Walker Reynolds
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@Rich_Cooper
I want to be fair here. I’ve dated a lot since my divorce 2 years ago. I’ve been very selective and in spite of that, there has been an abundance of potential partners I’ve gone out with.
The fact is — there are fewer desirable men than there are beautiful women — and that
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@Rich_Cooper
It’s tone deaf she even asked. If my son came to me with this, my response would be — ‘When someone shows you who they are, believe them. She did you a favor by showing you now rather than later. Slowly back away, move on and don’t look back.’
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@MikeSington
I think Trump is a tool and I have not nor will not support him for President. However, it is stunning to me how the left simply doesn’t understand why this man is beloved by the right —
1. He governed the way he said he would
2. He prioritized American interests
3. He funded
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@Rich_Cooper
Here is what I have observed since I started dating two years ago after my divorce.
The woman who is self aware and accountable is very rare but they are out there.
The much more common example is the woman who has a fundamental lack of self awareness and rejects accountability
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@jemelehill
@VanityHandicap
You choose intellectual shortcuts over factual analysis -- grifting over debate.
High tuition prices started with policies implemented by Johnson in '65 and extended by Clinton in the 90's. A first year sociology student who takes a course in education knows this.
Reaganomics
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@clearbart
@MikeSington
With Covid, not of Covid. He presided over record employment, including people of color. It was Trump who pointed out the origins of Covid and encouraged policies that kept the healthy working and schools open. Again — I cant stand the guy but we must give credit where credit
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@SethDillon
There aren’t a lot of dept store options in the average community — there are hundreds of beer options in every store and bar. I think this one has legs.
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@mcuban
The issue, Mark, is that no one wants to be lectured to by a billionaire… and so you’ve become a target. I have 4 rules when it comes to digital media. Before posting anything ask these four questions.
1. Why should anyone listen to me?
2. What am I going to say?
3. What
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@SykesCharlie
And Alexander Hamilton is correct -- a President is not immune for unofficial acts and can be tried and convicted of crimes after being removed or leaving office. The courts will decide which acts are official and unofficial. I fail to understand why the left is fear-mongering
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@robertschueller
@Kelly4Humanity
@Lovlidovli1564
@JBatuz
If the issue is something as big as your child’s education, the invitation is open. 🙏
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@JonathanTurley
KJP is in a no win situation of the administration’s doing. The press need to salvage their reputations and she’s been lying about the President’s fitness for at least 2 years.
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@Niiklas2022
@Rich_Cooper
To each his own. I’ve dated a few women 15 yrs younger than me — spark wasn’t there for me so I moved on. 🙏
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@brrlindstrom
@BritMartinez
Doesn’t sound like the ‘religious’ people I know. The Church is full of sinners — and we know it, it’s why we are there, kinda our thing. We are fallen and accept the Grace offered to all of us. The closer one is to Jesus the less likely one is to cast stones. 🙏
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@GavinNewsom
You locked your people inside, closed their businesses, made their loved ones die alone, while you dined on French food with your friends — I honestly have no idea why anyone listens to you.
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@HoldenFWDUSA
@MarioNawfal
I really wish this were true. When I graduated from College, the first in my family to do so, my blue collar, high school graduate, Vietnam Vet father came to me, patted me on the back and said, ‘I am really proud of you — but I’m here to tell you that nothing you learned in
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@BarackObama
2x supporter of you, President Obama - ‘08 and ‘12. I still hold you in high regard — but this, Mr. President, is tone deaf and sad.
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The best ideas must win. This is why getting a seat at the table matters. In Industry 4.0, the greatest threat to success are political beings leveraging their influence to silence opposing ideas. We don’t talk about it a lot — but it’s a painful truth.
#digitaltransformation
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I’m heading home — I’m out of the woods and on the road to recovery. Thank you to all of you that have reached out (we will do our honest best to reply to every single community member). I am so grateful for you all — the power of prayer is real.
