Show notes

🎙️ In This Episode of Joe Reads the News:

Special Guest: None (solo show)

The Pecan Tree Studio: Irving, Texas Edition (March 13, 2026)
Joe Christensen is broadcasting live from his Airstream parked under a pecan tree in his yard in Irving, Texas. Kiddo is home sick, audio gremlins strike early (dual feeds, two tabs shame), but once sorted we dive into the LinkedIn feed with trademark tangents, sarcasm, dad humor, and the weekly algorithm roast. Joe reads top posts, crowns winners, plugs Conduit BI hard, and dreams aloud about longest-drive golf supremacy at the upcoming summit.

Key Segments:

00:01:50 Hello from the Airstream – “Zero robots”, pecan tree life, no riches for Joe, all the glory for you
00:03:22 Let’s read the news – LinkedIn feed, sort by top, no clickbait allowed
00:06:41 Anya Cieciersky extends her lead and wins the Algo Rhythm Award again
00:10:39 Shout-out to Congruent X – top CRM blog post comparing Dynamics 365 to Salesforce (with switch service CTA)
00:12:32 Zanny Minton Beddoes / The Economist promotes Dario Amodei interview – Pentagon labels Anthropic a supply chain risk
00:14:19 Britney Burke’s Thursday spotlight – 3 Microsoft Ideas to upvote (Incoterms named place, hide vendor bank accounts, multiple remittance emails)
00:17:34 Mary Myers – heading to San Diego for Dynamic Communities AI Copilot & Summary Summit, secretly plotting longest drive domination
00:18:51 Yamini Rangan / HubSpot – AI delivering real go-to-market results (content tailoring, buyer intent, ticket resolution >50%, at-risk flagging)
00:20:57 Heidi Newhauser – Power Tips on Prompt Copilot with live demo
00:21:14 Sean Gallagher – built GitHub Copilot plugin that turns D365 F&O configuration into natural-language conversation (presales + consultant modes, 13,686 business process catalog entries baked in)
00:25:52 Chat check-in – “bring on the smock”, Mary Myers love, Carol wants to see Mary
00:26:56 AI Agent and Copilot Summit at Torrey Pines – 750+ leaders, main stage + master classes, still time to register?
00:27:43 Conduit BI mega-plug – open Microsoft-stack BI for F&O (finance + supply chain datasets, reports in 4 weeks not 4 months, modular pricing from $6k tech footprint, data migration fleet, Report Factory workshop)
00:31:04 Wrap-up – great week, data migration project ahead using his own tools, reach out at conduitbi.com or LinkedIn (especially Microsoft partners)

Final sign-off: Nature Sounds by Joe Christensen, happy weekend, go hiking, mid-March vibes