Updated my votes for the french Betclic Elite All Star Game later this year. Votes count double today so here we go: #ASG2024 @ParisBasketball
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November 2024
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 →
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 →
So overly excited for the upcoming in-season #HardKnocks about the AFC North teams, including my beloved @Ravens!
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 →
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 …
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 →
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)
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!
Wednesday, November 13, 2024 →
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… 🤷♂️
Wednesday, November 13, 2024 →
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!
October 2024
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 headlines …
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
September 2024
Walking around during my lunch breaI and noticed someone having a one-man BBQ on the side of the canal 🍗🔥 gotta love it
Saturday, September 28, 2024 →
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 …
Saturday, September 28, 2024 →
I’ll say this about @Threads, the algorithm (😭🤖) is good at pushing up great photography in my feed.
Saturday, September 28, 2024 →
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
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 →
Hallo Nurnberg
Saturday, September 21, 2024 →
Starting early with my annual #Halloween watches this year and going through American Horror Story S07 (“Cult”) — which is the 2016 US Election season!
Thursday, September 19, 2024 →
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
Thursday, September 12, 2024 →
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?!
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 →
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.” [≠]
Wednesday, September 4, 2024 →
Loved learning more about my QB, Lamar Jackson, and especially about how he manages keeping his private life… private!
Wednesday, September 4, 2024 →
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!
August 2024
“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. [≠]
July 2024
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!
June 2024
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!
May 2024
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April 2024
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! 🤘🎸🎵
March 2024
# 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
February 2024
Testing Bluesky image xpost again
Anyone here into Baseball Cards collecting? Wondering if there’s a (small/friendly) community on here… 😊 ⚾️ 🃏
January 2024
🎶 “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…
December 2023
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:
Wednesday, December 13, 2023 →
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…
November 2023
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 …
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 →
🎶 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! 🤘🏼🎸
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 →
🎶 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 …
October 2023
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
September 2023
🎶 Been meaning to read this for years so glad to finally catch-up via the Audiobook
Saturday, September 23, 2023 →
Rugby night 🏉 🥃
Thursday, September 21, 2023 →
🎶 Blink-182 is forever!
Wednesday, September 20, 2023 →
WFH
Wednesday, September 20, 2023 →
🏀📺 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!
August 2023
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?!
July 2023
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!
June 2023
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 😢 ❤️
May 2023
¡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!
April 2023
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
March 2023
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
February 2023
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)
Wednesday, February 22, 2023 →
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
Wednesday, February 15, 2023 →
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”
January 2023
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
December 2022
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?!
Wednesday, December 14, 2022 →
Ready! Allez Les Bleus! #FiersdEtreBleus #WC2022
Wednesday, December 14, 2022 →
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. [≠]
November 2022
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
Wednesday, November 23, 2022 →
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
Wednesday, November 16, 2022 →
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
October 2022
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…
September 2022
Thursday, September 29, 2022 →
When they show you who they are: believe them
Thursday, September 29, 2022 →
I just recommended My Life in Red and White on ‘Oku.Club’
LDN Day 3:
Saturday, September 24, 2022 →
LDN Day 2: Shoreditch by day and Covent Garden by night
Thursday, September 22, 2022 →
LDN Holidays Day 1
Playing around with @AnyDistanceClub on the commute back home
Great brunch today, always in good company
Saturday, September 17, 2022 →
Morning Rituals
Weather in Paris: an update
Thursday, September 15, 2022 →
“The Guys of My Generation Are Hooked on Fantasy Sports”
Wednesday, September 14, 2022 →
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
August 2022
24hr in London for work but my best surprise and discovery was staying at the Standard 🤩
July 2022
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 :)
June 2022
“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
May 2022
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
April 2022
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
March 2022
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
February 2022
The return of (almost) 5k Thursday
Wednesday, February 23, 2022 →
Happy to see that @DuckDuckGo is getting more traction, although a chunk of this is from these crazy fuckers
Wednesday, February 23, 2022 →
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
Wednesday, February 16, 2022 →
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! 🇻🇳
January 2022
🥰 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
December 2021
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!
Wednesday, December 15, 2021 →
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
November 2021
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
Wednesday, November 17, 2021 →
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 …
October 2021
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
September 2021
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
Wednesday, September 22, 2021 →
Keep calm and listen to @LilNasX’s wonderful debut studio album “Montero”
Wednesday, September 22, 2021 →
“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! 👟 🛹
Wednesday, September 1, 2021 →
Like riding a bike right?!
August 2021
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” 🏀
July 2021
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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June 2021
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!
May 2021
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:
April 2021
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 🤩
March 2021
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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February 2021
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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…
Wednesday, February 24, 2021 →
Holy shit @KITH is opening a store in Paris!
Wednesday, February 24, 2021 →
Wednesday, February 24, 2021 →
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!
Wednesday, February 17, 2021 →
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!
Wednesday, February 10, 2021 →
New delivery from @1PetiteMousse — love to discover new different types of beers
Wednesday, February 10, 2021 →
The Artist
Wednesday, February 10, 2021 →
Decadent leftover lunch: Southern-American style chicken & waffles
Wednesday, February 10, 2021 →
Snow Day ❄️
Wednesday, February 10, 2021 →
Accurate
30th' birthday lunch!: I might ask her to marry me again…
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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
January 2021
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
December 2020
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 🎄
Wednesday, December 23, 2020 →
Lovely day out despite the grey, today
Wednesday, December 23, 2020 →
When that private sale on Korean Skincare product hits: #SpaDay
Wednesday, December 23, 2020 →
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…”
November 2020
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)
Wednesday, November 25, 2020 →
Love these hidden little Parisian passages
Pumpkin pie & Espresso Martini!
We bought a bar cart!
strava.app.link
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”
Wednesday, November 11, 2020 →
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 ❤️ 🤩 😭
lol
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
October 2020
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 🎸 🤘🏼 😢
September 2020
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!
Thursday, September 17, 2020 →
I need a lot more #VelvetUnderground in my life!
French weekend dinner
Saturday, September 12, 2020 →
“French Fast Food & Home Décor”
Thursday, September 10, 2020 →
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”
Thursday, September 10, 2020 →
About last night…
Wednesday, September 9, 2020 →
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?”
August 2020
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
July 2020
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 💪🏼 🇻🇳
June 2020
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!
May 2020
🤔 =
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!
April 2020
“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
March 2020
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!
February 2020
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?
Wednesday, February 26, 2020 →
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
January 2020
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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. 😔 😴
December 2019
Started watching #Watchmen, at last, after reading the book every couple of years… Really loved this frame!
Indulging
Wednesday, December 25, 2019 →
2010’s: the decade of ebooks… or not!
Wednesday, December 25, 2019 →
Another item for the bucket list: Chinese food on Christmas Day in Chinatown! Highly recommend the Green Garden Village on Grand St
Wednesday, December 25, 2019 →
🎅🏻 “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 …
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 →
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! 😋
November 2019
🍿 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!
Wednesday, November 27, 2019 →
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 🇮🇹 ✈️
October 2019
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!
August 2019
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, …
July 2019
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! 💪🏼
June 2019
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
May 2019
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!”
April 2019
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
March 2019
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!
February 2019
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
Wednesday, February 20, 2019 →
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 🎉 🎂 🎊
January 2019
“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!
Probably-not-Banksy
🏆🏆🏆 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 😍
December 2018
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!
Wednesday, December 19, 2018 →
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!
Wednesday, December 19, 2018 →
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.”
Wednesday, December 19, 2018 →
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
November 2018
🔥 💧 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
Wednesday, November 28, 2018 →
As a fan of @asmonaco this one hurt
Wednesday, November 28, 2018 →
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)
Wednesday, November 21, 2018 →
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!
October 2018
🏀😭 “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
September 2018
DuckDuckGo Traffic is Exploding
10 day holiday across France, the UK, Italy and Monaco!
“À la place 54…”
Saturday, September 22, 2018 →
Touchdown in the Motherland
Holy shit this is going to be terrifying! First look at Joaquin Phoenix in make-up from “Joker” #NotITChapter2
Thursday, September 20, 2018 →
It just might be the single best TV show in production right now, with great laughs but also rich, thoughtful character depth. =•=
Wednesday, September 19, 2018 →
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? 😢 ⚽️
Wednesday, September 19, 2018 →
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!
Saturday, September 15, 2018 →
🤣 ⚽️ An Italian magazine elected this as the worst 20 seconds of football ever played (QPR vs. Man City, 1993)
Saturday, September 15, 2018 →
First time staying out this late in the streets of Dublin. 1am.
