Show notes

🎙️ In This Episode of Joe Reads the News: A persona is born! Everybody meet… Joe Bird 🐦

• Joe’s back from being super sick, voice restored, powered by sketchy mushroom coffee (lion’s mane + reishi = “why tho”)
• Algo Award of the Week goes to Ben Cole → instantly renamed “Ben Coltrane” (cool jazz persona activated)
• Ben’s Feature Friday: new cash-flow dashboard add-on for Business Central (real-time cash visibility, health checks, smarter forecasting, Excel export, very sexy if you’re into that)
• Sal Pietro crushing it — just bought another ATM portfolio, 3rd acquisition this year, “ATM Rev Model™” = good boy pat on head
• LLM chat: Claude still fave for many, but people bouncing between Gemini, Copilot, Grok, etc. “Use 3–4 and average the hallucinations”
• Maxim dropped DAX Bench — benchmarked a ton of models on real DAX problems (everybody scoring ~73-79%, nobody perfect yet)
• Murray Fife still building full D365 finance for a D&D world (Waterdeep Trading Company equity shares go brrr) — coolest side project on earth, go support his Patreon
• Random wins: old pitch to Richard Branson that actually worked, new jobs, cross-country drives, kids back from Rome semester
• Darren calling out over-complicated partners: “If you need a PhD to run your own ERP you picked the wrong ISV”
• Upcoming: Tue Dec 9 — Ben Coltrane webinar + Joe’s F&O Reporting Live right before it