JimTheWhyGuy
@jimthewhyguy.bsky.social
Keynote Speaker, Technology Advocate, Author. Looking forward to a brighter future for our world!
So tomorrow is my birthday. Born on the same day as a) the launch of Sputnik 2 carrying Laika the dog, and b) the birth of Dolf Lundgren. 🤔 I share my b-day with a) 1st puppy to die in space & b) Drago from Rocky 4. 🙄 OTOH, today is the last day someone can ask me my age & I can say "six-seven!" 🤣
November 2, 2025 at 5:39 PM
So tomorrow is my birthday. Born on the same day as a) the launch of Sputnik 2 carrying Laika the dog, and b) the birth of Dolf Lundgren. 🤔 I share my b-day with a) 1st puppy to die in space & b) Drago from Rocky 4. 🙄 OTOH, today is the last day someone can ask me my age & I can say "six-seven!" 🤣
750+ at #NoKings in Bartlett, Illinois - sleepy Chicago suburb. Lots of folks from surrounding suburbs with significant Hispanic population - hopefully they saw us as safe non-ICE area. Voice almost gone from leading cheers for 2h+ 😂
October 18, 2025 at 11:45 PM
750+ at #NoKings in Bartlett, Illinois - sleepy Chicago suburb. Lots of folks from surrounding suburbs with significant Hispanic population - hopefully they saw us as safe non-ICE area. Voice almost gone from leading cheers for 2h+ 😂
The wife at the #FightTheTrumpTakeover rally in downtown Chicago at Millennium Park. Toasty and humid but worth every drop of sweat! Got to hear from several of the TX state legislators who broke quorum to stop Abbott's redistricting 🇺🇸
August 16, 2025 at 7:37 PM
The wife at the #FightTheTrumpTakeover rally in downtown Chicago at Millennium Park. Toasty and humid but worth every drop of sweat! Got to hear from several of the TX state legislators who broke quorum to stop Abbott's redistricting 🇺🇸
28 y/o me to my retired 68 y/o father:
"Jeez, Dad, why do you wear your old work clothes outside all the time? You look like a bum! How embarrassing!!!"
68 y/o me:
"Jeez, Dad, why do you wear your old work clothes outside all the time? You look like a bum! How embarrassing!!!"
68 y/o me:
July 4, 2025 at 11:32 PM
28 y/o me to my retired 68 y/o father:
"Jeez, Dad, why do you wear your old work clothes outside all the time? You look like a bum! How embarrassing!!!"
68 y/o me:
"Jeez, Dad, why do you wear your old work clothes outside all the time? You look like a bum! How embarrassing!!!"
68 y/o me:
The wife and I brought my grand-nephew for his first-ever protest today ... and he was PUMPED! He + his twin sister made their own sign too. So proud of this young patriot!
June 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
The wife and I brought my grand-nephew for his first-ever protest today ... and he was PUMPED! He + his twin sister made their own sign too. So proud of this young patriot!
Getting my signs ready for Saturday
June 11, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Getting my signs ready for Saturday
Starting my (counts on fingers) 12th year as an Oracle ACE Director. Thanks to Jennifer Nicholson, Oana-Aurelia Bonu, Cassandra Call, and too many Oracle PMs to mention! I appreciate the chance to serve our community of DevOps, DBAs, Data Engineers, Data Scientists, and technology enthusiasts.
June 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Starting my (counts on fingers) 12th year as an Oracle ACE Director. Thanks to Jennifer Nicholson, Oana-Aurelia Bonu, Cassandra Call, and too many Oracle PMs to mention! I appreciate the chance to serve our community of DevOps, DBAs, Data Engineers, Data Scientists, and technology enthusiasts.
So last formal presentation I have time for at #qlikconnect #TFDx today is on how #generativeAI is transforming manufacturing - some ideas from #AWS and the Qlik folks via AMZN Bedrock for Foundational Models (FMs), Snowflake, and of course Qlik Answers.
May 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
So last formal presentation I have time for at #qlikconnect #TFDx today is on how #generativeAI is transforming manufacturing - some ideas from #AWS and the Qlik folks via AMZN Bedrock for Foundational Models (FMs), Snowflake, and of course Qlik Answers.
So this AM at #qlikconnect #TFDx we have an inspirational athlete recognized as the world's greatest female swimmer today, Katie Ledecky, who also earned her degree in psychology from Stanford during the pandemic and is a best-selling author
May 15, 2025 at 1:53 PM
So this AM at #qlikconnect #TFDx we have an inspirational athlete recognized as the world's greatest female swimmer today, Katie Ledecky, who also earned her degree in psychology from Stanford during the pandemic and is a best-selling author
Well, that's invigorating! A company I never heard of - Reworld - that actively makes sure ~20 million tons of waste is diverted from landfills every year uses Qlik analytic tools with a tiny team of just 5 IT workers to support their efforts #qlikconnect #TFDx
May 15, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Well, that's invigorating! A company I never heard of - Reworld - that actively makes sure ~20 million tons of waste is diverted from landfills every year uses Qlik analytic tools with a tiny team of just 5 IT workers to support their efforts #qlikconnect #TFDx
Kicking off #qlikconnect #TFDx Day 2 in just a few minutes! Should be interesting to see what new riffs on #AgenticAI are forthcoming from Qlik leadership and customers today
May 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Kicking off #qlikconnect #TFDx Day 2 in just a few minutes! Should be interesting to see what new riffs on #AgenticAI are forthcoming from Qlik leadership and customers today
Awesome panel here at #qlikconnect #TFDx with Women Who Qlik on so many different topics that my fellow female colleagues have faced + overcome 🥹 + thinking of all the crap my life partner Ruth faced in her IT career 😡
May 14, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Awesome panel here at #qlikconnect #TFDx with Women Who Qlik on so many different topics that my fellow female colleagues have faced + overcome 🥹 + thinking of all the crap my life partner Ruth faced in her IT career 😡
Spent quite a few minutes chatting up the guyz behind the offerings today here at #TFDx #QlikConnect about exactly how their Qlik Answers offering works in conjunction with #GenAI and #AgenticAI. Found their ideas on data quality impressive! More coming after the event ... stay tuned!