🎶 🎧 Happy @6lack release day! “East Atlanta Love Letter”
Thursday, September 13, 2018 →
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
Wednesday, September 5, 2018 →
High hopes for Captain Marvel!!! (click for more images)
Wednesday, September 5, 2018 →
Really exciting time for our @Varanida_VAD team! We’re acquiring Secret Media!
Wednesday, September 5, 2018 →
Miami’s #MLS crest is… very #Miami :)
Wednesday, September 5, 2018 →
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
August 2018
#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! 📺
July 2018
Current status
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!
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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!
June 2018
“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
May 2018
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&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…
April 2018
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
March 2018
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!
Nike has dropped the 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷 collection for the upcoming ⚽️ World Cup:check it out!
Nike has dropped the 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷 collection for the upcoming ⚽️ World Cup:check it out!
We went from dark grey sky (Monday) to incredibly clear and sunny (Tuesday), to cold and non-stop rainy (Wednesday). Oh Ireland! 🇮🇪😅
We went from dark grey sky (Monday) to incredibly clear and sunny (Tuesday), to cold and non-stop rainy (Wednesday). Oh Ireland! 🇮🇪😅
Back to it: Ran 5.1 km in 34 minutes with @gyroscope_app! 🏃🏻♂️
Back to it: Ran 5.1 km in 34 minutes with @gyroscope_app! 🏃🏻♂️
Wait, @Wale dropped a new EP?! I guess I know what I’m doing this morning…
Gorgeous sun out this morning!
Wait, @Wale dropped a new EP?! I guess I know what I’m doing this morning…
Gorgeous sun out this morning!
Really excited after reading about the direction that the film takes over the book! ”The film version of Ready Player One has some major advantages over the book.” ‘Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One improves immensely on the book’ | @verge
Really excited after reading about the direction that the film takes over the book! > ”The film version of Ready Player One has some major advantages over the book.” ‘Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One improves immensely on the book’ | @verge
Dublin mornings…
On-again, Off-again, and yet we’re still here, my friend…
Dublin mornings…
On-again, Off-again, and yet we’re still here, my friend…
Date night at @LighthouseD7 for “The Shape of Water”: “Wo(man) meets Water in the Oscar for Best Movie by Guillermo Del Toro. A very touching story between two outcasts, along with some amazing supporting roles and splendid music! I love Del Toro’s fables!”
Date night at @LighthouseD7 for “The Shape of Water”: > “Wo(man) meets Water in the Oscar for Best Movie by Guillermo Del Toro. A very touching story between two outcasts, along with some amazing supporting roles and splendid music! I love Del Toro’s fables!”
Wait… Ansel Elgort from Baby Driver can rap & sing?!
Wait… Ansel Elgort from Baby Driver can rap & sing?!
Very nice morning walk this morning…
Very nice morning walk this morning…
Really excited to watch Logan Noir! I really liked the movie when it came out but I didn’t get a chance to see his alternative version…
Rewatching Doctor Strange but really I’m just on my phone… it didn’t hold up that well, VFX aside
Really excited to watch Logan Noir! I really liked the movie when it came out but I didn’t get a chance to see his alternative version…
Rewatching Doctor Strange but really I’m just on my phone… it didn’t hold up that well, VFX aside
Everyone who’s on the “No way am I putting one of these listening devices in my house” side of the fence is nodding their head with a smug look on their face right now. you can include me on this one, that’s why I’ve been holding off to see a decent Apple products take care of this… Daring …
> Everyone who’s on the “No way am I putting one of these listening devices in my house” side of the fence is nodding their head with a smug look on their face right now. you can include me on this one, that’s why I’ve been holding off to see a decent Apple products take care of this… …
[Movie Review] Phantom Thread: If we’re to rate this movie in itself, based on the technique, the depth of its characters, and the story, we’re talking about a 4.5/5. Personally, I’d rate it a 4, just because the story is less compelling to me. In any case, this is a really intense role for Daniel Day-Lewis who inhabits the …
Phantom Thread, a brief review
Phantom Thread, a brief review
The new update to @Halide looks amazing and reminds me that I’m gonna need to upgrade my phone this fall…
What is the Blockchain? A simple illustrated guide by the talented folks at The Nib
The new update to @Halide looks amazing and reminds me that I’m gonna need to upgrade my phone this fall…
What is the Blockchain? A simple illustrated guide by the talented folks at The Nib
The more I read this book, the more I realise that my convictions are more aligned with Snap than with IG/FB. It makes me want to see them win more, and makes me want to use the app more!
The more I read this book, the more I realise that my convictions are more aligned with Snap than with IG/FB. It makes me want to see them win more, and makes me want to use the app more!
Excited to finally start watching this. Has anyone seen this documentary series yet?
Gotta love a nice afternoon sun at home as I get closer to the end of my work day
Excited to finally start watching this. Has anyone seen this documentary series yet?
Gotta love a nice afternoon sun at home as I get closer to the end of my work day
Even for a 2-track audio file, I forgot how manual my podcast editing workflow is. Gotta remove each blank space and stutter!
Even for a 2-track audio file, I forgot how manual my podcast editing workflow is. Gotta remove each blank space and stutter!
Micro Monday: @Adders whose blog is celebrating 15 years today! Happy Birthday (or is it Anniversary?)
Micro Monday: @Adders whose blog is celebrating 15 years today! Happy Birthday (or is it Anniversary?)
Thinking out loud: now that @CulturedCode’s things has a URL scheme, would it be possible to connect it with a team-based Trello, and get specific new Trello cards imported to my Things project(s)?
Thinking out loud: now that @CulturedCode’s things has a URL scheme, would it be possible to connect it with a team-based Trello, and get specific new Trello cards imported to my Things project(s)?
A majority of Americans want Big Tech regulated and I, for one, am thankful for our European Governance and Overlords!
Toronto Wedding Ready (coming in June)
A majority of Americans want Big Tech regulated and I, for one, am thankful for our European Governance and Overlords!
Toronto Wedding Ready (coming in June)
Date night is the best night! Also: hands down the best food we’ve had since moving to Dublin!
Date night is the best night! Also: hands down the best food we’ve had since moving to Dublin!
Weekend update: the snow stopped falling and we went out for breakfast this morning! Yum!
Weekend update: the snow stopped falling and we went out for breakfast this morning! Yum!
2018: “The Year of Twitter”: From @MGSiegler: “I think Twitter is going to have a good year in 2018, while Facebook has a bad one.” It’s not that crazy to think about. And to some extent, this is already happening. But to capitalise on this, Twitter will first have to tackle its harassment, hate-speech, and nazi problems. …
Now reading: “How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story” by Billy Gallagher
Now reading: “How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story” by Billy Gallagher
[Video] 1SE February 2018: vimeo.com/258819640…
Starting the Westworld and realizing that it’s 90mn long! 😍 🤖 📺
Between @Revolut and @N26, banking is finally getting to a place where its hassle-free. Couldn’t recommend these two services enough!
Starting the Westworld and realizing that it’s 90mn long! 😍 🤖 📺
Between @Revolut and @N26, banking is finally getting to a place where its hassle-free. Couldn’t recommend these two services enough!
February 2018
Wednesday, February 28, 2018 →
Damn, Westworld: “You broke into my office ?!” “With all due respect, sir, you broke into my mind.”
Wednesday, February 28, 2018 →
Damn, Westworld: > “You broke into my office ?!” > “With all due respect, sir, you broke into my mind.”
Wednesday, February 28, 2018 →
Staying inside, away from the cold, doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t have a good time!
Wednesday, February 28, 2018 →
Staying inside, away from the cold, doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t have a good time!
Wednesday, February 28, 2018 →
IMO, the "Are the Wizards better without John Wall" question misses the point: Completely agree with this @SBNation / @BulletsForever article about the Wizards “without John Wall": ”Asking whether the team is better without Wall misses the mark. What’s more important here is that this is the best team he’s ever played on, and that bodes well for the Wizards’ immediate …
Wednesday, February 28, 2018 →
The new alternative jerseys for the Miami Heat are SO FIRE and SO MIAMI!
Wednesday, February 28, 2018 →
IMO, the "Are the Wizards better without John Wall" question misses the point: Completely agree with this @SBNation / @BulletsForever article about the Wizards “without John Wall": > ”Asking whether the team is better without Wall misses the mark. What’s more important here is that this is the best team he’s ever played on, and that bodes well for the Wizards’ …
Wednesday, February 28, 2018 →
The new alternative jerseys for the Miami Heat are SO FIRE and SO MIAMI!
