Weeknotes 2026-11-15

The World The world had quite a week! NVidia CEO Jensen Huang was forced to resign after details of an affair with a suspected Chinese spy (connected to a company that would import NVidia tech to China) came to light. Later two more alleged affairs with employees came out! NVidia stocks have tanked, and with Huang out, we are starting to get more details about how they engineered the current RAM scarcity crisis. I know it would wreak chaos on the economy, but I would still like all of these AI-focused companies and their circular financing to crash compleely. On Friday the 13th, the corporate world was rocked by a widespread outage of Microsoft services such as Outlook, Exchange, Office 365 etc. As someone who no longer walks in the corporate sphere I was not personally affected, but I watched the complaints and memes unfold across multiple friend groups. (Honestly, IDK why people would still be using MS Office in 2026 when better alternatives exist.) I think the outage lasted almost…

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