Ugh 😩 🏀

Earlier this week, NBC News published a pretty wild take : I ...what www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... [image or embed] — Carolyn Fiddler ([@cfidd.bsky.social](http://cfidd.bsky.social)) December 10, 2024 at 12:52 PM So with that insanity going on, I’m glad to see leading voices in the gaming …

Finished watching #Foundation season 2 last night. 📺 After another slow build to set everything up it turned into a really solid season filled with interesting concepts and storylines. Highly recommend for Sci-Fi fans And now to figure out what to watch next over the holidays…

Finished reading: The Beautiful Ones by Prince 📚 This unfortunately unfinished autobiography was a wonderful insight into an artist I respect and continue to learn more about with every passing year. Highly recommend for fans though!

Big overtime victory against our biggest rival of the past few years — came back from an 18 point deficit to push overtime and eventually get the win

One for the weekend: Trump is a soft man obsessed with seeming tough; Le Pen is a tough woman forever trying to project a soft touch. (“President Emmanuel Macron Has Plunged France into Chaos” | written by the always on-point Lauren Collins)

Absolutely incredible game (and subsequent win) last night for my #ParisBasketball team away at Olympiacos Piraeus in the #Euroleague. This marks the 10th win in a row, and improves the record to 11-3, sitting at the top of the standing in our rookie season in the Euroleague.

Stop using Chat-GPT and Gen AI as a search engine, says @lopatto.bsky.social rightfully🙇🏼‍♂️ 📣 🤖

My local football club @redstarfc.bsky.social has officially removed itself from Twitter and is one of the first football clubs to do so.

Walking around today…

I haven’t been to the cinema since August, so I had a blast finally catching up on “Anora” at my local movie theater 🎬🎥⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

A question for my web browser nerds… Who’s abandoned Arc and made it back to Safari? Thoughts? Pros & Cons?

Finally got to check out #DelhiBazaar in Paris 🤩

What a lovely day

My friend wrote a book, while battling brain cancer!: I met my friend @JamesMayes.bsky.social about a dozen years ago at a local chapter of TEDx in Brighton, where I used to reside during my university studies and the early stages of my career. We quickly connected due to our shared heavy social media usage and mutual attraction towards good food & …

Another #ParisBasketball Euroleague game, another win! This time against Virtuus Bologna to improve our record to 9-3 and an eighth victory in a row!

Setting up my #NFL playoff picks @nflfrance

Happy Thanksgiving day to my American friends celebrating today!

Delivery day! 🤘 🦇

Today marks the first birthday of my daughter — my wildest and most thrilling of adventure yet!

…As Bluesky and Mastodon become busier, Micro.blog will continue to carve out a quieter, slower niche on the social web. [≠]

Incredible #Sum41 concert last night: final European tour & show, biggest headlining crowd of their career (41.410 in the biggest indoor arena in Europe Bonus: the wonderful Neck Deep as the opener!

Woah: the @yellowcard concert was hella fucking fun! Now to rest before the final Sum 41 show in Europe. ever. Tomorrow night!

Headed out to the @yellowcard “20 Years of Ocean Avenue” #concert tonight 🤘

Incredible Kith collab with Batman / Warner Bros. dropping tomorrow! Too many great pieces to choose from as a streetwear aficionado and comic book nerd… Wish me luck for tomorrow!

About Apple News+ 📰: For national, world, and general interest news, Apple News is really good. (…) it’s truly excellent. And a News+ subscription gets you access to a bunch of great publications with paywalls on the web. My wife and I are on the bundled package which includes Fitness+, News+, TV+, and a bunch of …

Updated my votes for the french Betclic Elite All Star Game later this year. Votes count double today so here we go: #ASG2024 @ParisBasketball

So overly excited for the upcoming in-season #HardKnocks about the AFC North teams, including my beloved @Ravens!

Gruber, about meeting Dr Oz (soon-to-be head of Medicare/Medicaid Services) (…) a brilliant mind in the field of thoracic surgery, and yet dumb as a rock in everyday human interaction. I spent the first few minutes with him wondering if I should introduce myself. I spent the last few glad I …

What a lovely start of the day! #WinterSun

Micro.Blog to Bluesky/Mastodon/Fediverse (and Threads too!): Another post inspired by @Manton, as I continue to read my way through my subscribed feeds: I’m Tibz on most socials, @tibz.blog on Bluesky, and @tibz@micro.blog on Mastodon / @iTibz on Threads. These are all managed by Micro.blog. “Are you getting it? These are not three separate accounts… …

Followed @manton’s instructions and was able to set up my Bluesky account via Micro.blog (no longer tibz.bluesky.social but fully mapping to @Tibz.blog 😄 Either way: https://tibz.blog/bluesky also redirects directly to my Bluesky account anyways

🇲🇨 ⚽️ Leave my Scuro alone #DagheMunegu

Deactivated my Twitter over the weekend. Platform has changed a lot over the past 10 years or so — been using it since 2008-2009 and made a lot of Online-to-Offline/IRL friends there, but these days are long gone. Via this personal blog hosted via micro.blog, you’ll be able to find me on …

Micro.Blog > any other network (+ it crossposts to Bluesky/Threads and is compatible with Mastodon, AND you own your data/content) UPDATE: there’s now a dedicated page about crossposting on the Micro.Blog site

Fuck all your empathy, I want your fury Hell of a line, Mike. 🎶

We truly don’t deserve @theVerge.com and @reckless.bsky.social from a journalism standpoint ≠

Some more pics from a very eventful and memorable weekend

”Last of the Sea Women” | ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ 🎥 This documentary brought me back to our trip to Jeju island in 2017!

Fuck all the way offfffff My #ParisBasketball travelled to Barcelona, dropped 103 on their dumb heads, and got away with the win! #Euroleague

🎶 I typically only work 4 days a week, so Fridays are big important family days

🎶 Happy @LinkinPark #FromZero release day to all those who celebrate!

Can’t make this shit up 🤣 I mean don’t get me wrong this asshole (and his affiliates) has blood on his hands, but a decade ago if you had come up with this headline, woah!

Fifth #Euroleague win in a row for my @ParisBasketball tonight against Kaunas Zalgiris and our French point guard Sylvain Francisco Not a great game, lots of small mistakes and inaccuracies, but if the season was stopping there we’d be Playoffs bound so… 🤷‍♂️

Hi #ParisBasketball, and welcome to Kaunas Zalgiris for this 9th round of the Euroleague

A little late but finally finished Season 17 of #GreysAnatomy (aka the 2020 COVID Season) Been watching since Season 3, what feels like multiples lifetimes ago! One of my favorite shows ever, one that has seen me grow from a teenager and into now a grown adult and family man.

Something’s to look forward tod to with extreme excitement: the new trailer for the final installment of the #MissionImpossible saga has dropped! youtu.be/NOhDyUmT9…

My wife is watching #HowIMetYourMother for the very first time. It serves as a rewatch for me. But damn Subway Wars might be one of the all-time best episodes of the whole show!

I’m not one to run away from hardship and try to escape my problems, but with the shit that’s been going on with my family these past few months it’s hard not too think that living abroad would make certain things easier…

🎶 📚 Finished reading “Walking Disaster” a few days ago, the autobiography/memoir by Sum 41 founder Deryck Whibley. As a huge Sum 41 and pop punk fan, this was great and revealed a lot of things I had never heard of before. Highly recommend it for likeminded fans! #BookThreads

Day 1-3 of a 4-day weekend spent ailing from food poisoning while the baby is recovering from something else too

Incredible night at my @ParisBasketball @Euroleague game against Partizan Belgrade. 7000 people with about 2000+ Serbian visitors that made themselves at home. No incidents but a tense atmosphere all game long… and we got away with another win, making it 5W-3L in our first #Euroleague campaign

Damn you all to Hell!

Everyone wish a happy birthday to @adders :)

🎶 At the Linkin Park concert tonight! @acmomento #LinkinPark #FromZero What a great band — and the addition of Emily Armstrong is fantastic: such a great voice!

About last night: Merci @ParisBasketball for this Win against Baskonia in the #Euroleague @ACMOMENTO

A lovely (family) day for this bank holiday Friday!

Happy #AppleIntelligence release day! Can’t wait to dive in later…

Mondays amirite…

Sunday Yum-day

Weekend shots

The Foursquare City Guide App is closing on Dec 15th: Getting ready to say goodbye to Foursquare, an app I’ve used almost daily since its earlier form back in 2009 between my time studying and working and living in the UK, then in San Francisco, Paris, and my native French Riviera. Back then I used to check-in to places I visited from the mobile …

Well the corporate team at Intuit seems just like one might have guessed: “I got a note from (…) the chief communications officer at Intuit, who called the line of questioning and my tone “inappropriate,” “egregious,” and “disappointing” and demanded that we delete that entire section …

Ma séléction du All Star Game LNB 2024 pour notre belle Betclic Élite — sans surprise, Allez @ParisBasketball #ASG2024

🎶 Well… this is just over a year away, but bound to be a lot of fun! @Offspring with @SimplePlan as the opening act 💪👨‍🎤🤘🎸🔥

🎶 Added my concerts to the @ACMomento Music Beta and I gotta say this one was possibly the most “you just had to be there” moment!

🎶 Turns out the great Vinyl market drought was an error. Here’s Discogs with the explainer: You’ve likely felt the panic this week: Vinyl sales are reportedly down by (a somewhat ironic) 33.3%, marking the first decline in 17 years. Inflation and industry greed are to blame. But these …

First ever @Euroleague win for my @parisbasketball, tonight, and it was against reigning champions Panathinaikos Athens

Rethinking my RSS and Blogs consumption and giving the new #Reeder a try… Curious to see how I leverage the podcasts, youtube channels, and social media feeds…

Some photos from this fall weekend #autumn

Too many business school graduates and not enough liberal arts alumni.

🎶 “The Fray” released a new album last week and I was wondering why it sounded so different. Turns out, the lead singer is no longer in the band and owns a record store now… #TheFrayIsBack #HowToSaveALife

Holy shit Derrick Henry really picked his moment to turn on the boosters: 3mn left in Overtime! #RavensFlock #RavensAtBengals

And now for the main event: @ParisBasketball league home opener against La Rochelle #Basketball

Paris Basketball doubleheader : Getting this basketball doubleheader started with @ParisBasketball Women’s first home game (for their inaugural season). Our new women’s team is in the fourth tier but we’re hoping they’ll climb the ranks over the next few years. Love the example it sets for our daughters to have role models to look …

Big cleaning day at home today + running some errands too

First @ParisBasketball home game of the season! First ever game in the #EuroLeague for a sold out hosting of Red Star Belgrade

Camera Testing: 📸 The first photo is from Halide w/ProcessZero The second one is from the default camera with HDR/regular iPhone processing Both have a feel that I like in equal measure… need to play with it some more

Walking around during my lunch breaI and noticed someone having a one-man BBQ on the side of the canal 🍗🔥 gotta love it

Things I like: Fixtured (a Sports calendar app): The Problem As a sports fan following different teams/leagues/sports, keeping track of “what game is on today?” or “I have some free time on Sunday, is there anything good on?” has been a STRUGGLE these past few years. Usually, there are existing apps you can use, mostly for …

I’ll say this about @Threads, the algorithm (😭🤖) is good at pushing up great photography in my feed.

Postseason @Orioles outfit, LFG!

I fucking hate LinkedIn now.

So I just upgraded to the #iPhone16 Plus (from an iPhone 11) and I am LOVING the Dynamic Island for small glances at context-specificfic stuff. I.e. flight updates or Uber ETAs

Hallo Nurnberg

Starting early with my annual #Halloween watches this year and going through American Horror Story S07 (“Cult”) — which is the 2016 US Election season!

Very excited to start reading this as #Halloween is just around the corner

Welcome back #ChampionsLeague you old friend ⚽️

As someone who has been at the intersection of being Very Chronically Online™️ + A Tech Nerd + An AppleHead for over 16+ years now, the fact that @relayfm is now 10 years old (along with @jsnell’s @sixcolors.com and the Upgrade podcast) is making me feel OLD! Insane consistency! 👏 🏆 🎉

Happy #iOS18 / macOS Sequoia upgrade day!

MS PowerBI is a piece of crap. Pass it on!

Been exploring certain neighborhoods around us lately — been loving these formerly-run down and now-rehabilitated factory places

Have to use a Lenovo business PC running Microsoft and let me tell you what piece of nightmarish hell the software AND hardware are! How do people live, let alone work this way?!

With everything going on, and considering it’s a US Election Year — I simply can’t wait for the return of Saturday Night Live this season!

Some early week-end action

Love this take from @Manton about #ArtificialIntelligence: “Using AI has helped me understand what actually makes us uniquely human.” [≠]

🎶 Happy new @blink182 release day to all those who celebrate religiously! #PopPunkKid

KC Chiefs fans, eh?!

Movie review: Ready or Not | ★★★½ Conceptually, this movie was quite original

Best Hype Videos in the game! 🏈 Go Ravens! #RavensFlock

Liz Cheney, the first Republican with a backbone! “democratic politics ought to be viewed very much like Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs are in psychology. Some things matter more than others. And (…) nothing matters more than support for democracy itself and the rule of law.” [≠]

Loved learning more about my QB, Lamar Jackson, and especially about how he manages keeping his private life… private!

Starting to get really excited about my Ravens and the start of the NFL season this weekend! 🏈

🛹 Dad goals

My 2024 Fantasy Football Draft Results: I’ve been running a league with a few friends for the past 5 years or so, and even won in my 3rd year! Here’s my team as we get ready for the season next weekend!

“The Creator” - movie review: “The Creator” - 3.5/5 Glad enough enough time has passed that I could form my own opinion of this movie. Quite liked it and visually/conceptually it was really interesting!

Excited to see Superjack back in the starting XI! #CmonCiteh @Mancity

Why an Asian American Reporter Wanted to Write About Romance

Gonna need to find a way to pick up tickets to the @ManCity game in Paris on January 22nd! #ChampionsLeague

Threading 1, 2, 3…

Never in doubt that they would handle this interview without a scratch

Life lately: Paris 2024 Olympics and other summer things

My favorite City player is back where he belongs 🤩

Not the most articulate scenario to move the franchise forward but a very good execution and glad to get some expanded lore, world-building and exciting visuals out of this! Works really well as a summer blockbuster to cool you down on a hot summer day. [≠]

Keep your eyes on the prize

I can’t put into words how Much I want this exciting Switzerland team to go through! #ENGSWI #Euro2024

🎶 As a Punk Rock kid, I’ve been having a lot of fun with Dan Ozzi’s “Sellout” audiobook and getting to (re-)discover different punk bands. A recent favorite: The Donnas!

Over the past few years, a few friends and acquaintances have decided to move to Miami, but I have to say, this (!!) has been on my mind for the better part of a decade now.

Modrić really said: fuck it I’ll do it the hard way! #Euro2024

The end of a LONG but great weekend

‘Tis the season, innit?!

Summers don’t feel the same without these international football tournaments ⚽️ #Euro2024 is well and underway! Can’t wait for the French game tonight!

☀️

Happy #AlienDay (aka 4/26) to all those who celebrate Rewatched Aliens last year at this time so tonight it’s Alien 3!

Sorare has low-key developed a really good game with “Rivals” Good gameplay, free to play, dynamic and honestly makes me want to play and keep up much more than other games (UEFA Champions League gaming or Fantasy Premier League)

So Drake has decided to hone in on his Jock/Bully era eh?!

36 hour business trip to Nuremberg, Germany. ASK ME ANYTHING 😅✈️🇩🇪

🎶 It’s here and it’s glorious! 🤘🎸🎵

# John Mayer (Solo, Live in Paris): 🎶 About last night: My all-time favorite artist (John Mayer) playing his very first concert in Paris. It was my second time seeing John after attending the Paradise Valley tour back in 2013 It was really cool to see him take the stage by himself for 2 hours! John played mostly acoustic, but it was …

I can finally say that I’ve finished this wonderfulthis wonderful book! 5/5 would highly recommend to students & fans of the game of Basketball

Testing Bluesky image xpost again

Anyone here into Baseball Cards collecting? Wondering if there’s a (small/friendly) community on here… 😊 ⚾️ 🃏

🎶 “Modern life is mostly bullshit, so why not pogo your way to the grave?”

🎶 What an album! Been on repeat non-stop since Friday #PopPunk #GreenDay

It is SUCH a blessing to be able to work 4 days a week. Truly feeling grateful to spend an extra day with my wife and 6-weeks old daughter on a consistent basis!

Someone tell the NBA / Accor Arena / Ticketmaster that they’re taking the piss, with this one…

Hello to my fellow @Orioles fans

Final game of the year, and what a year it’s been! #CmonCity #MCISHU

This is why the Wizards leaving DC hurts to much and has so many of us in the fanbase so vocal about it:

I’m so fucking mad at Wizards ownership rn

Welcome to the Madhouse

⚾️ 💲7️⃣0️⃣0️⃣Ⓜ️ Welcome to the Sho

Still thinking of getting new tattoos, in parts for myself, and in parts to honor my daughter being born last week…

Azul Maïa Lemaitre

My daughter might be born later today so if @ManCity could give the Scouters a proper slapping today, that’s be great, kthxbye 😶‍🌫️ #MCILIV

Love this idea from @Wired: The tech economy is all about growth. What if it maximized something else for a change? [≠]

It’s been a great experience to follow my local @ParisBasketball team this season, and dive deeper into French & European basketball this season! We’ve got a great team in the capital, and you can see it reflected in my votes for the French All-Star Game (to be held at the end of …

🎶 Listening to Green Day’s American Idiot (the album) front to back for the first time in a while, outside of the big singles. Damn, it really is a FINE album with some great tracks, lyrics, musicality! 🤘🏼🎸

🎶 Mark singing this part always gets me: “I begged for your forgiveness I made a deal with God I took you all for granted You can write my epilogue” 😭💔

Testing Deep Work with Endel. Curious if anyone has tried before… Always looking for feedback on productivity tools like these

Jeremy Doku is such a baller ⚽️ #ManCity 🤩

NYTimes: The Call and Matthew Perry’s death : The Call If you’re fortunate to live long enough, eventually you get The Call. Sometimes it’s an actual call, sometimes a social media post or a conversation on the street. But the message is the same: A friend of your youth has died. The death of Matthew Perry was sad for all the reasons it is sad …

No one is talking aboutt Johniffer Hammiston and I’m really disappointed in all y’all! Perfect match on and offscreen if you ask me!

Thought of the day: MS Teams is a piece of shit

Going to an office for work today, for the first time in over 2 years. Ask me anything. (Remote Work is everything / the logistics of commuting and in-office are exhausting!)

Posting for posterity: 🏈 Ravens winning in London against the Titans 🏉 Fiji sending England home 🏉 France with an exciting victory over ZA don’t @ me and see y’all tonight. I’ll be on do not disturb starting 8:45pm this evening!

“Why the Internet isn’t Fun anymore

Another day, another @ParisBasketball game, another win! 5-for-5 this season so far across 2 different competitions

🎶 Been meaning to read this for years so glad to finally catch-up via the Audiobook

Rugby night 🏉 🥃

🎶 Blink-182 is forever!

WFH

🏀📺 2 years after its release, the NBA finally uploaded this documentary about the Basketball Scene in Paris for free on their YT channel! Really loved the content and format!

The Champion’s League is back, baby!

Paris Basketball season opener LFG!

🎶 Had a lot of fun catching up on the live set from Sum 41 at this year’s HellFest!

You know it’s especially bad when FIFA (FUCKING FIFA!!!) has the moral high ground #RFEF

📺 Time to start Ashoka: early reviews have been glowing, unlike Secret Invasion

While I’m still looking for freelance work, I’m happy to share that my Sorare, Fantasy Premier League and Fantasy Bundesliga teams are ready! Now just one more week until the Fantasy Football draft and then we’ll really be back to our regular schedule!

Tonight’s double-feature: ⚽️ Manchester City’s home opener against Newcastle #MCINEW #CmonCity 🏉 France’s last test game against Fiji, before we host our Rugby World Cup in just a few weeks! #FRAvFIJ #NeFaisonsXV #AllezLesBleus

Home 🏡 🌞

As a #ManCity supporter, I’m quite excited to watch this Chelsea-Liverpool game as a neutral! #CHELIV

Another little solo walk in the forest today

Walking in the Woods

Never Underestimate The Power of Speaking French in Paris www.nytimes.com/2023/08/0…

There’s a great article on The Ringer, about Apple TV+ and how the service is doing so far! Personally I’ve been happily impressed by their refreshing approach and quality shows!

So excited for the start of the season and this Community Shield game! C’mon City!

Weekend starting right with a total home cleanup, followed by the start of the Rugby #SummerSeries #AllezLesBleus

Seems that I’m still experiencing issues with cross-posting images over to Bluesky — anyone else?

Freelance and looking for work: 👋🏼 It’s been a few months since I’ve gotten back to freelancing and I wanted to share that I have some availability between now and the end of the year. 💼 I’m looking for additional work in Customer Success / Product Marketing starting at the end of August. 🙋🏻‍♂️I’m flexible but typically specialize …

Testing 1.. 2.. 3.. What do you see?!

Brunch and an art gallery

Good practice, with a great friend

🎶 If I’m helpless, tell me now, tell me now…

“…When an organization’s entire focus becomes solely fixated on metrics that can be quantified, we start to see a degradation of values and a misalignment with the greater good.” [≠]

Said it before and will say it again: PSG is a dumpster-fire of a club

A great weekend

Love this idea, to be honest: What if the next big social-media app is … nothing?

Truly wasn’t ready for how delicious the pancakes were going to be today:

Goofing around today

Good morning youtu.be/mtEwGiPNQ…

“Tomorrow the Supreme Court could make it illegal to think about Prince too hard.”

Excited for my Wizards to (hopefully) have a good under-the-radar kind of season for once…

Going to be testing this new cross-posting workflow: from Micro.blog to BlueSky. Let’s see how it goes! You can always see the most optimized (and most fun version) on tibz.blog and micro.blog/tibz

Big Orioles come back for July 4th? Sign me up! ⚾

⚾️ Baseball is changing again and this article was a great explainer!

Where are my Micro.Blog & Mastodon sports people and communities?

Very fun 🏀 day for the 20th anniversary of the Quai 54 World Streetball Championship hosted at Rolland Garros this year!

Martha needs to retire for good, she’s gotten past her expiration date: Stewart compared the state of in-person work in the United States to France, calling it “not a very thriving country.” “Look at the success of France with their stupid … you know, off for August, blah blah blah. That’s …

Gundogan’s farewell letter to Man City in the Players Tribune: Dear City, When I first arrived here, I was a young man with no kids and a lot of dreams. It’s hard for me to even believe, but I am leaving seven years later as a father who has fulfilled every single dream that he ever had.