Wednesday, February 28, 2018 →
Dublin Snow: It finally happened, during our first winter in Dublin:
Don’t judge me but a few months ago I got back to #Evernote and it’s been smooth sailing and higher productivity ever since…
🏉 My Micro Monday recommendation this week is fellow rugby aficionado @dgold! :)
Been spending some quality time decorating the apartment lately! Our home is homey, now! :)
Don’t judge me but a few months ago I got back to #Evernote and it’s been smooth sailing and higher productivity ever since…
🏉 My Micro Monday recommendation this week is fellow rugby aficionado @dgold! :)
Been spending some quality time decorating the apartment lately! Our home is homey, now! :)
Love the fact that Apple has shared an article within the “Today View” aka the App Store’s curated panel to talk about Markdown. Here’s hoping markdown gets a little spotlight and becomes more mainstream!
"Begpacking": Needless to say, this is absolutely despicable: ”Working while traveling is a tactic many use to keep their wanderings going longer, hence the trend of digital nomads. But intentionally choosing to forgo money—rather than just running out of it while on the road—are two different things. And while …
Love the fact that Apple has shared an article within the “Today View” aka the App Store’s curated panel to talk about Markdown. Here’s hoping markdown gets a little spotlight and becomes more mainstream!
"Begpacking": Needless to say, this is absolutely despicable: > ”Working while traveling is a tactic many use to keep their wanderings going longer, hence the trend of digital nomads. But intentionally choosing to forgo money—rather than just running out of it while on the road—are two different things. And …
Really happy to have spent the first 80% of my work-day on this huge chunk. Now that it’s done, I can move on to the smaller moving pieces with much more ease. Productivity 101.
Snowing light flurries of snow in Dublin! 😊 ❄️
Really happy to have spent the first 80% of my work-day on this huge chunk. Now that it’s done, I can move on to the smaller moving pieces with much more ease. Productivity 101.
Snowing light flurries of snow in Dublin! 😊 ❄️
Catching up on the Wizards-Sixers game from last night! 🏀 😍
Catching up on the Wizards-Sixers game from last night! 🏀 😍
Today was a good day (in Howth)
Today was a good day (in Howth)
Reading the latest @EmpireMagazine, so this Steven Spielberg & John Williams playlist is per-fect!
Reading the latest @EmpireMagazine, so this Steven Spielberg & John Williams playlist is per-fect!
The Atlantic: “The Tragedy of Erik Killmonger”: Another thoughtful piece on Black Panther over at The Atlantic: Black Panther is a love letter to people of African descent all over the world. Analyzing the tragedy of Erik Killmonger, the film’s main antagonist: The part of Killmonger that makes him a supervillain is not the part of him that is …
[The New Yorker] “Black Panther and the invention of Africa”: I’ve been catching up on a lot of Wakanda-related reading over the past week. This one from The New Yorker makes a series of great points: “There is a fundamental dissonance in the term “African-American,” two feuding ancestries conjoined by a hyphen. That dissonance—a hyphen standing in for the …
The Atlantic: “The Tragedy of Erik Killmonger”: Another thoughtful piece on Black Panther over at The Atlantic: > Black Panther is a love letter to people of African descent all over the world. Analyzing the tragedy of Erik Killmonger, the film’s main antagonist: > The part of Killmonger that makes him a supervillain is not the part of him …
[The New Yorker] “Black Panther and the invention of Africa”: I’ve been catching up on a lot of Wakanda-related reading over the past week. This one from The New Yorker makes a series of great points: > “There is a fundamental dissonance in the term “African-American,” two feuding ancestries conjoined by a hyphen. That dissonance—a hyphen standing in for …
🏉 #6Nations is on, down in Marseille for #FRAvITA ! Holy smokes the public is on fire tonight! #AllezLesBleus
🏉 #6Nations is on, down in Marseille for #FRAvITA ! Holy smokes the public is on fire tonight! #AllezLesBleus
There’s something exhilarating about watching my #WashingtonWizards forced to find alternative strategies while John Wall recovers… Also yeah totally catching up on last night’s win against the Cavs! 🏀
There’s something exhilarating about watching my #WashingtonWizards forced to find alternative strategies while John Wall recovers… Also yeah totally catching up on last night’s win against the Cavs! 🏀
Wow, the HQ Trivia App is finally available at a decent European time! 🇪🇺🚨🖲 Join the fun by using my code: ITIBZ and we both get an extra live!
Wow, the HQ Trivia App is finally available at a decent European time! 🇪🇺🚨🖲 Join the fun by using my code: ITIBZ and we both get an extra live!
Thinking about @CharityWater
Journaling Update:
Thinking about @CharityWater
Journaling Update:
Wednesday, February 21, 2018 →
Ran 6.3 km in 37 minutes with @gyroscope_app
Wednesday, February 21, 2018 →
Ran 6.3 km in 37 minutes with @gyroscope_app
Wednesday, February 21, 2018 →
#Journaling update: Things are going well, and it’s nice to start the day overseeing what needs to be done, and what has been happening lately!
Wednesday, February 21, 2018 →
#Journaling update: Things are going well, and it’s nice to start the day overseeing what needs to be done, and what has been happening lately!
Well, the electricity is out in our entire apartment block, so I guess we’re eating out tonight…
Well, the electricity is out in our entire apartment block, so I guess we’re eating out tonight…
Beautiful day in Dublin today!
Beautiful day in Dublin today!
“If you use Onavo, Facebook can and will track you everywhere you go on the Internet.” via Daring Fireball
> “If you use Onavo, Facebook can and will track you everywhere you go on the Internet.” via Daring Fireball
Really excited by this kind of integration especially coming from Snap! Snapchat Opens A Store-And Takes Aim At A Trillion-Dollar Industry [=]
Really excited by this kind of integration especially coming from Snap! Snapchat Opens A Store-And Takes Aim At A Trillion-Dollar Industry [=]
Catching up on the last few @Soulection radio shows! The vibes are real!
Micro Monday: @vasta and his great shots 📸📸📸
Too much sauce
Catching up on the last few @Soulection radio shows! The vibes are real!
Micro Monday: @vasta and his great shots 📸📸📸
Too much sauce
Updating my /now page :)
Updating my /now page :)
“Get ‘en while they’re hot!” ➡️ Telegram has raised an initial $850M for its 2 billion-dollar ICO 📲💸📈
“Get ‘en while they’re hot!” ➡️ Telegram has raised an initial $850M for its 2 billion-dollar ICO 📲💸📈
Weekend update: brunch before plants! We got plants now!
Weekend update: brunch before plants! We got plants now!
Little by little, the crib is looking better every day/week
Little by little, the crib is looking better every day/week
4 PM: leaving the crib after decorating and DYI-ing all morning!
4 PM: leaving the crib after decorating and DYI-ing all morning!
Korean food for the first time since I left Korea in June! Missed it badly!
Korean food for the first time since I left Korea in June! Missed it badly!
Anyone else having issues with Apple’s iPad Pro Smart Keyboard? Too often it isn’t recognized when connected…
mood: motivated af ✊🏼
Anyone else having issues with Apple’s iPad Pro Smart Keyboard? Too often it isn’t recognized when connected…
mood: motivated af ✊🏼
If you work with contractors/freelancer, please do me a favor and ALWAYS be crystal clear about When/How/How Much you’re paying them! Be proactive with your accounting department and external workers! It sucks having to figure out you won’t get paid for 45 days without notice!
“That’s how ridiculous our situation has become. People are starting to question whether the problem is with sending kids to school, not with pervasive access to military weapons.” Daring Fireball: We’ve Reached the Point Where People Are Giving Up on Schools
If you work with contractors/freelancer, please do me a favor and ALWAYS be crystal clear about When/How/How Much you’re paying them! Be proactive with your accounting department and external workers! It sucks having to figure out you won’t get paid for 45 days without notice!
> “That’s how ridiculous our situation has become. People are starting to question whether the problem is with sending kids to school, not with pervasive access to military weapons.” Daring Fireball: We’ve Reached the Point Where People Are Giving Up on Schools
Goddamit @ismh, this was the best Valentine’s Day Intro! [≠]
Goddamit @ismh, this was the best Valentine’s Day Intro! [≠]
Fiddling around with Wordpress, brainstorming strategy for a new project/client… It’s been busy today!
Fiddling around with Wordpress, brainstorming strategy for a new project/client… It’s been busy today!