May 14, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Spent quite a few minutes chatting up the guyz behind the offerings today here at #TFDx #QlikConnect about exactly how their Qlik Answers offering works in conjunction with #GenAI and #AgenticAI. Found their ideas on data quality impressive! More coming after the event ... stay tuned!
Finally found a deeper dive into Qlik Answers here at #TFDx #QlikConnect with two of the youngest PMs I've ever seen in a session 😍
May 14, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Finally found a deeper dive into Qlik Answers here at #TFDx #QlikConnect with two of the youngest PMs I've ever seen in a session 😍
Interesting discussion between Mike Capone (Qlik's CEO) and Ritu Jyoti (IDC) here at #TFDx #QlikConnect about what big shifts are shaking the #AgenticAI marketplace & what it all means for IT and business human capital
May 14, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Interesting discussion between Mike Capone (Qlik's CEO) and Ritu Jyoti (IDC) here at #TFDx #QlikConnect about what big shifts are shaking the #AgenticAI marketplace & what it all means for IT and business human capital
So we have AmberMac herself as #TFDx #QlikConnect host for the next two mornings - should be an interesting vibe, especially from the #GenerativeAI and #AgenticAI perspectives and collaborations between carefully curated #data and intelligent application of #AI
May 14, 2025 at 12:48 PM
So we have AmberMac herself as #TFDx #QlikConnect host for the next two mornings - should be an interesting vibe, especially from the #GenerativeAI and #AgenticAI perspectives and collaborations between carefully curated #data and intelligent application of #AI
Just about ready to start the show here at #TFDx #QlikConnect here in Orlando!
May 14, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Just about ready to start the show here at #TFDx #QlikConnect here in Orlando!
LOVE real-world customers of our #AIIFD2 presenters - like Keysight Technologies & their customer Crusoe - showing how they leveraged Keysight's Cyperf toolset to emulate application system performance & simulate potential worst-case scenarios & aim for deterministic application execution profiles
April 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
LOVE real-world customers of our #AIIFD2 presenters - like Keysight Technologies & their customer Crusoe - showing how they leveraged Keysight's Cyperf toolset to emulate application system performance & simulate potential worst-case scenarios & aim for deterministic application execution profiles
Wrapping up a marathon 4th day of #AIIFD2 with Keysight Technologies on how they position their offerings to actually figure out where this d*mn AI thing is running slow within DC infrastructure: by measuring performance at all slices of the 7-layer network salad, including the application layer 😍
April 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Wrapping up a marathon 4th day of #AIIFD2 with Keysight Technologies on how they position their offerings to actually figure out where this d*mn AI thing is running slow within DC infrastructure: by measuring performance at all slices of the 7-layer network salad, including the application layer 😍
Our last presenter for Day 3 of #AIIFD today is Nutanix talking about their Nutanix AI Infrastructure (NAI) offering to help get IT organizations' AI to market faster and with less pain ... starting with model selection. More to come!
April 24, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Our last presenter for Day 3 of #AIIFD today is Nutanix talking about their Nutanix AI Infrastructure (NAI) offering to help get IT organizations' AI to market faster and with less pain ... starting with model selection. More to come!
So now we’re hearing from Netris here at #AIIFD2 on their products that decomplexify the manageability of the myriad networking components and software to insure #generativeAI operates efficiently & at scale
April 24, 2025 at 8:22 PM
So now we’re hearing from Netris here at #AIIFD2 on their products that decomplexify the manageability of the myriad networking components and software to insure #generativeAI operates efficiently & at scale
So now we're hearing from the president of Phison Electronics USA, Michael Wu, on their company I'd never heard about before today ... but has been in the storage business for 25 years with 4,500 employees and has dedicated 75% of those folks to R&D 😍
April 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
So now we're hearing from the president of Phison Electronics USA, Michael Wu, on their company I'd never heard about before today ... but has been in the storage business for 25 years with 4,500 employees and has dedicated 75% of those folks to R&D 😍
So next up at #AIIFD2 is Phison Electronics USA explaining to us how their flash devices can help satisfy the intense in-memory demands of #generativeAI, especially when it's expanded well beyond what's available on the GPUs themselves 🤔
April 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
So next up at #AIIFD2 is Phison Electronics USA explaining to us how their flash devices can help satisfy the intense in-memory demands of #generativeAI, especially when it's expanded well beyond what's available on the GPUs themselves 🤔
Yet again the folks at Solidigm here at #AIIFD2 today have blown my mind about how amazingly SSD technology has progressed in the decade since I melted my first SSD for Hitachi 😂
April 23, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Yet again the folks at Solidigm here at #AIIFD2 today have blown my mind about how amazingly SSD technology has progressed in the decade since I melted my first SSD for Hitachi 😂