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I had my moment of passion for photography with a gallery about urban exploration and the arrival of the Re:invent 2018 4k and 8k And as many photographer I ended up falling for the Gear Acquisition Syndrome. Here is the result Some of the stuff in the picture cost hundreds of pounds and I used them once or twice. On of the costliest thing, I’ve manage to break after a couple of weeks. Read more...
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I live in London, a really international city where hearing 5 languages around you during a 15 minutes walk is not uncommon. That made me think about languages, and how languages are a limitation. While at work people might be using English, when outside of work non-native (English) speakers can be heard on the phone in their native language. I do the same. This limits most of our out-of-office interactions with people speaking our language. Read more...
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When you believe, like me, that everyone is smart this is not even a problem. a story of human intelligence Imagine a woman, that cleans offices during the night, she wakes up at 3 am, and works from 5 am to 10 am, doing a job that can in a few years be done by a robot. Now that woman is also a mum. She need to send a kid to school and so has organised the pickup and collection from school negotiating with other parents. Read more...
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My friend, Stephen, recently told me a story. He says that you can guess the level of people by merely reading their email. Imagine Tim writing to Chris to review a document and let’s see how the email content would evolve. No promotion Hello Chris, how are you? I’d like to ask you if you can review the document attached. Thanks and see you soon Tim Some promotions Hi Chris, please review the document attached Tim Read more...
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Creativity is 90% recycled knowledge, 10% trial and error - Frank Contrepois Read more...
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Blackwell Ltd of Oxford, a bookseller, got my attention even when buying on amazon. Being noticed on Amazon.com is so rare that it deserves a post. Often, I buy books on Amazon. Most of the time, the books are sold by small shops using amazon as their online platform. The opportunity with this approach is that you are accessible by the masses; the inconvenience is that your branding is not visible. Read more...
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“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” ― Socrates Read more...
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Last time I had to search for a job, I hired a professional CV writer, the result was a good-looking CV full of buzz-words for automated-CV-selection-systems. And it did not work. If you are in creative profession, and being an executive is one, make try to be original and write your own CV. à bientôt Read more...
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I love to read, both fiction and non-fiction (mostly business) books. When I find something interesting I want to save it and being able to use it in the future, when I need it. For now it is a complete failure. Tried and failed: writing the margins highlight using kindle notes evernote and tags the most recent is using a separate notebook, write the page and the comment They all failed, because when you try to find why on earth did I find this sentence useful really depends on the context and on a re-read that context is lost. Read more...