Wow, @Moleskine has released a todo app to complement their beautiful #Timepage calendar: it looks fun 📆 [“Action” by Moleskine]
Wow, @Moleskine has released a todo app to complement their beautiful #Timepage calendar: it looks fun 📆 [“Action” by Moleskine]
Wednesday, February 14, 2018 →
Mark my words: if I don’t end my life by her side, I’ll have fucked up along the way! #happyvalentinesday #happyanniversary #datenightisthebestnight #winetimeisthebesttime
Wednesday, February 14, 2018 →
Mark my words: if I don’t end my life by her side, I’ll have fucked up along the way! #happyvalentinesday #happyanniversary #datenightisthebestnight #winetimeisthebesttime
Wednesday, February 14, 2018 →
I can relate… Gold Standard: Popeyes fried chicken
Wednesday, February 14, 2018 →
I can relate… Gold Standard: Popeyes fried chicken
Wednesday, February 14, 2018 →
I was dictating to Siri when I discovered that it can ask for specific pronunciation: that’s awesome!
Wednesday, February 14, 2018 →
#happyvalentinesday #happyanniversary #datenightisthebestnight #winetimeisthebesttime
Wednesday, February 14, 2018 →
I was dictating to Siri when I discovered that it can ask for specific pronunciation: that’s awesome!
Wednesday, February 14, 2018 →
In a more enlightened era of tech, we will move beyond a superficial understanding of ’well designed’, which today seems overly concerned with aesthetics. Instead, good design will focus on creating user experiences that are inclusive and empathetic, on writing code that is open and …
Wednesday, February 14, 2018 →
Is Bandcamp going to save the Music Industry?: 2017 was another stellar year for Bandcamp, with double digit growth in every aspect of the business. (…) Meanwhile, standalone music streaming companies continued to lose money in 2017, and industry-wide record sales continued to decline. (…) Allowing the distribution of an entire art form to be …
Wednesday, February 14, 2018 →
> In a more enlightened era of tech, we will move beyond a superficial understanding of ’well designed’, which today seems overly concerned with aesthetics. > Instead, good design will focus on creating user experiences that are inclusive and empathetic, on writing code that is open and …
Wednesday, February 14, 2018 →
Is Bandcamp going to save the Music Industry?: > 2017 was another stellar year for Bandcamp, with double digit growth in every aspect of the business. (…) > Meanwhile, standalone music streaming companies continued to lose money in 2017, and industry-wide record sales continued to decline. (…) > Allowing the distribution of an entire …
Starting to find my stride: about to get my 5k under 30mn!
Starting to find my stride: about to get my 5k under 30mn!
Finally finished this incredible piece and #longread from @_Alex_mar for @wired More of an essay than an article, but of incredible depth and importance! Modern Love: Are We Ready for Intimacy With Robots?
Finally finished this incredible piece and #longread from @_Alex_mar for @wired More of an essay than an article, but of incredible depth and importance! > Modern Love: Are We Ready for Intimacy With Robots?
LeBron James hasn’t looked this happy in years!
> LeBron James hasn’t looked this happy in years!
“Valentine’s For Our Awful Times”
“Valentine’s For Our Awful Times”
Discovering that the great composer Jóhann Jóhannsson died on friday. ≠
Birthday Weekend was a great one thanks to this little lady!
Discovering that the great composer Jóhann Jóhannsson died on friday. ≠
Birthday Weekend was a great one thanks to this little lady!
Gotta love the creativity of craft beer breweries! Also : UK and Ireland have different alcohol measuring units?! lolwut
☕️ The Washington Post After poring over all the evidence, experts declare coffee is (mostly) good for you
Gotta love the creativity of craft beer breweries! Also : UK and Ireland have different alcohol measuring units?! lolwut
☕️ The Washington Post > After poring over all the evidence, experts declare coffee is (mostly) good for you
South Korea was one of the best countries I’ve ever been to — (along with Singapore.) Overly excited for the #WinterOlympics in #Pyeongchang!
South Korea was one of the best countries I’ve ever been to — (along with Singapore.) Overly excited for the #WinterOlympics in #Pyeongchang!
I really like the new Snapchat update/design. Relevant: I’ve used Instagram/Snapchat for the first time in a month today.
I really like the new Snapchat update/design. Relevant: I’ve used Instagram/Snapchat for the first time in a month today.
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Another lovely start to the evening in Dublin!
Another lovely start to the evening in Dublin!
So erm… I discovered @TheNib the other day and it is Glorious!
Pretty intense workout today! The Fitbit’s GPS only started about halfway through though, so I’ll have more accurate stats next time. Beautiful scenery at Phoenix Park though!
So erm… I discovered @TheNib the other day and it is Glorious!
Pretty intense workout today! The Fitbit’s GPS only started about halfway through though, so I’ll have more accurate stats next time. Beautiful scenery at Phoenix Park though!
Playing around with @substack this morning… I’m thinking of using it to share a digest of insights about tech/future-of-work…
Playing around with @substack this morning… I’m thinking of using it to share a digest of insights about tech/future-of-work…
Good afternoon from the new crib!
Good afternoon from the new crib!
Exported my Pocket list, imported it to Instapaper, selected my favorite articles to keep in this mix before wiping out the rest. Feels good to star with an almost-fresh Read-It-Later list!
Exported my Pocket list, imported it to Instapaper, selected my favorite articles to keep in this mix before wiping out the rest. Feels good to star with an almost-fresh Read-It-Later list!
Damn, this guy really is a madman “If a country launches a major cyberattack on critical U.S. infrastructure — water or energy facilities, say — the United States will respond with a nuclear attack.”
Good afternoon from my office today…
Damn, this guy really is a madman > “If a country launches a major cyberattack on critical U.S. infrastructure — water or energy facilities, say — the United States will respond with a nuclear attack.”
Good afternoon from my office today…
Dublin Update: We’re staying in a hotel in the neighbourhood of our future apartment. Around us, there is an organic supermarket, a cat-café, a VR lounge, an Arcade, and 3 coffee houses. In summary: we’re two hipsters at home!
In addition to my client work, I’ve recently joined a stealth project that I couldn’t be more excited about! Great way to start the week with inspiration, energy and productivity!
Dublin Update: We’re staying in a hotel in the neighbourhood of our future apartment. Around us, there is an organic supermarket, a cat-café, a VR lounge, an Arcade, and 3 coffee houses. In summary: we’re two hipsters at home!
In addition to my client work, I’ve recently joined a stealth project that I couldn’t be more excited about! Great way to start the week with inspiration, energy and productivity!
Really enjoyed watching The Post and even more so discovering @LighthouseD7!
Really enjoyed watching The Post and even more so discovering @LighthouseD7!
Really nice day agin today! After moving to a hotel today, we’re in the last 48 hours living out of a suitcase: hasn’t happened since last April!
Really nice day agin today! After moving to a hotel today, we’re in the last 48 hours living out of a suitcase: hasn’t happened since last April!
“If only Twitter didn’t have that whole Nazi problem…” [@Adders](http://tracking.feedpress.it/link/8534/8122290)
“There is simply no other show on TV like The Good Place.” Vox
> “If only Twitter didn’t have that whole Nazi problem…” [@Adders](http://tracking.feedpress.it/link/8534/8122290)
> “There is simply no other show on TV like The Good Place.” Vox
Lovely day in Dublin today! Found some great stores to decorate our (future) home!
Damn Wales! #WalVSco #6Nations
Lovely day in Dublin today! Found some great stores to decorate our (future) home!
Damn Wales! #WalVSco #6Nations
Been suffering from bugs in the @Nike Run App so I’m going to try a month of @Fitbit coach premium, following the “Get Lean” plan, and see where that takes me…
Been suffering from bugs in the @Nike Run App so I’m going to try a month of @Fitbit coach premium, following the “Get Lean” plan, and see where that takes me…
Choosing not to move forward has the same result as being stuck, unable to move forward at all. —Shawn Blanc I would agree that sometimes, sitting on an idea for a day or two can be beneficial to see how viable it might be, or how much focus you are able to dedicate to it! ≠
> Choosing not to move forward has the same result as being stuck, unable to move forward at all. —Shawn Blanc I would agree that sometimes, sitting on an idea for a day or two can be beneficial to see how viable it might be, or how much focus you are able to dedicate to it! ≠
Six years after their debut album, Rhye has a new album that just dropped early on Apple Music Loving it!