Any. Given. Sunday. 🏀

⚾ @MLB in #Paris 2025: sign me the hell up!!! 🇫🇷

👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼 @laurenzcollins: “Like cupcakes and athleisure, the parenting wars have come to France.”

Delivery day 🚚 🎁 💽 @TakuBeats

As a Frenchman, Thierry Henry is an icon and one of my football idols. Seeing him interview Guardiola with so much reverence and respect was amazing!

Very sad to hear about @ApolloReddit — an app I’ve loved greatly! Reddit Execs should have done better. Not surprising, but sad and disappointing.

Lost my damn head to this beat today!

Starting a new role today, overseeing the community and customer education at @GetStarkCo – so incredibly excited and humbled to be joining this team!

OK, time to start the final season of #Barry!

Ok let’s start with this: Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse might be the best and most ambitious Marvel movie by far and my mind was blown multiple times throughout with the way they handled certain things visually. Story-wise I can’t wait to see the next chapter. This movie and it’s characters …

Honestly quite a fun movie, even if the remake wasn’t necessary. Great little summer fun, updated for 2023. Pulled at my heartstrings to see Lance Reddick tho 😢 ❤️

¡Vamos Mi Sevilla! #UEL #SEVROM #NuncaTeRindas

Ted Lasso finale, g’wan

Fast X: Better than 8 & 9 and I’m here for the gender-fluid Joker-level sociopathic version of Jason Momoa as a Chaos Agent

“Drops of God” has been such a good and refreshing show to watch! #trakt

My wife has been diagnosed with HG a few weeks ago and this is the most powerless, frustrated, occasionally angry, definitely stressful that I’ve felt in forever, possibly ever. Hell on earth for her and seeing her go through it is so incredibly hard.

Finally watching the Super Mario Bros movie and I have a feeling this will be much better than Fast X. Also: Jack Black, what a guy!

Batshit country

CAT-FOOD OZYMANDIAS

“He’s the promise that sports sells to kids and families across the world.” 🏀🔥

Morning shootaround

A great — and I mean GREAT day here today with my wife and Jolie Maman

Some pretty good days lately: A new incense holder Sunset meeting with friends seeing Bruce Springsteen live little walks around our neighborhood more sky views

Gardening day today 🪴👨‍🌾

I’m always cynically pessimistic when you put an Advertising/Marketing person in charge instead of a product person. Microsoft (2000s), Twitter, Apple (90s)… we’ve seen how these things turn out and spoiler alert, it ain’t great!

Made some new friends today:

Truly a joy to find myself in the supermarket and using Clear to tick off items between aisles today! Brought back the memories of working at @Realmacsoftware.com at the beginning of my career and using the app daily for work stuff and personal errands too!

May the 4th be with you (and yours!)

.@SamLee: 👏 👏 👏 “If this is your cyborg sent to obliterate the record books, then he often looks a lot like a regular 22-year-old simply having a good time, too.”

If anyone needs some perspective today: this is it!

Sports-heavy weekend continues :)

Memories from last Sunday’s NBA Playoffs watch party in a 1930’s movie theater, in wonderful company 🤩 🏀

Life lately

Beau is afraid & Tibz is confused & Ari Aster has some serious mommy-issues & the next Aster family dinner will be fascinating… On a technical level this is a very good film, and the acting is great, and some of the visual choices are great. But I watched this after lunch, almost fell …

My type of Sports content: On Jimmy Butler and needing Coffee before the Playoffs

Adventures adventures ⚽️ ☕️ 🍪

Lovely afternoon/evening out

Wonderful to read about Anthony Carrigan, (aka Victor Zsasz in Gotham and NoHo Hank in Barry) in the Times

Today’s #Birdland @Orioles-affiliated hat: the Cangrejos Fantasmas del Chesapeake (the Ghost Crabs of the Chesapeake) aka the Copa de la Diversion alternate version of the @BowieBaysox

It’s #NBAPlayoffs time! 🏀

“Twitter isn’t dead. But it’s getting there.” It certainly feels like the end of an era which, for me, began in 2008-2009

Pep is not taking any risk against Leicester lol: foxes are in trouble today! #MCILEI #CmonCity

My goodness what a goal from Brighton’s Enciso against Chelsea!

Happy #Metallica release day!

Absolute morons! Bud Light has found itself in the eye of the anti-trans storm. Kid Rock is shooting cans of beer (…) [Conservatives] are calling for a boycott (…) If this all sounds ludicrous, it’s because it kind of is. It’s also indicative of where we are in the US today.

Artifact, the news app from the Instagram founders, is adding comments and upvotes/downvotes, thus looking a bit more like Reddit…

Really excited for tonight’s #MCIFCB Champions League game tonight! Hoping for a strong showing by City! #UCL

Spoiler warning but this is probably the best article you can read about this week’s episode of Succession

Cannot wait for the Springnsteen concert in 6 weeks!

“That Netflix can predict what you want to watch, that Google knows which sites to serve you—these miracles are the result of tools developed by spies during the Cold War. Commerce in the twenty-first century is espionage for profit.” The Data Delusion | @NewYorker

Discovering the French city of Nancy today #Hipstamatic

My wife and I recently recorded a one-off podcast to discuss our perspective on our multicultural relationship. Would love some feedback if y’all find it insightful! 😊 🎧

These people are superheroes and I won’t hear otherwise!

Thaï food 🥘 🍚 🍗 🥢

Spring time 📸

A fun start of the week riding on the longboard, yesterday! #Funemployment

Fun evening seeing #JeffGoldblum live with the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra

Are there micro.blog / mastodon communities following stories, more specifically football ⚽?

Went supporting our friend running the #MarathonDeParis today

Finishing the day by watching my beloved #Birdland #Orioles

Friday is Market Day

Josephine the neighborhood sheep

A great day today, punctuated by our first apéro on the Balcony, what with the higher-than-usual temperature and all around sunny day today!

Last night at the @ParisBasketball game 🏀 The new arena will open next January and will be a 6mn bike ride from home so we’re tempted to get Season Tickets 🎫

Reading about “Wavelengths” reminds me how, fundamentally, my friend groups are so segmented that social apps and group chats are not quite for me 😞

Monday Funday

👸🏻 🥕 🍰 Wonderfully Lazy Sunday

Saturday adventures

FriYay

Reading this article about “Movies that Flopped at the (US) Box Office but are still worth your time”, I get the feeling that while Hollywood is great at making movies, the audiences are much better and more receptive in Europe. Just my 2cts.

Top trends — bonsoir Twitter

I dunno if this one is so bold to Orioles fans and anyone who’s been paying attention these past 18 months but… “4. The Baltimore Orioles will make the playoffs” ⚾⚾⚾

.@FallOutBoy’s #FolieADeux is my favorite album of theirs so this new #SoMuchForStardust is a great discovery!

Tattoos Do Odd Things to the Immune System - The Atlantic

Just came out from watching #JohnWickChapter4 We go to the movies to see the inexplicable and the incredible. Such sublime moments require no justification beyond the pleasure they provide to viewers. And if you like action movies, John Wick: Chapter 4 will give you a lot of pleasure — literally, …

I haven’t seen enough people talk about how great of a show Shrinking is! It’s got so much heart and great writing and actors so I am glad it got renewed over at @AppleTV

Progress

AO Scott on ending his career as a Film Critic: I’m not a fan of modern fandom. This isn’t only because I’ve been swarmed on Twitter by angry devotees of Marvel and DC and (more recently) “Top Gun: Maverick” and “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” It’s more that the behavior of these social media hordes represents an anti-democratic, …

Lovely lazy Sunday

What a lovely day, @FranceRugby #FRAvWAL

Always great to get back to #QuaiBranly but even more so for this Kimonos exhibition!

I swear John Mayer has looked 35 for the past 12 years!

Great little NPR Tiny Desk session with Bono and The Edge (!!) But why does The Edge look like EVERY GUITAR TEACHER EVER?! 😂 🎸

Day 17 of the March Photoblogging Challenge: early Like the early evening sky I captured a few days ago :)

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If wine [in America] has an “old people problem” it’s simply because old people still buy the industry’s starter wines. [≠]

🛣️ Day 16 of the March Photoblogging Challenge: “Road”. Taking a day-long road trip to Normandy with my parents to visit my 96-yo grandfather 👴🏻

Arguably one of my favorite curated playlists on @AppleMusic

Day 15 of the March Photoblogging Challenge: “Patience”. Like the patience required to wait for my lunch at 2:30pm… 😂 😤 🍔 ABC menu at PNY

Let’s go #Birdland ⚾ 🐦

Good afternoon ☕ 📚

Day 14 of the March Photoblogging Challenge: “Horizon”.

”The power of sport to lead while governments flounder. And no sport owes more to migration than football” | “Gary Lineker won his battle with the BBC. Football’s protest era can now kick on” - British GQ

Elizabeth Warren on the Silicon Valley Bank shenanigans

So… Can we bring Everything Everywhere back in theaters worldwide pls?

⚾️ 🐦 RIP 😢

Day 12 of the March Photoblogging Challenge: “shiny”. Today, I’m choosing to share our Vietnamese Phin Coffee Filters from the lovely folks at Hanoi Corner

Good morning

I feel bad for anyone who didn’t watch #LeCrunch (aka the #ENGvFRA @SixNationsRugby game) today! www.youtube.com/watch

Day 11 of the March Photoblogging Challenge: Day 11 of the March Photoblogging Challenge: “gimrack”. I had to look up what it means, and it turns out it’s similar to knickknack. My favorite one is this framed letter that Shana wrote after our first date, when I got home and she was traveling for work. Our first date was in …

Memo to the BBC Perhaps it would have been useful, in the case of Gary Lineker and Match of the Day, to look more closely at the writing on the side of your own building: It is an old quote from George Orwell: “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not …

Ngl: quite enjoying this new Miley Cirus album so far… 💃 🎤

Obviously whole heartedly agreeing with this take: “Mass layoffs are due to hiring becoming a vanity metric in tech.” [≠]

Gowalla is back, y’all!

These data-hungry tech companies have compromised our security, eroded our privacy, tracked us, sold our data, lost our data, monopolized the competition, driven out small businesses and put entire populations at risk. [≠]

Watching Mulholland Drive for the very first time and happy that it’s the 4K remastered Criterion Collection :)

“LiveJournal and Tumblr fell apart under new ownership that didn’t understand their communities. The story could be the same for Twitter.” “ While Tumblr users once idolized platform founder David Karp, and LiveJournal users were aware enough of who ran and owned the site, Musk looms much larger …

Day 10 of the March Photoblogging Challenge: “ritual”. In this home, I’m in charge of breakfast and coffee every morning. It’s our little shared ritual. ☕

Day 9 of the March Photoblogging Challenge: ”together” — one of my favorite recent photos we took together on the train, 2 weeks ago

Day 8 of the March Photoblogging Challenge: walk

Quite excited about this early screening of #ScreamVI that I’m attending tonight :)

Day 7 of the March Photoblogging Challenge: whole

Today’s Micro.blog photoblogging challenge prompt is ENGINEERING. As I’m looking around our home, I’m inspired to post about an industrial Air France poster we’ve framed in our bedroom. Engineering, Airplanes, tadah! 💥 🤯

Micro.Blog March Photoblogging Challenge: #MBMar Day 3: “ZIP” Verb: ”to move, act, or function with speed and vigor” Just like this crowd exciting fast after a concert, back in October…

This Grealish x Haaland time-wasting shithousery is unsurprising but unbelievable 😂 ⚽️ #ManCity #CmonCity #MCINEW

Micro.Blog March Photoblogging Challenge: #MBMar Day 3: “solitude” In this case: a quiet morning working on some stuff by myself in our office

Happy #DeLaSoul day!

Micro.Blog March Photoblogging Challenge: #MBMar Day 2: “weather”

Let’s continue helping Tweetbot and Twitterrific: Let’s continue helping Tweetbot and Twitterrific, the small indie developers who have given so much to our early-Twitter community of the 2010s-2020s: If you’re a subscriber to either Tweetbot or Twitterrific, you can help them out with three simple steps: Reinstall the app if you’ve already …

Micro.Blog March 1st Photoblogging Challenge: #MBMar: “secure” (@challenges)

Travel day

Rainy Rugby Sunday starts with a lovely brunch with the family today

Alright @MLS let’s do this! So far so good with the @AppleTV broadcast… #NSHNYC #MLSisBack

Obviously took out Trossard out of my #FPL team and the man just scored a peach of a goal, innit?! EDIT: Disallowed Goal… but still 🙃

Happy @MLS #OpeningWeekend to all those celebrating! And let’s go @DCUnited #DCU #VamosUnited

.#DriveToSurviveS05: I would definitely watch a roadtrip series between Mattia & Guenther!

Ok so unsurprisingly El0n really is Trumpian to the max:

Now is as good a time as any to reiterate that I’ve launched a small, friendly, and inclusive community called @TeamMisfitsFC. It’s a place for football fans to come together and talk about the beautiful game away from social media. Newcomers & experts welcome! Join us!

⛳️🏌️ Started watching Full Swing this week, and instantly connecting with Tony Finau tbh!

Allez Monaco ! 🇲🇨 #ASMB04 #UEL #EuropaLeague #DagheMunegu

The Athletic announces deeper Formula 1 coverage, at last! 😊🏎️

A propos of nothing, it seems that Micro.blog now supports a feature around Bookshelves & Reading List — the rationale being that keeping track of books via @microdotblog is a good way to then share thoughts, which is a very nice idea… I wish there was a way to sync w/Oku tho…

With every day that passes, it looks more and more like I’ll be going back to freelancing. The first step is to prepare a new ‘professional’ website, then to organize myself across Notion & Things, and later ensure the legal, admin, and banking side is all set up… Wish …

Mac App Bingo: we didn’t know how good we had it back then! What a time!

As a follow-up to yesterday’s post about Mastodon, it seems that I can keep posting from @MicroDotBlog and y’all can just follow @tibz@micro.blog to interact with me… Grateful to @Manton @jean and the Micro.blog team for the easy setup (file under #LearningInPublic, I guess)

Just setting up my Mastodon (via Micro.blog)… @tibz@micro.blog x @tibz@mastodon.social

Oh #TheLastOfUs 01x03, you have no right to bring up Max Richter’s ”On the Nature of Daylight” and pull at the heartstrings the way you do!

Weekend Shenanigans

Happy to be back on a hot streak with @DayOneApp lately…

Happy Monday

Special delivery @RedStarFC @PhilDelves

Very Grey’s morning

Finally time to star watching #TheLastOfUs 😊

Work Update:: 📣 💼 I’ve been thinking of how best to apply my skills and help companies grow. I can add a lot of value to a team focused on business & product but that hasn’t had the chance to think about how to support customers and how to onboard new users. My sweet spot is early-stage startups and companies …

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Yesterday was a good day!

Really happy to finally be able to put these frames up @FrenchTeam 🤩 🇫🇷 ⚽️ #AllezLesBleus

After an unprecedented winter window in which they signed seven senior players for over £280million, there is one question dominating the sport: How are Chelsea able to embark on such a spending spree while abiding by UEFA’s Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations?

Howdy y’all 🤠: “The Athletic is jumping on the Wrexham bandwagon”

Shout out to @PetBerisha for the fantastic breakdown on the @Sorare x @PremierLeague deal

Shoutout @anydistanceclub for getting me to be more active this year!

After the @WSJopinion piece called “Are there too many Asians?”, I’m seeing a piece called “Are French People just lazy?” in @nytopinion today. …Which begs the question: are there any good editors left?!

If you’re able to watch it on Apple TV+ (which is a service I definitely recommend), “Super League: The War for Football” is a fascinating look at what happened in 2021!

Fun Sunday Night:

Weekend adventures

The Guardian, on AS Monaco’s youth talent factory!: Really enjoyed this piece on my childhood club: AS Monaco 🇲🇨 The Monaco academy boasts a star-studded list of alumni: World Cup winners Thierry Henry, Emmanuel Petit, Lilian Thuram, David Trezeguet and Kylian Mbappé all graduated from the club. When Monaco tinkered with their successful formula of …

If you want to strip what’s left of the Titanic, call the Washington Wizards front office. No one is better at salvage operations.

Tech Layoffs, myself included:: Shoutout to employers making missteps Layoffs are among the most challenging life experiences, causing more psychological stress than even divorce, according to one study. Losing a job can upend workers’ finances and their sense of self, and layoffs in the world of remote work have in many cases …

Vendredi, tout est Paris !

Great to be back playing football tonight

Y’all just don’t understand

Had to run an errand early morning today and rewarded myself with a long walk back, via the Canal

Testing the new @Hipstamatic: Bonjour Paris!

🇻🇳 Chúc mừng năm mới! / Happy Lunar New Year 🧧 🎊

📸 🏙️ ☕️ 🥘

Fun Friday night watch

As I’m preparing for the Manchester derby this weekend, this was a great read!

Wearing my “Friday The 13th” Vans slip ons (along with my ”Nightmare On Elm Street” tee) on a day that a surgeon went to town on my back with a little scalpel… Too on the nose?

Watched: December 2022 / January 2023: Been making great use of @Letterboxd these past few weeks 🤩

“How we all started dressing up like Seinfeld” by the most excellent @Sprezza_ !

.@SevillaFC_ENG I LOVE YOU SO 🦆ING MUCH

2023 is the year I put my community-building and online-friendliness skills to good use on my own projects. I’ve given enough and been burnt enough by corporations.

“We want a little 82-year old granny to come in the morning to have her coffee. If the place ends up being Instagram-cool, okay, sure. But the goal isn’t Instagram, the goal is the granny. If granny comes, the rest will come.” 🥰💌

Big advocate for “one device that does one thing well and allows you to slow down” (aka delayed gratification) “The Hottest Gen Z Gadget Is a 20-Year-Old Digital Camera”

Why the “Peacemaker” opening credit sequence is the best thing that happened since sliced bread… In this essay, we will —

Finally finished reading The Unfolding (Side note: I highly recommend Oku.club as a good reads alternative!)

Reading: “The Unfolding” by A.M. Homes: This was too relatable considering my current personal situation and professional predicament. “Right now you’re in a very specific moment. It’s called liminal space. You’re in the ambiguous or disoriented phase, also known as the middle of a rite of passage. Part of that is just …

First of the year! #ASMSB29

I was wondering why I found both Year of the Rabbit or the Year of the Cat

“Kendrick Lamar’s Unconstrained Next Chapter”

Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah and joyful holidays to anyone celebrating this end of year 😊 Really appreciate y’all on here!

Some happiness found during the week

Well… December 2022 is officially the worst month of my life and it’s not even football related. Happy holidays everybody!

Definitely a Metallica type of day today…

Definitely a Metallica type of day today…

Together against the world — allez les bleus! #FiersDetreBleus #ARGFRA

Very happy to see another issue of @adders’ newsletter though very sad that El Musketeer is shutting down Revue 😢

New favorite song alert 🐶 🎧

Starting to think that… Billionaires (with a platform) are bad, actually

Pachinko really hits you in the face (and the guy) like a brick, doesn’t it?!

Ready! Allez Les Bleus! #FiersdEtreBleus #WC2022

Let it snow let it snow let is snowbervilliers

⚽️⚽️⚽️: ”Wout Weghorst briefly went supernova” ”What’s your favorite part? Mine is the bit where Cristiano Ronaldo walks down the tunnel, crying.” ”Next, Morocco gets to play its other former colonizer, France, for a chance to complete the re-enactment of its own liberation.” “Mbappé has been romping …

Time to really buy local/better: Europe strikes world-first deal to tax imports based on carbon emissions Wall Street Journal

Kylian Mbappé almost played for Chelsea: ”The letter is typed on AS Bondy headed paper, dated 17 May 2011. It gives permission for a 12-year-old French boy named Kylian Mbappe to attend a four-day trial the following week. Mbappe was on his way to Chelsea.” {≠}

“I was the first female referee in France, the first in Europe, every time the first. I know how to deal with that.” [≠]

The Athletic: Remembering Grant Wahl: “His raw copy was as clean as a Lionel Messi first touch, and the ideas within it always crystal-clear and refined.” ⚽️ 🕯️ The Athletic: Remembering Grant Wahl

Ok this @Reddit recap is actually pretty great tbh! (As a side note: I need to continue spending more time on Reddit over other places…)

After listening to the @AppleNews x @NewYorker fantastic long form audio story on @Metallica I’m spending the whole day listening to their full discography… Sometimes, you gotta get back to the classics!

I’m so glad Griezmann is getting his flowers 💐

The problem with wearing your heart on your sleeves is that one ends up caring way too much. And when things fall apart, it hurts.

“When a baby cuts his teeth, his parents give him a stump of baguette to chew off,” [. .] “When a child grows up, the first errand he runs on his own is to buy a baguette at the bakery.” 🥖🥖🥖

In the UK […] a YouGov poll in 2019 found that 30% of Britons did not know what the clitoris was (29% of women, 31% of men), and in 2021, the Guardian noted that this percentage rose to 37%. ≠

Let’s goooooo, my guy! France’s highest court has ruled that a man fired by a Paris-based consulting firm for allegedly failing to be “fun” enough at work was wrongfully dismissed. [≠]

Double Bucket List: seeing @WeArePhoenix at @OlympiaHall tonight 🤩 🎶 🎸 🎙️ 🥁

The WeWork today is 🔥 🤩

Honey I’m home! @FrenchTeam #Worldcup #AllezLesBleus #FiersDetreBleus

Good morning from the new crib

I absolutely cannot wait to receive the @FrenchTeam jerseys that I’ve ordered for my wife and I. I picked up the home kit with the WC 2018 badge (gold on gold), and I got her the away toile de jouy one :)

Had so much fun seeing @kidcudi live tonight!

“Going to see my father at a studio and having Mick Jagger be there. Going to the VMAs as a kid and sitting on Scary Spice’s lap”

Heads Up, BeReal Users

In addition to moving to our new apartment, the next few weeks are also full of concerts: Kid Cudi, Phoenix, and Pusha T. Very excited!

.@brennanjp grateful everyday to be working with you and the team at @ACMomento LFG!

End of an era 😢 🦇🦇🦇

Truly feels like it, doesn’t it? “The Age of Social Media Is Ending” - The Atlantic

Finally started Andor and… it doesn’t disappoint! Similar to Rogue One, this is a treat! | [≠]

Call me an optimist

Lime scooters lobbying efforts. : I just received this email and I’m unsure how I feel about this… On the one hand it’s a bit chaotic, on the other it’s very convenient, and allows more people to find alternative transportation methods compared to the Metro/Taxis/Uber. But emailing your customer base without …

I’m sorry WHAT?! 🤩

Reminder that my newsletter relaunches tomorrow: https://tibz.substack.com Sign up now :)

Great dinner tonight in #LaDama in Barcelona

Unsurprisingly, the Twitter layoffs are even worse than you could imagine. In the court of Public Opinion, I don’t know how you support Elon after this.

