Cultivating Curiosity for People
Fabien Girardin I think about these inflection points a lot when students ask me how to navigate an uncertain world.
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We lost reading
We lost reading. In the advent of GenAI we are all worried about losing the writing. Software developers write less code than ever.
I am cooking again
I am back to software development. And it is all thanks to AI code assistants.
The 10x Manager
What if you could 10x your effectiveness as a manager, not by working more hours, but by offloading the cognitive overhead to a machine? Every morning I sit down at my terminal and ask Claude Code what my day looks like.
2025 Reading Wrapped
In 2025 I kept the pace of reading before bed.
Self-proclaimed experts
Allergic. I’m allergic to self-proclaimed experts. For me, it’s a red flag.
My failure resume
I’m a younger brother, so I learnt to lose as soon as I learnt to crawl.
Tres Millones de viviendas
In Spain, we are living through a housing crisis.
Context Engineering
Context Engineering is one of the newest buzzwords in AI, and I hope it doesn’t become another short-lived job title like “Prompt Engineer.” New tools and processes often require new skills, but in tech we sometimes rush to create roles that are either too broad (think Data Scientist) or too narrow...
Learning to Read the Maps AI Gives Us
Summer is mostly gone, and I’m revisiting some drafts I hadn’t yet published.