“Micro.blog is what you build when you believe that the web itself is the great social network.” “That’s the important part: (…) the idea — that the web itself is where we are and where we talk to each other — will continue.” inessential
How have I never read this X-Force before?! This panel is a biblical masterpiece!
Six years after their debut album, Rhye has a new album that just dropped early on Apple Music Loving it!
> “Micro.blog is what you build when you believe that the web itself is the great social network.” > “That’s the important part: (…) the idea — that the web itself is where we are and where we talk to each other — will continue.” inessential
How have I never read this X-Force before?! This panel is a biblical masterpiece!
[Video] 1SE January 2018: vimeo.com/253648483
January 2018
[Video] 2017 Year In Review, a 1SE video: It’s technically still January, so here’s every single thing that happened this year, on video, with 1SecondEveryday: vimeo.com/249321679
[NYT]: "The Latest Data Privacy Debacle": Data privacy is not like a consumer good, where you click “I accept” and all is well. Data privacy is more like air quality or safe drinking water, a public good that cannot be effectively regulated by trusting in the wisdom of millions of individual choices. A more collective response is needed. …
The Strava debacle around privacy and data is why I’m more comfortable with an iPhone, and why I refuse to have a Google Home / Amazon Echo in my home. It’s why I’m really happy with @microdotblog and Wordpress. It’s about more than advertising and owning my own data.
Data privacy is more like air quality or safe drinking water, a public good that cannot be effectively regulated by trusting in the wisdom of millions of individual choices.
The Strava debacle around privacy and data is why I’m more comfortable with an iPhone, and why I refuse to have a Google Home / Amazon Echo in my home. It’s why I’m really happy with @microdotblog and Wordpress. It’s about more than advertising and owning my own data.
> Data privacy is more like air quality or safe drinking water, a public good that cannot be effectively regulated by trusting in the wisdom of millions of individual choices.
No spoiler but it’s been great to see this one character come back on Star Trek Discovery!
No spoiler but it’s been great to see this one character come back on Star Trek Discovery!
Station has low-key become my go-to app to get sh*t done! It’s funny how a simple bundle of web apps is really the one app I need to get everything in the same place!
Over the past few weeks, my girlfriend’s been going to bed early, forcing me to be better at being in bed around 10pm, reading sometimes up to 11pm. This, in turns, has translated into a very-enjoyable earlier wake up call. Case in point: it’s 9am and I’m already working! :)
Station has low-key become my go-to app to get sh*t done! It’s funny how a simple bundle of web apps is really the one app I need to get everything in the same place!
Over the past few weeks, my girlfriend’s been going to bed early, forcing me to be better at being in bed around 10pm, reading sometimes up to 11pm. This, in turns, has translated into a very-enjoyable earlier wake up call. Case in point: it’s 9am and I’m already working! :)
My friend @rdutel was right: this Farnam Street podcast episode with @naval is borderline mandatory!
My friend @rdutel was right: this Farnam Street podcast episode with @naval is borderline mandatory!
Last week in a temporary home. And ready to seize the week with a little help from physical tangible productivity tools: Pen+Paper
Last week in a temporary home. And ready to seize the week with a little help from physical tangible productivity tools: Pen+Paper
Great day out in the city today: shopping + re-visiting the Guinness Storehouse!
Great day out in the city today: shopping + re-visiting the Guinness Storehouse!
Shana’s Favorite-brunch-place-in-the-World didn’t disappoint!
Shana’s Favorite-brunch-place-in-the-World didn’t disappoint!
The selection of craft beers in supermarkets is really good here! Case in point with this series from the Boundary Brewing Cooperative in Belfast!
The selection of craft beers in supermarkets is really good here! Case in point with this series from the Boundary Brewing Cooperative in Belfast!
Carrot Weather with the shade!
Carrot Weather with the shade!
Not-so-late night tales:
Nothing beats listening to @Soulection while walking around at night! Feeling connected to the city!
Nothing beats listening to @Soulection while walking around at night! Feeling connected to the city!
On the one hand, I’ve applied to a job and have an interview next week. On the other, I’ve just started a new client mission and am looking at creating a sideproject this year… #TeamIndecisive
On the one hand, I’ve applied to a job and have an interview next week. On the other, I’ve just started a new client mission and am looking at creating a sideproject this year… #TeamIndecisive
Going East, not West!: “If you go to New York and want to meet a big company such as Budweiser you are just one of a thousand firms pitching to them, whereas if you got to Tokyo and seek a meeting with Nissan you might be the only Irish company and one of only a handful from Europe knocking at their door” My friend …
“The main reason I left Google is that they can no longer innovate.” — Steve Yegge 🧐
> “The main reason I left Google is that they can no longer innovate.” — Steve Yegge 🧐
Not gonna lie: using @Mixcloud a whole lot more now that @Complexion is uploading regularly over there! Also: those Best-Of 2017 mixes are amazing! #TFBS
Not gonna lie: using @Mixcloud a whole lot more now that @Complexion is uploading regularly over there! Also: those Best-Of 2017 mixes are amazing! #TFBS
Love spending some time with Shana every morning before she heads to work — especially talking about everything from day to day life, to the local tech ecosystem, to how we’re likely to go shopping for clothes when we travel abroad (Dublin is really small at the end of the day)❤️
Love spending some time with Shana every morning before she heads to work — especially talking about everything from day to day life, to the local tech ecosystem, to how we’re likely to go shopping for clothes when we travel abroad (Dublin is really small at the end of the day)❤️
I haven’t used a Windows machine since 2009, but damn the @IA Kickstarter video is great! Been using every version of the app since it launched on macOS back in 2011! Go support them!
I haven’t used a Windows machine since 2009, but damn the @IA Kickstarter video is great! Been using every version of the app since it launched on macOS back in 2011! Go support them!
#MicroMonday Recommendations: @elliot whom I’ve continued to catch up with irregularly for the past 3 years and continues to impress me with his work! Also @adders who posts fun updates from Shoreham, close to the city of Brighton where I studied, worked, lived for 5 years!
Monday Update: finished American Gods! I can now get on with the show!
#MicroMonday Recommendations: @elliot whom I’ve continued to catch up with irregularly for the past 3 years and continues to impress me with his work! Also @adders who posts fun updates from Shoreham, close to the city of Brighton where I studied, worked, lived for 5 years!
Monday Update: finished American Gods! I can now get on with the show!
Pretty excited to start working with a new client today: company in IT recruitment, and a mission where I should get lots of freedom to help them with their Social Media and Content!
Pretty excited to start working with a new client today: company in IT recruitment, and a mission where I should get lots of freedom to help them with their Social Media and Content!
After searching for a week, and viewing over a dozen apartments (sometimes along with 30-40 other people), we’ve finally found and signed a lease for a flat in Smithfield, a trendy-looking area of Dublin!
After searching for a week, and viewing over a dozen apartments (sometimes along with 30-40 other people), we’ve finally found and signed a lease for a flat in Smithfield, a trendy-looking area of Dublin!
Saturday Morning: reading the classic “Infinity War”
Saturday Morning: reading the classic “Infinity War”
The next (overdue) issue of my personal newsletter goes out in 2h40. Not subscribed yet? Join my friends here
The next (overdue) issue of my personal newsletter goes out in 2h40. Not subscribed yet? Join my friends here
It’s 2018 and I still try to avoid using Google services or Facebook services because privacy matters. It also means that navigating with Maps, or communicating with relatives is sometimes difficult. Worth the peace of mind, though!
Dublin Week 2: Aside from work and prospecting for new clients, possibly jobs too, this week has revolved around a lot of walking in the different neighborhoods of the city centre, searching for and viewing apartments… [gallery ids=“3525,3526,3527,3529,3530,3528,3531,3532,3533,3534” …
Taking some time away from work and apartment viewings to have lunch at… Facebook’s Dublin Office! Thanks Truus!
Taking some time away from work and apartment viewings to have lunch at… Facebook’s Dublin Office! Thanks Truus!
The iOS Economy : just WILD!
Dublin: from flurries of snow to a bright blue sky in 20mn
The iOS Economy : just WILD!
Dublin: from flurries of snow to a bright blue sky in 20mn
Dublin Update: been sleeping a comfy 8+ hours per night every night visited 5 apartments in 4 days it’s cold/grey/humid, but not yet as rainy as promised managed to go running walked all around town and Fitbit steps count is even higher than usual 💪🏼👟
Dublin Update: been sleeping a comfy 8+ hours per night every night visited 5 apartments in 4 days it’s cold/grey/humid, but not yet as rainy as promised managed to go running walked all around town and Fitbit steps count is even higher than usual 💪🏼👟
Dublin Docklands: Walking around Dublin’s newest redeveloped neighborhood of the Docks, along the Liffey. The Sunday winter sun was lovely today!
