Frank Contrepois

Category: learning in public

Learning in public - Technics to better communicate and write

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Hello, in my research to become a better writer and a better communicator I am greatly helped by the people around me, ready to share tips and tricks. Here are four methods to help prepare, write, and communicate that I’ve been using successfully - they are foolproof! To think about a structure - Why? What? How? I use the Why? What? How? approach to make sure I understand why the content is needed, what I want to say and how to say it. Read more...

What I learned from the book - Why Simple Wins: Escape the Complexity Trap and Get to Work That Matters

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Hello everyone, The permanent notes of the book: Why Simple Wins - Escape the Complexity Trap and Get to Work That Matters What it means is that after reading the book, and creating hundreds of notes, I hand-picked the ones that really add value, connected them with other notes to generate new ideas, effectively creating an extention to the current knowledge tree. The end result looks like this: Read more...

Opening my second-brain to the world

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Hello, today I’m excited to share access to my second-brain -a zettelkasten- where I store new learning and discoveries, connecting them with my current knowledge. You can see it as a Wikipedia of my brain, or a second brain, where I can get back to my thoughts, be surprised by how concepts connect one to another. I’m sure you also had the same feeling: reading a book, finishing it, feeling inspired and … not remembering more than one of two ideas. Read more...

Write better emails by using IF, THEN

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Use IF…THEN writing to provide clarity: if you cannot then … to explain assumptions: if you mean … then …, otherwise, if … then … to encourage accountability: if I don’t hear from you before … then I will consider it good as a reminder: if you don’t hear from me on … then send me a reminder. as a step-by-step support scenario: if this happens than … otherwise … Read more...

Playing with food - home made Tempura

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Hello, I recently bought a fryer and became good enough at cooking frozen fries. A challenge was required. So I went through a series of websites with recipes and finally I got a winner: Prawns tempura! I’m glad to report that it did go well, and we finished them all. The recipe I used: https://pepper.ph/shrimp-tempura-recipe/ nb: .ph is Phillipines Read more...

The community bias

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One liner Community bias I call community bias when our narratives are reinforced by being in closed communities and ignoring others. This bias is visible for political opinions, TV channels, friends and family. More liner I call community bias when our narratives are reinforced by being in closed communities and ignoring others. This bias is visible for political opinions, TV channels, friends and family. By only being around people with the same beliefs or vision, we start to believe that everyone thinks like us and what we think is right. Read more...

The visibility bias

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This post is the first post in the bias category. One liner visibility bias Our brain creates a narrative based on what we see more often. More liner Our brain creates a narrative based on what we see more often, ordering the frequency of events incorrectly. For example, as a plane crash is more visible than car accidents, we tend to think planes are less secure than cars due to the visibility bias. Read more...

Why do we sign contracts without reading them

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We agree on T&C without reading them. In other words, we sign contracts we do not read. We do so because it is long and painful to go throught the length of legalese involved versus just clicking. If you recently bought a gadget, a physical one, the only way to use it involves clicking on a lenghty contract. But there are implications! I remember reading an acticle about the new Amazon Alexa for kids. Read more...

Resonance calendar week 1

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Hello, and welcome to my resonance calendar where I will be posting the articles, podcast, images and any other media that caught my attention this week. This will include the articles and videos I create :) TED interview podcast - Work is never going back to normal | Simon Sinek Strategic Blue’s latest podcast My own technical article on how to connect AWS CloudFront and Obsidian Publish A very nice way to create sexy graphs in markdown - Mermaid Mermaid. Read more...