Related to @microdotblog: just renewed my licence for the year — that was an easy one 😅

Seeing my wife play around Substack + the Twitter shenanigans has me rethinking social media + communication with my friends & peers. There’s a world where I dedicate enough time across DayOne, Micro.blog, and Substack to link them all together…

“I relate to fast furniture like I do to fast food. It’s empty of culture, and it’s not carrying any history with it.”

How HBO remained on top for 50 years

Treehouse of Horror SZN

“This is what you signed up for. It’s way more boring than rockets, cars, and rockets with cars on them.”

Damn, Rory Smith!

“Think about your bitcoins” reads the post it note

MC Solaar concert tonight at Paris’ Philarmonie 🤩

One for my fellow @WashWizards fans #DCAboveAll #DCFamily ‘John Wall unplugged’

Dungeons & Dragons meets Mental Wellness: How Therapists Are Using Tabletop Games to Help People

King Kendrick Lamar at @AccorArena tonight LFG

Internet outage at home. Fire alarm at WeWork and “not an exercise”. One of those days innit?!

Now that I’m home and it’s the weekend, it’s time for a Halloween Double-Frature at the cinema: first Smile then Halloween Ends See y’all on the other side! 🎃👻💀🔪🎥🎞️

Under the Skin of Jamie Lee Curtis

Won my first @ACMomento last night, from the @SevillaFC auction: Yung Kike

Imagine… just imagine…

When they show you who they are: believe them

I just recommended My Life in Red and White on ‘Oku.Club’

LDN Day 3:

LDN Day 2: Shoreditch by day and Covent Garden by night

LDN Holidays Day 1

Playing around with @AnyDistanceClub on the commute back home

Great brunch today, always in good company

Morning Rituals

Weather in Paris: an update

“The Guys of My Generation Are Hooked on Fantasy Sports”

Snaps from last weekend in Pau

NCE > MAD

First day wearing pants (during the day, outside of going out in the evening) since the start of the summer

24hr in London for work but my best surprise and discovery was staying at the Standard 🤩

After 2-3+ years back on Brave, I think it might be time to get back to Safari!

Outfit of the day is everything @PietParra

Been telling everyone I know about this so no surprises there!

My love language: (for context, I woke up to this message after recommending @AllAtOnceMovie to someone in one of the communities I’m a part of)

Mentally I’m still in my South of France

Went to see Elvis last night and honestly, ⭐️⭐️🌟 Great performance from Austin Butler, though I wish the first 10-15mn were less chaotic :)

“So tell me what I see when I look in your eyes Is that you, baby, or just a brilliant disguise?”

Another fun day together today!

Snaps from Fête de la Musique

Fun pics from the past couple of days

Waking up is hard to do…: As I pointed out three years ago, if you woke up on a Casper mattress, worked out with a Peloton, _Uber_ed to a WeWork, ordered on DoorDash for lunch, took a Lyft home, and ordered dinner through Postmates only to realize your partner had already started on a Blue Apron meal, your household had, in …

Still thinking about Racacoonie 🦝

Solid weekend on @letterboxd if you ask me…

These people are so fucking rich they created their own version of WestWorld

It’s 10am, we can do this 🥵 💪🏼 ☀️

Everything Everywhere All At Once: I’ve waited for SO DAMN LONG to be able to see @AllAtOnceMovie — such an incredible film!

"Cities" by PG: I tried living there for a bit last year, and the ambitions of the inhabitants are not intellectual ones. The message Paris sends now is: do things with style. I liked that, actually. Paris is the only city I’ve lived in where people genuinely cared about art. In America only a few rich people …

“Baltimore Tibz”, Summer Edition

Bon appétit

Repping @NorfolkTides today 🙌🏼

First homemade cold brew of the season!

Morning Workspace at Musée de la Vie Romantique

Back home, jet lagged, and so happy to be back where we belong

TRAMPS LIKE USSSSSS BABY WE WERE BORN TO RUUUUUUUUUUN!

.@Orioles & affiliated minor league teams (@shorebirds @NorfolkTides @BowieBaysox) hat collection is in full fledge! #MinorAddiction #FittedHats

I’m a simple man: if I’m in the US, I need my share of bbq & Buffalo wings 🍗

📸 NY Randoms

Day One

It started so well tho

2 months since my last haircut — rarely been more excited to get a fresh trim! 💇🏻‍♂️ #NYReady

Shorts & t-shirt SZN

Next week at this time, I’ll be in NY w/the crew! Can’t wait!

Didn’t work out today for the first time in a few weeks (I’ve been doing daily workout since wife left for a few weeks) But this evening walk delivered the views!

My spoiler-FULL review of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is up!

This Miami Beach guided run on Apple Fitness+ was all kinds of awesome!

Glad I avoided more football pain and decided to go to the cinema instead! Next up: #DoctorStrange tomorrow

Just logged on to @Tumblr for the first time in a few years (always kept my Tumblr blog…) and happy to see that there’s now additional paid options for ad-free browsing, patreon-like paid memberships, and an easy way to promote a post. Food for thought… 🤔

Crisis: avoided. Now 5 years to try to make things better in this country.

Making plans to meet up in person with people you’ve followed/become friendly with online for the past few years — that feeling is undefeated! 🙌🏼

Wonderful afternoon at the #R92BO rugby game! #RacingFamily

Was talking about it with @Complexion in the FutureBeats show community, but can we talk about how low-key good @AppleTVPlus has become as a service? (doing less, HBO-style, originals only, but at high production quality/value)

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"@Pusha_T is to coke references what Larry David is to absurd social situations" [≠]

Afternoon soundtrack

Evenings/Nights like these is when #Paris is at its best: mid-season, clear skies with bright lights, street food markets, restaurants and bars are all opened, and everyone is outside, from terrasses-loungers to skateboarders, foodies to theater-goers

Switching to a low-carb vegetarian diet (coupled with daily workouts) while my wife is away, and before the upcoming US trip. Recent meals include: fried curry tofu, lots of konjac, healthy salads, peanut-gochujang tofu… And today: vegan bolognaise with konjac noodles 🍝

Very excited to finally check out @Cinema_Louxor after 3-4 years living just a few blocks from it (to watch ”Wheel of a fortune and Fantasy”, thank you for asking!)

Packed day in Montmartre today for no reason whatsoever Also: kiiiiicks

Monday

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Morning duty: voting in our French presidential election (1st round) 🗳 dropping my wife at the station before she flies to the US for a month (before I join her later next month) ✈️

Summer kicks have arrived!

It’s snowing outside for the second time in a week, but at least there’s this beer and the baseball season just started!

Pics from last weekend and this week so far

I can’t wait for my tacos 🌮

🎞 Deep Water: Reminded me of a mixture of Nocturnal Animals with Gone Girl

Similar but different weekend outfits

This playlist is the perfect way to start the day!

A wonderful afternoon outside and a long walk to checkout the construction of our future home!

Yesterday was a good day!

Changed our routine and started the day by having breakfast outside today! 😎 🥐 🧃 ☕️

This is a pretty incredible and incredibly sad story about Afghanistan’s last Finances Minister, who is now an Uber Driver in the Washington DC area! 🤯 🇦🇫 🇺🇸 😔

⚽️ 🇫🇷 GIROUD SZN

Cold wind on this lunchtime run

As science proves that acts of kindness benefit both giver and receiver, we ask why some people are so much better at putting others first! | "Cool to be kind: being nice is good for us – so why don’t we all do it?"

Has anyone successfully tied a static HTML page on Micro.blog with data fed via API from Trakt.tv / Letterboxd / Last.fm? I’d love to find a way to bring it all together but have limited coding abilities… And would prefer avoiding a branded embed 😅

Happy/Sunny/Spring-y monday

IYKYK

Rain + Humidity + Sweat = 😡 😤 🤮 #AntiRunningRunningClub

Started watching Twin Peaks for the very first time, AMA

A worthy afternoon break

Been watching @LongWayTV as a wonderful escape, via @AppleTVPlus and it’s been wonderful!

Ever since hearing it on the opening track ('Invaincu') of his latest #Multitude album, this @Stromae line has been on my mind!

A good day, punctuated by the opening night screening of #TheBatman

The return of (almost) 5k Thursday

Happy to see that @DuckDuckGo is getting more traction, although a chunk of this is from these crazy fuckers

A really interesting read this morning about Millennials not buying enough wine and the US wine industry slowly freaking out about it…

⚽ Finally took some time to watch this very insightful video about the Women’s game!

Delivery day

This the type of sh*t Soho House wins you over with

In the fall of 2021, MC Solaar finally won his case against his former record label. Since then, his first 3/4 records have finally been uploaded to streaming platforms! Been revisiting them over the past weeks and it’s straight fiya 🔥 🎙 🔥 French Rap GOAT

Oh my! The new Ali Wong special was hilarious!!!

Quiet Parisian morning, and Xiao Long Baos for lunch!

The Legendary ”Harry’s Bar”, open in Paris since 1911, after a 7th Avenue Manhattan bar was displaced and moved to Paris. Still owned by the same family ever since. They allegedly invented the Bloody Mary here in 1921 and the Sidecar in 1925.

Overnight staycation was lovely, thankyouverymuch

Celebration weekend continues

Tonight we celebrated: 5 years together 3 years being married our birthdays 48h apart Dinner at Yamtcha was my favorite meal of all time! And top 3 best restaurant I’ve been to, bar none 🤩

”Tumblr Is Everything” _ The soft, sad freaks on an unprofitable website claimed victory in the battle for the internet’s soul and defined the worldview of a generation._

Can BTS… save the world?

Heading back today

Heading back today

Lovely day yesterday

Evening at the hotel, in good company

Lovely day with the squad today in London, and still found the time to indulge in food and gifts

48h work trip to London!

Chocolate x Peanut Butter Porter from Baltimore Perfect for dessert!

Today was a yummy day!

NYT x Krugman: "How France's Economy Is Surviving the Covid Pandemic": I don’t want to romanticize the French economy or French society, both of which have plenty of problems. And liberals who like to imagine that we could neutralize the anger of the white working class by raising wages and strengthening the social safety net should know that France, whose policies are …

Testing a new communication tool called @OnBeeper which aggregates all messaging apps: Slack Discord Whatsapp iMessage Twitter DMs Instagram DMs Linkedin DMs Telegram Signal etc On paper, this is all kinds of wonderful! If anyone would like to try

“Hanoi Baby Boiii!” Love you @ShanaWeisberg

First uninterrupted 5K in over a decade

Schmigadoon! is hella fun, y’all!

So many podcasts… so little time!

🧧 Happy Lunar New Year everyone! And Chuc Mừng Năm Moi to the Viet fam’ and community! 🇻🇳

🥰 Vibes > Analytics

‘Nightmare Alley’: In case you needed a reminder that Guillermo Del Toro is a master director and storyteller, this is a movie for you! I highly recommend watching this in black and white, preferably in an art house cinema! Somehow I expected more fantastic/surreal elements but aside from that it was a fun and …

“Getir”, “Gorilla”, etc. — come back to me when these groceries-delivery startups crash in <12 months because they thought we couldn’t go to the local butcher/grocer/supermarket by ourselves…

Things to look forward to in the next 17 days: Lunar New Year work trip my 31st bday my wife’s 31st bday our relationship anniversary our wedding anniversary See y’all in March!

What a beautiful cold Sunday morning to plan a double feature at the cinema

TIL: I have slightly abnormously small wrists

Tang Frères x Lunar New Year 2022: Really went all in at the asian supermarket today, ahead of #LunarNewYear next tuesday!

5K Thursday

Prof G x Web3: I don’t necessarily agree with all the points made here, but some things are worth pointing out… ‘Every member of Forbes’s 2021 cryptobillionaires list is a man. A third of them attended Stanford or Harvard. Out of the 12 listed, only one isn’t white. The web3 narrative feels …

One for my #SportsTwitter friends: @Adidas had a nice little sale on the ‘85 retro @RiverPlate jersey! A nice throwback to my #TibzPES career mode game…

Sunday evening :) #NFLPlayoffs #DCAboveAll #DCFamily #LARvsTB

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“How Colonialism Has Shaped the Design World”

Nice day to walk around and figure some stuff out

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Beating #BlueMonday the only way I know how #Pastis

No wonder I felt weird and tired all day: #BlueMonday

Somedays you just have to get back to the basics, you know… #NowPlaying

Paris, 8.10am

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New Book, picked up from the lovely @abbeybookshop #JapaneseBreakfast #CryingInHMart #MichelleZauner

First time headed to the park, third run this week, and longer run have taken so far since I started logging my runs 💪🏼 I still don’t enjoy running, but with the latest variant it’s the best way for me to exercise considering the weather [≠]

A little late but this marks the final beer in my advent calendar — couldn’t hope for anything else than a stout or a porter! 🍺

Falling in love with the new gear from @CastoreUK

Keeping up with my bi-weekly jogging/getting back in shape. Fog/humidity/5 degrees Celsius 🥶

My wife made us some unbelievable Vietnamese beef & carrots stew this evening! 🤤

Delivery day!:  Just upgraded my running/working out gear to some T-shirts and jogging/track pants from Castore — shit was expensive but wow it feels so good! Testing something. Had to get the @IlkayGuendogan away kit from last season: our best goal scorer

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Weekend tales

Oh this is very good @DeckDonohue

Updated my /now page 🤗 tibz.blog/now

NYE prep in progress! Enjoy the celebration, everyone!

My dads delivered the goods tonight

It is just SO beautiful here!

After spending the morning on a train to my parents' home, we made it just in time to unpack, enjoy an espresso, and get back to work for the final work week of the year!

This was so so so good and fun!

Gm frens

Caffeinated morning

She used our leftover Truffle & Ham Mac & Cheeseand turned them into Croquetas 🤩

Catching up on the latest @Trapital newsletter: if you zoom out, this strategy can so easily apply to so many freelancers, creatives, entrepreneurs…

Beer Advent Calendar celebrations, continued… Come say hi on @Untappd

Carnavalet Museum of the City of Paris

Going Schizophrenic this evening #WATMCI #BVBFCB #ROMINT #ATMMLL

The start of my Beer Advent calendar! | Thanks @1PetiteMousse

My Eternals Review: This is was long and had occasional pacing issues but I’m SO GLAD I finally got to see it and on the big screen! As someone who loves storytelling and world-building and who grew up as a HUGE mythology geek, I really liked this! Looking forward to seeing some of these characters again!!! boxd.it

This is… not great!

Ahead of the French Presidential Election next year (May 2022), this is THE English-newsletter to help you understand the landscape! H/T to my friend @LindseyTramuta

As an early fan of @Path, I’m excited to see what is going to come out of @DaveMorin’s new @OfflineVC and the promise of ”well-being term sheets”

“Web2 = login with Facebook or Google. Web3 = log in with your Crypto wallet but don’t steal my data.” 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼 @PetBerisha

Massive respect to my Point Guard Spencer Dinwiddie | @SDinwiddie_25 ‘I like things that make sense’: Wizards’ Spencer Dinwiddie plays the cryptocurrency long game

Stop the count!

Couple of nice memories from the past few days… okay a lot of it is food-related, sorry-not-sorry

Crazy to hear Beal had to play while grieving, but really glad the whole team supported him during that time yesterday! #DCFamily #Wizards

Always love to read @DavidAldridgeDC writing about my @WashWizards

I love that Twitter is now getting a partial re-birth linked to the Crypto community and Jack’s buy-in. I just wish they would focus on the basics a bit more first: moderation, user safety, etc.

Beer and Poutine on a road trip: no need for dinner tonight

Happy 10th Birthday to ‘The Verge’: Happy first decade to The Verge, arguably one of the most important tech media publication of the past decade! I remember how innovative they were from the very start! ”The Verge predates Alexa and the entire concept of Netflix original programming. We are older than Google Photos, Timehop, and …

Living her best life with my dad’s family here in Normandy

Respectfully, Facebook — now Meta— and Zuck can all fuck off, now!

Random shots and recent life updates, including predominantly some delicious food!

Beer Advent Calendar just arrived, courtesy of @1PetiteMousse: can’t wait for December now!

Good news everyone! ✈️🇺🇸🧳🌎

Fourth (4th!) time being in the office since Covid started in March 2020. #RemoteLife

Love waking up to a Ravens win ‘One of the greatest performances I’ve ever seen’: Lamar Jackson believed Ravens could win, then made it happen

boxd.it/2ctcPn

Back to our usual schedule

Candyman

Sometimes you really just have to go Double-or-Nothing

New James Blake alert!

SO happy to be home

Flying back today

#Happy Halloween 🎃 👻

“Single point of (Facebook) failure” — a great and necessary read from my friend and Journalism/Media-expert @Adders!

“Facebook is in trouble.”

Holidays to Maryland, part 3

Holidays to Maryland, part 2

Holidays to Maryland, part 1

“For a nation that was begging international investors to take it seriously just a few years ago, the latest run would seem to validate how far France’s startup scene has come” • France sees biggest ever week for startup funding - Sifted

My friend @imCatNoone and the @GetStarkCo team are launching a native Mac app— looking super useful AND vital to continue making apps more accessible!

The Liberation of Paris From Cars Is Working

Keep calm and listen to @LilNasX’s wonderful debut studio album “Montero”

“Baltimore is not a trendsetting food town.” It’s not, necessarily. But that’s perfectly ok

Fun bike ride to the art installation at Arc de Triomphe today!

“Don’t assume the worst thing’s going to happen, because on the off chance it does, you’ll have lived through it twice.” • Jason Sudeikis Is Having One Hell of a Year

The end of a long freaking week! Final stretch before going on holidays on Tuesday 💪🏼

Dune (2021): Dennis Villeneuve x Game of Thrones x an epic Space Opera. I have a feeling this may not be as accessible as the marketing makes it seem, but I hope many people flock to theaters to watch it!

Fantastic weekend: basketball session Saturday morning. biking from Montmartre to Chinatown and back, for a popup event went to a Racing 92 rugby game last night skateboarding session this morning longboarding across different landmarks this afternoon! caught up with ⚽️ and 🏈

For our last weekend together until she travels to see her family, we ended up going to Versailles: visiting the Royal Palace by day and enjoying the Lights & Fountains show by night!

Party Tibz

Got’em! 👟 🛹

Like riding a bike right?!

Inject it!

Fantastic date night and a movie at the theater… The Wong Kar-wai sanctioned 4K restauration looks incredible on the big screen of a theater! Highly recommend this experience over anything “at home”

Korean Movie night: One of the many perks living in Paris: I’ve got an all-you-can-eat pass to go to the cinema! This evening I was planning an outing to an art house theater which was planning to show a 35mm screening of Sympathy for Lady Vengeance however their 35mm projector is down. So as a backup they’re showing …

I can’t express how happy it makes me to see #ShangChi, a global blockbuster with a predominately Asian cast and crew, with a huge marketing campaign taking over in my city!

My yearly @sleeperhq fantasy football draft for this year! Excited for the new season!

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Went dogsitting in the city with @chrstnerode’s wonderful Yoshi! We had a fantastic time with our new friend 🤩

This article about the post-pandemic skating boom and culture warms my heart so much!

Call me crazy but I’m on track to break a new personal record — so glad I picked up that unlimited Cinema card…

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Gratuitous selfie: “Make ‘em jump like Rod Strickland” 🏀

Today’s trip to the islands across from the coast: Sainte Marguerite

About last night

Big news: after our recent Series C announcement, I’m excited to share that we’re hiring for a direct coworker in my team (#CustomerSuccess on the multi-disciplinary One-To-Many team! #nowhiring Sharing appreciated!

I forgot how much I hated traveling over the summer when families and young kids are like 80% of other travelers 😑

In other work-related news, we (@Spendesk) just announced our Series C

Fun past couple of days!

Fellow Sports Fans, this is your mandatory weekend reading sorted!

Happy John Mayer release day!

Casually walking around, when suddenly…

When the President @EmmanuelMacron is planning a Public Service Announcement speech related to Covid, this is how we dine:

🎸 Listening to mid-90s to late 200s alt-rock and pop-rock! Bring on Oasis, Lifehouse, Goo Goo Dolls, Smashing Pumpkins 😅

Your summer reminder to “Praise in Public” and “share Feedback in Private”! A little effort goes a long way! #mondaywisdom

Can I please get a #SundayRead or #LongRead about how “How Does It Feel?” by D’Angelo might be one of the best and most sexually loaded love songs ever written and performed?

”Get over them by getting under me”

Celebrate small victories, always!

Recent movies watched at the cinema: Baseball Girl Korean Film Festival in Paris. Beyond the baseball aspects (which I love) this movie was more about societal and political issues. Highly recommend! Annette La La Land meets Real Life meets Greek Tragedy A Quiet Place Did not see the story going in this direction, and a good time at …

Street food evening at Belleville tonight #LeFoodMarket #KimchiHotdog

Upgraded my work laptop from a 2018 MBP to one of the new Macbook Air on M1. It’s like going to your first IMAX cinema screening!

Been a very nice evening over here

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Discovered this Brazilian-Japanese bar & restaurant in the middle of the city! Fantastic find! Also, fun fact: São Paulo has the biggest number of Japanese people outside of Japan, which I had no idea about

A lovely weekend

#NowPlaying

I am here for this fantastic French cultural reference on @AmyLawrence71’s article on the French National team

Anyone who knows me well should know that I’m a sucker for a good late night talk show, so this weekend read about Conan O’Brien’s farewell was just what I needed 🤗📺

I’m old now

Fka The Weekend

Y’all call this candy in the US 🇺🇸 I call this sugar-coated-in-flavoring-and-coloring

Got my Washington Bullets retro jersey from Brooklyn Fizz delivered today — so excited, my very first basketball one! 💪🏼 🏀

🦉👏🏼 One full year of learning Vietnamese on @Duolingo! 🏆 🇻🇳 #DuoStreakSociety

Absolutely loved reading @LaurenzCollins' feature piece about @OmarSy (@Netflix’s #Lupin) in @NewYorker. It’s about the actor, the show, but also so much more about French society and modern history today!

À propos of nothing: I can confirm that tourists have started traveling back to Paris. In the second half of the summer last year, it was mostly Europeans (Italians and Spaniards, predominantly.) This time around, the number of overseas US visitors is skyrocketing by the day!

