Frank Contrepois

Category: learning in public

Can I help? and great links to survive in lockout

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My job in this period of COVID can be summarise as: Keeping the team a team Coaching and mentoring Study IT stuff Learn how to best manage Cloud Budget (to create product) Happy to share my knowledge with you if you are interested in one of those topics. Learning and Sharing is the motto of this blog PS: my wife takes care of explaining how to manage work and kids while locked at home, and it works as we live-test the methods on us :) More info on LinkedIn Anya Smirnova. Read more...

My motivational music

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Yes I do not know what to write now, I’ve just finished my GTD weekly review (late) and feel drained. As you may recall from a previous post (not searching it), I boost my motivation (and mood) by walking while listening to music at high volume: This is the Spotify playlist that triggers fantastic stories in my head and that helps get the creativity flowing without limits. My favourite way to think big, think far, think positive. Read more...

Dual marketing strategy

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Toys makers are using a dual-approach strategy. Advertisements for toys on Kids’ tv channels are all about having fun. Kids are the audience and adults are not watching with their kids. Advertisements on the toy’s boxes are here to convince the payer (us parents) and they are all about increasing creativity, coordination, and other challenges for the kid and rarely about fun. Read more...

Levi's Jeans colours

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When you need to buy a Levi’s again the hard part is to find the same colour. So I searched online and found that on the multiple tags attached to the jeans is one with lots of numbers. The number you need is the one starting with PC9- On the picture 501 is the style and 1966 is the colour Read more...

Be smarter by complicating your life

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People tell me that they cannot be creative or think out of the box. I disagree, we as humans are great problem-solvers so are you (you are human right?) and that can be used to trigger creativity. If you cannot make a decision or need some creative juices, start adding virtual-problems. For example if I cannot choose while buying t-shirts, I would start adding problems like: easy iron fast dry funny goes with red Welcome to the world of creative people! Read more...

Mood is very correlated to sleep, I confirm

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This morning my son woke up at 5am, as a consequence, so did I. Result: I’m in a very bad mood, and anything the kids do, I start by being suspicious, then positive, instead of the other way around. So here we go, from test in the field, I can confirm that mood is impacted by amount of sleep. (stating the obvious) Read more...

Advice when you hire

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Diplomas only identify people having been good at school and had the opportunity of certain decisions in their youth. What is really needed is to find talents. Brain is more important than skills, skills are more important than education. A good brain is curious, a good brain learns and acquire skills and knowledge. And a great person, share the knowledge. Hire for the brain first, then maybe, if the salary is high, for the skills/education Read more...