Posted: | Categories: learning in public | Tags: brainstorming, teamwork
Have you ever been into one of these 2 hours brainstorming session where lots is said, but less is done. Those meeting forgot the goal of brainstorming: to have many bad ideas and maybe a good one. There is a way to trick your brain in getting the same result of a 2 brainstorm session. Focus on the topic at hand and list as many things as possible over 2 minutes (yes that short). Read more...
Posted: | Categories: learning in public | Tags: education, sciences
seven brief lessons on physics by Carlo Rovelli ( Affiliate Amazon link ) is a passionate book that gave me the reason why physics is a beautiful, never-ending, vital for the world topic with people dedicating their life to it. In 80 pages, written in simple words, the book covers (titles are mine): Theory of Relativity - 10 pages Quantum theory - 10 pages The evolution of our place in the universe - 8 pages Quarks, gluons and others - 8 pages Relativity and Quantum cannot be both right, something is missing in our understanding - 11 pages How time is defined and luck in physics (mind blowing) - 13 pages About us humans in this world. Read more...
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Hello, my name is Packet, with a capital P, and I will show you the beginning of my trip from Frank’s phone (in the UK) to this website (hosted on S3 in the US). I start from an unknown place that I know very well, the phone. And while I do not share the address with you, trust me, it is cozy. Moving around Vodafone routers Still enjoying Vodafone hospitality Empty lands even more empty fields in the middle of somewhere while my GPS says USA, the time it took me to get there (29. Read more...
Posted: | Categories: tech | Tags: web
Context: I moved away recently from WIX.com for my hosting needs (this blog), but today WIX impressed me. Today I did some work for Modern Postnatal Recovery, I needed to create: a landing page with a form, a thank you page that allow also download a file a booking system for one-to-one session, synchronised with Google Calendar accept payments for the sessions To do all of this I worked 2 hours and a half. Read more...
Posted: | Categories: learning in public | Tags: leadership, map, strategy
Wardley Maps are cool but tools to draw them are few, at least that was my beleive, until I discovered this webpage which list many ways (including pen and paper) to create maps. Really cool. Read more...
Posted: | Categories: tech | Tags: aws, cloud
AWS offers the CUR files to report on spending. The quality of the data is way better than the old Detailed Billing Files and it come in different formats. I use the CUR files to generate really good looking Dashboards with AWS QuickSight Today for the first time I checked CUR formatted as Parquet files, and there is a problem for anyone trying to reuse code, while the data seems to be very much the same as in the CSV, the headers are different. Read more...
Posted: | Categories: learning in public | Tags: London
A new study found that people who take their coffee black are more likely to exhibit psychopathic traits. And people who order a quad shot, non-fat, vanilla shot, extra foam, light whip, with caramel drizzle, are more likely to be their victim. Read more...
Posted: | Categories: learning in public | Tags: happy
Everyone wants to be happy, but most of the time, we accept a burst of happiness instead of being happy all the time. Even we find reasons to choose unhappiness. This is wrong! Been there, done that, and failed. Fear of change is the main reason I have been unhappy. Changing did not make me happy, but it offered a opportunity to search again. There is one life, and it is worth living happily Read more...
Posted: | Categories: learning in public | Tags: leadership
We are all doers, but some of us are also protectors of doers. For me, leadership is about caring, caring for the individual, for the team, for all the things we do together. And the first duty of a carer is protection. Without protection, there is no security, without security, there is only survival, no creativity, no collaboration, no teamwork, no sacrifice. So the first job of leaders is to be protectors of doers, protecting your team, your doers. Read more...
Posted: | Categories: learning in public | Tags: leadership, map, strategy
A fun day In the original article I had way to many pictures, not needed to remember that the best memory this event is that I randomly met with a great person. We chatted and ended up chatting more in a pub. Read more...