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The immediate follow-up for me now is to think about Micro.blog vs DayOne vs Tumblr (also an Automattic acquisition) For the use that I personally have, all of these have inter-connections…

Wow, Day One (my journal app since 2010) acquired by Automattic is not something I thought I’d see. Could be very exciting and interesting though…

Good evening, Paris

A perfect Sunday morning: walking to get a morning coffee at a café terrace picking up some pastries and fresh produce preparing a homemade brunch, along with fresh juice and coffee

A picture is worth a thousand words, so here’s my 3000 word essay about this Sunny Saturday

Lovely afternoon!

Ok — completely validating #MissionSaigon from @TasterKitchens

❤️ Partners in crime forever ♾

I hereby declare Cold Brew season… OPEN!

I’m on the last train running home

Loving my new friend 🥰

Pre-curfew social activities

Bonsoir 🌇

📸🎙🖼 My wife’s work and art is being featured today on The Avid Pen

My first bike in my adult life! (MBK Super Sport from the late 80s)

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Summer Vibes ready!

US v Europe, an allegory

A trip down to my parents’ place means that I’ve been able to recover a few records!

A nice day!

Home

You know the vibes

“Les voyages en train”

One last little walk in Montmartre before going on a weeklong holiday ✌🏼

The people around us have been very impressed with my wife’s complete change of career. She’s going live in a few days with another fellow creative (@britt_mgreene) for a session about just that. More info here!

I need need need the Hoi An shirt from the latest @BledFC collection!

Trying to think about what would be the simplest/cheapest and overall best way to set up an automated newsletter whenever I post something on Micro.blog 🤔 Maybe something based on the RSS feed of my “Life" category to keep up with friends & family…

Bank Holiday Monday

Sunday

Montmartre, a green walk between rainy skies

My CotCot is back!: My local fried chicken place has finally reopened after months of shutting down during the winter and pandemic! I’m super excited as they’re part of the way that I experience the neighborhood and I’m mildly addicted to fried chicken! This makes for a lovely weekend outing and conclusion to the big …

Katsu sandwich thank you very very much!

Literal first drink outdoors this year! #EnTerasse

And now for tonight’s entertainment

studiosensibilite.com

During Covid Times, I don’t exactly have drinking buddies… basically I need more @Untappd friends!

I am here for this article about Tech, Accessibility, and Inclusion by my friend @ImCatNoone!

Today’s uniform

THERAPY & CATHARSIS is singing this at the top of my lungs!

Achievement unlocked

Mood: Fate fell short this time Your smile fades in the summer Place your hand in mine I’ll leave when I wanna

#AAPI Heritage Month: Wonderful takeover on Apple Music to celebrate #AAPI (Asian American & Pacific Islanders) heritage month! If you can, watch the @MrEddieHuang interview and the short film about being Unapologetically Asian please do that too!

I stopped caring what people thought about me at 18 years old, and I can’t stress enough how great it’s been for my own mental health, sense of success, and dealing with success or failure!

Monday Wisdom: Be kind to others but don’t forget to be even kinder to yourself!

Pep, you beautiful genius:

A good leader knows how/when to delegate… : Perhaps it might seem strange to some people to praise the player who decided not to take the decisive free kick. What those people might not understand is that De Bruyne, by choosing to step away, was absolutely taking responsibility. In the process, he was also demonstrating why he had the …

Black & White outfit type of day

Saturday Memories

A few weeks ago, my wife and I decided to treat ourselves and wanted to make sure we’d remember this difficult 2020-2021 in a positive light. We had our photos taken by @FlaneriePhoto on an early morning in the City. Love how it turned out!

#FreeDC

Don’t be fooled – the Super League clubs gambled everything and they blew it

Fantastic breakdown of the awful and disastrous European Super League on @TheAthletic today! European Super League explained: the contracts, plots and threats that shook football to its core

Happy @Offspring release day! 🤘🏼 🎸 🔥

“I always felt like one of the best ways to get to know people was to watch them play basketball, so basketball has always been this thing within which I’ve studied humanity.” | After the scars of ‘Fresh Off the Boat,’ Eddie Huang took control on ‘Boogie’

“I’m going to do what white people have done to us for so long, which is to take our stuff, take our people out of it, and put themselves in.” —via Instapaper

This resonates heavily! “Stop looking for a place you fit in. The world I’ve created for myself, the friends that I have, that’s my world. There’s not another country or place to go to. I accept being different, and I enjoy it.” @MrEddieHuang Has Come Down from the Mountain

Random 📸 shots

People who have known me for over 5 years know of my love of indie publications! Stoked to have supported @CourierMedia for years and even more so since @DanielGiaco joined!

Cocktail Hour: 1 oz Agave 0.5 oz St Germain fill with litchi juice

Thank you @laurenzcollins — I’ve been so flabbergasted by this monstrosity! If we could at least not call these ‘tacos’, everything would be better in the world 😅🌯

My first concert was on April 14th, 2004. (First concert away from going with my parents, etc.) Ever since then, something interesting has ALWAYS happened on April 14th. Let’s see if it all goes according to plan tomorrow :)

The other thing that drives me 🍌/🥜 is organizing social group gatherings (which are illegal for the time being BTW). Sometimes it’s really tiring living in a country where the default culture is to do as you please, regardless of official government guidelines… 🤬😤

Having a hard time empathising with French people going on holidays to Spain rn. Besides the legally-gray area (we’re currently in lockdown), the audacity of traveling abroad while the pandemic rages on feels incredibly selfish. We’re barely supposed to leave our 10km radius.

We’re on another snow alert until tomorrow afternoon but here I am squeezing in a quick run… 🤷🏻‍♂️ 🥶

👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼 Thank you and well-done, Maryland! “Maryland enacts landmark police overhaul, first state to repeal police bill of rights“ 🚓

Big throwback #OnThisDay: a hot afternoon walking around in Dubai :) This #TibzWorldTour was definitely the trip of a lifetime!

Foxes Rock American Style IPA - Supporting Northern Ireland today 💪🏼 🇪🇺 Shared using @untappd #untappd

🇫🇷 About Time

There was good light in here

Happy Easter y’all! 🐰 🍫 🥚 🌱

Quick run before the Easter festivities today!

Holy shit: 533 million Facebook users' personal information leaked online 🤯 but you still won’t quit FB right?!

🇫🇷 I beg my international friends and followers to read this piece about France and the French — it’s TOO spot on!

Cocktail Lockdown SZN

Places old and new

Not Heading To #Paris This Summer? The #Louvre Has Digitized 482,000 Artworks

Taking a few days off, and really started with waking up at 6am to do a morning photo shoot with my wife, in Paris 🤩

Apologies in advance to ALL social media marketers… but all things considered maybe we should all put all Social Networks on pause for a bit…

Been listening to my pop punk staples for the past week and it’s legitimately helped with my mental health! Fall Out Boy, MCR, Simple Plan, Blink, Green Day, Sun 41, where my pop punk squad at?!

Sunday fun day

Empty stomach 🤤 + 7% beer 🍺 = 😵🤪

Pandemic, lockdown, and sunshine: Cocktail season is upon us!

About life outside of work...: Little known thing about me: I take my fun very seriously! The past year, living through this global pandemic, has definitely had its ups and downs. In these difficult times, I’m incredibly grateful to have found my place as part of a few wonderful online communities. I’m proud to have …

Monday Wisdom: “It’s a marathon, not a sprint” — apply it where needed (in life, at work, in creativity, or anywhere you see fit) and see you at the finish line!

Random shots

Always lovely to see a mention of my @mindtheproduct friends in other corners of the Internet!

Thanks @complexion @darkxrez 🥰

While I manage my own, Stop telling women they have Impostor Syndrome

My parents are giving me a serious case of wanderlust!

Third Wave Third Lockdown in Paris… Here we go!

Having a hard time justifying/tolerating the selfishness of people around me traveling to Italy/Spain for a week-long holiday, enjoying bars and restaurants 😞 🤷🏻‍♂️

Recent pics 📸

#StopAsianHate

Wonderful

Mondays amirite?!

Work hard, but don’t take yourself too seriously!

French Lunch

Even a year of Pandemic won’t bring us down!

Had to break out the #BelAir on this sunny weekend @MikeDSykes #TheKicksWeWear

Pandemic Mood Lifters — if you know you know!

Friday’s amirite

New addiction

No joke, I’ve been listening to this podcast since I was 13-15, about 15 years ago! Still one of my favorite shows to listen to today!

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Anyone else had their formative Internet years on Tumblr? 🙋🏻‍♂️ (Along with MySpace and early years FB/Twitter)

In our Very-Online lives, it’s hard to remember some eras we’ve lived through… Let’s rewind back to the 2010-2015 Tumblr years…

Holy shit @KITH is opening a store in Paris!

What a great life story— and a great video from the Times too

Ahead of #PSGASM, a great memory from last year’s epic 3-3 draw with the one and only @walexturner

Virtual Office Activity: @Spendesk Cooking Class with a famous chef! Can’t wait to taste this tiramisu!

Sign me the f*** up for Emma Stone’s Cruella

Curfew Anniversary Authentic Mexican Food

Well, looks like I’m gonna start being a regular on the Manchester is Blue podcast! ⚽️💙

Whoever put the Dr Mario mosaic above a medical lab, THANK YOU!

Bourse du Commerce and its rotunda is finally fully renovated! Gorgeous area!

Was wonderful to take a day off today! Birthday week + Lunar New Year celebrations + a lovely winter walk in town!

Happy 30th to the love of my life!

New delivery from @1PetiteMousse — love to discover new different types of beers

The Artist

Decadent leftover lunch: Southern-American style chicken & waffles

Snow Day ❄️

Accurate

30th' birthday lunch!: I might ask her to marry me again…

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1️⃣7️⃣

February is my favorite month and time of the year: birthdays & anniversaries season + @SixNationsRugby (always a good time for family time, together or apart!)

Merci @1PetiteMousse ! #BeerOClock

Nice to see some blue sky today after a few too many rainy days in a row

We’re a fortnight away from Lunar New Year (Têt in Vietnamese) so this article from @aqnguyen was published at the right time!

About Signal’s recent growth: a fascinating in-depth look by @caseynewton!

I’m definitely over the top tonight: not sure how she keeps up with me sometimes haha 😛 #TibzTheSportsGuy

Thank the @Calm gods for this new @Deadmau5 focus mix

Happy @Rhye album release day! #Home

Oh so Macklemore is back from Paternity Leave?!

Wow the new WhiteHouse.gov website runs on @Wordpress

Truly a historic day! Almost time to party and breathe a collective sigh of relief! 🎉 🇺🇸 🥲

Another fun @Spendesk company delivery today!

Snow day in Paris, first time I see this in person since 2012

2021 is the year I spend less time on @Twitter but more time on @Untappd and @Vivino

Vietnamese

2021 is the new that I switch/upgrade to Raw Denim

Haven’t had a CASS since my trip to Korea in 2017! 🤤 🍺

🐞 Taking care of our pet ladybug at lunchtime… this little one found itself in the kitchen a few days ago, and we’ve seen her pop back on occasion. Since it’s cold outside it was time to create a little environment for her :)

FUUUUCK it is 0*C outside right now!

Heat check on a cold winter day!

Let’s be honest this is happening about 5 years too late but better late than never, I guess

The NHL is almost back so here’s a good opportunity to share one of my favorite things of all time: watching hockey games in Canadian French It makes sense considering the history but I didn’t know it was possible until I discovered it last year!

I feel seen: have had to go through these hoops since 2009 so it felt nice to see an acknowledgment that immigrants have always had to deal with technology to keep up with family back home!

2021 off to a good start 👑

Wow, @PTComedy wrote a touching letter to his infant daughter about #Brexit!

Perfect end of a two weeks-long holiday: ⚽️ #CHEMCI at 5:30pm. 🏈 #Ravens at Bengals at 7pm. 🍝 Lasagna dinner at 8pm. 🏉 #ASMR92 at 9pm. 😴 Sleep at 11pm. I’m a simple and happy man!

Very cold but efficient run today! strava.app.link/bwJbEP8fK…

New Year’s Day

The best NYE is the one you have in your own home #BonneAnnee #2021 #HappyNewYear #Byebye2020

Pixar’s #Soul is hella fun and wholesome! Perfect watch to wrap up 2020!

“German Christmas Market” feast over-delivered!

Taking Xmas present #2 for a ride today

A lovely Christmas Day!

If I hadn’t married this woman, I definitely would now, on the spot

Merry Christmas and happy holidays everybody 🎄

Lovely day out despite the grey, today

When that private sale on Korean Skincare product hits: #SpaDay

Experimenting with #Spectre for long exposure + Post Processing in #VSCO

Company Corporate Swag leveled up this year! 😷👕 @Spendesk

My German coworker came to Paris bearing GIFTS 🎁 🍻 🇩🇪

Memories from my trip around the world, on a warm summer day in Bali

Years after @danielgiaco recommended it to me in person, I’ve finally read ”All That Man Is” by David Szalay. An introspective read for me, as I get closer to 30 years old and wrap up the year just before taking a break fir the holidays

Will be off work for two weeks starting this weekend. Good opportunity to update and refresh my website/microblog & social profiles!

I’m participating in a (niche) podcast for the first time in ages later this evening! Looking forward to it, but I feel a bit of impostor syndrome for the first time in a while. Though the excitement means it’s something I care about 🤗 💙

Happy Hannukah! 🕎

Quite excited about my Fantasy Basketball team 🏀🤩

SNKRS: “A process that delivers both heartache and joy at proportions probably only mirrored by the New York Knicks and their dedicated fanbase.”

Happy @Kidcudi release day! #MotM3

Her first Christmas tree ever 🎄

🍔 The (veggie) Burger Queen strikes again

Bar: stocked

So proud: my wife was interviewed to talk about interior design, art, and staying creative during the pandemic!

I take my duty as a husband very seriously!

Me, a @WashWizards fan: “Aww man, I feel sad that the Wiz traded John Wall, even for Russ” My wife (a Maryland native and formerly living in DC) who turned me into a Wizards fan: “Well, they couldn’t win anything for 10 years, so maybe the change is good…”

Here’s to a great weekend

#Thanksgiving dinner was fantastic this year thankyouverymuch

Random walk

Anyone who knows my wife knows how much she loves cheese— more than dessert! So I got her a CHEESE ADVENT CALENDAR this year 😆 🧀

Getting ready for Thanksgiving (since Thursday isn’t a holiday in France, we waited until the weekend)

Love these hidden little Parisian passages

Pumpkin pie & Espresso Martini!

We bought a bar cart!

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Boozy couple of days

When life & work gets stressful, I’m grateful that I can always count on @Complexion’s The Future Beats Show

Sunday Morning

Saturday

Got btns?

Love that @Apple is doing this: “A Parents’ Guide to Among Us”

Day awff

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Good morning @ParisJeTaime!

Wonderful way to start the morning ☀️ 😊 “Maggie Haberman lives rent-free in Donald Trump’s head”

Lol: They moved to exotic locales to work through the pandemic in style. But now tax trouble, breakups and Covid guilt are setting in.

Took a wonderful pre-lunch walk today 🤗 💕

It’s about that time! #MCILIV

👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼 @Verge: President Trump is defeated: the timeline is restored

👛 🧺 🦷 Just went in a bargain shopping spree and bought a 2 year supply of laundry detergent, toothbrushes and toothpaste. Ask me anything.

Two highlights of the day #GoodVibesOnly: family sent over food goodies and specialities from back home and a very good friend working for Puma gifted me this season’s @ManCity home kit ❤️ 🤩 😭

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Morning run

5:45pm local time, US election day. Beer o’clock? Bourbon Time?

“How to convince your friends to vote?” Great podcast idea from my friends at Cappuccino

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It’s Steelers week for this Ravens fan! 💪🏼🐦 🏈 #RavensFlock

Lockdown outing for the legal hour-long walk

About last night: #lockdown part deux, day one

And now for tonight’s entertainment… a gorgeous Australian beer (#Straya #Melbourne) with fantastic notes of chocolate

Dia de los MuerTibz

“In this house we take our food very fucking seriously”

Well, we’re going into to lockdown again so…

An afternoon walk… #Paris

Incredible article that really hits home, from @vanessa_hua

My @AppleMusic recommendations have been incredibly on-point lately! 🤩

Really insightful Sacha Baron Cohen itw in @NYTimes this weekend! Worth a read regardless of whether you enjoy his films!

I finally figured out how to make “second screen” work on our TV, perfect for game days! #MUNCHE + #BVBSCH #RevierDerby

Testing @Halide #HalideMkII with quick VSCO edits

I’m the type of person who creates a custom @Loom video to respond to my customers, AND I WAVE AT THE END WHEN I SAY GOODBYE

Fuck 2020, we livin’! Invest in yourself, your home, your life 😊

Sometimes, @NYTimes writes really simple articles. I like it!

Wow: RIP Van Halen 🎸 🤘🏼 😢

First time watching this, ever! About time!

George Caulkin with the wisdom “Shut up, it’s only been two games!”

Tell the right and far-right to fuck off, please and thank you!

So many podcasts… so little time!

I need a lot more #VelvetUnderground in my life!

French weekend dinner

“French Fast Food & Home Décor”

Thinking of COVID and Parisians’ attitude of disregard of guidelines when it comes to sacrifices of their oh-so-important social life, I can only think of a quote from my wife, recently: “Better be lonely than dead”

About last night…

None of this is surprising, but holy shit he’s insane. Out-of-his-mind carelessness!

Tonight was our Fantasy Football draft! Excited!

“You think Rome is going away too? London? Tokyo? The East Village? They’re not. They change. They mutate. They re-form. Because greatness is rare. And the true greatness that is New York City is beyond rare.”

Jerry Seinfeld: So You Think New York Is ‘Dead’

Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’ - The Atlantic

“can you all see my screen?”

Home inspiration

Nice day out today: running errands in style, shopping, and starting a locally-sourced liquor cabinet

Micro-photo-blogging series from the past few weeks in the south of France and being back in Paris

Wow, the latest episode of @TedLasso had everything! Excitement, drama, and a soul crushing finish! Can’t wait for more: this show is real!

Definitely a bit of a mindfuck but TENET was fantastic! Such great casting, music, cinematography and a complex story!

The one time I’ll support PSG: in the final #UCL final against a foreign team I don’t support…

Bye bye 👋🏼 see you soon #Paris

Had to go to the fancy part of town today to run an errand…

Ok then…

First beer and first pizza in 3 months, had to go to the award winning #Bijou

This heat is very uncomfortable

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Morning ride before the heatwave hit

The only way to eat during a heatwave!

Japanese drinks & dinner, and Lebanese ice-cream

So excited for the return of the @ChampionsLeague #UCL tonight! #CmonCity #MCIRMA

B*tch I’m livin la vida loca [=]

Morning light on the couch 😊

Views

A Good Day

Dim sums and the slow end of my keto diet/transitioning to low-carb

Life comes at you fast! Stay safe out there!

About time

“Automobiles kill around 90,000 Americans every year — about 40,000 in car accidents, and an estimated 50,000 more from long-term exposure to air pollution emitted by cars." ≠

Dear Business Insider, when a company is worth $1.3B, with several hundred employees, I think you can stop calling it a startup…

#TheHood > Your Hood

#BlackJoyMatters

New Vlog: I published a new Vlog yesterday :) been a while!

Been a while #RunMontmartre

Ran 2.20 kilometers with Nike⁠ Run Club in Montmartre! Good morning!

🇻🇳 😃 Been learning Vietnamese via @Duolingo for 65 days and yesterday was the funniest yet: Kangaroo is literally “mouse with a bag/pocket” 🦘 => ** chuột túi ** 🐁 💼

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CORNICHONS WILL SAVE US FROM COVID

Life comes at you fast: @AS_Monaco is sacking coach for Robert Moreno and hopes to bring in Nico Kovac

Stoked to reconnect with @lostncheeseland (albeit briefly) and celebrating the release of her latest book #TheNewParisienne

La Belle Époque

“You look like a Candy Cane 🍭”, she said! #AupaAtleti 🔴⚪️

Afternoon adventures

““Sports are like the reward of a functioning society.” We don’t have a functioning society right now so we dont get to safely have team sports. Sean Doolittle: Sports are a reward America must earn - The Washington Post

More random shots from this weekend 📸 🖼

First time out of Paris in 5 months

Friends, food, and weekend trips by train!

Amour

First time at the Cinema since early March! #Memento

NYT: “I’ve Seen a Future Without Cars, and It’s Amazing”

Bonsoir Montmartre

Time for some popcorn 🍿

Views from our walk tonight around Montmartre

Goodnight #Paris (Made with #VSCO)

A really interesting visit at the National Museum of Immigration in Paris today!

Wow Hamilton really IS all that! 5️⃣⭐️

Home sweet home

Saturday morning “Montmartre is a Parisian Village” run

‪Today, my wife and I received these incredible artwork from @britt_mgreene!‬ ‪It’s even more beautiful in person! Thanks Brittany!‬

Day 48 of learning Vietnamese via @duolingo 💪🏼 🇻🇳

Another evening walk 😊

Evening walk 😊

Pistachio, a love story

Despite the weather, yesterday was a great day!

When she wants me to focus on the essential things… like 🧀

Fary x Colors: Ok. So let’s say I’m changing my first name… Would it make you look past the fact that I’m not as fair-skinned as other names? Like, if I get a “whiter” French name… What’s the idea, that I’ll whiten over time ? Oh sure, you “don’t …

“The coronavirus recovery is an opportunity do to everything differently, not go back to normal“

“Assa Traoré and the Fight for Black Lives in France” via @Instapaper

I’m catching up on the #SnapPartnerSummit (@Snap) and I love the idea of Snapchat being the social layer for life, especially over the FB/IG monolith!

20 days into our Keto Diet and I stopped feeling drowsy in the afternoon + started feeling a lot more energized/focused/thinking more clearly lately! Almost feels like a Productivity Superpower where I’m able to do 20-30% more within the same time constraints.

First run since starting keto diet, didn’t run in about 10 days 🥵😤

No Room for Excuses: @Netflix released its documentary 13th, in its entirety on Youtube, for free! Please watch it as soon as you can!

NYT: "Macron Beat Back the Coronavirus. France Is Not Impressed.": “France has fared better than many in the pandemic, especially when compared with the United States, Italy, Spain and especially Britain. Just don’t tell that to the French, who resent Mr. Macron for it more than ever.” This is what I refer to when I say that my French people tend to be …

“This is the moment Colin Kaepernick helped create”

Took some time to re-visit one of the biggest flea markets in the world, in our backyard

Damn, 14-yo are really freaking smart these days

Walking around town, and a jungle at home

Spicy Life, Happy Wife

WTF! They did follow his advice: “People have put bleach their food. Others have gargled or inhaled it. And some have washed their bodies with household cleaning and disinfectant products.”

