Why We Communicate By Email We use mailing lists almost exclusively at the company. We have a live chat, but it exists for emergencies and for the handful of things email genuinely can't do. We believe that email is the right default for a small, stable team doing conveyance-heavy work, provided we impose the structure ourselves rather than assuming the medium provides it for us. Every individual…
Email lets every individual organize themselves Email clients are very flexible. They have had over 30 years to mature. They have introduced sufficient features to allow for extremely sophisticated workflows. Or, super simple yet powerful setups. That means that everyone on the team can work and communicate how they wish. Mailing lists are not fun to use At our company, and in most companies,…
Some things about me: Husband and father of 2 boys and a girl, hope to have more ! Grew up in Guatemala, Vancouver and Paris Swam at a national level in Canada when I was 15 and continue to do a lot of physical activity Studied economics at La Sorbonne and Strategy at HEC Paris I speak Spanish, English and French natively I own and run a company focused on international commerce, details Live in…
We have started to sell CandleLight candles on Amazon For the past few months we have been working together with Fever to be able to sell the original CandleLight concert candles to the public on Amazon. This is the resulting sales page 1) . The performance of this listing has been great so far. We are super proud to be working with Fever on this project. 1) Disclosure: This post contains…
This is a short page which contains what I'm working on now. I'm not the only one maintaining a page like this, check out this page nownownow . Personal Our third baby just turned 1 year old! She is going to take her first steps in the coming weeks I think. Work Our towel business is currently not doing well. I'm working on fixing that. We have also recently started working with Fever to sell…
Formatting Syntax DokuWiki supports some simple markup language, which tries to make the datafiles to be as readable as possible. This page contains all possible syntax you may use when editing the pages. Simply have a look at the source of this page by pressing “Edit this page”. If you want to try something, just use the playground page. The simpler markup is easily accessible via quickbuttons ,…
We should all have a cistern to grow fish Great youtube video showing someone who did this in Ohio. You can use the poo from the fish as fertilizer. You can eat the fish or just keep them as pets Surprisingly, you can grow very specific and great tasting fish like this in underground cisterns due to the cold water. This has been a thing for a long time Turns out that there is a really beautiful…
AI is making linux sooo much better - part 2 I have written about this before . It has just accelerated! I have been able to improve the workflows I have on my machine dramatically with AI. Some concrete examples Perfect Neomutt + Notmuch setup Neomutt is notoriously difficult to setup. Especially when combined with Notmuch. The configs are convoluted not to mention the syntax for macros!…
Pre-AI content I think that there is going to be categories in entertainment content which will differentiate between pre and post AI content. This is not going to happen because there is truly a difference in quality but it will be for the certainty that it was created through human labor. That doesn't mean that it's going to be more valuable; it's just going to be in a different category. I…
Niebla by Miguel de Unamuno Information about the book author: Miguel de Unamuno title: Niebla pages: 180 ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-3536-9 Thoughts on this book Very intellectual book, too much so for my taste. The book is also written in a pompous tone with latin gratuitously included throughout the pages. There are a few great thoughts peppered through the book. Of course, the major theme is the…
Gunpei Yokoi, inventor of the gameboy, came up with a concept called Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology . The concept is simple, use very well understood technology and combine it in novel ways. This gives you the benefits of well understood technology in a new category. Short explanation video Short comments from Simon Willison
Amok by Stephan Zweig Information about the book author: Stephan Zweig title: Amok pages: 115 Modern form of enslavement The mysterious man who tells his story was a doctor hired in India by a trading company in the Netherlands. Je restai là, les dents serrées : pour la première fois, j'avais clairement conscience d'être un homme vendu, un esclave. His employers, he felt, had slave owner power…
I enjoy the works of Zweig quite a bit. Here are some of the notes I have taken on what I have read from him: Biography of Montaigne Le Monde D'Hier Confusion des Sentiments La Pitié Dangereuse Fouché Marie Antoinette Magellan Amok Lettre d'une Inconnue Un soupçon légitime