I won’t be working for a few
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@robertschueller
@Kelly4Humanity
@Lovlidovli1564
@JBatuz
Which is why parents deserve school choice. 🙏
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@CampisiKyle
@stevenmarkryan
Rivian is most definitely not following he Tesla model 100% — a review of their manufacturing operations is more Ford and less Tesla — they will not be able to reduce OpX costs the way Tesla did with Model 3. Rivian is an example of applying Industry 3 methods to Industry 4
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@EdKrassen
If guns are the problem, why don’t we see mass shootings at sport shooting events? Serious question — Ed, you really come off as knowing nothing about this issue — likely growing up in the burbs and not around guns. Look up the Pennsylvania State Trap Shoot and tell me if guns
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Three days ago, I shared a compelling narrative on the transformative power of digital transformation in the automotive sector. Today, let's delve into another sector: Flexible Packaging. The journey and results are equally, if not more, astounding…
Imagine a Flexible Packaging
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Integration of
#ERP
like
#SAP
into a UNS is generally done through an
#iiot
platform like
@InductiveAuto
Ignition or
@Tatsoft
FrameworX. Below is an example with Ignition. BAPI is mapped to UNS Topics in Platform — then onto Broker. One option of many.
#digitaltransformation
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My apologies gang — there will be no podcast today and Mastermind and Mentorship will be postponed in January. I am dealing with a medical emergency — surgery should fix the issue and I should be up and around in a few weeks. I am really sorry for any inconvenience this has
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@EdKrassen
Removing all cars from the road, banning roller coasters, bikes, rope, methane, aspirin, razors, NyQuil, knives, climbing trees, pools and hot dogs will all save children’s lives. Guns aren’t the problem — people are. Mental health, incentivize 2 parent families — start there.
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I am heading out for the holiday break. I want to take a moment to give thanks for the all of you and give a word of encouragement.
For several years, after I started
@IntellicInt
, I worked every holiday. My first Thanksgiving as an entrepreneur, I spent the bulk of the day
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Whoa — I just sat through a demo of the
@LAutomation
#mqtt
broker. Our team will be beta testing over the next month — but all I can say is, if they have delivered on everything they say they have — the
#iiot
and
#Industry40
space is about to change big-time. GraphQL? ✅ UNS?
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Big week —
@40_solutions
YT Channel broke 2M views on Wednesday. I am so incredibly grateful for the community who made this possible. Thank you!!
#digitaltransformation
#iiot
#industry4
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@Jonifico
@Rich_Cooper
Just my experiences thus far — but I’d much rather be the single middle aged man — dating, than the single middle aged woman. I don’t think it’s fair but it just is.
I generally date women with my level of education — and it’s stunning to me how few do not understand that they
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@MoxmoJez
@Rich_Cooper
I’ve observed that for sure but that hasn’t defined my experiences. I’ve met some wonderful women — and I’ve met a lot of modern women who have been sold a bill of goods by feminism and media… and are finding out too late in life that they never once considered to ask
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One of the most important elements of an agile
#digitaltransformation
strategy is what we refer to as the ‘bimodal architecture’. This is the element that accounts for both legacy tech (that will phase out over time OR evolve to support the minimum technical requirements of your
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Progress comes at the intersection of values, mission and sound decision making in the face of dilemma. It’s easy to make the right call when the right call is obvious — real impact comes from those who navigate dilemma consistently.
#Leadership
#DigitalTransformation
#iiot
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#MachineLearning
and
#AI
Helped me achieve this lifetime PR today — 500lbs on the Trap Bar.
@nvidia
Jetson Nano,
@Sony
camera sensor,
#python
,
@ProjectJupyter
and about 8,000 lines of custom code. Same
#vision
system that predicted a deadlift world record.
#artofthepossible
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For the past few days, I’ve been working on an educational series — I have one functional specification and I am implementing the solution three ways. The function is simple — subscribe to an MQTT message broker, using a wildcard, and then build an OPC Server where the variable
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A new year is upon us and we have a great week coming up -- to start it all off. Tomorrow, 1/9 -- John Harrington, from
@HighByteInc
will be joining us on the
#Industry40
community podcast, live. We will be talking about our predictions from 2023 and making our predictions for
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Transformative leaders with
#technical
backgrounds lead
#manufacturers
who thrive with
#Industry40
@Ford
is led by a marketer,
@VW
is led by a mechanical engineer — their futures couldn’t be more different.