A few thoughts and resources about Racial Injustice & Empathy: This week has been draining. It’s no longer possible to stay on the sidelines and watch the situation silently. What’s happening now in the US is a fight that also happens here in France, and in many other places across Europe and around the World. As a light continues to shine on …

My friend @AsantePhenix just released a brand new single today! Please go check it out!

Please if you watch just one thing today make it this one!

A message from the President of the United States

Thank you #RunTheJewels!

Which Side Are You On?

Looks like tonight’s as good a time as any to start watching #ThePlotAgainstAmerica #TVCatchup

Hell of a week to start with Keto Flu 🤷

Great to see @Snap / @TheSnapCamera promote #APAHM with dedicated filters!

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Friday night urban photo shoot

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Did I misunderstand this whole article, or does this translate to: “ Europe has a real opportunity to come out of this as a stronger alliance of countries ” ?

Treat people around you well, at all times, no matter what you’re going through, and 99% of the time, it’ll pay off in the best type of human compounding interest!

No surprisethere: ‘Even as the death toll neared 100,000 and unemployment ranks swelled to over 38 million, Trump couldn’t see the pandemic as anything other than something that had happened to him. “The problem is he has no empathy,” the adviser said.’ Source:

Nothing like French Quarantine Horniness

Still feel like Jay Z’s 4:44 is underrated… 🤷🎼

Binged @NextInFashion in 24h and now I’ve upgraded my entire wardrobe with 2 new pair of pants from Uniqlo 👖 👌🏼 Inspiration can be found anywhere!

Get your wife a wedding dress that she can wear more than one single day in her life 👌🏼

Best investment ahead of a partially locked down summer: a cold brew bottle x filter courtesy of Hario and our neighborhood coffee roaster 👌🏼 ☕️ 🧊

“How in the world does it make sense for a company in a low-margin, long-established business with financials like this to rack up $17 billion in debt?”

Been catching up on @LilTunechi’s #YoungMoneyRadio show on @Beats1 @AppleMusic and it’s impossible to dislike Wayne, I swear! One of the most wholesome rappers out there!

Ready for the return of the @bundesliga! Go @blackyellow #BVB #Dortmund #Revierderby

Afternoon working in the jungle

‪👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼 @LostNCheeseland 🇫🇷: ‪“While Americans blithely debated the importance of restarting the economy even if it comes at the expense of more human life, French leaders deliberated at length about the right moment and the safest approach to reopening for business”‬

New favorite afternoon drink, now that days are getting slightly warmer: pouring an espresso shot into a glass of milk!

LOL the remote #ParksAndRecs reunion is low key brilliant!

“Paris is no more Paris without its smart young people chattering outside at now closed cafes than New York is New York without skyscrapers. Paris reduced to its architectural essence is grandiose but cold, an unreal postcard.”

“The institutions through which Americans build have become biased against action rather than toward it. They’ve become “vetocracies,” in which too many actors have veto rights over what gets built.” Congress can’t rebuild US infrastructure until America rebuilds Congress - Vox

Mood. Damn.

Weekend Plans: finding Aperol and/or Martini #CocktailGang

Bonsoir Paris

I miss sports. Watching and playing. ⚽️🏀🏈⚾️🏉🛹⛹🏻‍♂️💪🏼

Yesterday was a tough day, stressful and all. But today is already more than making up for it, both personally and professionally 👌🏼

Bonjour Paris

One of us is a vegetarian, but the other one hasn’t told it to them

Weekend trip to the local bakery

This is a Friday evening message to say: I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I’M DOING! :)

Hour-long meetings that could be summarized in 10mn w/access to slides ahead of time

“The TV Show I love: Grey’s Anatomy” | www.nytimes.com

I feel incredibly grateful to our leadership and HR/Admin team for ensuring that we all feel cared for. The people-first approach taken by our leaders is refreshing and continues to comfort me in the decision I made a year ago to join @Spendesk!

Well that’s the weekend (or the rest of the confinement period) sorted then

We finally got the new @SlackHQ redesign and I’m happy to report that these smaller iterations are making life a lot more manageable!

Week 4

It was three years ago that I left for my big year-long trip around the world! 🗺🤯

A long but good day overall

OK, whoever recommended @EndelSound — THANK YOU! Feel like I got more done this afternoon alone than on Thursday+Friday last week!

Can’t make this shit up

Quarantine week 3

😢 Dammit, I really miss my PS4 🤷🏻‍♂️

‪Not the hero we deserve but the one we need right now… thank you Frank!‬ ‪music.apple.com/artist/fr… #FrankOcean #DearApril #Cayendo‬

We’ve onboarded as many employees during Q1 2020 (this past quarter) than there were employees a year ago during Q1 2019. Insane.

When I was planning it, I thought this previous meeting was going to be a shitshow, but it turned out great, thankfully. 💪🏼🙌🏼 So I suppose impostor syndrome never really left, it was just sitting quietly in the corner, waiting for an opportunity to pop by and say hi! 🤷🏻‍♂️

My favorite @TheSnapCam x @Zoom_US is the glitter-one — making internal meetings a little more fun!

It’s incredibly difficult to focus today

Thinking of which Sagas I could rewatch over the next few days/weeks. Of the top of my head: The Lord of the Rings (possibly with The Hobbit) Resident Evil Fast & Furious James Bond (only a select few) Am I missing something? Any recommendations?

Empty #montmartre run again today

This is usually one of the busiest streets of #Montmartre #Paris

This cover from Sports Illustrated 🤯 😢 ⚽️ 🏀 🏈

Daily meditation courtesy of @calm and @kingjames

Fantastic Photo-Essay in The Times today

Giving #Brave another chance… Firefox is solid but can still be a bit clunky on Mac.

Quarantine Diary: did some yoga today! And boy-oh-boy am I NOT flexible!

”Humans – even entitled millenials – are experts in adaptation. But no one said that adaptation wasn’t painful.” Really happy to see my friend @TonyHymes back to blogging during these times!

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If you’re looking for some great music to get you more relaxed or focused over the next few days and week, I can only recommend @Complexion’s #TFBS

As a big Sports Fan, this article hits home! — “Let’s keep sports in perspective right now” | The Athletic

You know it’s the endtimes when #JayElectronica drops his album after a 12 year wait!

Now’s the time to go all in on empathy and kindness Be good to one another: your loved ones and your coworkers, but also to strangers you might see come across in grocery stores or in your apartment building.

Fascinating to see that the Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering is using #GitHub to track #Covid19

Very impressive of @ZenlyApp to offer an up-to-date “Coronavirus” map

Gotta love post-Microsoft Steve Ballmer | theathletic.com

A really interesting read from one of the biggest voices in the world of Remote and Distributed work!

New Productivity Tip: I went from setting Slack on Do-Not-Disturb to quitting the app for a few hours at a time. Working great so far — just need to reopen it on occasions, but there’s rarely any real emergency. And if there was, someone would get in touch.

My #DailyCAH

Farewell BoJack Horseman! You were much deeper than I ever expected when I first started watching, and I thank you for that! :)

Big weight off my shoulders

Today was a good day!

“How about a call, because I think you’ll be interested in my background so far, and maybe you could interview me for your podcast?” People really out here needing a reality check on their ego! I’ve also not recorded an episode since… 2018! 🤦🏻‍♂️

Listening through Kendrick’s and Cole’s discographies, in chronological order again. They’ve reached the highest of highs and yet they’re still underrated!

The day after a company party everyone is tired/hungover, there’s always this really nice feeling of belonging, like it’s a tough day for everyone involved, and therefore we feel closer to one another. A very nice feeling :)

BINGOOooh?

Thank you @Complexion: imma need these incredibly wavy vibes this avo!

Signal becomes European Commission’s messaging app of choice in security clampdown - @Verge

Sunday

Sunday 😊 🇫🇷 🏉

Love the new office views 🤩

Loving the new @Mixcloud identity, and the company/brand generally! Happy Birthday #Mixcloud10!

Love seeing the Sales team so fired up!

Happy very first wedding anniversary my sweetest love 💕 👰🏻 🎩 💍

I have never seen so many people here, even in the summer!

Happy to be back on the local court!

You won’t find me complaining about the commute to the new office anytime soon

America is too funny

Home sweet home

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I just need a way out, of my head

It feels like I’ve achieved more in a half-day working remotely, than I normally would on a full day at the office 🤷🏻‍♂️ 😆

Late last week, someone took our coffee machines. We assumed that it was a mover, taking it to the new office. Turns out they got the wrong office. So today, when the Coffee Company employee came with two machines, the entire office clapped and applauded him. Hilarious morning!

Portugal’s Drug Decriminalization: Then & Now Fascinating and maybe, just maybe, we need to rethink some things…

Feeling this: “Got the cards in my hands / I hate dealing” :)

Still hauntingly beautiful, perhaps even more given the circumstances.

“Compassionate Search”: This is absolutely brilliant!

Best #ProductivityTip for this #BlueMonday: snoozing Slack notifications until tomorrow and only checking manually and sporadically throughout the day!

Still in love with these jerseys @kappa released for @AS_Monaco this year! ⚽️😍

🆓 Productivity Tip: Spending the entire workday with Do Not Disturb enabled on my Mac 👌🏼

I seem to have found a way to completely switch-off my impostor syndrome, and it feels like a naive ‘exploring the jungle’ type of superpower!

I swear, anytime I use Versioning with iCloud documents, I feel like I have the ability to go back in time — and it feels like a superpower!

I need that @Soulection energy!

It’s 2020 and I don’t think most people have realized that the best skill needed in business is empathy: compounding interests of doing business with empathy is virtually endless and immeasurable!

Forgot how dope that intro was!

This was awesome and we got away with a 3-3 draw! Also amazing to see both my home team and Neymar/Mbappe on the pitch!

Well, looks like I’m going out to a football game for the first time in about 12-15 years to see my first love @as_monaco playing against PSG tonight! :) Excited despite the chance of a big loss..!

🏈 Really bummed that the Ravens game is on at 02:40am in my timezone tonight! :(

Wow, Mr Robot 405 is an entire episode without a single voice? Amazing execution!

Nothing like nasty trap beats and south korean rap to find my afternoon focus!

Today’s focus music, courtesy of “@Baauer’s Studio B” radio show on @Beats1 | @AppleMusic Full of silly beats and filthy sounds!

“The biggest consumer technology successes of this decade will be in the area of privacy.” Here’s hoping! ≠

🎧 So many podcasts… so little time! 🎙

The Athletic’s NBA Power Rankings Week 11: “This season, (Scott) Brooks is coaching his ass off. He’s had this Wizards team as a top 5 offensive efficiency all season long.”

Why didn’t anyone tell me hockey was SO FUN to watch?!

First day back at work bound to be a long one: in addition to all the necessary catchup, I’ve been up since 3:30am. 😔 😴

Started watching #Watchmen, at last, after reading the book every couple of years… Really loved this frame!

Indulging

2010’s: the decade of ebooks… or not!

Another item for the bucket list: Chinese food on Christmas Day in Chinatown! Highly recommend the Green Garden Village on Grand St

🎅🏻 “Merry Christmas, You Filthy Animals!” 🎄

More bucket list stuff ticked off: Rockefeller at Christmas and walking down 5th Avenue

Similarly to our Fall trip to Venice (🇮🇹): French people are everywhere in NYC and impossible to escape 😆

Lamar Jackson: Changing the game, inspiring people and pushing the boundaries of what is plausible! 🏈

American bar food, Filipino Dive Bar, Mexican Tacos, Tiki Bar, Vietnamese shack, Ramen Bar, Korean Coffeehouse, Cuban lunch spot… NYC/Brooklyn = possibly one of the coolest places I’ve ever been. Unsurprisingly. But still!

Brooklyn + Manhattan today :)

Day 3 and #Brooklyn continues to amaze!

🗽I freaking love Brooklyn and NYC 🤩

Prescient: ”One thing is certain: We are living in the world’s most advanced surveillance system. It was built to make money. The greatest trick technology companies ever played was persuading society to surveil itself.”

”Foursquare say they don’t sell detailed location data like the kind reviewed for this story but rather use it to inform analysis, such as measuring whether you entered a store after seeing an ad on your mobile phone.” I appreciate that @Foursquare was clear on this one

Finally got our rings, and finally made it to Brooklyn (first time!)

It’s the end of the year, so this holiday season, tell your coworkers how much you appreciate them. In private. Away from Social Media. And as always: ”Praise in Public, Feedback in Private.”

Hadn’t noticed that I really look like a skeleton today…

Less than two weeks left in 2019, but we’re still making the big moves! Nothing like an end-of-the-year rush to build solid foundations for the future!

Lunch was glorious today!

UGH — Why shoot yourself in the foot twice?

A big reason as to why I’m so happy to have started working at Spendesk this year is due to the amazingly welcoming team of humans I get to work with everyday. To finish the busy year on a good note, the entire Customer Success team is playing a little game of Secret Guardian Angels: each of …

Why humans kiss, explained | Vox “A comic about the cultural and scientific reasons we love making out.”

“…while Slack has long had its critics, the fact that a CEO has now resigned over her Slack messages feels like a new milestone in changing opinion about the company.” | «Away’s CEO steps down: a story about Slack»

It is a testament to the writers of #TheHandmaidsTale and the actress playing Aunt Lydia that every time the character is onscreen I get really angry and exasperated! 👌🏼

Love you @WeSupportNYC 🥰 My employer @Spendesk is hiring for many different positions, amongst which #CustomerSuccess #CX #Support #Care positions!

Today I Learnt that group weddings are still a thing 🤯

The Away story reminds me about one of my first managers. The similar personality traits and lack of empathy are quite striking… :/

Do your coworkers a favor and restrain yourself when using @Here and @Channel in @Slack please! 🙌🏼

CTRL+Return is my favorite shortcut on Google Spreadsheet (on the Mac)

🏀 @TheAthletic with the right questions

🎧 This newly released song from New Found Glory is absolutely working for me! 🤘🏼

“Necessity is the mother of invention”

🦃 🎉 Had to wait until the weekend but our first Thanksgiving between Franco-Americans was a success! 😋

🍿 Fascinating move by Netflix (via @Grayareas) 🎥

If it sounds like ”Imagine Dragons” and it quacks like “Imagine Dragons” …then it must be Awolnation 🎵

A day after the regular Thanksgiving, but a day before we celebrate with our international friends, I’m incredibly thankful to my wife for always being there to offer wise advise and support me no matter what! 🥰 💍 x 🦃 🥧 The world’s a much better place with her in it!

Would legit listen to an instrumental of @VoxMediaPods’s #Reset podcast theme track!

Fun weird moment in #Paris: lights went off in THE ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD for about 10mn

Thanks @SleeperHQ 🤔

Hell yeah new ⚽️ podcasts on @theathletic

So happy that @TheAthletic finally updated the UI and UX of their Podcasts section: a much better experience!

Highly recommend the new album from @TheLastSkeptik

Big Body Bes yelling: “Machine Gun Moneyyyyy!”

Honestly feeling sad for Lloris and Sonny with the incoming Mourinho ‘leadership’

One of the tech companies and founders I respect the most: Foursquare and Dennis Crowley

Started The Handmaid’s Tale over the past week, with my wife (watched Season 1 in 4 days) and while it is really well made, I am so involved that it makes such a frustrating watch… Anyone else watching this show? Or having read the book?

Despite the rain, it’s been a very nice little week-end!

One more time for the people at the back! It’s bad tech etiquette to take other peoples’ phone chargers - The Verge

Early Weekend Getaway

#TFBS221 was exactly what I needed between a stressful afternoon and a winter night, at 4 degrees Celsius walking home in the streets of Paris. Thank you @Complexion!

Lamaaaaaaaaaar Jackson!

The #BrunchQueen strikes back!

For people like @MrWhatman and myself, Bank Holiday Monday in Europe means… more time to watch the NFL on a Sunday Evening 🏈🤩📺

I get really excited when I can use @UseLoom to record a quick screen-recording to share with my co-workers, and even better, with my customers! Call me a dork, but the productive gains over long emails/annotated screenshots are life-altering!

The @OneFootballEN podcast: come for the football, stay for the cultural commentary between Europeans, Brazilians, and Brits talking about noix de muscade (nutmegs)

England’s Number One

Sports is amazing, man! Never thought I’d get to see a team I support play a defender in goal!

This Inter team is special! #UCL #ForzaInter

Really excited about Gameday 4 of the #UCL #ChampionsLeague tonight!

This past honeymoon weekend in Venice has been the perfect break!

Venice for the weekend 🇮🇹 ✈️

America, it’s funny cuz it’s true

How do we beat our competition? By not even worrying about them.

Hot damn, hot water, hot shower Hotlanta, smoking green, cauliflower

Monday, amirite?

So happy for Pulisic, man! This Chelsea youth team is exciting!

Off the beaten path :)

#FPL, an update

Testing something… Hi! :)

Top of the city!

On Kindle: "My Kindle could’ve been a hub for all of my reading, from newsletters to newspapers to subscription sites to books. Instead, it’s a thin electronic paperback book,  …

Funniest autocorrect yet!

Only in France… 🍾🥂🥳💜🏖 @Spendesk

“BRIGHTBURN” was a fascinating take on the Superman mythology! boxd.it

Benefits of working in FinTech and having a brother in law in Banking: SYNERGY and easy access to good information!

My headphones are bust and I might have to wait for 3 weeks to get a new pair in the US (cheaper). So wish me luck until then! 💪🏼

theathletic.com In groundbreaking fashion, Megan Rapinoe flaunts identity and leads U.S. into new stage at World Cup

This week’s #TFBS came out at the perfect time! Timing is everything @Complexion

I love the smell of a potential upsell in the morning!

According to my @Todoist I’ve completed 561 tasks and I’m a productivity Expert! 🤔💪🏼

HOLY FUCKING SHIT Y’ALL HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH THIS MEANS TO ME!!!

Spaces

Ok

Heyyyyy Fever!

I hope your Friday is going better than this scooter’s owner!

Ok totally approve of this new pizza place that just opened 2mn from our place! 🍕

Married in a Gold Rush by @VampireWeekend is absolutely hauntingly beautiful!

🏀😞 Was really excited to get my ass kicked playing basketball, but the court was closed when I got there today

Was really excited to get my ass kicked playing basketball, but the court was closed when I got there :(

“Can “Indie” Social Media Save Us?” - The @NewYorker

🏀 #PigalleBasketball is wonderful!

My gorgeous wife @shana_weisberg

“He’s like those Chuck Norris memes, except everything you hear about him is actually true.” 🎥🍿

Gorgeous spring day in the most beautiful city in the world!

Can you tell I’m going out for brunch today? #HappySocks

Basketball is very good, #103927: ”Portland finished it off, meaning DOUBLE GAME 7 RAINBOW ON SUNDAY. (If the Rockets win Friday, it will be a TRIPLE GAME 7 SPECTACULAR on Sunday, which is always Mother's Day.)” 🏀

🤯 🚀 🛰 🌒 Bezos is literally trying to build The Expanse!

🎧 Oh this is going to be rich! 👨🏻‍💻

Damn, so excited for City’s final game of the PL Season this weekend!

Word of Wisdom for the day: “You know more than you think you do!”

Afternoon workspace away from the open space for a change

Great podcast day!

Finally! @Binge_mode #GoT

Paris at 7pm: hell yeah!!!

Been using the Tempo beta for the past 48 hours, and there’s a high potential I stick with it: no email notifications, and much higher peace of mind/lower stress level!

It’s a ▶ #TFBS206 type of morning in Paris today! 🎵

Office watching-party for #GoT! 🤘🏼 @spendesk 📺

“iOS 13 will include a system-wide dark mode” That’s all I needed to hear! ≠

It was really awesome to witness BTS make some sort of history on the latest SNL this weekend. Been listening to their last few albums all day in the office!

This, from Revolut, feels utterly unprofessional

Had one last meeting today that’s making feel very inspired rn

Matt Hackett: “Traveling is a necessity for common human purpose”: “I believe more travel is good for humanity. The increasing availability of travel to people of every class all over the world creates far more than economic activity. Travel dramatically increases cultural liquidity. Like financial liquidity, it is a necessity for peace, prosperity, and common …

Making a push for more Diversity and Inclusivity at work 😊

The Ringer with the Wizards’ take!

Really excited that @Wordpress and @Automattic is going to start offering tools for remote teams!

Hi @ParisJeTaime

2019 is the darkest timeline: 2:15pm here and I still haven’t seen a single #AprilFools

Fun sunny Sunday afternoon inParis! Even bumped into @Gonzague! 😊 ☀️ 🕶

Spring-y Parisian Sunday Morning

“I guess at face value, this street is pretty ghetto!” — Me, 2019

Parisian Nights 🥰

Can’t wait to go back to Washington DC!

Football is back this weekend and I could hardly be more excited! 💪🏼 ⚽️

“Stop calling Asian women adorable!” @nytimes.com

First breakfast at the new crib! 😍 🥰 🥞

About the #French influence in #WashingtonDC by @albertllee of @bulletsforever!

IT’S FRENCH HERITAGE WEEK ON @BULLETSFOREVER 🏀 🇫🇷

Les nuits parisiennes

“Big European Nights” #CmonCity

Honestly, “Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection F” was a boatload of fun!

Good Parisian fun!

Raz makes the @NYTimes. Your winger could never!

#CaptainMarvel was hella fun and some of the best visuals I’ve seen in years!

Although even in Paris, it is super strange to order in french at the Irish pub…

Related to my last post: you can always count on an Irish pub to show rugby games! #AllezLesBleus #IRLvFRA 🏉 🇮🇪 🇫🇷 💪🏼

I’m a 28-yo Frenchman and I’ve come to realize that I find a lot more comfort and solace in British or Irish pubs than traditional French bars or cafés. 🍺

Bonjour @parisjetaime

You know the Vietnamese place is legit when they serve you homemade coconut water like this:

💜 If you’re interested in hearing what my are the core ideas behind my new job and employer, here’s a great article to get started!

For some odd reason, as I’m getting ready to go to the office this morning, I’m thinking back to when we were in the courtyard cafe at the National Portrait Gallery in DC. This past week was amazing, once again @shana_weisberg!

“Every single time Facebook puts a number on something, the truth turns out to be worse.” •=•

Never, since the Second World War, has Europe been as essential. “For a renewed Europe”

So yeah today was a great first day at @Spendesk! Incredibly helpful, friendly, and welcoming team and some nice company perks to get his party started! 💪🏼

Hello Paris! Today is my first day in my new job — first office job after 4 years of freelancing remotely. Wish me luck y’all!

Deactivated my FB account, and only using IG to check what my wife posts. Instead, I’m keeping an eye on Snap and Twitter especially, and have increased my use of @DayOneApp to a daily habit!

