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Isaac Sacolick
@ikestarcio.bsky.social
Bestselling author on #DigitalTransformation. Writes for CIO.com, InfoWorld, and https://drive.starcio.com.
WSJ says it all

Nvidia First $5T Company
Google Rev Soars as AI Boom Lifts Cloud Buz
Microsoft’s Cloud Services Power Earnings Beyond Wall St Expectations
Meta Reports Record Revenue in Q3

But

Tens of Thousands of White-Collar Jobs Are Disappearing as AI Starts to Bite
#cio
October 30, 2025 at 1:45 AM
October 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Don't miss this week's episode on The Real Cost of Tribal Knowledge: Why Losing Your People Can Bring Ops to a Standstill. October topics announced!

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#DigitalTransformation #AI #CIO
Coffee with Digital Trailblazer Recordings
Coffee With Digital Trailblazers is a weekly LinkedIn Live Event held every Friday at 11am ET, focusing on discussions relevant to digital transformation leaders. Participants explore various themes…
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September 24, 2025 at 9:50 PM
A great day. Eight years ago. Time flies
September 14, 2025 at 8:47 PM
The healthcare problems in the U.S. are about to get worse. Between this surge and tariffs, the economy could tank.

“Costs for employer coverage are expected to surge about 9.5% in 2026.”

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September 10, 2025 at 8:19 PM
This pathetic and shameful to USTA and any #media that abides > USTA asks broadcasters to censor reaction to Donald Trump’s attendance at U.S. Open
USTA asks broadcasters to censor reaction to Donald Trump’s attendance at U.S. Open
Trump will attend the U.S. Open final as a guest of a sponsor, marking his first appearance since 2015.
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September 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Seriously frightening > “Shortly before President Trump secured another White House term, he pledged to supporters at a rally to let Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “go wild” on health, medicine and food if elected.”
September 7, 2025 at 1:26 PM
“Unintended consequences?” Bullies turn friends into rivals and rivals into threats > How Trump’s Blunt-Force Diplomacy Is Pushing His Rivals Together www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...
How Trump’s Blunt-Force Diplomacy Is Pushing His Rivals Together
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September 6, 2025 at 10:08 PM
The IT the economy added just 22,000 new jobs, a sign that the labor market is deteriorating markedly. The overall jobless rate in August edged up 4.3%. #cio
September 6, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Sad. Disappointing. Pathetic. Show some morale courage.
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September 5, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Reposted by Isaac Sacolick
"With the advent of agentic AI, CIOs must be poised to adjust strategic IT priorities, mitigate new security risks, and reskill staff for a new era," writes @ikestarcio.bsky.social

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Rethinking the IT organization for the agentic AI era
Agentic AI marks a pivotal moment for how work will get done in tomorrow’s enterprise. These five questions will help CIOs better understand how they might restructure IT operations to facilitate busi...
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September 2, 2025 at 2:30 PM
And then there’s this stupidity

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White House Orders Agencies to Escalate Fight Against Offshore Wind
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September 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM
They tested out six specific intervention strategies to stop the platform from turning into a polarized hellscape.

To their dismay, none of the interventions worked

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#ai #social
Scientists Created an Entire Social Network Where Every User Is a Bot, and Something Wild Happened
Researchers simulated a social media platform that was populated entirely by AI to see if we can stop them from turning into echo chambers.
futurism.com
August 21, 2025 at 9:50 PM
We will be discussing at this Friday’s Coffee With Digital Trailblazers

OpenAI’s GPT-5 has had a tumultuous public launch, frustrating users and prompting Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman to respond www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open... #ai
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openais-rocky-gpt-5-rollout-shows-struggle-to-remain-undisputed-ai-leader-04897686?st=qqo6Fu
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August 14, 2025 at 12:23 AM
So sad and disappointing.

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The Smithsonian Changes Its Description of Trump’s Role on Jan. 6
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August 9, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Reposted by Isaac Sacolick
InfoWorld columnist @ikestarcio.bsky.social asked experts how they and their teams are excelling in multicloud operations. The following checklist distills their best practices.
How to excel in multicloud: The new checklist
The question today is not whether to support multicloud operations but how to excel at it. Here’s what experts are saying about the challenges and opportunities in multiple cloud operations.
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July 29, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Greetings from #AWSSummitNYC
July 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The Republican budget is a climate horror.

According to an analysis by energy experts at Princeton University, by 2035 the bill will increase electricity costs for consumers and businesses, decrease investment in clean energy

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The Republican budget is a climate horror
Not content to ignore climate change, they decided to make it even worse.
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July 9, 2025 at 11:03 PM
“The most important thing to know about AI is that it is not a tool, it is an agent, in the sense that it can make decisions independently of us. It can invent new ideas. It can learn and change by itself.”

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‘Sapiens’ Author Yuval Noah Harari on the Promise and Peril of AI
The author of “Sapiens” says that for the first time in tens of thousands of years, humanity has competition. And it’s coming fast.
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June 29, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Sadly, here’s one reason why I am unlikely to write another book > Anthropic Lands Partial Victory in AI Case Set to Shape Future Rulings www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

#ai #legal #fail
Anthropic Lands Partial Victory in AI Case Set to Shape Future Rulings
The decision is among the first to find that use of books for AI model training is legal under U.S. copyright law.
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June 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I can’t believe I received my author’s copies three years ago today. What a journey since then! #CIO
June 23, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The lunatics are running the asylum

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Kennedy Removes All C.D.C. Vaccine Panel Experts
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June 9, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Businesses are warning that constantly shifting trade policies are interfering with their ability to plan for the future, leading to hiring and investment freezes www.wsj.com/economy/trum... #cio
The U.S. Economy Is Headed Toward an Uncomfortable Summer <br>
Companies say they are freezing hiring and investment to deal with shifting tariff policies, which is compounding an uneasy equilibrium in the labor market.
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June 8, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Sorry Gov. Trust is long gone >

Mr. Newsom, a Democrat, immediately rebuked the president’s action. “That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions,” Mr. Newsom said, adding that “this is the wrong mission and will erode public trust.”

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Trump Is Calling Up National Guard Troops Under a Rarely Used Law
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June 8, 2025 at 3:35 PM