Episode Details

Changing the “culture” at a large company is impossibly hard, few get through it. And, it’s little wonder, you’re usually asking them to do completely irrational things. In the context of Google shutting down Google+ and a small write-up of Blockbuster failure fairy tales, we spend time discussion the “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” problem of digital transformation. We then talk about Elastic search and their recent IPO, and follow-up with some better commentary on Cloudera and Hortonworks merging - better than we did last week. Hotel breakfast buffet strategies and the Chase Sapphire series of cards. Oh, and before that Matt and Coté spend a good 10 to 15 minutes talking about hotel breakfast buffet strategies.

Also, it’s episode #150 - yay us! Our first episode was on May 27th, 2014, where Coté’s lamp played a prominent role, and we did video.

• Chase Sapphire Reserve, and others in the Sapphire line. AAdvantage Executive card.
• SpringOne Platform videos are all up.
• Coté went to Puppetizer 2018 Amsterdam. They’re really into being “a portfolio company” now. Lots of stacks presented; much discussion on managing Puppet itself. A very well run event. See also Register coverage of their SF event.
• Google is shutting down Google+ following massive data exposure - “90 percent of Google+ user sessions last for less than five seconds.”
  • be like google prd mgmt desertion
  • effect other enterprise props?
  • legacy services
• OpenOffice watch - ‘Back in 2015, Red Hat developer Christian Schaller called OpenOffice "all but dead."’
• Austin Ernest says make sure you don’t cargo cult The SRE.
• The Demise of Blockbuster, and Other Failure Fairy Tales - Strategy is hard, execution at the middle-management later is harder. Put yet another way, company executives have a lot less power than you’d think. Related: WTF is “culture”?
• This week in IPOs: Elastic has a party, Solarwinds figuring one out.
  • Elastic: “The stock closed at $70 per share, representing a 94.4 percent rise.” Clos