David Brickwood

I'm still learning.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I spent $1.4 million on Microsoft Copilot.

$30 per seat per month.

4,000 employees.

Why?

2 words.

Digital transformation.

This morning I opened Microsoft Teams.

My top notification wasn't from my boss.

It wasn't from my team.

It wasn't a customer escalation.

It wasn't my wife.

It was Microsoft.

Telling me to learn how to use the thing I already bought.

It said ... "Elevate your expertise with new Copilot courses."

I've had these licenses for 6 months.

Apparently ... I should have waited.

The courses are 47 minutes each.

There are 9 of them.

That's 7 hours of learning.

Times 4,000 employees.

28,000 hours.

To learn the tool ... that was supposed to save us 40,000 hours.

We're already down 12,000 hours.

And no one's opened it yet.

Here's the math I don't put in the deck.

4,000 employees.

Average salary ... $105,000.

That's $50 an hour.

Times 7 hours of training.

Times 4,000 people.

$1.4 million.

In labor.

Just to learn the tool.

The training ... costs as much as the software.

$2.8 million.

Year 1.

To save 12,000 hours.

That's $233 ... per hour saved.

The CFO will never see this slide.

But I'll mandate the training.

Completion rates will be tracked.

Tracked means dashboarded.

Dashboarded means presented.

Presented means ... "adoption metrics are strong."

The graph will go up ... and to the right.

Strong adoption ... of the training ... for the tool no one uses.

Microsoft will send another case study team.

The case study will be called

"Enterprise drives 98% Copilot Academy completion."

The CEO will post it on LinkedIn.

He still won't know what Copilot does.

But he'll know we're ... "committed to continuous learning."

Learning is a journey.

The journey costs $1.4 million per year.

Plus $1.4 million in training labor.

To summarize emails ... we could read in 30 seconds.

But here's the thing.

I'll renew next year.

Because canceling requires a business case.

The business case requires ROI data.

The ROI data comes from the dashboard.

The dashboard shows 98% training completion.

98% is a success.

Success means renewal.

Renewal means ... I keep my job.

My job is ... making decisions.

I made a decision.

The decision was $2.8 million.

The decision cannot be wrong.

Because wrong decisions ... don't get promoted.

I got promoted.

So the decision was right.

This is called ... "strategic alignment."

Next quarter ... we're adding Microsoft 365 Copilot Studio.

It costs extra.

It lets us build ... custom Copilots.

Custom Copilots ... to automate the workflows ... no one has ... because everyone's still ... in training.

Microsoft says it's ... "transformational."

I believe them.

I have to.

I already signed the contract.

[Ben Eater @beneater]

Anyone else out there vibe circuit-building?

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

https://t.co/FGLYHaRhRq

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

A million seconds ago was October 11th
A billion seconds ago was 1993
A trillion seconds ago was 30,000 B.C.

The US national debt is now rising by $1 Trillion every ~180 days.

[Cloud @Cloud1a7]

Ermagard 😆😆😆😆🔥🔥

[Adam Simecka @AdamSimecka]

Ethereum on wheels.

[Mickamious @MickamiousG]

Only Australians will actually understand why these gates would be needed on their properties.

[BhikuMhatre @MumbaichaDon]

My wife sent me this video & I immediately understood why. I think 99% men will resonate with this.😂😂

[Colours of The world @ColoursOfWorld1]

Incredible things from the years gone by. ~ A Thread🧵

1. A 100 year old vintage clothes dryer.

[Tansu Yegen @TansuYegen]

This driver deserves prison😒

[Twonks @twonkscomics]

Hoses

[Interesting STEM @InterestingSTEM]

Math made Easy: Trigonometry Functions

[Deedy @deedydas]

India's biggest AI startup, $1B Sarvam, just launched its flagship LLM.

It's a 24B Mistral small post trained on Indic data with a mere 23 downloads 2 days after launch.

In contrast, 2 Korean college trained an open-source model that did ~200k last month.

Embarrassing.

[Weapons Daily @WeaponsVault]

Very few will know what this is

[Harsh Dwivedi @harsh_dwivedi7]

windsurf sold for $3 Billion
cursor now valued at $9 Billion

windsurf bought by OpenAI
OpenAi is an existing investor of cursor

both are vsCode forks
vsCode is owned by microsoft

Microsoft owns 49% of OpenAi

[Wall Street Horizon @WallStHorizon]

The second busiest week of the Q1 earning season ahead with 2,400+ companies set to report. We'll hear from 4 of the 'Magnificent 7' as $MSFT, $META, $AMZN and $AAPL are set to report. Also watch for: $LLY, $V, $MA, $XOM, $LIN, $MCD, $NVS, $KO, $SPOT, $TTE, $SYK and many more. #earnings #stockmarket #investing #stocks

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

Tonights about to get crazy.

[Snoriffej 🏴 @_jeff_irons]

@FinanceLancelot Craziest chart ever 1980

[Bravos Research @bravosresearch]

VIX above 30 = Market moves of 3 to 5% daily

This is 10 times larger than the normal

Volatility has created a MAJOR opportunity

A thread 🧵

[Markets & Mayhem @Mayhem4Markets]

The current S&P 500 market sell-off against other major ones 👀