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 ecosystem
  • Only 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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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.
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• SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022
• THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors Jan 16-19, 2023

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