#iiot
#DigitalTransformation
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This video is long overdue — It took me a long time to finally sit down and film this. It’s no secret, the man who adopted me after my mother was murdered has had the biggest impact on my life — I owe nearly all of my success to the lessons I learned from him. The video below
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Looking forward to having Kudzai, from
@HiveMQ
and Industry 4.0 TV on the Podcast today. Topics: his journey,
#digitaltransformation
,
@arduino
Opta, and the present/future of
#iiot
.
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You may notice that when I discuss ISA-95, I stress Part 2, leaving the other parts, especially 1, 3, and 4, out of the conversation. Why? Here's the breakdown...
ISA-95 Part 1... it's confined, limited... Its MOM functions do not fully encompass all Operational Functions seen
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Digital Data drove this decision by
@Tesla
. Their ecosystem — open, edge driven, stateful and self aware — built around WARP, is how they did it —
@ToyotaMotorCorp
can copy as much as they want — but until they become a digital company built on one open ecosystem — they will
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There are a lot of discussions going around about
#data
context. I talk a lot about the deficiencies of
#digitalthread
and solution centric infrastructures for
#Industry40
. A lack of additive data context is one primary reason. As data moves up the
#automation
stack, from
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Tomorrow's Whiteboard Video -- Why Do
#manufacturers
End Up Building Their
#MES
? The simple fact is MES is a quilt, unique to your business, and no off the shelf solution was built just for you. Solution? Buy the
#iiot
Platform and build MES functions.
#digitaltransformation
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One of the biggest challenges with the adoption of
#digitaltransformation
for
#industry
has been the effect that legacy software licensing models have had on the ability to build functional proofs of concept and prototypes without first purchasing licenses that you may or may not
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@ScaredTrump
@Rich_Cooper
Did I mention my ex wife reached out after 7 months, asked to reconcile and we are close to this day? She grew through divorce and she will be the first one to tell you, she fucked up. She didn’t go the route of most middle aged divorcees — which confirms I married the right
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Dont fight theoretical battles, win the results war. The best way to push through institutional resistance is to solve their problems with results — permission takes too long, do. The best ideas must win… results obliterate resistance.
#DigitalTransformation
#iiot
#leadership
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@Miaunow
@MikeSington
Our country was actually much more divided in the 60’s and during Reconstruction. We are one common enemy away from being united again. The issues are real — primarily centered around values — but we aren’t as far apart as some say we are.
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Large IT Consulting Firm: ‘This slide here is our solution for you.’ Me: ‘Thats digital thread’ Firm: ‘Yep’ Me: ‘Wont work for this client, doesn’t work at scale for anyone. Any examples of it working?’ Firm: [Crickets] Me: ‘We are done here, bye.’
#DigitalTransformation
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@bariweiss
Americans are rightly asking, ‘Who is actually running the country?’ — there’s nowhere for Democrats to hide anymore — Americans are going to sweep Republicans into power in November and then we will see at least some of the receipts — it will be enlightening. Great piece, Bari.
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@EdKrassen
@pow1_david
About 70% of all abortions are purely elective, 96-99% are elective to some degree — as a form of birth control — it is not a minority.
The abortion debate is a complicated one — but by any objective measure, you are ending a life — and in nearly all cases, it’s for purely
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#benfranklin
invented bifocals, the lightning rod and the odometer — among many other things… and all without the luxury of electricity or the internet. So… what do you plan to accomplish today?
#innovation
#leadership
#DigitalTransformation
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In Wednesday's Whiteboard Video, I'll be explaining the technical why
#manufacturers
build
#mes
rather than buy off the shelf. In Core MES Bootcamp, we taught the how (last session this Saturday). In Advanced MES Bootcamp (next month), we will expand.
#DigitalTransformation
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The media and FullStrength team and I are on our way to Loveland, CO. Tomorrow, working out with Brian Shaw, 4x World’s Strongest Man — doing interviews and collecting data while he deadlifts and I bench press. All part of sabbatical and goals for 2023. The convergence of
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@andrewkimmel
@stclairashley
If you think it's just the right, eek. Contrary to popular belief on the left -- Americans do care about equal opportunity, safety and women. There's room for all lifestyles in this country -- but when one agenda conflicts with the opportunities for others, arguments arise.
