Frank Contrepois

Category: learning in public

How to keep track of all the meeting and daily events

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Hello, in the last 6 months, I’ve been keeping track of most events in my work-life, each one-to-one, each recuring meeting, etetera. I’ve done this with a software called Obsidian. Here is the graph of my notes. I need to review the lonely ones as nothing should be unconnected. Let me know in the comments if a video explaining how I do it would help. Read more...

[FUN] The 80-20 rule for toothpaste

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The Pareto principle specifies that 80% of consequences come from 20% of the causes. This is true for toothpaste, I use 80% of of my time to get 20% of the paste. Same for printer ink, I do 80% of the prints with 20% of the ink. :) Read more...

[FUN] IT expertise at 3yo

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I live in the UK, I setup the Netfix profile of my 3 yo to be in French, so he gets cartoons in French and if not available in English. That was the plan. So why do I hear Japanese? I mean really Japanese, this is Hacking by a 3yo. brilliant. Read more...

[FUN] Paper vs Phone

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Paper wins, obviously lighter, faster (paper speed), faster to get hold off, 0ms to load, a pen recharge last months if not years, ecologic and recyclible no-one tries to get your attention using big red dots with numbers if it falls it does not break useful on both sides can be used for async chat. But that costs some money for stamps Read more...

Paper Speed

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Many times, I have an idea and the time it takes to get my phone, fire the text app, a be ready, the idea is gone. The only way to keep track of the idea is to use paper speed, pick a pen a paper and write that single word that will unfold the thought. So here I’m with phones now costing $1000+ using pen and paper. For that use case, it still rules! Read more...