⚽️ “How can @MLS become one of the top leagues” — spoiler alert: it’s been getting a lot better but there’s still lots of room to grow! 🚨 🏆

Home for the next month!

Headed back to the motherland and starting my new job this coming Monday! A busy couple of days before I can finally be reunited with my wife and we can finally settle down after months running across the world!

🙅🏻‍♂️🙅🏻‍♀️ The reporter dialed up her privacy settings before faking a pregnancy by downloading a dedicated app, and it took Facebook 11 hours to start showing targeted ads! WTF!

🏦 💳 This story about the hiring and internal business practices at Revolut are pretty sickening! 😷 📇

‪Properly introduced my brother in law to rugby via @FFRugby‬’s win over Scotland in today’s @SixNationsRugby game! 💪🏼 🏉 🇫🇷

Wow, @VoxMediaPods @Today_explained’s recent episode about #Privacy is an absolute MUST-LISTEN in 2019

My wife: “I was just looking for lemon juice!” Clearly @MarieKondo has had her effect on my wife. She’s cleaning her brother’s entire pantry!

In French this is a funny ad!

Quick visit to see the latest additions to the National Portraits Gallery

Really like the #artdeco style of the @WashingtonPost building in DC!

YAAAS!

Good morning DC! It’s bagel time! 🥯 q

Goodbye French Riviera!

Tech, Ethics, Data, and Geolocation — @verge x @foursquare

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JUST MARRIED! 👰🏻 🎩 💒 We did that! 💍 @shana_weisberg

Two years ago on this day, I met the love of my life, in #London of all places! Two years later, and we’re able to bring both families together ahead of arguably the most important day of our lives! Happy Valentine’s Day @Shana_Weisberg! Be mine forever? @dayoneapp

“When the passing is immaculate, you don’t have to do any dirty work!” @NoisyPod #CmonCity

“Why I’m still thinking about Final Fantasy 8, 20 years later”

Hey @Shana_Weisberg, happy birthday — before the end of the week, I’m gonna marry you!

Birthday weekend was great!

Turning 28: Today I’m turning 28. The past year has been a whirlwind of change, between moving to Dublin, continuing to work remotely as an independent freelancer, establishing our life in Europe, and recently getting engaged and preparing to marry the love of my life and move to Paris. I’m getting ready to …

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Watching the 1963 original Pink Panther movie for the very first time!!

C’est joli ici 👇🏼📸

Great end of the day wrapping up some errands, admin stuff, and some work, courtesy of a black tea with soy milk, and @LowLightMixes on @Mixcloud

I don’t know whether there is a good alternative, but I really feel iffy about companies asking you about salary expectations — for a majority of people, it feels like betting against yourself

Gorgeous retrospective

I swear, out of all the different European leagues, the colors, branding, and design elements are much better for @laliga than any other!

An update: Vietnamese & Chinese New Year 🧧

Today, fiancée and I are making a Bo Kho noddle soup — total cooking time about 3-3.5 hours… Perfect to fire up the latest episodes of @Soulection’s radio show on @AppleMusic

Quadruple February Birthday Celebrations 🎉 🎂 🎊

“Maybe Only Tim Cook Can Fix Facebook’s Privacy Problem” — @NYTimes.com

My fiancé and my mom set me a trap and now I am MarieKondo-ing my way through my last few possessions today…

“If hot takes actually generated heat, Schultz would already have been vaporized under the onrush of magma.” =

So… we switching to @telegram or @signal soon right? 📲

I feel pretty bad that my club would treat Henry like this… maybe having Jardim back will help but Titi had it rough!

Starting to play #TheLastOfUs (remastered) for the first time 🤤 😍

Today’s an exciting day!

Replaying through #FFVII on iOS and the “Max Stats” is such a nifty way to focus on the story the way I want to! Thanks @SquareEnix… now please release remastered #FFVIII on digital platforms (iOS/PS4)

Blue Monday off to a good start for once:

“It’s the most pro-Philly thing to ever happen, outside of everything ever produced by The @Ringer.” {=}

Happy Mew Music Day: a surprise album from James Blake and the release of Future’s new album #TheWizrd

The art style, the story, the music — everything about this was so refreshing! Not your father’s Spider-Man!

I swear, half of my @Pocket is just articles from @Ringer!

Pro-tip: if you’re a man chatting with a woman, maybe don’t call another woman a bitch. Actually: maybe don’t call any woman a bitch. Nothing warrants it, ever. And we’ll all probably be better for it!

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🏆🏆🏆 2019 already dwarfing 2018, which already dwarfed 2017, which…

✅ Post Winter Break Keri Diet: activated! 🙇🏻‍♂️🥘🧀🥚🍳🥑🥬🥓🥩🍖🍗

She Said Yes!: For the first blogpost of 2019, allow me to start off by wishing you a Happy New Year 2019! It’s been a couple of weeks since my last email, and the end of the year for Shana and me has been simply focused on our Winter break and on planning to move out of Dublin. Over the first week, we left …

“Show A Little Faith There’s Magic in the Night”

Felt almost naked for ~5 days without my Fitbit. However these issues with the bands are getting a bit ridiculous: first one (original) lasted 2 years. Now second one broke after 1 year. (Before you ask I’m pretty careful with all my ‘gadgets’ and devices.

Dear #CityJet please retire your fleet or #AvroRJ85 —herse planes were made for a different era when everyone was a lot smaller! #AvGeek

Rewatching GoneGirl — my gosh if this isn’t one hell of a movie!

🤭📺 One great collateral bonus about currently watching @NarcosNetflix and @LaCasaDePapel is that it freshened up my Spanish and I was able to talk with a friendly Spaniard on the way to the airport! Thanks @Netflix! 🗣🇪🇨🇲🇽🇪🇸

“It’s a good reminder that compared to everything else, the Mac remains an oasis of cohesive and consistent elegant design. ” Daring Fireball: The Mac Through the Eyes of a New User

Thanks for the useful Apple Music Top 2018 shortcut @viticci!

I never could understand people who take loud FaceTime calls in Public. Totally judging the people sitting next to me at the airport right now.

Shoutout to loving partners that quiet the little voices in our heads and replace it with overwhelming support!

The winter break brought: some well-deserved time off, an engagement with the woman of my dreams, tons of work to catch-up on, and lots of jetlag to fight against. In other words: today, it’s @Complexion and chill! soundcloud.com/complexio…

Go go go #RavensFlock #NFLWildCard #Ravens

Flight landed 20mn early. Dublin Airport couldn’t be bother to turn on the human-less automatic passport machines. Aer Lingus is 30mn late in delivering the bags. Welcome back to Ireland.

6pm in Washington DC ; 5am in Dublin

Gorgeous day to fly but heartbreaking to say goodbye to my fiancé as we’ll have to wait another week apart.

Good morning @WashingtonDC

The in laws are turning me into a passive Baltimore @Ravens fan and I like it!

Washington DC is a beautiful and awesome city. Don’t @ me.

American kids are actually obnoxious. Observation made by my American Fiancée 😍

Go #Ravens

If you still use @Instagram, feel free to discover the hashtag #FrenchSidepiece

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Life update: SHE SAID YES 💍❤️💑

It feels like early March, not December. Nevertheless, gorgeous day in the LandOfMary™️

Future in-laws neighbors are a bit OTT! #xmas

.@lufthansa just upgraded us to Business for this 10-hour long flight! Thank the Air Gods! #avgeek

After a week in the motherland, catching up with close friends and family, we’re now on our way to the US to close out the year with Shana’s family! Exciting times await!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

Good day for my Vice-Captain #Aubameyang so far: (cc @OfficialFPL)

Woohoo 2018 @Pocket year in review!

Finally got back to my parents place to find out I had received Leonard Nilsson’s fantastic book “World Football Club Crests” Thanks so much @WorldClubCrests! Perfect for football fans with an eye for design and curious about history!

Happy Holidays: “Internal documents show that the social network gave Microsoft, Amazon, Spotify and others far greater access to people’s data than it has disclosed.”

Google isn’t the company that we should have handed the Web over to - Ars Technica

Been forcing myself to get back to @DayOneApp every single day of the week. It does feel great to document life’s little ups and downs on the daily. I have a very simple template that triggers as a daily reminder:

“Facebook is the most threatening weapon to democracies ever invented” How Facebook is Fueling The French Populist Rage

“Once you made a few likes on a group, you are overwhelmed by the group’s content. The new algorithm has funneled the Yellow Vests in a filter bubble largely filled with yellow content…” How Facebook is Fueling The French Populist Rage

An @AndersonPaak type of Friday at the crib, working from home side by side with my girl :) @ShanaWeisberg

Vlog 050: A Safari in the Desert: After exploring Malaysia together, we traveled back towards the west, stopping for a week in Dubai! Over the course of a few days, we rediscovered the old town together, as well as the Burj Khalifa — the tallest building in the world — and finished it off with an amazing safari in the Emirati …

Late last week I’ve decided to use the last weeks of the year before Christmas to follow a Keto Diet (high proteins and fat, no carbs or sugar) and this led to my best game of ⚽️ tonight! Also: more energy, less fatigue post-game!

It is super weird but the sky is completely white with clouds tonight in #Dublin — impossible to see beyond that!

Vlog 049: Reunited in Malaysia: Over a year after the events, I've finally finished editing the video of our World Tour.   In this video, you'll get to see our adventures in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. We had a ton of delicious food, went up the crazy skybox at the KL Tower, discovered the Batu Caves surrounded with monkeys, and went …

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Also and FINALLY: really enjoying the #Gutenberg editor in @Wordpress 5.0 :)

Another update: spent some time editing and publishing my latest Vlogs on Youtube (Malaysia + Dubai part 2) I still have a few videos to edit from 2017’s World Tour. Up next: Athens, Rome, NYC, Washington DC.

🍖 Going through a short-but-intense Keto Diet for the last few weeks before the Christmas break. Lean Mean Tibz Machine mode: Engaged! 💪🏼

“Mark Zuckerberg thought he was depoliticizing his platform and focusing on connecting people. That is not what happened.” How Facebook Groups sparked a crisis in France | @caseynewton

.@Carrot_app forecasting Tech, not just the Weather!

End of an Era! Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th - The Verge

It’s almost 2019 and no utility comes close to #ImageOptim to compress screenshots and images to post online!

The latest episode of @Netflix’s excellent @PatriotAct with @HasanMinhaj will help you understand Brexit, Trump, and the clusterfuck that is the Yellow Vest movement in France: misinformation and social have huge responsibility in these events. Online-to-Offline is real! ≠

This year’s #Arsenal team is really just a joy to watch! Gotta love @aubameyang7 and @LacazetteAlex! 😍 Post-Match thread: #ARSTOT

Damn #Arsenal, sounds like it was quite the game

🔥 💧 Why does Fire burn? Because water is wet. Also Boomers!

Gotta love @carrot_app!

I think the wave of virus/flu/cold that’s been ravaging Dublin for the past month and a half is finally hitting me 😞🦠

2am and too many thoughts in my head to fall asleep

As a fan of @asmonaco this one hurt

Only in friggin’ Ireland

“On more than one occasion I questioned moving back to the U.S., but why I never did can only be explained by a combination of changing ideals — mine and the country’s — that to this day have not been reconciled.” ≠

“I started strategizing about how to stage my own kidnapping in order to get a few days off.” 📰 “Why I Left The U.S. 20 Years Ago … And Why I Won’t Be Coming Back”

“French demonstrators are not the only ones who use violence, but they are the world’s most violent.”

“To paraphrase Bill Clinton, who wasn’t talking about them at all, there is nothing wrong with the Wizards that can’t be solved by what is right with the Wizards.” • “Hard to celebrate these Wizards, even after a big comeback win” 🏀

I’ve picked up @AltosAdventure’s sequel #AltosOdyssey on the @AppStore and OMG the music is incredible (not to even mention the artwork by @HarryNesbitt obviously)

‪Finally finished reading @jasonfried and @dhh’s latest book #ItDoesntHaveToBeCrazyAtWork + started reading @HowardSchultz’s #Onward + discovered @stoop_inbox and subsequently cleaned my email inbox: been a productive couple of days!‬

My grandfather is 92 today so we’re un #Normandy to celebrate for the weekend!

Happy #Oxnard release day! Congrats on the superb release @AndersonPaak! #

Heartwarming to see a dedicated #StanLee section on the editorial @AppStore today! •Remembering Stan Lee•

Freelance Life 101: “Hey so that work that you’ve spent all day ...working on? Fuggetaboutit — I just realized we actually don’t need that” 🤦🏻‍♂️ 😆

Read @CaseyNewton’s The Interface

“Over and over, my undergraduates tell me they try hard not to fall in love during college, imagining that would mess up their plans.” This article on @TheAtlantic is as sad as it is fascinating: “Why Are Young People Having So Little Sex?”

Tunnel, meet Light!

As a comic book nerd, it’s really sad to hear about Marvel creator Stan Lee’s passing! 😢 #Excelsior!

“With all due respect to Eden Hazard, who has been amazing so far this season, we're now at a point where Raheem Sterling has arguably outperformed him not only over the last few weeks but throughout the term so far.” | Bleacher Report

Favorite line of the day, courtesy of the man @Dumbfoundead: “Still don’t have a Lambo’ But I’m eating well at Nando’s” ≠

“If you’re asking how to monitor your remote employees, you’re starting with the wrong question.” On the @Doist blog

“Taking your Conscience to Work”: “I believe it’s wrong to separate work and morality. [...] It means you should check whether the ethics and values of your employer align with your own. Especially in technology, where the impact of your work is felt by thousands or millions or even billions of people, it’s worth asking yourself …

“There is nothing sudden about the influence of sports on the way Americans dress. In fact, it is hardly an exaggeration to say that all modern fashion is athleisure.” ‘Everything You Wear Is Athleisure’ | @TheAtlantic

Nothing set in stone but 2019 prep is going well so far! Just need to keep this momentum going until the end of the year now! 🇫🇷 💪🏼

[Ariana] Grande is a very easy pop star to root for ≠

Recently, we found out that our local Asian supermarket was selling Teh Tarik! Memories taking us back to Malaysia last summer 🥰🍵

For the past 2 months or so, I’ve really enjoyed playing #TopEleven! ⚽️

“I am not a media critic and I don't pretend to have all the answers. But fawning over a credibly accused, remorseless rapist for doing a cool sports thing is gross. That much should be obvious.” 🏀 ≠

Installing MS Office — wish me luck!

🏀😭 “Being awful in a shallow conference isn't acceptable for a team with this much talent. At least, it shouldn't be acceptable. Something's rotten, and it's the braintrust's job to figure out what.” ≠

This beginning of the season for the #Wizards is really painful to watch! #🏀

Taking off #Hazard is ONE SURE WAY to force #Morata to be in a better position to score! ⚽️ #BURCHE

🎧 🎃 #Halloween7 by @RLGrime is the music I didn’t know I needed until I hit Play! ⏯ ⚠️ Warning: IT GOES HARD!

“Needlessly cruel, and out of touch with demographic trends.”

This month, I’ve been watching… ALL the “Halloween” movies (including the Rob Zombie sequel, but excluding 2018) — in other news I can finally catch up on Grey’s Anatomy!

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Really excited for the end of the International ⚽️ break! Clearly, I’m not the only one

Green tea in hand, Headphones on my head Can’t get enough of this track on @soundcloud Thanks for the discovery @complexion!

07:00AM to 07:00PM in #Dublin

My friend traveling to #Vietnam has found the secret to life itself!

It just dawned on me yesterday that some of the good deeds I’ve done and seeds I’ve planted 5-6-7 years ago are still reaping benefits today. #Karma is real!

After watching #Hellraiser over the weekend, my month-long of Halloween Marathon of Horror Movies continues with #Halloween3 Season Of The Witch

Night is always darkest before dawn, as they say. And let’s just say that it’s been stressful lately. Thankful for the music and radio shows from @Soulection and @Complexion to keep me afloat!

YES @Complexion — soundcloud.com/complexio…

Today was a good day!

Internet Friends, I’ll be sending a well-overdue life update via email tomorrow evening. If you’d like to keep in touch with these infrequent emails, please sign up on this page (or in French at tinyletter.com/tibz)

In other, more positive news, Facebook has lost 30% of its value since July

Fascinatingstory about Spencer Dinwiddie who plays for the Brooklyn Nets by day and trades #Bitcoin and #Crypto by night! via @BleacherReport

“Not voting doubles someone else’s vote” I was reading up on the US Midterms when I realized to ask my American girlfriend if she was registered to vote. Before the deadlines hit she checked her status and registered! Do your freaking civic duty, America!

“The terror of They Live is more tangible and primal in 2018 than a slasher movie could ever be.” John Carpenter’s ‘They Live’ Was Supposed to Be a Warning. We Didn’t Heed It. We Didn’t Even Understand It.

Already shaping up to be a stunning game! “Liverpool dominate games with the staccato pressure of a thunderstorm—lightning bolt after lightning bolt. But City don’t just affect the weather, they almost control it at a molecular level.” •

“Killing Eve” and Sandra Oh really are very special, aren’t they?!

Manchester City’s bid to rule the world — Bleacher Report

It’s #October so I’m planning to watch a completely unhealthy dose of horror movies starting with #JohnCarpenter’s “They Live” 👻 🎥

Fat team for tonight, better get that W! #UCL #TSGvCity #ComeOnCity

Updated to #macOS #Mojave over lunch —and DARK MODE ALL THE THINGS! 💪🏼🙌🏼🌌

Note to self: stop perpetuating the stereotype that french people are always consistently 5-10 minutes late

DuckDuckGo Traffic is Exploding

10 day holiday across France, the UK, Italy and Monaco!

“À la place 54…”

Touchdown in the Motherland

Holy shit this is going to be terrifying! First look at Joaquin Phoenix in make-up from “Joker” #NotITChapter2

It just might be the single best TV show in production right now, with great laughs but also rich, thoughtful character depth. =•=

So if I understand correctly it’s a very good thing that I went to see #CrazyRichAsians instead of catching up the Manchester City v Lyon champions league game right? 😢 ⚽️

Fun #StormAli today…

⚽️ 🇲🇨 🇫🇷 💰: I’ve been a supporter of @AS_Monaco since I was 7 years old, for the past 20 years. But what Paris has been able to accomplish from a Branding and Marketing perspective is nothing but impressive! If you’re interested in Football/Soccer Culture and want to learn more about what France’s …

One thing to look forward to today: the Champions League 🏆 ⚽️ is back today!

The first trailer for @CaptainMarvel is out!!!

Not gonna lie, it’s been a difficult few months for THIS Freelancer! :(

This is as smart as it is funny: UEFA has released a pronunciation guide so we can all stop butchering players’ names during the #ChampionsLeague!

Brb: watching #Predator2 on this Sunday morning!

🤣 ⚽️ An Italian magazine elected this as the worst 20 seconds of football ever played (QPR vs. Man City, 1993)

First time staying out this late in the streets of Dublin. 1am.

🎶 🎧 Happy @6lack release day! “East Atlanta Love Letter”

Headed over to my weekly football game and listening to @Eminem’s #Kamikaze to get myself pumped! ⚽️

Fascinating: A superfast internet link between France and England will be built across the English channel, boosting high-speed financial trading between Paris and London after Brexit. — “English Channel internet cable to link Paris and London”

Sitting in a park in #Bordeaux sipping Champaign — making great decisions! #MondayMotivation

About the UEFA Nations Cup ⚽️

The number of people taking some time away from Facebook continues to increase. Good.

When in France… #cochonou #saucisson #2cv

Deloitte: Insensitive. As fuck!

Headed out to #Bordeaux this weekend, the original WINE COUNTRY!

Holy shit No! Mac Miller has died!

Wangs 🍗

This is a feature request for #Hipstamatic: please allow me to do Front-Facing Camera! #latenightgrams #jamesonorgtfo

Headed out to watch @frenchteam with friends tonight! #UEFA #NationsLeague #FieredetreBleus

@vasta Congratulations by the way! 🎈🎉🎊

So Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom really was a big pile of Meh! Like YEAH SURE PLEASE RELEASE ALL THE DINOSAURS IN THE WILD, WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG

High hopes for Captain Marvel!!! (click for more images)

Really exciting time for our @Varanida_VAD team! We’re acquiring Secret Media!

Miami’s #MLS crest is… very #Miami :)

Chelsea’s 3rd kit > Chelsea’s 2nd kit Don’t @ me

Pogs are coming back!!!

Henry Cavill to Star in ‘Witcher’ Series at Netflix // photo by @bosslogic cc @gkpluginbaby

Current status

The 1992 #Batman animated series is finally getting REMASTERED!!!

Sunday Funday

“Om’s Long Goodbye to Facebook”: Long-time and highly respected writer-turned-VC Om Malik is leaving Facebook. “I don’t need [Facebook] and don’t miss it. (...) I left because it was making me someone I am not — someone who lives life through the eyes of others. There is a hard edge in Facebook life. People are always fronting — …

This #LevVal game is wildly entertaining so far! As an Atletico supporter I would prefer Valencia to lose this one. We got trashed yesterday!

Mad respect for @PUMA launching a really clean #BTS #sneakers collab!

‪Ok @williamrejault, your turn!‬ #grayscale

Mueller is going to walk into the office like this on Monday: tenor.com/tAtS.gif =

Wish I could say I was surprised

#JeffGoldblum describing how passionately in love he is with his wife is the ultimate #RelationshipGoal

.@JeffreyGoldblum should be protected by the UNESCO

Loving the colors and city/Madrid pattern on @Atleti’s third kit, which just leaked!

Lunchtime

Mozilla @Firefox will block trackers by default ❤️ 👀

North Koreans’ First time seeing Kpop #TGIF

Weekly game was good!

Juan is one of a growing number of people whose official birth records show they were born in the United States but who are now being denied passports — their citizenship suddenly thrown into question. I’m so flabbergasted by this. Like how is any of this …legal? ≠

Finally started playing @TelltaleGames’ #Batman #TheEnemyWithin and I’m loving the disturbed direction it’s taking so far! Troubled 3 dimensional Alfred and impossible choices!

Today’s episode of @nytimes The Daily is eye opening! I still feel repulsed by organized religion though.

Hi!

The series leaves you with the sense that this is just the beginning. It’s a young roster, and the high-profile losses to United and Liverpool last season somehow made a record-breaking season feel like a scratch on the surface of their potential. ⚽️

The End of the Summer

Finally time to finish #TalesFromTheBorderlands! Gotta love that intro on #JamesBlake!

Damn 😲 #Abramovich looking to sell @ChelseaFC?! 🔵🔵🔵⚽️

Over the past 19 months, this girl has become my world!