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Yesterday was a big day for 4.0 Solutions,
@IntellicInt
and our FullstrengthAI team. (And me personally). Spending a full day with 4x World’s Strongest Man, Brian Shaw, and his team was amazing. It was incredible to go over his deadlift data, with our vision system, from last
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Following up on a comment I made about
@SchneiderElec
patent submission US 2024/0039820 A1. I was hyper critical of Schneider for this move -- because it is a continuation of a pattern for them. They patent non-novel ideas and then once the patent gets through, they sue anyone
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Heading back to
#dfw
after a very productive week on-site in Slovenia. We documented the trip and will publish the video, including daily summaries of topics, tasks and progress, for Mastermind, Mentorship and YouTube Members. This
#digitaltransformation
has the potential to
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Data interoperability in
#iiot
isn’t as complicated as it sounds. Its all about translating many languages into one language — used by all smart things in the business in service of making
#data
the most valuable commodity of all. Prioritize this or fail — simple.
@HighByteInc
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Well... its official, the ProveIt! 2025 Industry 4 Community Conference is a huge hit. The team announced early access last week, giving the people who financially support this community, a chance to secure their tickets before the general public gobbled them all up. The response
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@goddeketal
The fact U.S.A. didn’t take over the world starting in 1945 is what gives us the moral high ground.
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Early in my career, I was consulting for a legacy
#manufacturer
in
#automotive
#industry
I asked the question, ‘how does your business work? How do you turn a sale into production?’ It took a room of 20 to answer the question.
#digitaltransformation
changed that.
#iiot
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Had a great call with a client yesterday — he asked, ‘What’s wrong with the digital thread?’ My answer, in a nutshell, data objects are threaded in one direction, up the stack, stored then extracted for analysis and then visualized. Great for dashboards, terrible for digital
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The United States of America is the greatest nation that has ever existed — built on innovation, enterprise and investment in people. 1.3 million Americans have died defending the principles of Life, Individual Liberty and Freedom through limited government. Today — we give
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Common question I get, 'How do you decide what problem to tackle in the initial proof of concept for
#digitaltransformation
when working with a new client?' The answer is always the same, 'We figure out what they think their problem is, we ascertain what their real problem is
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@TallulahB2012
@mcuban
I mean this for all people — as for
@elonmusk
, he defends the principles upon which he achieved his success — not the other way around.
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The very first UNS I ever designed was in the mining industry, in 2005. Our department was responsible for keeping the mine running, with minimal downtime. A Rock Salt mine, 1/2 mile underground, 7 miles long from the bottom of the shaft to the furthest production area. Miles
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A good place for someone to start their intro to ML — appropriate for laypeople. Nice resource to kick off with.
Announcement 🚀🚀
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Complete Machine Learning Package is now live on the web. You can now browse all materials seamlessly and view all 35 notebooks without any problem, whether on desktop or mobile.
It's here:
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The more I play with
@FlowForgeInc
the more I am impressed. From a purely
#DevOps
perspective, its pretty incredible how you're able to manage and deploy
#iiot
projects for
@NodeRED
at scale. We have launched an oem training initiative (think independent training on various
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The 5th Industrial Revolution has begun — 100%.
#NLP
has changed the game completely. The rising edge of this latest revolution is November, 2022. The world as we know it has changed. The ChatGPT workshop was a huge success — demonstrating 10x to 100x return in efficiency on
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Digital Fluency... it's not just a buzzword we use when scoring
#DigitalMaturity
via DTMA. It's a critical KPI, a progress tracker, a yardstick for
#DigitalTransformation
initiatives...
Every org struggles recruiting and retaining the employee of the future (the present day
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Sneak peek at the
@40_solutions
#podcast
tomorrow. We are going to do something a little different. To go along with our
#ChatGPT
workshop, Thursday at 10am CST, I'll be demonstrating how to build a simulator for the
@arduino
Opta Wifi, using only
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My mother has been gone for almost 42 years — but her impact is still being felt to this day, through her sons. She laid the foundation of who I am — and it is her love, her encouragement and her wise words that I lean into every time the going gets tough. A sons first love is
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The world is a beautiful place, America is the greatest nation there has ever been — humanity has created amazing things. We are surrounded by opportunity and beauty — embrace it with an open heart. 🙏 ❤️
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We have a special video dropping today on YT — number 600.
@zackscriven
and I come back together to shoot ‘What is Digital Factory - 2024’. We revisit one of the first videos we ever shot and provide some important updates.
