Professional board member | Tech and business commentator | Ultra endurance athlete | Firefighter | @cactusoutdoor |

Waipara, Hurunui District
Joined July 2007
Taing a moment to celebrate a pretty awesome milestone... youtu.be/yg_VmedVuuY – at Wellington City, New Zealand
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Hey @AirbnbHelp @Airbnb - you know what is really crap? Booking acocmodation in October, and talkign to the host since only to check in in March and be told "no, we have a booking on booking.com so we won't honor your booking." Doesn't exactly lend itself to trust...
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I've got half a dozen of those at home. Muhahaha!
This is the version of the Haggadah that contains the codes to the space laser. Every Jew has used it at least once.
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Been listening to @AcquiredFM for years. Stoked to be in the front row to see the guys at #AWSreInvent2025
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Seeing two execs on stage at #reinvent2025 - one who has done 12 months at @awscloud and one who is new. MyPOV: there is a steep learning curve to be comfortable articulating the AWS line... / #reinvent
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MyPOV: Obviously @julwhite is a seasoned exec, but this year at #reinvent2025 #reinvent she has really found herself and is articulating things very clearly. / @awscloud
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MyPOV: While the actual announcements are under NDA< it's nice to see Julia White, CMO of @awscloud be pretty open about the objectives they have for the #reinvent keynote tomorrow morning
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Who flys through #DFW on literally the busiest flight day of the year en route to #LAS and #reinvent ? Yeah, I'm that guy. The airport is a zoo today...
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Are the surfaces hard?
I’m in an Israeli gulag following my arrest aboard the Flotilla. ASK ME ANYTHING
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People might disagree on our foreign policy, but they agree on our indie music one, at least...
Flying Nun getting a bit of exposure at the UN
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Two very very different individuals passed yesterday. Both unique, and both mighty totara in their own way. Z"L
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Stoked to finally be an investor in @substack - congrats in the raise, @hamishmckenzie
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A fable for the fractured... A reply to Greta Thunberg Read it here... wp.me/p9Z7WC-aLC
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It's just so hard to hear "Oracle" and "Cloud Provider" in the same sentence... PTSD from years of Cloudy FUD, I guess....
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Oracle speaking at #FinOpsX reminds me distinctly of @IBM speaking at CloudConnect circa 2008 and simultaneously suggesting cloud was a huge rise and a no-go for enterprises and also that they (IBM) had the best cloud ever. #clouderati vibes
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Oh my, @Oracle speaker coming on stage. Introduced as "you may have heard of them, not only on the cloud side but also because of licensing." Gotta pay for superyachts somehow... #finopsx
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Really interesting hearing from @salesforce around how the board and C-suite give direction to IT spend and budgets and how IT feeds up to help the leaders planning #finopsx
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Hearing @awscloud talk about their #FinOps approaches. It's always a sensitive topic since total cost clarity isn't particularly in the vendors' interests. #finopsx
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Whoa. "@workday is an AI platform company." Last time I looked Workday was a broad-based HRIS vendor. I guess times have changed... #finopsx
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#FinOps for AI, AI for FinOps. The former is just too early since every org leader is panicking that they're not diving deep enough into AI quickly enough. The latter makes total sense, though #finopsx
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