July 2021 I needed a new sports challenge after years practicing strength training. I wanted a sport that is polyvalent and that I can do by myself. So I choose triathlon, it is cardio based, and has 3 sports and you train wherever you want when you want. Before I …
I have been working inside a dating app for a few months and there are a lot of interesting things. This article is going to be without any structure as there are many things to say. I will mostly ignore homosexual interactions. Not because they don't exist, just because it …
The problem of product managers is not that they exist but rather that they have too much power. We have all seen these articles written by developers that explain that product managers are useless. They miss the point. I think it is pretty obvious that PMs (whether you call them …
Disclaimer: This is not 100% sure, this is a bet I'm making. The future will decide Over the last years the number of people who had sex is decreasing in the US but also in France . The lockdowns did not help, but this is a trend that existed before. The …
To fight climate change we have to reduce our Co2 emission, and as a big chunk of co2 emissions comes from electricity production we should find a way to decarbonize it. The second thing is we should decarbonize the emission of the transportation area. The main solution today is to …
Before a startup reaches Product Market Fit (PMF), the company is struggling to sell his product in a scalable way. When a startup has found PMF then, selling becomes much easier, because the product fulfills most of customer needs. Seeds VC explains that the goal of a startup that is …
I've tried to wrap any website into my own interface for the last couple of days, and that revealed itself to be a very painful experience. Actually I haven't managed to get it working as well as I wanted. So I want to describe all things that I tried in …
If you ever were in the situation of looking for a tool to manage the knowledge of your organization, chances are you ended up choosing between Notion and Confluence. A handful of other tools also exist in this field, large players like Microsoft Sharepoint or Google Drive, niche tools like …
It is difficult to predict what will happen when it's the first time something is happening, and it is also difficult to predict something when you have no expertise in the domain. I'm somewhat unusual in the way I take care of my health. I belong to the group of …
This post is a bit different from usual posts, and because I'm not very good at communicating unstructured thoughts it could be hard to read I'm not going to debate whether or not cancel culture is bad, plenty of people have done it, and it seems there can't be a …
What is Notion For those of you who don't know Notion , it is a note taking app. Well it used to be a note taking app. They describe themselves as the 'All-in-one workspace'. I usually describe themselves as 'Google drive with pretty emojis'. Which is I don't think far from …
But they focus on building a social network instead When developpers wake up in 2021 and discover that Linkedin is a business social network, Sales people have for a long time accepted that their linkedin account is one of their company's communication channel Linkedin knows your connections, your past jobs …
I've already described the differences between Saas B2B SMB and Saas B2B Enterprise . But to summarize, B2B Enterprise is when you customers buy you for your vision and your solutions and B2B SMB is when people buy you for your features. As a result B2B Enterprise is also usually when …
I'm not an epidemiologist, I'm not a doctor, I'm not an expert, I'm no one. But it seems like after 10 months of covid, we still don't know what is the mean of transmission of covid, we don't know what measure works to control it, we don't know how to …
The definition of feminism is sometimes "The advocacy of women's rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes" or sometimes "The theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes" . Both definitions are not the same, but let's pick the second one. So basically we don't …
TLDR: Reading productivity books, articles will make you less productive I want to take a little bit of freedom when defining the word productivity . In self development I think people are talking about how much is done when refering to productivity . Which is different than efficiency which is a a …
After spending part of the last 12 months travelling in Europe I'm now settling down around Paris and I need to adapt my multi-screens setup. You probably have seen an ads for the altwork desk a $7000 desk that let you work laying down . Spending a big part of my …
TLDR: Tinder is a dating app with girls looking for followers on insta, super attractive guys looking for sex, and non-super attractive guys paying for swiping on hot models. The likely next evolution of Tinder is to make the chat a feature I assume you already know what is Tinder …
I'm not used to talk about topics which are highly present on the web, but I feel like I can offer an alternative approach on this one Do you know Anki ? This is a software which has popularized the spaced repetition learning technique. The principle of this technique is that …
Everything about France work system can be understood reading one sentence : In France it is legally impossible to fire an employee who doesn't want to leave. This is something I've never understood, how can we think that an employee possesses his job ? An employee is working for a salary and …
Imagine tomorrow you go shopping and, for whatever reason, you never come back. Maybe be someone killed you, maybe someone kidnapped you, maybe you had an accident ... Now imagine you are travelling alone in Thailand and you die. How people who know you are going to find out what happen …
You have read my article on the differences between Saas enterprise and Saas SMB you are currently selling to SMB and are wondering how you can get your first Enterprise customer, I will try to help you do so. If you have read my article carefully you know that what …
Ignorance is thinking that you know something that you don't know. My opinion is that being an ignorant is not really an advantage in most situations. And I bet that a lot of people who fail at building a company are like that. One issue with people who are ignorant …
When you first start with Django you will probably find the ORM to be an amazing feature. I agree with that, but the issue with ORMs is that it is too easy to forget that at the end the ORM generate SQL queries. Django has no way to optimize those …
Have you ever wonder if your sleep time has been increasing over the years ? If you worked more than 40 hours this week ? How has your mood or your sleep quality decreased since 2 months ago ? Where were you on 27th April 2019 ? ... I ask myself those questions all the …
A lot of people ask themselves, how they can become a product manager. Most of articles who try to answer this question start by saying that there is no school to become a product manager, but is there one for salespeople, for developper, for entrepreuneurs ? No. So the product manager …
Some of you have may have worked in those kind of companies in which product people are not empowered (usually the rest of the company is also not empowered), in which the CEO is some sort of guru who micromanages everyone or the culture is very sales centric and sales …
You have seen that more and more companies are looking for developpers and developpers are able to create websites, applications, tools, automation softwares but you never understood how to do all that by yourself, or you maybe didnt have the motivation to start learning, this article is here to help …
The purpose of this article is not to explain you how to create a successfull company, there are already too much articles about that. Instead we are going to see why chosing the type of customers you want to sell to is a very important decision as it will have …
For a few years dating apps have been becoming one of the most frequent way people date new people. But a lot of people hate them, complain about them and tell they are not efficient. The article is aiming at describing the best way to use dating apps when you …
During 2019 I was living in Paris and really wondering what I was doing there as my job doesn't require me to be physically in Paris, I was working with teams in India and San Francisco. I don't really need to be close to my friends or be in a …