#DigitalTransformation
#IIoT
#UnifiedNamespace
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@ScottAdamsSays
Dilbert: "Can you copyedit everything I submit for the next hour?"
ChatGPT: "Yes, I can do that."
(Dilbert starts submitting pages of his book for copyediting)
(ChatGPT begins to rewrite Dilbert's book, changing characters, plot, and genre)
Dilbert: "I asked you to copyedit,
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Yesterday,
@thomasjburke
, the visionary and founder of the
@OPCFoundation
, joined me for a discussion on the
#Industry4
Community Podcast. To say the conversation is an enlightening one, would be the understatement of the century.
The entire conversation centers around
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UNS (
#unifiednamespace
) is everywhere these days. LinkedIn, Youtube, blog posts, conferences, marketing materials, books et al.
There is a lot of great content out there about UNS — some I love and most I’d like to throw in the trash.
UNS is an architecture I designed in
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@O_Jeromeo
@LukeFoster93
@Rich_Cooper
@crazyclipsonly
You should watch the entire video on Police Pursuits YT channel — she had multiple opportunities to pull over, she also did not slow down — at the end of the day pull over — wtf is wrong with people?
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@RobertKennedyJr
Yes… but strategically and imperfectly. All one has to do is ask — ‘What would the world look like without the U.S.?’
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Heading to the office to shoot today’s content —
#dfw
is covered in ice, but we are dedicated to informing on
#Industry40
and
#DigitalTransformation
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Slide we have used for years in Mastermind and Mentorship. RE: Point 3 — more than 90% of the organizations I’ve worked with in my career… the first problem they want to solve? Real-time visibility into manufacturing operations, actual vs plan and efficiency — and that’s why
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Two great pieces of advice I’ve received in life
1. No matter how much you know about a subject, knowledge is a moving target — move with it
2. The best way to test your knowledge is to seek out situations where you must defend what you believe and demonstrate what you know
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Back from sabbatical — podcast will be live today. We will be touching on many topics — including a recent reference architecture that
@Gartner_inc
produced in July — hint, they’ve hedged their bets and have jumped on the Unified Namespace bandwagon. We will also be evaluating
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Can’t wait!
The impressive speaker lineup at the
#DigitalTransformation
Forum kicks off with esteemed
#IIoT
expert
@WalkerDReynolds
on Wed., May 1st at 9:00 am. His keynote, "Designing Your Digital Future: Are You Ready?" is sure to educate and entertain! Register:
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Whiteboard video dropping today — answering questions about UNS and Historians. One of our newest team members had a question about how we use historians with UNS and so we recorded the response for the community. Enjoy!
#iiot
#historian
#DigitalTransformation
#uns
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On sabbatical for a few more weeks — so, what does one do on sabbatical? I manage my companies 2 days per week and the rest of the time, I am writing, testing hardware/software and working on curriculum. Last-night, we were in Winchester, VA — after setting up the Intellic
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A lot to choose from — I think advancing democratized, public AI would do the most to improve the lives of a global population. I think that’s a longer play though. I think I would focus on developing technology that makes recycling cheaper and much more effective — believe it
@walkerdreynolds
, as the founder of
@40_solutions
and creator of the Unified Namespace
#UNS
, we’re curious: If you could develop a technology to address a pressing global issue, which challenge would you tackle and how would it reshape our world for the better?
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We just finalized our plans. I’ll be at
@hannover_messe
April 21 - 26 (Sun -Fri) to visit with strategic partners and community members. We will have plenty of content from the show, including announcements from some of the vendors (some cool tech coming). Let me know if you
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@anmis
@JonathanTurley
Pro-choice advocates have a logic problem. They need to answer two questions — 1. Does the baby become a life if the mother wants it? 2. At what point does the baby have rights? Pro-choice advocates can agree on neither question — that’s a problem.
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Very cool feature… one of the beauties of REST with MQTT is how easily JSON Responses parse to MQTT topical namespaces.
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Three announcements in the video below. (I save the most controversial for the end).
1.
#proveit2025
Conference update, including info for Sponsors, Mastermind, Mentorship and Mastermind Accelerator Program members.
2. What we're covering in Mastermind this Friday at 8am CDT.
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