🎙️ In This Episode of Joe Reads the News:

Special Guest: None (solo show from a Houston hotel room)

The War Room: Post-Sickness Edition (00:01:55) Joe Christensen is live from Houston, Texas after a Microsoft Business Applications summit roadshow. Still battling a weekend cold, he powers through LinkedIn news with laptop freezes, camera battery deaths, Tractor Supply fashion talk, and plenty of tangents about AI, reports, F1, revenue-focused partner marketing, Semantic Link in Fabric, and more. Highlights include crowning Item by Item the Algo Rhythm Award winner (again), hyping Henrik Marks Larson’s 35-minute Demand Planning video, Kurt Buehler’s custom real-time Git/cloud dashboard, and singing his way through the feed while reminding everyone to grab caffeine when life gets hard.

Key Segments:

00:06:00 Item by Item wins the Algorithm Award for the third straight week
00:11:32 Unity’s free 120-page Apple Vision Pro guide
00:12:02 Britney Burke’s weekly Microsoft “ship it” ideas
00:13:29 “You’re on Mute” book launch celebration
00:15:10 One-prompt PNLs & Kurt Buehler’s custom data viz dashboard
00:19:07 Castaneda & Heidelman LLP legal win (Joe’s tennis pal Rob Dunakowski)
00:20:01 New iTIL launch – AI-native service management
00:25:35 Henrik Marks Larson’s grand tour of D365 Demand Planning
00:27:50 Tiffany Allen on partner marketing shifting from pipeline to revenue
00:31:21 Semantic Link now GA in Microsoft Fabric
00:34:04 Future of AI agent negotiation (Forbes article)
00:35:00 Cielo celebrates Women’s contributions + raffle winner Jaina heading to Summit Nashville
Closing vibe: “When life gets hard, there’s caffeine.” Joe signs off with jazz scatting, Wrangler/Tractor Supply Co. plugs, and promises to be back next week (hopefully less sick).