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

Relevant to your Interests

Google to Team Up With Startup Hugging Face to Host AI Software
Chrome updates Incognito warning to admit Google tracks users in “private” mode
IBM shares soar to more than 10-year high on rosy AI outlook
Apple is finally allowing full versions of Chrome and Firefox to run on the iPhone
Michael Leonard on LinkedIn: r/vmware
A massive tech company exodus is occurring in Texas, reports show
Red Hat Enterprise Linux scalable pricing to cloud partners announcement
Info-stealers can steal cookies for permanent access to your Google account
A brief history of Dell UNIX
OpenNebula Systems welcomes the EU decision to approve the €1.2B IPCEI-CIS
Apple Home Devices, Car Veteran Exits for Top Rivian Product Role
Canon aims to ship low-cost ‘stamp’ machine this year to disrupt chipmaking
#446: Python in Excel — Talk Python To Me
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

Conferences

CfgMgmtCamp, Feb 5–7th — Coté speaking.
The Uk's Open Technology Conference Open Source Software, Open Hardware Feb 6–7
SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th –17th, 2024 — Coté speaking, sponsorship slots available.
KubeCon EU Paris, March 19 –22 — Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference.
DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17–18, 2024
Executive dinner in Dallas that Coté’s hosting on March 31st, 2024
- If you’re an “executive” who might want to buy stuff from Tanzu to get better at your apps, than register. There is also a Tanzu exec event coming up in the next few months, email Coté if you want to hear more about it.

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Recommendations

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Episode 452: Write the letters

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