This week we discuss build vs. buy decisions, sustaining corporate strategies and Malcolm Gladwell’s WFH comments. Plus, we announce the location of the Austin Meetup on August 27th.

Runner-up Titles

Strategy for eating mixed nuts.

Finish in a flurry

Eat Dessert First

It’s about where you is, not where you was.

We don’t even own a copy of Illustrator

Lost his fastball

Just a paycheck

It’s cool to be the “turns out” person

Pizza, Beer, Enjoyment

McKinsey Titles, the movie

Rundown

App Tracking Transparency (ATT) policy blew up the digital advertising ecosystemOnly the paranoid survive in tech: Former Intel CEO

Netflix Games Engaging Less Than 1 Percent of Subscribers

Gladwell’s take on Work from Home

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Twilio Shares Stumble as Investors Fear a Demand Slowdown

Closing the cloud strategy technology, and innovation gap

Cloudflare soars after beating on revenue and raising annual forecast

Axios agrees to sell to Cox Enterprises for $525 million

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The Billionaire’s Dilemma

Intel launches Arc Pro GPUs that are designed for workstations and pro apps

AI systems can’t patent inventions, US federal circuit court confirms

AppLovin offers to buy video game software maker Unity in $17.5 bln deal

How the US Postal Service reads terrible handwriting

SoftBank posts a $21.6 billion quarterly loss on its Vision Fund, one of the highest in its history

Acorn launches from the Cloud.com and Rancher Alumni

Nonsense

French Scientist's Photo of ‘Distant Star’ Was Actually Chorizo

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Conferences

Register for the SDT Austin Meetup August 27th at 6:30 PM

DevOpsDays DFW, August 24-25, 2022 - Coté speaking, along with John Willis, Andrew Shafer, and friends

VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022 - Coté’s pitch.Coté’s VMware Explore 2022 Page

SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022

THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors Jan 16-19, 2023

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