All the ways the next generation gives me a lot of hope. A thread/

I'll never write like Bourdain, Buffett, or Hemingway, but I still take notes at the end of the day when I travel and make an attempt at wrapping them in nouns and verbs when I get home. maneydigital.com/2025/11/21/m...

This is giving me flashbacks to working on Internet2 back in the day. www.reuters.com/business/med...

Sweet Mother of Jones. Enshrine this in whatever hallowed halls of fame great journalism and writing go. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

@emilyfreeman.bsky.social and I finally started a podcast! Get your dose of B2B sass wherever fine podcasts are vended (vended? vent? anyway, there's venting): podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

Guanciale, pork sausage, leave the fat, olive oil, onion, stalks of basil, San Marzanos, paste, salt, pepper, lots of garlic, oregano, cinnamon, red wine (for the chef and the sauce), and a splash of maple syrup.

My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.

@bettyjunod.bsky.social was here. #kubecon

Got to my room just as the sun dipped below the horizon. #kubecon

Hey Atlanta, what’s up with this weather? It should be 34°C, not 34°F.

Get to know this word, folks. Vitally important and one you’ll hear (and should hear) more frequently.

Pint half full: re-booked flight looks like it’s still on time. Pint half empty: Re-booked seat is last row middle.

I wonder if the Dems realize not just how many loyal Dems are going to primary them, but worse: how many they’ve now convinced never to vote again - at all.

Flying out tomorrow and airline already rebooked me on a later flight.

A Speckled Ax americano kind of morning.

"Bringing pre-trained models together with dynamic, real-world context to deliver decisions in real time is the future of AI. And that future – distributing inference to the edge – is where Akamai shines." - Adam Karon, COO and GM, Cloud Technology Group, Akamai. www.prnewswire.com/news-release...

A pro-ICE sheriff in a purple Philly suburban county got the boot as well. Feel like law enforcement races are the ones least likely to flip to Dems, but last night even those did. And a pro-ICE sheriff lost in a county that is 80% white. So this wasn’t just the cratering of Hispanic GOP support.

Democrats just ran the table, winning the marquee races -- NJ and VA sweeps, NYC mayor, CA prop, PA Supreme Court -- and lower-profile races in red and purple states across the nation. If the media you're reading or watching paints this as anything but a massive win, stop reading or watching them.

Dear fellow communication pros, Stop everything you're doing. Listen to Mamdani's speech. Absorb it. Learn from it. Let it light a fire under your next draft. You're welcome, Mike

I’ve written messaging for judges and shot campaign photos for local candidates. By my count, every school board candidate I photographed this round won last night. Small stuff, but it’s how I stay involved.

Fact.

As Akamai's COO, Adam Karon, puts it: "Bigger isn’t better. Not any more. AI is breaking the decades-old cloud model as companies run up against rising inference costs and latency issues. Focus is shifting from power to proximity, from megawatts to milliseconds." www.akamai.com/blog/cloud/e...

Early in my career, I worked at an agency that did PR for a university speaker series. I met Bush Sr. and heard Colin Powell speak. I also met Cheney. It felt like meeting Satan in human flesh.

9% of my neighbors and 16% of my county's children face daily food insecurity. And this year, the pangs of hunger are even more dire (and the reasons inexcusable). The Bucks County Housing Group’s food pantry are a safety net. (1/3)

I didn’t need to sleep tonight anyway.

It’s been ~20 years now that I’ve dressed up like Charlie Brown for Halloween. It made a friend’s son happy. So I just kinda stuck with it as everyone got older. It’s a good reminder to not take myself too seriously and always take an opportunity to try to make someone else’s day a bit happier.

Based on family geneology, I am the 10th-great-grandson of Japhet(h) Leeds, husband of Debrah “Mother” Leeds, father of the Jersey Devil. *Probably explains a lot.

once again posting The Chart

What do you get when you mix Akamai's edge network with @fermyon.com's WebAssembly platform? A fun conversation about what’s next for serverless edge computing! Join Allen Duet (Akamai) and Matt Butcher (Fermyon) as we talk about distributed serverless compute. redmonk.com/videos/akama...

“Together, NVIDIA and Akamai are moving inference closer to users everywhere, delivering faster, more scalable generative AI and unlocking the next generation of intelligent applications.” - Jensen Huang, founder and CEO, NVIDIA www.akamai.com/newsroom/pre...

Doylestown’s BikeWorks Continues Annual ‘Cranksgiving’ Ride to Benefit Local Food Pantries | The 28-mile ride on Sunday stops at three central Bucks County grocery stores where participants buy non-perishable grocery items to donate to local food pantries.

Nobody should go hungry. Proud to participate in Cranksgiving again this year with my local bike shop. www.bikeworks.shop/news/2025-bu...

Reposting with Alt-text:

Unbeaten.

My latest for @infoworld.bsky.social digs into anti-patterns around platform engineering. Sinking platform engineering initiatives really boil down to a lack of a product mindset. www.infoworld.com/article/4064...

What I heard when I read the headline...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSXKyHM133c

my woke take is that entirely too many people feel entitled to the benefits of a social contract while not feeling bound by the responsibilities of said contract

Put on my photojournalist hat this weekend: buckscountybeacon.com/2025/10/phot...

It's a helluva editorial decision to lead with anything other than yesterday's historic protests or even the Louvre heist. Not the right decision, but surely a decision.

Photo Essay: Thousands of Democracy Defenders Protest Trump at #NoKings Rallies Throughout Bucks County | Doylestown, Morrisville, Perkasie and New Hope were among the locations where local residents protested Saturday because they love their country.

Thousands turned out and rose up at the #NoKings protest in Doylestown, Pa., on Saturday, October 18, 2025.

Amazing that “No kings and no Nazis” is suddenly a controversial slogan and up for debate in 2025. These are the two most basic creeds of American history.

the only way through is together

we’re not here to be better THAN other people we’re here to be better TO other people

One of the two cement castle-like structures in my town. Captured this with the new iPhone while walking back to my car this morning.

RIP to the man who wrote the best New York song. Frank Sinatra kiss my ass.

Microsoft really, really, really wants to make the ‘Year of the Linux Desktop’ happen ASAP. blogs.windows.com/windowsexper...

I use em dashes, ellipses, and colons liberally. I write fragmented sentences. I drop one line paragraphs. Because writing is music. It should have cadence. And when it's good, you don’t just read it...you hear it. *With apologies to the folks at AP Stylebook and all the copyeditors I push back on.