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Published: Feb. 27, 2020, 11 p.m.

Everyone loves white papers\n\n

Are white papers a force for good or evil? We discuss. Also, the $20,000 AMI and Cot\xe9\u2019s current kubernetes comprehension.

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Mood board:

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• \u201cA Quote from the episode\u2026\u201d
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• Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are.
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• \u201cI\u2019m happy to talk about Coronavirus.\u201d
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• We could always go to \u2018Paranoid Matt Corner\u2019
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• Will Cot\xe9 get to stay in Amsterdam this Spring?
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• Crank up the YouTube
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• Nobody\u2019s gonna be traveling anymore anyway
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• Cote\u2019s gonna be our Ed McMahon now
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• Your whitepaper should have an elevator pitch
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• Garbage trash proposals
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• Uniquely sourced
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• Why are we still doing this?
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• They\u2019re busy running their business.
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• \u201cCan you write me a business case.\u201d
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• PDFs a Plenty
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• The White Paper Album
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• Speaking of BS phrases
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• The white paper to take down white papers
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• \u201cWalking into the door feeling\u201d
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• The AWS Super Inspect tool, or whatever.
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• Maybe it\u2019ll all work this time Brandon.
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• The Idempope.
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\n\nRelevant to your interests\n\n

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• Why Do Corporations Speak the Way They Do? - related, from 2006.
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• The secret sauce graphics, 2007. Andrew Shafer\u2019s 2010 update.
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• White papers (best one ever: \u201cStandard Bank: Our DevOps Journey,\u201d Chef)\n\n
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  • Collateral.
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  • Sales tools.
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  • Case studies.
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  • Thought-leadership/definition.
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  • Education.
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  • Guidance (vs. Gartner Burton papers).
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  • Writing down chunks of sales-hustle lore.
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  • How it effects the business.
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  • Have opinions.
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• Millennials Want Credible Digital Content \u2014 So Give It To Them!
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• Amazon AMI thing.
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• Salesforce secures $1.3B+ deal for Vlocity, also co-CEO left (what\u2019s up with two CEOs?)
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• VMware, Tanzu
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• Signal signal - Matt\u2019s paranoid security.
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• The Tech Revolt Finally Comes for Oracle
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• Morgan Stanley Is Buying E*Trade, Betting on Littler Customers
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• Signal Is Finally Bringing Its Secure Messaging to the Masses
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• Trump administration backs Oracle in Google fightNonsense
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• Google Cloud President Tariq Shaukat Vacating His Role
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• DigitalOcean raises $100M in debt as it scales toward revenue of $300M, profitability
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• HP adopts poison pill after Xerox's buyout attempts
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• VMware Details its Tanzu/Kubernetes Strategy After Pivotal Merger
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• Oracle's Allies Against Google Include Scott McNealy and America's Justice Department - Slashdot
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• Google Plots Course to Overtake Cloud Rivals
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• Apple Weighs Letting Users Switch Default iPhone Apps to Rivals
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• The Ars Technica semi-scientific guide to Wi-Fi Access Point placement
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• Google Cloud beefs up Chronicle, reCaptcha Enterprise and Web Risk API hit general availability
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• When Speakers are Ears
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• Why Those Gaps in Kubernetes Are Really a Good Thing
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• Red Hat slips through Platform 16 to OpenStack wizarding world, says customers still want to run their own cloud
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• Google Jumps to #4 on Cloud Wars Top 10 Behind #1 Microsoft, #2 AWS, #3 Salesforce
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• MWC now stands for Mighty Wallet Crusher? Smaller firms counting the cost after mobile industry event scrapped
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• Firefox now encrypts domain name requests by default in the US
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• Google Cloud CEO Called Oracle Cloud a 'Disgrace'
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• Keith Block Steps Down as Salesforce Co-CEO; Marc Benioff is Chair and CEO
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\n\nNon Sense\n\n

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• Report: Austin Ranks No. 1 in the Nation for Jobs
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• The makers of Jif peanut butter team up with Giphy to try to settle the GIF/Jif debate once and for all
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• Costco\u2019s Famous Hot Dog Could Cost You $60
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\n\nConferences, et. al.\n\n

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• QCon London, March 2nd to 6th - Cot\xe9 speaking on March 2nd.
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• Agile Scotland, March 6th: sessions, tickets.
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• KubeCon EU in Amsterdam March 30 \u2013 April 2*,* use code KCEUSDP15 for 15% off. \n\n
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  • VMware/Tanzu lurnin' workshop
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• DevOpsDays Austin 2020 May 4th and 5th
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• ChefConf 2020 in Seattle June 1-4
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• DevOpsDays Minneapolis, August 4 - 5, 2020 use code SDT for 10% off registration
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• THAT Conference August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells, WI. Call for Counselors (Speakers) open until March 1st.
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\n\nListener Talk\n\n

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• Ryan Kitchens talk \u201cThe Meat of It.\u201d
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\n\nSDT news & hype\n\n

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• Join us in Slack.
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• Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers!
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• Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn
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• Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog.
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• Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
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• Use the code SDT to get $20 off Cot\xe9\u2019s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
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\n\nRecommendations\n\n

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• Brandon: Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee on Netflix.
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• Matt: Harry Potter & The Cursed Child.
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• Cot\xe9: Hild. SpringOne Platform 2019 CFP. My book, The Business Bottleneck, is out for free.
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Outro: \u201cHey Now.\u201d