Gary Mintchell

This is part two of my reports from the Hexagon Live Global Event. I had been to one previous event for only a day. Hexagon is such a large company comprised of many parts that I had a bit of struggle understanding it all.

Shane Parrish writing in Brain Food, updated the thought. You become what you scroll.

CEOs in a recent survey complained they were not seeing results from digital transformation. Too much complexity, dashboards too complex, information not clear, silos of data. Maybe we’re looking at the wrong part of the problem. Maybe it’s not technology; it’s people.

Arnold Schwarzenegger observing fitness behavior. The people who find joy in the gym are the most likely to keep showing up to the gym. Fitness is supposed to make us feel better, but many people decide to stress about it.

Some of us cannot move our thoughts beyond what happened, could have happened, or should have happened in the past.

Openings remain for this year’s Ignition Community Conference. This event usually sells out quickly, so I was amazed to learn spots remain open to attend. Of course, Inductive Automation changed venues from the Harris Center in Folsom to the Sacramento Conference Center. More friendly to get to than going to Folsom. But I’ll miss the ambience of prior conferences.

From Shane Parrish of Brain Food. The entire self-help industry in one sentence: Do what makes mornings exciting and nights peaceful. Will this make me excited to wake up? Will this let me sleep in peace? Everything that fails both tests is noise.

Deepgram is an intriguing company. Have they solved the problem that Apple still misses with Siri or Amazon with its new Alexa? They bill themselves as “World’s Only Enterprise-Ready, Real-Time, and Cost-Effective Conversational AI API.” They have developed a voice AI platform.

Learning is not compulsory…neither is survival—W. Edwards Deming, quality master

PwC have released a report on industrial manufacturing merger & acquisition (M&A) activity for the first half of 2025. The report suggests a recalibration of capital allocation in response to shifting macro conditions.