Category: learning in public

2 eye gymnastic exercises

Two exercises for your eyes that were shared as part of a good posture workshop at the office. The 20-20-20 is important to stop only focusing on the short distance like we do reading or looking at screen. 20 20 20 Every 20 minutes, look 20 meter away for 20 seconds round the clock Close your eyes, imagine a clock and point your eyes toward 12, then 1, then 2 … Read more...

It is all about humans

In the end, it is all about humans. Every big decision always involves a person to convince. If computers were making the decisions, they would not be able to manage many cases, creating a gap that a startup, doing the same job, but, with a human will fill. For example, loans: from what I see, mainstream loan applications are reviewed and decided by a computer, based on some numerical data (credit score and others) supposed to measure risk. Read more...

Failure

Failure is stigmatised at school, you succeed (different levels available) or you fail (one level of failure available). In life and business failure is more often the proof of having tried something. In life and business, only the failures that kill you are important, everything else can be recovered. In business it is running out of cash. PS: I failed my AWS SA Pro exam, this is were I got the idea :) Read more...

One way to avoid regrets

As you know I fear having regrets so much that it is a big measure of my life success. As discussed in Refuse Unhappiness and the only long term goal that matters I recently watched a movie on LinkedIn about tenacity, and the sentence that resonated is: Giving up is the birth of regret Does it resonate with you? Read more...

Being rested yet tired

I just came back from a restful week of holiday. I’m refresh, and full of energy, yet I’m tired and cannot wait to sleep. “Why?” you say? My son decided to wake up this morning at 5AM, so right now I’m tired. Lesson of the day Don’t mix you long term energy levels (mine are really good at the moment) with your current energy level. Energy levels change every hour, after every lunch, and in my case mornings are more energised than afternoons. Read more...

Cloud and Finance

If you are into cloud and are interested about finance and cloud finance you can do 2 things: Talk to me :) checkout https://strategic-blue.com/ and then talk to me a bientôt Read more...

Why I wear big, round, red, glasses

Long time ago, after seeing the glasses of Seth Godin I decided to wear interesing glasses. Now people are sure to remember me: I’m the guy with the big round red glasses. And if I say intelligent (or not) things they will be able to refer to me, as the “big, round, red glasses guy”. Often I get the question: “where did you buy your glasses”, well I buy them from a small shop in London, the only shop with round, colorful glasses I know and it is called blackeyewear. Read more...

How do you recharge your batteries?

I need to be walking alone, listening to very loud epic metal. This triggers my imagination, strong positive emotions resulting in positive thoughts and lots of energy. What is yours way of getting energised? Please write in the comments. Read more...

Heavy books are better

I bought so many unread books on my kindle that I’m now back on shoulder breaking (i.e. heavy), paper books for the following reasons: The size volume and weight of a book allow an automated limitation system. I can clearly see how many do I have I can carry only one at a time and put other stuff to read on a list of to-buy I feel I have to read my book before removing it from my bag I can easily give to charity the book that do not deserve to stay in my limited book space enjoy Read more...