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Platformonomics TGIF #116: February 13, 2026
Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. Get Platformonomics Updates By Email Every week is CAPEX week here, but this was really supposed to be CAPEX week. It turned into Cleveland week. The 2025 CAPEX retrospective is still in…
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A Warning to Seattle: Don’t Become the Next Cleveland
This post was originally published on GeekWire on February 10, 2026 Consider a successful mid-sized American city. One with decades of population growth. Median household incomes on par with or exceeding New York City. A bustling port in a prime location. Bold civic architecture. A vibrant arts and cultural scene. And home to some of…
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The Cloud is Not Flat
I am late to updating the geographic view of Gartner’s Cloud Infrastructure as a Service Magic Quadrant. Here is the update for 2017 (see 2016, 2015): Commentary: 1\ The Seattle region (aka the Leaders quadrant) is unchanged. This supermassive region may turn into a black hole, warp the space-time continuum, and consume most of the…