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It's been a good half year since my last post, there are too many things to talk about, and so little time to structure my thoughts around those many topics. This will not be a long post, but more of a "billet d'humeur", if
Today I’m going to tell you about a journey that started when I was quite young — my quest for the best coffee. I’ve associated coffee with positive thoughts since childhood because my parents drank it at home. We were a strong family. Being from Sicily,
This is a repost, original note was posted on LinkedIn on 29-Oct-25 . I wonder if antitrust laws shouldn’t be updated to address the reality of today’s technology landscape. Some companies are in a de-facto dominant position (think about Microsoft, NVIDIA, and many others) on their
When we think about building resilient systems for our personal usage of technology and making sure that we are not becoming dependent on too many services and live under the illusion that we cannot live without this or that, it helps to proceed methodically. I think that we need to
For the past year and something, I've been on an inner journey, a personal quest to improve my life across multiple aspects such as health, relationships, skills, focus, etc. Doing so required understanding what my inner purpose is, and what is my values compass: what legacy I want
Warning, retrospectively-looking, this is a rather scorn-loaded post, please read with a big spoon of salt. I've been reflecting about this topic for months now: where is social media headed at in 2025? I will not cover Mastodon here for a variety of reasons, including the niche nature
I regularly crave to get entirely rid of my iPhone and move to one of those e-paper devices / minimalist phones. Why? Lately, I’ve found myself once again facing the unpleasant realization that I'm wasting time that could be spent in a better way. I already had
This morning, I routinely fired up LinkedIn and came across an interesting post from former GigaOm colleague and industry peer Howard Holton , who is sharing a compilation of 50 most useful GPT prompts that he uses and curates on his GitHub page. Howard Holton on LinkedIn: I've
Preamble: This post was dictated to ChatGPT, and is an accurate reflection / transcription of my thoughts. I didn’t have time to write it out myself since I’m getting ready for a hike, but I wanted to share it with you. Today, I stumbled upon a LinkedIn
I recently came across a mention about FLUX.1-schnell on social media. I can't remember the source (apologies), but in any case, according to Hugging Face, FLUX.1-schnell (which I will refer from now on as Flux Schnell) is "a 12 billion parameter rectified flow transformer capable
After more than two years, a currently 800-day streak in learning Chinese, and having learned enough to comfortably pass the Chinese HSK1 test (and preparing for HSK2 this autumn), I've decided to part ways with Duolingo. Financial Hygiene One of the first reasons for that is that I&
I am a person that spends way too much time on LinkedIn due to a conjunction of circumstances: I left Facebook back in 2018, I never really returned to Twitter after deleting and re-creating my account there, and also because LinkedIn is a kind of hub where I post work-related
This post is about personal online services we use in our everyday lives. Looking at those expenses isn't a new thing for me, but I do not recall handling this in a systematic manner until today. By systematic, I mean having a comprehensive tracker which exhaustively lists every
This morning (Monday, May 27th 2024) I came across a LinkedIn post celebrating an "uncontestable consecration for France" celebrating consecutive investments from Amazon and Microsoft. Joachim SAVIGNY on LinkedIn: 🔵⚪🔴 2e Consécration incontestable pour la France en 24h ! Après Amazon… | 61
An interesting aspect of human societies is the very large gamut of opinions, often irreconciliable. Even when keeping politics and faith controversies at large, people will love to die on any given hill for their sacrosanct causes. An enduring post-COVID controversy is the return to hybrid or in-office work. This