I like your stance on it. I find it useful, I find some current criticisms valid, but also incomplete.

I was thinking exactly about spreadsheets so I cleaned up one of my recent ai wanderings and put it on my blog. Post is AI-generated, but the questions are mine.

sumiya.page/2025/July/ai...

Most likely Financial Cleverness. Speculative, but they probably keep cash for acquisitions or their growth strategy?

If I understand this right, from their earnings release, they have a war-chest of ~2.5 Billion USD.

Did you know that YouTube has a RSS feed for its channels?

I added AWS YouTube Channel’s Video Feed to my site amazonoraws.com.

I wrote a TIL: github.com/psumiya/til/...

I wrote a list of books I read or referenced and podcasts I listened to in 2024.

Here is a sub-set, the books I read all the way to the end.

- The Halo Effect
- Leadership and Self-Deception
- Safe Haven (re-read)
- Chaos Kings

Full list here: sumiya.page/2024-Year-In...

Most hot takes about good leadership today is because the company in conversation is successful.

E.g., there is little reference to J. Huang’s leadership pre-2023. After NVDA skyrocketed, you can see thought-leaders in media, etc. suddenly espouse his leadership style as the reason for its success.

Free CoPilot! Need to take it out on a test flight.

The `What's New in AWS` RSS feed blast during re-invent made reading my amazonoraws.com page a little harder.

So this week, I added `Timeline View` to view feeds by date, made it the default tab, and moved the previous view to a `Feed Source View` tab.

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