Starting the weekend with a delicious breakfast of champions, and catching up on some light RSS reading on the tunes from @complexion’s #TFBS

Fascinating read about the NBA 2K eSports scene on @theathletic

⚽️ #AúpaAtleti 🔴⚪️

“The Five Things You Need to Know About European Soccer” “It’s way too early to say anything definitive about the European soccer season (…) but that doesn’t mean interesting things haven’t happened!” Really excited by the content coming from @Ringer & #RingerFC! =⚽=

Just discovered #Podstand to share what podcasts people listen to. Here’s my selection!

Thighs are burning 😆 🔥 Soreness to follow tomorrow!

Today in ⚽️ news: Ha. Haha. Hahaha. Hahahahahahahahahahahaha

Really excited for @ThierryHenry 1.ftb.al

To each his/her own, but you won’t find me using an Android device anytime soon: “An idle Android phone running the Chrome browser sends back to Google nearly fifty times as many data requests per hour as an idle iOS phone running Safari.” =📱=

Cinema is PACKED today! @lighthoused7 #blackkklansman

Yo boy, enjoying the weekend!

Ready for next week!

“Research shows that Republican states are disproportionately dependent on federal aid. Yet many Republican voters appear blissfully unaware of this contradiction.” =

"Where is the Poop Emoji?” ≠

Supercampeones

Current Status

The @Monocle24 radio show gives a tour of #Smithfield, our neighborhood in Dublin!

“The feud between a South African comedian and a French diplomat reveals just how difficult it is to step outside one’s own cultural framework and understand the ways that other cultures and nations conceive of, and reinforce, identity.” ⚽️🇫🇷

After rewatching #RogueOne on the plane back from our holidays, we’re now going through #StarWars #ANewHope

The fact that people apply “branding” and marketing to wine is kind of beyond me… =

“What Noah, Beydoun, and others may not realize is that the soccer players themselves don’t want to be seen as anything other than French.” =

“Breaking Bad became a classic drama for many reasons: some to do with craft, some to do with creativity. But above all else it stood out because, however surreal the surroundings, in its conflicted, complicated characters it was true to reality.” =

Weekdays-breakfast-when-Shana-is-taking-a-day-off is OFF THE CHAIN!

OH FFS (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻) “Google is saying, with a straight face, that it’s perfectly clear that disabling the feature named ‘Location History’ does not prevent Google from tracking your location history.” = via Daring Fireball =

Catching up on the second season of #Humans — such a unique and fascinating show!

“The Best Movie About Asian People in Decades and the Best Rom-Com of the Summer.”

Stoked for #Arzani, stoked for @mancity, stoked for Australian Soccer! ⚽️ 1.ftb.al

How the world’s best basketball player became a political force for racial justice 🏀

Caught the soccer bug this past summer? ⚽️

“Maybe all of us would have understood that “Asian” is a shared ethnic background and not a personality type.” =

“TV and movies taught me how to be American” Vox.com on “Crazy Rich Asian” and representation!

Lovely sunset in #Croatia tonight!

“We see you, 5pm BST Thursday, we see you.” ⚽️🥅 🔵🔵🔵

The Verge comes in support of their colleagues and we need a lot more of this!: From cries about “ethics in journalism” to “fake news,” journalists have been increasingly targeted by people acting in bad faith who do not care about the work they do, the challenges they face, or the actual context of their statements. Online trolls and harassers want us, the Times, and other …

“To Facebook, the world is not made up of individuals, but of connections between them.” Wow 😮qz.com

Happy New Music Day: #MacMiller and #TravisScott dropped!

Final episode of #TheWire. Let’s go! 📺

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I would love, Love, LOVE for @Amazon to release a Dark Mode for the #Kindle paperwhite but I suspect it’d be too intense on the screens/battery

Sad Tibz: still so long until the 🏀 NBA season starts. Happy Tibz: football continues with the “International Champions’ Cup” and the french “Trophée Des Champions”, and the season starts in less than two weeks! ⚽️🏆

There’s a World Music Festival outside the apartment, and they’re playing a lot of Asian music so I really wanted to rewatch “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”! I remember seeing it in the Theater with my mom and my brother.

This summer, I’m reading through the #Soccernomics book, and I’ve just learnt about DETROIT FC celebration called the Tetris!

Got more pictures from last month’s Toronto Wedding!

Awesome red sky tonight after lots of rain earlier today

🏀 #WNBAAllStar live now! Go #TeamDelleDone #DCFamily!

Just came back from a 10th-Anniversary screening of #TheDarkKnight! The third or fourth time I see it in theaters and easily the 20th time rewatching the movie as a whole. Still fascinating, still unparalleled, still found new things I never caught before! #Masterpiece

“Libraries exist for the public. Amazon exists to maximize profits.”

Really great post on @thenib today!

Today’s edition of @caseynewton’s newsletter ‘The Interface’ has a wonderful level of shade! 👌🏼 💌

“JMSN” is coming to Dublin!: INSTA BUY! 🎵 🎸🎙

The Wire: arguably the greatest television programme ever made "When television history is written, little else will rival The Wire, a series of such ambition that it is, perhaps inevitably, savoured only by the appreciative few."

An experiment in restraint: Attempting to no longer use Facebook to receive updates from my favorite media websites and subscribing to their daily newsletter instead. One curated email per day surely would save endless scrolling…

“Hey Shana we haven’t had lunch, let’s have a snack!”

This latest #Batgirl volume deals with a Silicon Valley-infused storyline and a Mark Zuckerberg-like villain! Too on the nose, I love it!

As the summer in Dublin is ending, I’m cheering myself up with this memory of #Toronto: maple crème cookies!

On to #TheWire season 04!

🇫🇷⚽️🏆 Deschamps’ speech gave me chills

Unmissable: Kara Swisher interviews Zuck

Interesting: Instapaper is going independent

Happy International Ice-Cream Day

Still riding the high from yesterday’s French Victory at the World Cup but now that it’s all over, I’m very excited for the new Ant-Man, and even more so for Mission Impossible Fallout!

🇫🇷❤️🌍⚽️ bleacherreport.com/articles/…

“His name is N’Golo Kante, he plays for France, and he deserves the Golden Ball.” =

“Gadsby’s story ultimately reveals that her experience of living as a queer comedian has been a nightmare rather than a laugh. In telling it, she’s made it impossible for comedians who come after her [...] to forget the horror that dwells on the other side of every joke.” ≠

The family grows

1998 FIFA World Cup: My dad found these photos from 20 years ago on the day, when France won the World Cup back in 1998! #WorldCup #FRA #AllezLesBleus #FiersDetreBleus

New Childish Gambino alert! 🚨🎵☀️

Needless to say that this game against Belgium contributed to a high beat rate for me: 90bpm during the game when my usual is 59-60bpm

Great video from @VoxDotCm about immigration, France, and why so many players in the World Cup are born-Parisians ⚽️🇫🇷

Holy shit: “Tony Parker made his Spurs debut on October 30, 2001, exactly one week before the series premiere of 24 and one week after Steve Jobs introduced the iPod.” • Tony Parker Is Moving On, and Soon, the Spurs Will Be Unrecognizable - The Ringer

There is a certain joy about seeing blockchain-related advertising proposals caught by our Zendesk’s spam filter and deleting them straight away!

mood

If you’d like to have a good laugh but also learn more about France, Productivity and Startups, the latest episode of @caseynewton’s #Converge features @CollinMathilde from @FrontApp

Holy smokes @YvesBalak’s #Lastman is finally available on @Netflix ❤ 🎥 📺

When you use a public computer…

“WWII was the last time in history that objective good came together to triumph over objective evil.” @liamboogar

One final evening in #Toronto, ahead of #CanadaDay: attending a gorgeous Indian wedding hosted at the Arts Gallery of Ontario! Unreal!

“No one else in the World Cup has both the pace and technical ability to score a goal like this on a regular basis. This is the France we’ve been waiting for.” ❤️⚽️🇫🇷

🇫🇷⚽️🏆

Unreal 😍

Might have to cancel my Marvel Unlimited subscription over this

Adventures in Walmart!

Hi! Toronto and Niagara Falls are great! I

Canadian wineries at Niagara Falls and 3 generations of wonderful Weisberg women

Hours-long flight delay, car rental woes, and wrong GPS coordinates… nevertheless we made it to The Six! Toronto lets have some fun now!

Ready for Toronto eh?!

A little too on the nose, but relevant!

Vlog 048: Relaxing in Bali: This Vlog has been overdue for about 10 months — SORRY! However, this is a good review of my trip to Bali last August. Bali is a place I had always heard of but never visited. I've had some crazy experiences that I never thought would happen, like going to see a local football game of the Bali …

Only 10 months late on this one, but I should have my #Vlog from last August in #Bali available soon:

Food trucks are illegal in Dublin apparently, however we found this really cool one stationed at the back of a pub! Vegetarian Vietnamese fusion food!

#AllezLesBleus: Finishing the workday cheering for my team! #Fra #WorldCup #FraPer #FiersDetreBleus

Ok the new live-Twitter is great tbh!

Blockchain “promoters”/“youtubers” looking for the quick buck are the absolute worst

Date night at the Japanese Bar

YES!!! “Dungeons & Dragons explained” by Vox.com!

No one does notifications better than @BleacherReport!

Today’s epic EPIC fail, comes courtesy of the national irish tv channel RTÉ which, to be able to watch it online, requires… FLASH! Welcome back to 2010!

When @Instapaper announced they’d temporarily shut down in Europe what with GDPR coming into law, I switched to @Pocket. Along with its integration with @Firefox, it’s becoming more awesome than ever! — “Firefox is building a better newsfeed than Facebook, with Pocket’s help”

“9 questions you were too embarrassed to ask about the 2018 World Cup”

Another good read regarding the Slow Web and our social media use!: @adders: “I'd rather enjoy myself creating stuff for a smaller, more forgiving and more engaged audience, than exhaust myself competing for an ever-bigger audience. That, after all, was the idea behind working part time, and staying self-employed, rather than continuing to crawl my way up the …

@vasta: “What this tells me is that 29% of the people who live near me, 29% of my neighbors and community members, actively hate me and people like me.” 😢 [=]

“Before the internet, kooks were forced to exist on the fringe. There’ve always been flat-earther-types denying science and John Birch Society political fringers, but they had no means to amplify their message or bond into large movements.” ≠ Daring Fireball ≠

Remembering Anthony Bourdain

I’m not saying we’re going to cure mental health over night with hugs and hand-holding. I’m saying that sometimes a little Advil to dull the headache is good enough for a Monday morning. @LiamBoogar, on Mental Health

Day out to visiting the Dark Hedges, the Giant’s Causeway, and the Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge, all of this before finding ourselves on the roof of Belfast!

“Kids See Ghosts” available at once! 👧🏼🧒🏻👀👻

Holy Shit Bourdain too! :(

It’s a Jorja Smith x Kali Uchis x Alina Baraz kinda day until #KidsSeeGhosts drop

I don’t care how many people are trying to “get it” and make ends meet: we still have a lot of work to make business relationships more personal and always chasing the next thing…

Nothing is as motivating/stimulating as doing seal jumping jacks whitout a shirt on and seeing my body fat jump/move around in the mirror 💪🏼

One of those days catching up on a bunch of low-level work tasks while trying to run forecasts on my upcoming invoices and client work… 💰🤔🗂📆 #FreelanceLyfe

“Tiny Luxuries”: We’re trained from an early age to associate the word “luxury” with the spending of money; with gilded extravagance and overconsumption. But the world, life, is full of tiny luxuries: indulgences of the sort that are easy to overlook if you’re not seeking them out and paying close attention. Colin …

10.20pm 06/06/2018 Dublin, Ireland

Christmas In June in the Weisberg-Lemaître household

Final day in London and we’re now on the way home after another great weekend getaway!

🥘🥂💐 ☀️🌁🏬Starting with a lovely brunch in great company, we’ve had a stupidly good time today!

Random shots in London

🚨🚨🚨😱🤯🤖 Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

😍❤️🔥😱 Found some really amazing Korean clothes that look amazing on her!

A great first day in Shoreditch/Tower Hamlets

Welcome back, London you ol’ friend!

US cell phone carriers want to start running their own ad networks so that they can compete with FB. Monitoring anything on users’ devices, what could possibly go wrong?!

🚨🚨🚨 There’s a new @NYTimes Popcast! 📣 🔥👌🏼🎙🎧

Snap CEO Evan Spiegel interview at the 2018 Code Conference: Like Casey Newton mentioned in his amazing newsletter: “The Interface”, the interview of Snapchat’s CEO Evan Spiegel at this year’s Code Conference is well worth watching!  [Spiegel is] his company’s most effective salesman by far. www.youtube.com/watch

“We’re definitely not going to solve this problem by men saying they’re afraid to meet with women.” [≠]

Sky is mad pink right now!

I, for one, welcome the current Rap Beef —in which I obviously support Pusha-T over Drake! “The Story of Adidon” is atypical. “The Story of Adidon” is exceptional. [≠]

Wow, this plane look like it was straight up falling from the sky!

HELL YEAH: Apple Pay is finally available in Ireland for @N26 are finally available here in Ireland! 🎉💸

Tomorrow (Wednesday, May 30th), I’m hosting a day-long Ask-Me-Anything session on the @BeNomadCo Slack Community to talk about Freelancing, Marketing, Consulting and Digital Nomad-ing… Anyone interested in reading some of my answers? What questions do you have for me?

Ran 4.8 km in 31 minutes with @gyroscope_app

#MondayMotivation: sharing my todo list today!

You’re only ever as good as your community. As such, it’s exhilarating to see that a few of the communities I’m a part of (for work and play) are growing healthily, taking shape, and becoming more active!

Went to see #Solo with our Swedish friends in a restored 1920’s style movie theater last night, in what turned out to be my favorite cinema experience yet!

About John Wick 3: > “We are less than 365 days away from John Wick 3, the third installment of the Why the Fuck Did You Kill His Dog? franchise that’s revitalized the career of Keanu Reeves and introduced mainstream American audiences to the hyperkinetic brilliance of Hong Kong–style martial arts, plus dudes in …

Date night, new dress, new haircut: Who Diss?

OK, World Cup song has dropped and features Will Smith! Let summer begin now! www.youtube.com/watch [≠]

😆🇫🇷 French people invading US Talk Shows youtu.be/OU21H6-Y6…

Will Smith being back in the studio is exhilarating!  youtu.be/6wGj89GE6…

Gonna give Outlook for iOS another try. Staying with Spark on the Mac though — that’s as good as it gets and I haven’t found an alternative yet.

GDPR Casualty: Instapaper: So Instapaper is temporarily shutting off access for European users due to GDPR… But the comment of the day goes to: Thankfully, a handful of privacy-minded fellow europeans came to the rescue in the comment section: 

There’s something awesome, but also kinda hilarious, about the second biggest european tech conference being in France, with 65% french people, all speaking in English!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlroNcUqOz8&amp;feature=youtu.be Encouraging though!

Long week

📸🦌🌳🏢🍻 City shots, including more deer!

It’s time…

Part Two of the Family Weekend: After our Saturday hike around Howth, we spent some time around the city, including a quick visit to the Teeling Whiskey Distillery!

The end of a really nice weekend with my parents, who came to visit, and Shana —as always!

⚽️🇫🇷🔥🏆 Goosebumps. www.youtube.com/watch

Current status

Current Status: soundcloud.com/sangobeat…  

“Welcome home, Dave. I built you a scale.” Why I don’t trust Google, a video [“The Selfish Ledger is Google’s creepy concept for total data collection” - The Verge]

Mission Accomplished: Wearing a white t-shirt, cooking a chilli, putting it in a food container and keeping it all stain-less.

Within: A magazine about leadership for women in design/tech: If you’re in the US, you should really support and have a look at Within Personally, I’d love to support these amazing women, but I can’t justify $30 shipping fees on top of a $40 project backing. However, I’m happy to share the word to support this amazing project!  

The new Ali Wong special on Netflix is all kinds of hilarious! Go watch it without hesitation!

[🎧🤖] ICYMI: ICYMI, the latest episode of The Verge’s Vergecast Podcast is incredibly thoughtful. Over the hour-long episode, it sums up a lot of my own interrogations, fears and doubt about Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and the ethics behind these emerging technologies that haven’t matured …

Updated my Micro.blog feed and cross-posting bot. If I’ve done this right, I should be able to use Facebook a whole lot less… [≠]

Only 4 hours left in the Springsteen memoir “Born To Run” before I can finally start the second volume of The Expanse’s second volume… While it’s a fascinating story and life, it’s also very long! :D

“Nobody wants to get rich slow”: ”Today many crypto investors are drunk with greed. They believe the Big Lie that this is a democracy where they can now get rich like all the venture capitalists, because they hear it wherever they go to read about investing in crypto.” [≠]

I like puns

The end of a fun day with friends old and new and the local Phoenix Park 🦌!

👏🏼 for @adders: “The need to own and maintain your own domain is critical to long-term publishing on the internet — and it's something all too often forgotten in the platform publishing age.” [=]

“It was a great demo that showed off just how brilliant Google is at technology… and how bad it is at not being creepy.” | _Google’s AI sounds like a human on the phone — should we be worried? _- ‘The Verge’

Refreshing approach to Data and Privacy but then again, I’d expect as much from these people!

Atlanta - Robbin’ Season: Holy Smokes, this new season of Atlanta was even better than the first: slower, realler, darker, and overall so much better! I really hope FX renews it for another 2/3 seasons!

Italy, the most indebted member of the euro region to avoid a bailout during the European debt crisis, has succumbed to the forces of nationalism and protectionism that emerged over the past two years as the biggest threat to the political order. Italy Finally Falls to Populism

“Thank the Maker” the first Solo reactions are very positive!

An Ode to Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Really excited to have found this special copy of Margaret Atwood’s classic “The Handmaid’s Tale” to gift to Shana!

Not all ads are created equal. In this case, Vox Media is doing it right by doing something that is more creative, innovative, and clearly targeted at the right people while being respectful of privacy!

[Book Review] “Exit West” by Mohsin Hamid: (This book was recommended by a heavy-reading couple of friends — thanks a ton Daniel & Kim!) Looking back in the past few years, the Syrian Crisis and related forced migrations might have been one of the biggest and most important stories of the decade. This is the background for Mohsin Hamid’s …

Road House Theater: With Shana being away this week, I’m treating myself by going to the movie. As it happens, our local indie cinema is showing Road-themed movies in their mobile cinema truck this week. Tonight, it’s all about ”Drive”

Current Status: 

Bank Holiday Monday One of the downsides of being an international remote freelancer is that Bank Holidays rarely exists. Today being one here in Ireland, but with my french customers being off until Wednesday, I decided to finish working early at 4pm and go out shopping/walking

Vibing to @Complexion’s #TFBS while reading this amazing book “Exit West” by Mohsin Hamish. Listen along!

#FreeComicBookDay was fun!

Sunny Sunday We started the day with a lovely brunch before heading out to Phoenix Park. Then we walked around town all afternoon, to end the day having clocked 20km on foot!

Nice day out to the suburban city of Dun Laoghaire, overlooking the eastern sea!

The end of a very long week!

Stop everything you’re doing: Empire Magazine’s Avengers Infinity War Spoiler Special podcast is out! soundcloud.com/empiremag…

1 Second Everyday in April 2018: vimeo.com/267307217  

#Instagram meets GDPR: ”Unfortunately, falling for the PR spin of the Facebook Regime is typical for technology journalists, and why it has been able to get away with its surveillance commerce for so long.” =

#TheTruthAboutFrance Tomorrow is labour day in France, a bank holiday. Therefore some of my working partners are off until… Thursday! 🤣

9:40am and I’ve already taken care of the most urgent and important pieces of business for today: following up on important emails and interview requests…

Random Shots around Dublin Post brunch, we ended up walking along the river, down south to the Dublin Flea Market…

Brunch is important Today we finally got to try Dublin’s own “Brother Hubbard”

Portobello: Fun Saturday exploring the ‘Portobello’ part of Dublin! And very excited for the 50th anniversary screening of the original Planet Of The Apes tonight at our little indie cinema!

Date night in the city!

Holy shit this may be one of the most important moment since the fall of the Berlin Wall!

With apps like Things, @BearNotesApp, @UlyssesApp, and more, I feel like I’m gonna need to dedicate a full day to look into iOS automation via ‘Workflow’…

Looks like my Micro.blog initial subscription has run out — a good wake up call for me to look into a more serious integration between my actual blog and my micro-thoughts…

Testing @BearNotesApp to get me away from Evernote: So far, I’m really enjoying the speed, markdown and simplicity over sluggish feature bloat that Evernote has become over the years…

I extremely liked watching #Avengers, especially with the immersive 4DX technology! Really excited for the future of the #MarvelCinematicUniverse and the end of this Storyline in 2019! Brings to mind how we had to wait for The Return of the King or Matrix Revolution after #2

I extremely liked watching Avengers, especially with the immersive 4DX technology! Really excited for the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the end of this Storyline in 2019! Brings to mind how we had to wait for The Return of the King or Matrix Revolution after the sequel to the original …

If you happen to want a good BBQ spot in #Dublin, @PITTBROSBBQ is great — added bonus : amazing selection of hip-hop beats!

The local theater had an outage 40mn into #Avengers (3D IMAX) - they’ve given us refunds and I’m now going to the next 4DX screening in 40mn… 🤷🏻‍♂️ 🎥 😍

If you happen to want a good BBQ spot in #Dublin, @PITTBROSBBQ is great — added bonus : amazing selection of hip-hop beats!

The local theater had an outage 40mn into #Avengers (3D IMAX) - they’ve given us refunds and I’m now going to the next 4DX screening in 40mn… 🤷🏻‍♂️ 🎥 😍

I, for one, am pretty excited about the future of Snapchat… “The Future of Snapchat Looks a Lot Like Magic Leap” | WIRED

.@VoxDotCom: “Incel, the misogynist ideology that inspired the deadly Toronto attack, explained”

I, for one, am pretty excited about the future of Snapchat… > “The Future of Snapchat Looks a Lot Like Magic Leap” | WIRED

.@VoxDotCom: “Incel, the misogynist ideology that inspired the deadly Toronto attack, explained”

Facts: every time I finish reading a new issue of @EmpireMagazine, I just want to watch an endless list of movies!

This new issue of @empiremagazine is great, thank you very much!

Facts: every time I finish reading a new issue of @EmpireMagazine, I just want to watch an endless list of movies!

This new issue of @empiremagazine is great, thank you very much!

The more I use it, the more I prefer Discord over Slack/Telegram, when it comes to chatrooms/communities

Protect yourself from Avengers: Infinity War spoilers with these simple tools

Happy Avengers Infinity War Reviews Day!

