Acano and the Perfect Margarita

I had intended to skip a week, but tis the season for deal making and celebration so here goes. 

I must say that I was surprised when Cisco announced plans to buy UK startup Acano late last week. A monster multiplier on revenue ... MONSTER! Here's the thing: the value is what someone else is willing to pay for it. Not a penny more. If this was the plan from the start then it was a dastardly brilliant plan. Actually brilliant on them regardless. It all starts with the best product (which they had in their corner of the enterprise communication world). Fantastic job to my friends at Acano (& Cisco). A great fit. Simon Dudley has an interesting piece on the acquisition so check it out.

We've been making margarita's lately and here is a recipe that is tasty, tasty, tasty. Our tequila shooting days are over, so we like to use Anejo tequila rather than silver. A slightly different taste and the next morning is manageable after football and turkey.

Acano and the perfect margarita are just two random tidbits that I store off for later use. I am addicted to Evernote to store this information. Web clipper plus twitter (with IFTT) provides me with a lot of random and often useful information to later find. Here are seven recent examples.

Netflix launching Spinnaker to replace Asgard. Netflix is a gold standard in cloud ops. Learn from them.

I'm a huge Derek Sivers fan. He is curating a movement to have a /now page on your website. For me it's fitness, travel, write, code & find what I truly want to do next. But I need to put put a /now page on our website. For now go to www.trekwiththekings.com/about.

Tweet from Airstream. "Broad, wholesome views of men & things can't be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one's lifetime." - M. Twain. He's not just talking about physical location.

A TED playlist on artificial intelligence and getting to know our future robot overlords. 

Twilio Signal posting of Video: WebRTC on the Server Side. Definitely something to play with after I'm further along with Swift/iOS. A good chance to play with Javascript. Search for the webinar and register to see it.

Ben Horowitz's blog post on Andy Grove's high output management style. I put it in on my Kindle wish list.

A tweet from a guy I follow that led me to a guide on how to sell 5000 books in four weeks. Maybe I have a book in me? Thoughts?

Evernote is awesome. I'm assuming everybody uses Evernote, but you never know. Happy Thanksgiving.