First run in Dublin — feeling good today!
First run in Dublin — feeling good today!
Just came back from viewing a one bedroom in Dublin… along with 30 other people who were also flat-hunting, in the middle of the workday.
Just came back from viewing a one bedroom in Dublin… along with 30 other people who were also flat-hunting, in the middle of the workday.
First, exciting, surprisingly sunny day in Dublin!
First, exciting, surprisingly sunny day in Dublin!
Feels good to finally say this: WE’RE MOVING TO DUBLIN TODAY!
Feels good to finally say this: WE’RE MOVING TO DUBLIN TODAY!
Obvious belated #MicroMonday would have been my friend Adam
Obvious belated #MicroMonday would have been my friend Adam
Today has been cancelled! (We’re eating leftover wind and rain from that Atlantic Storm)
Today has been cancelled! (We’re eating leftover wind and rain from that Atlantic Storm)
Hello there! 👉🏼 Work is a bit dry this time of year so feel free to let those around you know that this digital marketing consultant is available for new missions and clients! 👈🏼 For references : tibz.blog/portfolio
Hello there! 👉🏼 Work is a bit dry this time of year so feel free to let those around you know that this digital marketing consultant is available for new missions and clients! 👈🏼 For references : tibz.blog/portfolio
HA! 🤯😭 👉🏼 Chrome is turning into the new Internet Explorer 6 - The Verge
HA! 🤯😭 👉🏼 Chrome is turning into the new Internet Explorer 6 - The Verge
5.5km every 2 days! 👌🏼 🏃🏻♀️ 🏃🏻
5.5km every 2 days! 👌🏼 🏃🏻♀️ 🏃🏻
Basecamp Doesn’t Employ Anyone in San Francisco but Now Pays Everyone as Though They Did
Tickets to Dublin booked: January 11th, in 7 days! 🛫 🇮🇪 🏘️
OK, I rest my case : the AI-powered Automix functionality in DJay Pro 2 is SICK! www.algoriddim.com/djay-pro-…
Tickets to Dublin booked: January 11th, in 7 days! 🛫 🇮🇪 🏘️
OK, I rest my case : the AI-powered Automix functionality in DJay Pro 2 is SICK! www.algoriddim.com/djay-pro-…
Really relieved to read the news lately: “North Korea’s overture was a dramatic reversal of its previous approach to South Korea”. NYTimes: North Korea Reopens Border Hotline With South
A Note From Our New Publisher - The New York Times
The struggle of looking at an american recipe before going grocery shopping here in Europe. Measurements.
Really relieved to read the news lately: > “North Korea’s overture was a dramatic reversal of its previous approach to South Korea”. NYTimes: North Korea Reopens Border Hotline With South
A Note From Our New Publisher - The New York Times
The struggle of looking at an american recipe before going grocery shopping here in Europe. Measurements.
Back to work today! Invoicing, following up with prospects, ..lots to take care of!
Back to work today! Invoicing, following up with prospects, ..lots to take care of!
[Video] 1SE December 2017: vimeo.com/249297364…
Happy New Year! First run in by the beach!
December 2017
Last day of the year: improvised winter picnic by the lake, after another weekend at the mountain!
Wednesday, December 27, 2017 →
Labstelle, a dinner experience in Vienna: This was hands-down the best meal/dinner I’ve had and it happened out of curiosity! • • • We struggled to find a place in Vienna that wasn’t fully booked tonight and then I remembered this place we stumbled upon close to our hotel. They were able to book us a table for the four of us, Shana, my …
Wednesday, December 27, 2017 →
I feel like this aspect of the Apple Watch is completely underrated
Wednesday, December 27, 2017 →
Impossible to resist the post-Christmas sales in Vienna! Also, #Solebox is insanely cool!
Wednesday, December 27, 2017 →
I feel like this aspect of the Apple Watch is completely underrated
Wednesday, December 27, 2017 →
Impossible to resist the post-Christmas sales in Vienna! Also, #Solebox is insanely cool!
Wednesday, December 27, 2017 →
Wednesday, December 27, 2017 →
Wednesday, December 27, 2017 →
Wednesday, December 27, 2017 →
Wednesday, December 27, 2017 →
Wednesday, December 27, 2017 →
Wednesday, December 27, 2017 →
Wednesday, December 27, 2017 →
Wednesday, December 27, 2017 →
Wednesday, December 27, 2017 →
Vienna, Classical Concert and Austrian Chocolate Tart
Wednesday, December 27, 2017 →
Vienna, Classical Concert and Austrian Chocolate Tart
Past few days in Vienna have been 👌🏼
Past few days in Vienna have been 👌🏼
It’s been a wild year!
It’s been a wild year: vimeo.com/248643594
It’s been a wild year!
Landed in Vienna
Landed in Vienna
#RivieraDétente
#RivieraDétente
Wednesday, December 20, 2017 →
Great day out across Italy, Monaco, and then a romantic dinner in Antibes today! #RivieraDetente #FrenchRiviera
Wednesday, December 20, 2017 →
Wednesday, December 20, 2017 →
Wednesday, December 20, 2017 →
Loving those new Micro.Blog updates
Loving those new Micro.Blog updates
Bought #Pixelmator for Mac in 2012 for 12.99€ — really wondering whether I should upgrade to #PixelmatorPro now… Has anyone played with it yet?
Bought #Pixelmator for Mac in 2012 for 12.99€ — really wondering whether I should upgrade to #PixelmatorPro now… Has anyone played with it yet?
Current status
OK, this new version of Firefox is really powerful and finally really FAST — might run it for a few weeks, and see how it goes!
Current status
OK, this new version of Firefox is really powerful and finally really FAST — might run it for a few weeks, and see how it goes!
Every year, Bloomberg releases its list of the worst catastrophies that could occur in the coming year. Here’s this year’s edition!
Every year, Bloomberg releases its list of the worst catastrophies that could occur in the coming year. Here’s this year’s edition!
”Who needs science fiction when we have C-SPAN.” www.theringer.com
I, for one, continue to proudly use an RSS Reader
> ”Who needs science fiction when we have C-SPAN.” www.theringer.com
I, for one, continue to proudly use an RSS Reader
Weekend in the mountain!
Generation Screwed THANKS BOOMERS
Generation Screwed THANKS BOOMERS
I think BB-8 stands for ”Badass Bot - 8”
I think BB-8 stands for ”Badass Bot - 8”
Such a great day out in the back country yesterday!
Such a great day out in the back country yesterday!
Could NOT be more excited to see Star Wars The Last Jedi tonight
Could NOT be more excited to see Star Wars The Last Jedi tonight
Wednesday, December 13, 2017 →
Family goals: “Star Wars” Is The Force That Binds In My Family
Wednesday, December 13, 2017 →
Great day out to some local higher grounds!
Wednesday, December 13, 2017 →
Family goals: “Star Wars” Is The Force That Binds In My Family
Wednesday, December 13, 2017 →
Great day out to some local higher grounds!
Wednesday, December 13, 2017 →
#StarWars The Last Jedi review embargo has lifted… Here’s The Verge, NYTimes, WashPo, New Yorker, and last but not least Empire Magazine
Wednesday, December 13, 2017 →
#StarWars The Last Jedi review embargo has lifted… Here’s The Verge, NYTimes, WashPo, New Yorker, and last but not least Empire Magazine
Loved hanging out with Shana in Antibes today!
Loved hanging out with Shana in Antibes today!
Netflix Released Its End Of Year Stats and it’s pretty wild!
Netflix Released Its End Of Year Stats and it’s pretty wild!
Trying to force myself not to force-quit apps
Trying to force myself not to force-quit apps
Finally back to working out regularly!
Finally back to working out regularly!
Afternoon baking some madeleines with my dad!
Family time around Nice and its Christmas market before enjoying Socca!
Damn, Apple is acquiring music recognition app Shazam Pretty stoked, as an iOS/Mac/Apple Music subscriber! All about DATA!
Really enjoying Sia’s Christmas album! 🎄🎶
Finally got out of the house today: visited my village, and picked up a Christmas Tree
Finally got out of the house today: visited my village, and picked up a Christmas Tree
FWIW, I find this year’s Youtube Rewind to be sub-par… Only seeing Les Twins made me smile a bit. Really hoping that DJ Earworm’s yearly delivery comes through!