The more I use it, the more I prefer Discord over Slack/Telegram, when it comes to chatrooms/communities

Protect yourself from Avengers: Infinity War spoilers with these simple tools

Happy Avengers Infinity War Reviews Day!

😱🍺 Has the Craft Beer industry peaked?!

As a fan of the TV Show, going through The Expanse #1 was a great discovery! I read on Kindle in combination w/ Audible, and it was a great way to make some progress faster! Going to switch it up by reading something different before moving on to the second book in this series!

😱🍺 Has the Craft Beer industry peaked?!

As a fan of the TV Show, going through The Expanse #1 was a great discovery! I read on Kindle in combination w/ Audible, and it was a great way to make some progress faster! Going to switch it up by reading something different before moving on to the second book in this series!

Really excited about my 10am IMAX screening of #Avengers his Thursday, especially considering the first few reactions!

Really excited about my 10am IMAX screening of #Avengers his Thursday, especially considering the first few reactions!

Still unsure how I feel about the Venom movie. On the one hand: Tom Hardy, Riz Ahmed, and I like the direction they seem to take. Almost like a Spawn/Punisher type of story. On the other, the SFX look odd. And getting a trailer this late is never a good sign…

Still unsure how I feel about the Venom movie. On the one hand: Tom Hardy, Riz Ahmed, and I like the direction they seem to take. Almost like a Spawn/Punisher type of story. On the other, the SFX look odd. And getting a trailer this late is never a good sign…

Project Varanida on Forbes: Last week, I was in London for a client project — we were exhibiting at Blockchain Expo. During the expo, we had the chance to explain our product to Forbes contributor Jason Bloomberg. He just published an article about a crop of startups disrupting industries using blockchain technology —including …

🏀 When the problem experienced in the industry at large start affecting @SBNationNBA and #BasketballTwitter, you know you’ve got a problem

Low-key still expecting/wanting notifications on @AppleMusic for when new @Beats1 radio shows are LIVE or available on demand — for specific shows you follow (@Soulection, Blonded, @OVOSound, @ChillyGonzales, Pizza Boys, etc.)

🏀 When the problem experienced in the industry at large start affecting @SBNationNBA and #BasketballTwitter, you know you’ve got a problem

Low-key still expecting/wanting notifications on @AppleMusic for when new @Beats1 radio shows are LIVE or available on demand — for specific shows you follow (@Soulection, Blonded, @OVOSound, @ChillyGonzales, Pizza Boys, etc.)

Shoreditch Streetart: And now for something a little different: some of the impressive and amazing streetart I found walking around Shoreditch this weekend…  [gallery ids=“3789,3791,3787,3783,3784,3785,3786,3788,3790,3718,3793,3794,3795,3796,3797,3798,3799,3792” type=“rectangular”]

It’s very hard to judge “young hip travelers”™️ wearing sports leggings, thick white sports socks on top of them, with crocs…

Early morning and not a lot of people (or sleep) but it only took me an hour to go from north east london over to south west where the airport is! 👌🏼

It’s very hard to judge “young hip travelers”™️ wearing sports leggings, thick white sports socks on top of them, with crocs…

Early morning and not a lot of people (or sleep) but it only took me an hour to go from north east london over to south west where the airport is! 👌🏼

A Week in London: It started like any other week, in our Dublin apartment. I coordinated with my clients, checked on the advancement of our different projects, and worked my way through a couple of things on Monday. On Tuesday, early in the morning, Shana left to go on a business trip to the US. And just a couple of …

Another amazing day in London, walking around Shoreditch/Hackney, and enjoying a delicious brunch with @DanielGiaco

Another amazing day in London, walking around Shoreditch/Hackney, and enjoying a delicious brunch with @DanielGiaco

Fully agree wih @Chartier on that one

Another benefit from GDPR: con artists and growth hackers freaking the hell out! That’s what you get for unethical behaviors and harvesting people’s data without consent!

Fully agree wih @Chartier on that one

Another benefit from GDPR: con artists and growth hackers freaking the hell out! That’s what you get for unethical behaviors and harvesting people’s data without consent!

Series #2: Shoreditch Street Art

Beautiful evening in Shoreditch — solo though

Alone in Shoreditch his evening so — going to pick up some food at Boxpark

Series #2: Shoreditch Street Art

Beautiful evening in Shoreditch — solo though

Alone in Shoreditch his evening so — going to pick up some food at Boxpark

This is a Public Service Announcement: #London is absolutely gorgeous today!

This is a Public Service Announcement: #London is absolutely gorgeous today!

Political J.Cole is the best J Cole (aka PolitiCole) Check out his new album K.O.D. out today!

That’s going to be an interesting state of the inbox when you come back in January…

Back from two days at Blockchain Expo — but still in London for the weekend. Busy day catching up on work to finish that week before taking it eaaaaasy! :)

Political J.Cole is the best J Cole (aka PolitiCole) Check out his new album K.O.D. out today!

That’s going to be an interesting state of the inbox when you come back in January…

Back from two days at Blockchain Expo — but still in London for the weekend. Busy day catching up on work to finish that week before taking it eaaaaasy! :)

Good times last night!

Good times last night!

Good morning #Kensington, you’re a beaut’

Good morning #Kensington, you’re a beaut’

I took the train from Heathrow to Paddington and then the tube to High St Kensington. Walking to my hotel, on the main street, I realized that I was at the same exact spot where Shana, whom I’m gonna marry someday, messaged me on @OKcupid! Strong Amazing Memories from last year!

Feels good to be back in LDN

I took the train from Heathrow to Paddington and then the tube to High St Kensington. Walking to my hotel, on the main street, I realized that I was at the same exact spot where Shana, whom I’m gonna marry someday, messaged me on @OKcupid! Strong Amazing Memories from last year!

Feels good to be back in LDN

Shot. Chaser. via @Liamboogar

Shot. Chaser. via @Liamboogar

Liftoff, we have a liftoff on that intro @complexion

Liftoff, we have a liftoff on that intro @complexion

🇻🇳🤖🇨🇳👨🏻‍💻 Meanwhile over in Asia #Democracy

🇻🇳🤖🇨🇳👨🏻‍💻 Meanwhile over in Asia #Democracy

First sub-30mn 5k. On a freaking Monday!!

First sub-30mn 5k. On a freaking Monday!!

It hasn’t been a sunny day, but it’s been a pretty evening!

It hasn’t been a sunny day, but it’s been a pretty evening!

Ok I need to get back to a sun-filled country!

One of the busiest work-week I’ve had in months if not years. But I’m very excited for the short trip to London next week!

Ok I need to get back to a sun-filled country!

One of the busiest work-week I’ve had in months if not years. But I’m very excited for the short trip to London next week!

DREAMS vs REALITY

DREAMS vs REALITY

Finally reading this classic #XMen storyline #DarkPhoenix

Finally reading this classic #XMen storyline #DarkPhoenix

Tonight’s @HQTrivia with #DwayneJohnson was ridiculously fun!

Tonight’s @HQTrivia with #DwayneJohnson was ridiculously fun!

I think the reason ASMR doesn’t work with me is because I low-key expect to go full-on Mr Robot. And then nothing actually happens.

Well, that’s some good news for today!

I think the reason ASMR doesn’t work with me is because I low-key expect to go full-on Mr Robot. And then nothing actually happens.

Well, that’s some good news for today!

🏀 This is too good @ESPN: As the we are about to reach the last games of the regular season, here’s The 2017-2018 NBA Season recaped in memes and troll posts ⛹🏻‍

🏀 This is too good @ESPN: As the we are about to reach the last games of the regular season, here’s The 2017-2018 NBA Season recaped in memes and troll posts ⛹🏻‍

Have you heard about GAFAs?: In France, business-related publishers refer to Google-Apple-Facebook-Amazon as a single group. And because the french love acronyms, they called it 'GAFA's. Beyond the sheer horror of the acronym, I don't think it's fair to associate these companies together. Apple makes money off products …

I haven’t made a lot of progress on my personal creative projects lately (mainly uploading the last few travel vlogs + making new music mixes). However, in the meantime, I’ve retroactively uploaded previous travel Vlogs on Youtube: CHECK IT OUT

I haven’t made a lot of progress on my personal creative projects lately (mainly uploading the last few travel vlogs + making new music mixes). However, in the meantime, I’ve retroactively uploaded previous travel Vlogs on Youtube: CHECK IT OUT

You can probably make a lot of assumptions by the way the opening page of my work notebook looks like

You can probably make a lot of assumptions by the way the opening page of my work notebook looks like

How is it already April?!: It’s April. Looking back on the beginning of the year, I’ve been going non stop, moving from the French Riviera over to Dublin, finding ourselves a flat, working on two new fast-paced projects, and planning the rest of the year. Tonight’s therapy comes from well… the Therapy EP by the always …

How is it already April?!: It’s April. Looking back on the beginning of the year, I’ve been going non stop, moving from the French Riviera over to Dublin, finding ourselves a flat, working on two new fast-paced projects, and planning the rest of the year. Tonight’s therapy comes from well… the Therapy EP by the always …

Pasted a Youtube link in my @DayOneApp and it formated correctly once I published the entry in my journal. Mind Blown! :)

Pasted a Youtube link in my @DayOneApp and it formated correctly once I published the entry in my journal. Mind Blown! :)

Last week I mentioned how excited I am to be working a bit more with startups. To my surprise, there’s been some good response to this, and I’m left wondering whether I should talk more about #FreelanceLife. Is that something you’d like to hear about?

Over the weekend, we took a nice little walk in Phoenix Park in Dublin. In the middle of the park we found a colony of about 30 or 40 dear, just walking around. It was beautiful! #MicroMonday #WeekendShots

Liam launched a Newsletter!: My friend @LiamBoogar recently launched a newsletter where he tackles Branding, France, Technology, and a lot more — all through his personal and opinionated point of view. The latest issue is really solid, and talks about Labor Laws in France and the labour market in the US. Here’s a solid …

Last week I mentioned how excited I am to be working a bit more with startups. To my surprise, there’s been some good response to this, and I’m left wondering whether I should talk more about #FreelanceLife. Is that something you’d like to hear about?

Over the weekend, we took a nice little walk in Phoenix Park in Dublin. In the middle of the park we found a colony of about 30 or 40 dear, just walking around. It was beautiful! #MicroMonday #WeekendShots

Really enjoying ("Levianthan Wakes"), the first volume of “The Expanse” — so much so that I ended up buying both the @kindle and the @Audible versions, to switch between audio when I’m walking outside, and e-ink at home!

Really enjoying ("Levianthan Wakes"), the first volume of “The Expanse” — so much so that I ended up buying both the @kindle and the @Audible versions, to switch between audio when I’m walking outside, and e-ink at home!

Wow this behind the scenes look at the Expanse book series by @AndrewLiptack is great! | “Evolution of a Space Epic: James S.A. Corey’s The Expanse”

Wow this behind the scenes look at the Expanse book series by @AndrewLiptack is great! | “Evolution of a Space Epic: James S.A. Corey’s The Expanse”

This article from @verge makes a lot of good points. Chief of them being: ”One of the big reasons I still miss Windows Phone is because it pushed both Apple and Google to do better.” I miss Windows Phone - The Verge

“Friends behind their fences / Looking at me strange / Wondering when I’m gonna come to my senses / But I’m still changing / And I can’t change my ways”

Will it wash out in the water or is it always in the blood?

🎤🎸 Never a wrong time or place to listen to John 🎧

This article from @verge makes a lot of good points. Chief of them being: > ”One of the big reasons I still miss Windows Phone is because it pushed both Apple and Google to do better.” I miss Windows Phone - The Verge

“Isle of Dogs” was a lot of cute fun! Highly recommend!

“Friends behind their fences / Looking at me strange / Wondering when I’m gonna come to my senses / But I’m still changing / And I can’t change my ways”

Will it wash out in the water or is it always in the blood?

🎤🎸 Never a wrong time or place to listen to John 🎧

“Isle of Dogs” was a lot of cute fun! Highly recommend!

Such an amazing time at @TokenDublin tonight! Can’t wait to go back!

Such an amazing time at @TokenDublin tonight! Can’t wait to go back!

I am really feeling this H&M blaser (and I’ve been talking about getting myself a blaser for years!) cc @elodietweets

Happy #30STM release day!

I am really feeling this H&M blaser (and I’ve been talking about getting myself a blaser for years!) cc @elodietweets

Happy #30STM release day!

The new trailer for #Farenheit451 is out! I’m really excited to see Michael Shannon & MIchael B Jordan together over these intense roles!

I have to say, it’s been really amazing to get back to working with smaller startups for the past two months or so. I had missed the much faster speed of execution and being able to work across different things!

The new trailer for #Farenheit451 is out! I’m really excited to see Michael Shannon & MIchael B Jordan together over these intense roles!

It was exactly a year ago that I left on the trip of a lifetime, starting my trip on around the world! Time flies: don’t forget to make most of it today! “Up In The Air | A New Beginning” – Tibz

I have to say, it’s been really amazing to get back to working with smaller startups for the past two months or so. I had missed the much faster speed of execution and being able to work across different things!

Spring 2018 Playlist is Updated

My body is ready!

It was exactly a year ago that I left on the trip of a lifetime, starting my trip on around the world! Time flies: don’t forget to make most of it today! > “Up In The Air | A New Beginning” – Tibz

Spring 2018 Playlist is Updated

My body is ready!

Your personal data is your most valuable resource, protect it!

Your personal data is your most valuable resource, protect it!

Another sunny lunch before the clouds came back in #Dublin

Another sunny lunch before the clouds came back in #Dublin

😍 Calmly listening to this old SNES mix on @Mixcloud which brings me back 25 years. 🎼 👾🎮

Sky’s unreal right now

😍 Calmly listening to this old SNES mix on @Mixcloud which brings me back 25 years. 🎼 👾🎮

Sky’s unreal right now

Booked a table at @TokenDublin on Friday and I could hardly be more excited! tokendublin.ie

Booked a table at @TokenDublin on Friday and I could hardly be more excited! tokendublin.ie

If anything, this is going to make me (and many others I’m sure) subscribe to The Post… “@NYTimes: To Trump, It’s the ‘Amazon Washington Post.’ To Its Editor, That’s Baloney.”

I’m starting to get pissed off at how thirsty Facebook is…

Back to some very healthy food!

If anything, this is going to make me (and many others I’m sure) subscribe to The Post… “@NYTimes: To Trump, It’s the ‘Amazon Washington Post.’ To Its Editor, That’s Baloney.”

I’m starting to get pissed off at how thirsty Facebook is…

Back to some very healthy food!

Back to work today, catching up on 4 client projects!

Back to work today, catching up on 4 client projects!

This take by @MGSiegler is sad because it rings true. Going to the cinema has been one of my all time favorite experiences. I always feel like a kid when I enter the room and sit up in the big red seats, awaiting the new trailers. I, however, seem to be part of a shrinking majority. “There are a …

March 2018, in 1 Second Everyday: vimeo.com/262703085

Damn John Wall looks blazing fast and light! Loving these one-handed passes he’s thrown! 🏀

Damn John Wall looks blazing fast and light! Loving these one-handed passes he’s thrown! 🏀

Spielberg took a lot of liberties from the original book and made this a much more fun experience to watch! 🎬**”Ready Player One”**

Spielberg took a lot of liberties from the original book and made this a much more fun experience to watch! 🎬**”Ready Player One”**

After a delicious Phó, made it to Murphy’s for the perfect dose of Irish ice cream!

After a delicious Phó, made it to Murphy’s for the perfect dose of Irish ice cream!

Discussing the values of open discussions with Shana this morning. There’s a 65% chance she’ll join Micro.Blog soon to interact with the community and share her thoughts on innovation and many other exciting things!

Hypebeasts for the weekend: cool kids with cool shoes!

Discussing the values of open discussions with Shana this morning. There’s a 65% chance she’ll join Micro.Blog soon to interact with the community and share her thoughts on innovation and many other exciting things!

Hypebeasts for the weekend: cool kids with cool shoes!

Watching “WarGames” for the first time before our IMAX screening of “Ready Player Ome” this afternoon!

Watching “WarGames” for the first time before our IMAX screening of “Ready Player Ome” this afternoon!

A Day out around the Killiney Bay: After our trip to Belfast during St Patrick’s day, we were eager to get out of Dublin again and explore the surrounding areas a bit more. After an evening spent on Pinterest searching for some inspiration, we decided to take a train down to Killiney, apparently a location with a beautiful …

I’m continuously trying to write more while spending less time browsing social media feed. Subscribe to my newsletter here where you can expect a blend of personal news, projects I’m working and tech-related thoughts! Next one out TODAY!

Productive morning:

I’m continuously trying to write more while spending less time browsing social media feed. Subscribe to my newsletter here where you can expect a blend of personal news, projects I’m working and tech-related thoughts! Next one out TODAY!

Last day of the week! Let’s get it!

Productive morning:

Last day of the week! Let’s get it!

”Firefox is now treating Facebook as malware that you need to be protected from.” Daring Fireball: ‘Mozilla’s Facebook Container Extension’

Had a really nice time walking around town this afternoon, to pick up Shana at the office!

Tim Cook with the zingers! 🔥🔥🔥🔥 – 512 Pixels

> ”Firefox is now treating Facebook as malware that you need to be protected from.” Daring Fireball: ‘Mozilla’s Facebook Container Extension’

_ “With Les Bleus, the sentiment is the same as it has been throughout qualifying: They’re arguably the most talented nation in the world, but Didier Deschamps still hasn’t found the magic formula yet”_ ⚽️🇫🇷

Had a really nice time walking around town this afternoon, to pick up Shana at the office!

Tim Cook with the zingers! 🔥🔥🔥🔥 – 512 Pixels

> _ “With Les Bleus, the sentiment is the same as it has been throughout qualifying: They’re arguably the most talented nation in the world, but Didier Deschamps still hasn’t found the magic formula yet”_ ⚽️🇫🇷

#SkiesOfDublin

#SkiesOfDublin

Current Status: #GotPaid

Daring Fireball: John Paul Stevens: ‘Repeal the Second Amendment’: > I don’t know when it will happen, but when it does, it’ll happen fast. — Read on daringfireball.net/linked/2018/03/27/stevens-2nd-amemdment

Current Status: #GotPaid

🏠 🏋🏻‍♀️ 🛀🏼 Another day, another sets of house chores and errands!

🏠 🏋🏻‍♀️ 🛀🏼 Another day, another sets of house chores and errands!

So incredibly grateful that Netflix added their “skip intro” button to the iOS app!

So incredibly grateful that Netflix added their “skip intro” button to the iOS app!

This is your reminder that @StationHQ is such a simple yet amazing (web) app! The first and last thing on my laptop when it comes to working during the week! Give it a try, it’s free!

Gotta love those @buffer emails… Also: can’t believe it’s been six years already!

This is your reminder that @StationHQ is such a simple yet amazing (web) app! The first and last thing on my laptop when it comes to working during the week! Give it a try, it’s free!

A Day Trip Belfast (March 2018): Bank Holiday Monday, over St Patrick’s Day Weekend. We left the apartment at an early 6.45am to walk towards Dublin’s Connolly station. There, we met with Shana’s coworker M and her boyfriend M. We hopped on the train and discovered that our names were appearing on a little display …

Gotta love those @buffer emails… Also: can’t believe it’s been six years already!

💼 One of those days… 💪🏼

💼 One of those days… 💪🏼

EFF: "The CLOUD Act, a far-reaching, privacy-upending piece of legislation": Sound the alarms: “This final, tacked-on piece of legislation will erode privacy protections around the globe.” This notice, courtesy of the Electronic Frontier Foundation This bill is the CLOUD Act. It was never reviewed or marked up by any committee in either the House or the Senate. It never …

Little fun without giving away privacy: got 42/50! Can you beat your mates in this quiz of all 50 European flags?

Little fun without giving away privacy: got 42/50! Can you beat your mates in this quiz of all 50 European flags?

Daring Fireball: ‘Privacy Means People Know What They’re Signing Up For’

Great day out to the Southern side of Dublin, checking out Killiney Bay!

Daring Fireball: ‘Privacy Means People Know What They’re Signing Up For’

Great day out to the Southern side of Dublin, checking out Killiney Bay!

Alien Covenant in 4K on an iPad Pro is quite the entertaining watch!

Another excellent dinner date in Dublin!

Alien Covenant in 4K on an iPad Pro is quite the entertaining watch!

Another excellent dinner date in Dublin!

Currently listening to a recorded interview at 55% of its original speed so I can transcribe it. Picture me like this

Currently listening to a recorded interview at 55% of its original speed so I can transcribe it. Picture me like this

This week has been quite intense, but I’ve finally hit peak productivity on client work! This, in part, due to catching up on @Complexion’s #TFBS

This week has been quite intense, but I’ve finally hit peak productivity on client work! This, in part, due to catching up on @Complexion’s #TFBS

Been thinking about @Path a lot over the past few years. I’m ridiculously excited about the prospect of @DaveMorin and the OG team to possibly rebuild something similar and intimate, with an emphasis on a subscription-model to keep it afloat! twitter.com/davemorin…

Been thinking about @Path a lot over the past few years. I’m ridiculously excited about the prospect of @DaveMorin and the OG team to possibly rebuild something similar and intimate, with an emphasis on a subscription-model to keep it afloat! twitter.com/davemorin…

Current Status: 📺 #TheWire “McNulty, you are a piece of work”

Current Status: 📺 #TheWire > “McNulty, you are a piece of work”

Good morning Dublin, it’s snowing again today!

Good morning Dublin, it’s snowing again today!

Anything more Irish then spending St Patrick’s Day bundled up in a pub in the middle of Temple Bar, Dublin — and surrounded with Irish, Americans, Polish and Australian people?!

Anything more Irish then spending St Patrick’s Day bundled up in a pub in the middle of Temple Bar, Dublin — and surrounded with Irish, Americans, Polish and Australian people?!

Not only do I like this approach: this is exactly what I like to do when I travel by air.

Not only do I like this approach: this is exactly what I like to do when I travel by air.

I was pretty excited but you can now dial it all the way to eleven: the final Avengers Infinity War trailer is out and I’m incredibly excited to see Cap holding his own!

👨🏾‍💻 🎮 👩🏻‍💻 Today, @TheNib has a really cool cartoon/article about Tomb Raider, Video games, and Diversity!

I was pretty excited but you can now dial it all the way to eleven: the final Avengers Infinity War trailer is out and I’m incredibly excited to see Cap holding his own!

👨🏾‍💻 🎮 👩🏻‍💻 Today, @TheNib has a really cool cartoon/article about Tomb Raider, Video games, and Diversity!