of 🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday.
Last week
Last week, NexusTek earned two top honors 🏆🏆 at the Pax8 Beyond 2025 Partner Awards:
- Peak Performance – USA 🏆
- Microsoft Copilot MVP 🏆
Managed IT Services Leader NexusTek Wins Top Honors at Pax8 Beyond 2025
/PRNewswire/ -- NexusTek, a leading provider of managed IT services, today announced it has earned two top honors at the Pax8 Beyond 2025 Partner Awards: Peak...
This week
I’m going to attempt a vacation for the first time since leaving IBM in 2024.
Wish me luck! 🤓
Hot Fudge Daily Digest
📈 Markets Monday for 2025-06-16
Last week
It’s all about love and rockets… so, a bit more spicy.
This week
Quantumania!
Source: https://finance.yahoo.com/research-hub/screener/9bda6c7b-fe9e-41ca-9da9-e281a4a9889a
🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-06-17
💰 + 🤖 Funding for AI-anything companies continues.
- Sword Health (virtual physical therapy): $40M
- Pano AI (wildfire detection): $44M.
- Nabla (healthcare worker augmentation): $70M.
- Coralogix (observability + security): $115M
- Applied Intuition (self-driving digital twin): $600M
- Helsing (defense tech): $645M
🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-06-18
Each Wednesday I then select the most interesting shared link from dozens of Slack communities. This will always be a safe for work link. 🙈
Honda Conducts Successful Launch and Landing Test of Experimental Reusable Rocket | Honda Global Corporate Website
Honda Global | Honda R&D Co., Ltd., a research and development subsidiary of Honda Motor Co., Ltd., today conducted a launch and landing test of an experimental reusable rocket*1 (6.3 m in length, 85 cm in diameter, 900 kg dry weight/1,312 kg wet weight) developed independently by Honda. The test was completed successfully, the first time Honda landed a rocket after reaching an altitude of nearly 300 meters.
🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-06-19
📡 + 💰 One story caught my eye this week was Eutelsat joining the likes of Project Kuiper.
Techmeme: European satellite company Eutelsat raised €1.35B, including €717M from France, to build out its fleet of satellites to rival Starlink; France's stake is ~30% (Bloomberg)
From Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.
Indeed, one need only back in time to [checks notes] May 2025 for a reflection on LEO broadband expansion of alternatives that will (one day) rival Starlink.
✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-06-20
🪖 + 🧑💻 The story that caught my eye this week was the US Army Reserve’s Detachment 201.
Techmeme: The Army Reserve launches Detachment 201, an innovation corps with Palantir CTO, Meta CTO, and other tech execs advising on AI and tech as lieutenant colonels (Heather Somerville/Wall Street Journal)
By Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal. View the full context on Techmeme.
At SXSW 2024, I attended a fireside chat on “Cyber Talent in the Era of Great Power Competition“. The talk was interesting and I took a few notes in my Obsidian.
Here’s the YouTube video:
My notes:
77% of our youth is ineligible to serve
Propensity to Serve is key.
SCIF work is the workplace.
Hotspots exist.
If that exists it can now enable a unique talent for no uniform roles as part of an attractive benefits, work flexibility, competitive compensation, and retention bonuses.
Total compensation package to go full uniform is differentiated through healthcare and savings plans for military.
As of late 2023, Constructive Service Credit expansion includes R&D (up to Colonel) to solve big challenges.
Off ramp and on ramp paths are becoming more flexible.
Cyber and intelligence will be drawn from industry.
Find us and we will find a way for you to serve.
Example: Civilian to OTS to Major is 10 years and this approach does it in 6 months.
🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-06-21
Ah, the Friday news dump. By Friday, everything seems to be reaching the peak of getting news turned in before a deadline or dread-line.
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.
🤔 🤨 🧐 Just a couple that caught my technologist eye…
Techmeme: Insurance giant Aflac says a cybercrime group breached its systems and may have stolen data; source: the attack bears the hallmarks of Scattered Spider (Jonathan Greig/The Record)
By Jonathan Greig / The Record. View the full context on Techmeme.
Techmeme: Microsoft suspending an ICC judge's email account raised alarms across EU about how dependent its governments, businesses, and citizens are on US tech companies (New York Times)
From New York Times. View the full context on Techmeme.
#OpenToWork Weekly
I participated in a #NeverSearchAlone #JSC after rebooting Cuthrell Consulting and joining NexusTek.
I added those #OpenToWork from my LinkedIn network to this newsletter. Over time, we've grown an Alumni 🎉 section for those that transitioned to their next career adventure.
Alumni 🎉
- Congrats Dan Kelleher 🎉
- Congrats Jarrod Weise 🎉
- Congrats Karl Edwards 🎉
- Congrats Paul Lysko 🎉
- Congrats Bob Lima, PMP 🎉
- Congrats Rich Green 🎉
- Congrats Sheri Gearhart 🎉
- Congrats Shianna Maxwell 🎉
- Congrats Richard Arnesen! 🎉
Those in my network that are #OpenToWork:
- Trevor Schulz - 20+ Years in Tech Sales | Loyal, Dedicated, and Ready to Work Today
- Brian Booden - Ranked #1 in the UK for Qlik and DataViz Content
- Elizabeth Quintanilla - Fractional CMO, Digital Marketing Consultant & Coach, Marketing Gunslinger
- Kelly Britt - Experienced Talent Acquisition Specialist
- 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
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