FWIW, I found this year’s Youtube Rewind to be sub-par with previous year. Only seeing Les Twins made me smile… Here’s hoping DJ Earworm’s yearly video will make up for this!
FWIW, I find this year’s Youtube Rewind to be sub-par… Only seeing Les Twins made me smile a bit. Really hoping that DJ Earworm’s yearly delivery comes through!
Bon appétit !
FWIW, I found this year’s Youtube Rewind to be sub-par with previous year. Only seeing Les Twins made me smile… Here’s hoping DJ Earworm’s yearly video will make up for this!
Bon appétit !
Shervin (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻)
Shervin (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻)
🏀 Turn the boy into a man! Really stoked for Beal after his game last night
🏀 Turn the boy into a man! Really stoked for Beal after his game last night
In an office, to pitch a prospect, but everyone is talking about #JohnnyHaliday hahaha
In an office, to pitch a prospect, but everyone is talking about #JohnnyHaliday hahaha
After almost 9 months traveling around the world while working remotely, I am back home for the rest of the year !
“What is Micro Blog (and micro-blogging)”
Working on a long client pitch… One of those (busy) days where you just don’t know if it’s gonna work out!
“What is Micro Blog (and micro-blogging)”
Good to be home, cooking !
Working on a long client pitch… One of those (busy) days where you just don’t know if it’s gonna work out!
“Should you Force-close your apps?” www.theverge.com
Good to be home, cooking !
“Should you Force-close your apps?” www.theverge.com
[The Outline] "The Death of the Internet": There won’t be an internet where you can watch shows on Hulu then jump over to Gmail — you’ll watch Facebook TV and send Facebook Messages. Services that look and act like something distinct but are sadly part of a homogenized whole will also be available; Instagram and WhatsApp do this already. …
I feel like the #NBA should just give #Drake a part-time job commenting games… youtu.be/fbo-raUWZ…
I feel like the #NBA should just give #Drake a part-time job commenting games… youtu.be/fbo-raUWZ…
A conversation between Jay Z and the Times' editor in chief Dean Baquet: This interview between the Editor in Chief of the Times and Jay Z was incredible. Really respect the humility and empathy coming from him in this video: www.nytimes.com/video/t-m… [≠]
November 2017
In a few hours, we’ll be living the US, which will mark my return “home” after 9 months travelling around the world! What a year it’s been!
In a few hours, we’ll be living the US, which will mark my return “home” after 9 months travelling around the world! What a year it’s been!
Wednesday, November 29, 2017 →
This video interview between the Editor in Chief of the New York Times and JayZ was incredible. Really respect the humility and empathy coming from him.
Wednesday, November 29, 2017 →
This video interview between the Editor in Chief of the @NYTimes and @_s_c was incredible. Really respect the humility and empathy coming from Jay Z: www.nytimes.com/video/t-m…
Wednesday, November 29, 2017 →
This video interview between the Editor in Chief of the New York Times and JayZ was incredible. Really respect the humility and empathy coming from him.
Wednesday, November 29, 2017 →
This video interview between the Editor in Chief of the @NYTimes and @_s_c was incredible. Really respect the humility and empathy coming from Jay Z: www.nytimes.com/video/t-m…
October 2017
"The Creator of Bitcoin Comes Clean, Only to Disappear Again": I really loved this article from Longreads over the weekend. A thrilling piece of non-fiction writing about the rise of bitcoin and an ongoing investigation about the maybe-but-probably-not creator of Bitcoin. On December 9, 2015, Craig Wright woke up to the news that two articles had come out …
About the #MeToo Movement: The goal of #MeToo, as Milano’s friend told her, was simply to give people a sense of “the magnitude of the problem.” Over the last day, I’ve seen the MeToo status pop up, without an explanation. But after seeing it multiple times from some of my female friends, I understood quickly what this …
Final Fantasy IX, War, and WMDs: Cameron Kunzelman for Polygon has a great opinion piece this week about one of my favorite video games: Final Fantasy IX. Final Fantasy 9 shows us the closest thing to a fantasy weapon of mass destruction that exists in video games. I really appreciate the thoughts that went into this piece, …
They're not evil. They just don't care [≠]
Hipstamatic is still alive!: It's hard to believe it's been nearly a decade since New York Times photographer Damon Winter used Hipstamatic to create an award-winning photo for a cover story about the war in Afghanistan. It's even harder to believe that the app is still downloadable in close to its original form. It still takes …
Brandwatch takes a look at eSports, the most underrated internet phenomenon of the past decade: Goldman Sachs valued eSports at $500 million in 2016 and expects the market will grow at 22% annually. via eSports Data: The Huge Industry That’s Constantly Misunderstood | Brandwatch
[LINK]Things More Heavily Regulated Than Buying a Gun in the United States: This gem, from McSweeney’s. [≠]
Security News This Week: The Deloitte Breach Was Worse Than We Thought | WIRED: “I am horrified but absolutely not surprised by this amount of data.” via Security News This Week: The Deloitte Breach Was Worse Than We Thought | WIRED
September 2017
Thursday, September 21, 2017 →
Attempting to disconnect from Social Media Feeds as a source of endless mindless news, and use these instead!
Thursday, September 21, 2017 →
Attempting to disconnect from Social Media Feeds as a source of endless mindless news, and use these instead!
Wednesday, September 20, 2017 →
Nice view in Kuala Lumpur!
Wednesday, September 20, 2017 →
iOS 11 is nice and smooth! Really liking it, especially with force touch on control center and other interactions :)
Wednesday, September 20, 2017 →
Nice view in Kuala Lumpur!
Wednesday, September 20, 2017 →
iOS 11 is nice and smooth! Really liking it, especially with force touch on control center and other interactions :)
Vlog 047: A week in Singapore: After a month in Vietnam, I switched things up with a short week in Singapore. I had a blast there: discovering a story, culture, and people that are mixed, welcoming, and have a truly unique place in the world! vimeo.com/tibz/vlog…
Thursday, September 14, 2017 →
Pilotfish — Making Remote Work ..Work!: Over on Remotive1 this week, we were introduced to Pilotfish, and its founder Joseph. They’re a social enterprise tackling issues related to Mental Health for Remote Workers. With the continuing rise of remote workers or location independent workers, there’s a lot of things to navigate …
Bali: Experiences money can't buy!: For my last weekend in Bali, I wanted to explore the infamous peninsula. I met up with my driver, Ketut, the same driver that showed me around the previous Saturday. Bali Peninsula Nusa Dua / Water Blow We started the day by driving down to Nusa Dua / “Water Blow”, which is a beautiful natural beach …
About Stephen King's 2017 "IT" adaptation: Managed to convince the girlfriend to see it at the theater next week (on bean bags) and I couldn’t be more excited! It joins The Shining and Carrie as the best of the Stephen King horror adaptations — films that understand that King’s novels are never about surface-level scares, but about the …
Vlog 046: Solo-ing Saigon: After spending an incredible week with my girlfriend, I've spent 3 weeks alone in Saigon, getting back to work, and exploring local spots with my Airbnb host Cong. vimeo.com/tibz/vlog… Music: Louis Futon
James Bond with an iPhone?:
With Daniel Craig signing up for yet another James Bond movie, and the Sony distribution deal having expired after Spectre, it seems that Amazon and Apple are also in the mix.
As a fan of the company, and someone who’s paid attention to their recent content play, I’d be very excited by …
Wednesday, September 6, 2017 →
“They’re not evil. They just don’t care”
Wednesday, September 6, 2017 →
> “They’re not evil. They just don’t care”
Experiences money can’t buy in Bali: starting the day exploring with my driver, before he offered to visit his family and take me to see a football/soccer game!
Experiences money can’t buy in Bali: starting the day exploring with my driver, before he offered to visit his family and take me to see a football/soccer game!
Hi everyone— it’s been a while! How’s the Microblog community going?
Hi everyone— it’s been a while! How’s the Microblog community going?
