Fun day taking pictures of airplanes at #Seafair yesterday. This is @BlueAngels 4 going vertical while exiting a formation over Lake Washington. More shots in the thread below🧵… #avgeek #flying #aviation

Day 2 and Amazon Quick is still blowing my mind 🤯 The prompt: "Go through all of my emails thoroughly, going back to January 1st 2025, and create a simple table in Google sheets. I want to capture all of the inbound and outbound email addresses for everyone without a @hyperframeresearch.com email address. I am not looking for generic emails; I am looking for emails from an actual human who works for a technology vendor. Then put these email interactions into a simple Google sheet with the following columns: Name | Title | Email address | Company" Watching Quick go through 26,599 emails and watch it identify 3,064 unique tech vendor contacts and build a spreadsheet is blowing my mind. Why is Google Workspace not able to do this? Especially when the data is coming from Gmail?

Make the most of your agentic AI investments: The Compounding Enterprise linkedin.com/pulse/compoundi…

A day late but here are some #Caturday shots of Jasper (Tuxedo) and Luke.

Short clip of aerobatics practice from September. Fingers crossed for good weather soon.

First ever color Kindle Scribe is here and think customers are going to really like it. We completely redesigned it from the ground up, and it’s now ultra-thin, writing and sketching feels like it’s happening on paper, and moving between pages is almost instantaneous. The AI we’ve baked in (featuring our Nova models) is especially useful, helping people find their notes, create note summaries, and ask questions of their notes. Think this is gonna change how folks work. aboutamazon.com/news/devices…

Good conversation with @SwedishPM Kristersson on Sweden’s digital future. From supporting a thriving startup ecosystem to expanding our cloud and AI capabilities, we’re committed to Sweden’s innovation journey. Proud that our investment here is supporting our customers, creating opportunities for Swedish businesses, and strengthening the country’s position as a leading tech nation. Look forward to continuing our collaborative work together.

Today, we’re bringing developers a faster and improved coding experience with the general availability of GitLab Duo with Amazon Q. This integration accelerates complex, multi-step tasks across the entire dev lifecycle and reduces context switching between tools. Customers who had early access to this new experience are enjoying the time they’re getting back to focus on innovation and modernizing their legacy systems. More here in our blog ➡️ aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/… Here’s a quick look at how GitLab Duo is transforming dev workflows ⬇️

Happy with my landing at Boeing Field yesterday. Always things to improve but I’ll take it! Cirrus SR22T G6 with Garmin G1000 Perspective avionics. ILS Rwy 14R approach. The green reticle shows your flight path and the yellow chevron shows attitude.

Insightful piece by @alexwilliams on @poolsideai and their impressive innovation. Excited to be partnering with @eisokant and @jasoncwarner and their team!

Spectacular sunrise today. Happy Friday folks!

Am excited to be coming back and participating in #AWSreInvent this year. Have so much passion for our #AWS community, and there is no better gathering of our AWS community than re:Invent. As always, the priority is to make this a learning event so customers can take nuggets back and change their own customer experiences and businesses. We’ll also have a bunch of goodies for you that we’ll announce and that we think folks will like. See you there! reinvent.awsevents.com/?trk=…

Highlights from @theCUBEresearch team at #AWSAnalystSummit, where we speak with @AWScloud’s @rahulpathak on Bedrock’s democratization and integration capabilities. 📺 Insights with #theCUBE! thecube.net/events/aws/gener…

Happy #Caturday !

Fall flying in the #pnw

A few ideas from Rockefeller I found in his autobiography: 1. Hire talent as found, not as needed. 2. The tyranny of compounding costs can devastate the miracle of compounding returns. 3. Err on the side of speed. Be intolerant of slowness. 4. Writing a check separates conviction from conversation. (Buffett) 5. Don’t waste your effort on a thing which ends in a petty triumph unless you are satisfied with a life of petty success. 6. Less talk, more deeds. 7. Pick partners that have a capacity for enthusiasm and hard work. 8. Find the most talented people you can, develop a mutual sense of trust, work together for decades. 9. Emotions blur judgment. Let it simmer. 10. Create byproducts from waste materials. 11. Make the votes unanimous. You may need to disagree and commit. 12. Ceaselessly search for minor improvements. Most humans are incapable of doing so over a long period of time. 13. Do the best you can with the task at hand. Opportunity handled well leads to more opportunity. 14. A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. 15. Optimize for long term relationships. Do not screw your partners over a few dollars. Be generous. Time will more than make up for it. 16. Act — from the very beginning — as if your business will last for 50 years. What can you do today that would make this more likely to be true? 17. Only first-class business, and that in a first-class way. 18. When you are old and rich you will realize that your greatest possessions are true friendships. There is no exception to this rule whatsoever. 19. A true friend should be held close at any cost. 20. When you recruit A players you don’t give them 5 things to focus on. No. You tell them: You've got one priority. Destroy that priority. Do it more than anybody else possibly could or would. 21. Entrepreneurship is worth pursuing for the association with interesting and quick minded people alone. 22. Prepare for financial emergencies long before you need the funds. 23. Keep a fortress of cash. 24. Learn to have great respect for your numbers. Watch your costs. 25. Rockefeller had a name for his competitors who didn’t watch their costs: “Unintelligent” 26. Train your kids in practical business matters from childhood. 27. Find more experienced entrepreneurs. Listen to them. 28. A casual way of conducting affairs should disgust you. 29. Success can take the edge away. Remind yourself of this nightly. 30. Don't lose your head over a little success or grow discouraged by a little failure. 31. A chip on your shoulder and a little arrogance can fuel you. Show them that you can paddle your own canoe. Exceed their expectations. 32. All business proceeds on belief: Trying to run a company without a set of beliefs is like trying to steer a ship without a rudder. (Isadore Sharp) 33. Do not lie to yourself. Be honest with yourself about your own affairs. 34. Real efficiency in work comes from knowing the facts of your business. 35. The masses chase easy profits. Do hard things and you’ll have less competition. 36. Vertically integrate. 37. The only way to learn how to conduct a difficult business is gradually. 38. Use scale to lower prices. Root out any inefficiencies. Pay for talent. Control expenses. Invest in technology. 39. Focus. Keep to the enormous task of perfecting your own organization. 40. Two people can run the same business and have vastly different results. The assets of a company are not its factories but the talent of its people. The combined brain power are the essentials to be reckoned with. 41. If you give a good idea to a mediocre team, they will screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a brilliant team, they will either fix it or throw it away and come up with something better. The takeaway here is worth repeating: Getting the team right is the necessary precursor to getting the ideas right. (Ed Catmull) 42. Money comes naturally as a result of service. (Henry Ford) 43. Don’t do anything someone else can do. (Edwin Land) 44. Despite the unceasing vicissitudes of the oil industry, prone to cataclysmic booms and busts, Rockefeller would never experience a single year of loss. (Titan) 45. Do everything and you will win. (LBJ) --- Episode 368: Rockefeller's Autobiography is waiting for you in your podcast app now.

I just witnessed the most spectacular sunset of my entire life!! It didn't even seem real as I watched it unfold. Better than even the aurora last night imo! This was from along Admiralty Inlet. #wawx @RandySmall @abbyacone @StormHour @KClarkWx @ScottSeattleWx @KSeattleWeather

Energizing to visit with our AWS GenAI Accelerator cohort here in Seattle. These promising global startups are shaping the future of GenAI. Am happy to have them participating in our program, which will provide mentorship, a like-minded community of inventors and entrepreneurs, access to up to $1M in AWS promotional credits, and the chance to learn from top AWS partners. Will be exciting to see what they build over these next 10 weeks and beyond!