August 2017
Subscription Business Model for Indie Apps: Three of my favorite indie apps recently switched from the Paid Upfront model, over to a Subscription based model — similar to what web apps have been doing (the infamous “SaaS” idea — Software as a Service). Day One goes Premium Day One is a journaling app that I’ve been using on and off since its …
A visit to Saigon’s War Remnants Museum:
A few weeks ago, I spent some time visiting one of the few museums here in Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City: the War Remnants Museum. This place is a reminder of the atrocities committed in the name of fear and freedom and colonialism. The museum is one of the Top 3 most visited spots in the city, and I’d …
Vlog 045: From Saigon, With Love: From Australia and on to Vietnam where Shana met up with me for just over a week! vimeo.com/tibz/vlog… Music: Bon Iver (Stems Project)
The best alternatives to SoundCloud (2017):
With rumours of SoundCloud’s upcoming demise, online creators are about to feel a big loss. The platform is notorious for its rap scenes and artists, as well as a place of choice to host podcasts and DJ Mixes. Thankfully, they managed to secure a last-minute deal and more VC money (about …
“The Misfit Breakfast of Vietnam” (R&K): Taking some time during my Vietnamese trip to share a little something I’ve read on Roads & Kingdoms, about visiting Saigon and experiencing a spicy beef stew (known as bò kho). Like a lot of Vietnamese soups, the magic is in the broth. Star anise, curry paste, pepper, cumin, chopped onion, …
Today started with an early 6:30am wake up call —for no reason. I’ve been lacking some sleep over the weekend, so it wasn’t a great sign to wake up feeling tired. I powered through the morning, and, around lunchtime, my Airbnb host asked me if I wanted to go out. I told him I was thinking about …
[Book Review] "See You In The Cosmos" (Jack Cheng): Earlier this week, I’ve finally finished this book from one of my favorite authors Jack Cheng! This was an incredibly touching story, with a very original way of introducing its plot. A short fiction read at about 300+ pages – I highly recommend it for fans of fiction, moving stories, …
Vlog 044: Brisbane, Toowoomba, Sydney: I’ve met my cousin for the first time…EVER! vimeo.com/tibz/vlog… Music: https://www.mixcloud.com/tibz/amazing-chill-volume-02-take-a-breather/.
My Essential Travel Gear:
Having been on the road since April, I thought it’d be a good time to finally take some time to share my favorite travel gear. I’ve been wanting to write this one down for a while because I’ve come to realize how much I rely on some of this stuff in my day to day.
Here’s a selection of the travel …
July 2017
Vlog 043: Old Friends in Melbourne: After an awesome road trip, it was time to catch up with some really good friends down in Melbourne… vimeo.com/tibz/vlog… Music: https://www.mixcloud.com/tibz/love-beats-volume-03-what-i-wish-the-dj-played-last-time-i-went-to-a-club/
[Movie Review] Dunkirk: I'm not a fan of War movies. I think I've overdosed on too many movies and tv shows (anyone remembers Band of Brothers?) at an early age. But with such high acclaim from critics and audiences alike, it was hard to resist Christopher Nolan’s latest offering. I’ll say this about Dunkirk: …
Hello world! Was waiting to have access to the iOS app in order to be back here!
Hello world! Was waiting to have access to the iOS app in order to be back here!
Vlog 042: An Australian Roadtrip: After 10 days in Sydney, it was time to drive down to Melbourne over the course of an unbelievable road trip, spread over 4 days... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUHHDLM00F0&t=2s
[Tibz Mix] Love & Beats | Volume 05: Traveling through Asia: Following up on my Shanghai mix, I’ve published a new mix last week, a little bit more dynamic and definitely on a sexier vibe. All this inspiration came from traveling around Shanghai, Seoul, Jeju Island, Busan, and lately Sydney & Melbourne too! [mixcloud …
I don’t often post these types of things, but today’s Timehop had quite the memory: Eight years ago today, I graduated from high-school! 2009-2017
Vlog 041: Exploring Sydney, Australia: I finally landed in Sydney, and I invite you to watch my adventures in the following Vlog — as I’ve mentioned, I’ve been busy. [www.youtube.com/watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K-P-dYSU1M) Sydney was very interesting, it was my first time back surrounded by westernised white people, after …
[Tibz Mix] Amazing Chill | Volume 04: Shanghai: This mix was way overdue. I had a lot of time on my hands back in Shanghai and I had started working on a new mix. However, time caught up with me, and by the time I got to South Korea, and later Australia, finally mixing this together had slipped off my mind. So without further adue, here’s a …
June 2017
Vlog 040: Exploring Busan: After our holidays in Korea, Shana left to go back to the US. On my end, I had an extra week in the country, so I decided to visit Busan for the weekend. You can watch the latest vlog below: [www.youtube.com/watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e36ek65_5UA) Busan is a charming city located as far …
Vlog 039: Discovering Jeju Island with my Girlfriend: My girlfriend came to visit me! Part 2 of our holiday in Jeju Island, including hikes, lava caves, food, sunsets and so much more! [www.youtube.com/watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwSz-8ybhv4)
One last time, from Korea!:
Hi everybody!
Before I get started, I just wanted to remind you that I’m doing a digital catch-up and Q&A on Periscope on Monday (tomorrow).
Vlog 038: Romantic Holiday in Seoul: My girlfriend came to visit me! Part 1 of our holiday in Seoul, including animal cafes, a street art village, street food, and much more! [www.youtube.com/watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9G5O0McB_4)
About the 4DX cinema experience...:
Earlier this week, I went to watch the brand new Wonder Woman movie. Except rather than go to the nearest theatre I could find, I saw that Seoul hosts one of the best and biggest screens in the world —apparently it was also manufactured in France, but I digress.
In addition, something else triggered …
1Password introduces Travel Mode: Stoked to hear about this: 1Password introduces a Travel Mode in its apps. If you’ve been using this as your password manager (and you really should), you know that it can be scary to travel and think about what would happen if your device got lost or stolen. Now, you can choose a specific vault, …
M.G. Siegler on getting rid of iTunes, once and for all:
Here’s what Apple obviously — obviously — should do:(…)
In other words, this should all work as it does on iOS. The Apple Music app on macOS would be the same as the “Music” app on iOS (which is also confusing given it has the same logo/branding as iTunes on macOS).
Along with my former …
Vlog 037: Hanging Out With A Thai Buddhist Monk at the Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul: Visiting the Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul, South Korea — and making a pretty incredible encounter in the process! Beats by Esta. youtu.be/9YsmXiFhb…
May 2017
🇰🇷😻🍲☕️ So much S(e)oul!: Hello everybody! It’s been 10 days in Seoul, South Korea, and I’ve got a big ol’ crush on this city, this country, and this culture. www.youtube.com/watch Over the past ten days, I’ve gotten to discover multiple facets of Korean life, its food, its lifestyle, and its culture – both old and modern …
Vlog 036: The Meerkat Fell Asleep On My Lap: Moar adventures in Seoul: exploring the Common Grounds container park, going out all night for food & drinks and karaoke, a true Korean experience, and discovering the incredibly cute Animal Cafes here in the Hongdae area! youtu.be/4GSRAcfSe…
Sticker Obsession: I’m developing an obsession towards stickers and cute things from here in Korea!
Vlog 035: Goodbye Shanghai ; Hello Seoul: For my next destination, I am now in Seoul, until mid-June! I’m already loving it! youtu.be/OL4R_2NqG…
Looking back on one month in Shanghai: Hello everybody ! First of all, I wanted to thank those of you who’ve shared some good vibes, of friendly messages and support. As I’m writing this, I’m in my Airbnb, in Shanghai, for a few more days, before hitting my next destination. Over here, on the blog, you can find the Dubai Vlog, as …
OneMan: "Boris created EU “fake news” 20 years ago": "Another reason to be uneasy about the revolving door between national-level journalism and politics." [≠]
Vlog 034: Roadtrip, Exhibitions, Food Comas: This past weekend was a bank holiday — and my Airbnb hosts graciously offered to take me on a road trip with them! youtu.be/hOgWxw5h7…
Why Obama is supporting France's Emmanuel Macron for President — and why that's so unusual: Great concise piece by Zach Beauchamp for Vox: The point, then, is that European elections are increasingly no longer about principally European concerns like the size of welfare states. They are about issues that affect the broader stability of Europe and the global order — which America has a …
Current status: [😷][http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2093081/shanghai-path-massive-sandstorm-choking-northern-china]
Current status: [😷][http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2093081/shanghai-path-massive-sandstorm-choking-northern-china]
Finishing to watch Netflix’s The Crown while working on a Survival Guide to Shanghai — anything y’all would like to know?
Finishing to watch Netflix’s The Crown while working on a Survival Guide to Shanghai — anything y’all would like to know?
Vlog 033: An Opera Singer: It’s taken me some time to find a decent enough internet connection to upload this new vlog. After a busy week catching up on work, I spent the weekend exploring other areas of Shanghai! youtu.be/xOFY14iWW…
April 2017
Just setting up my Micro.Blog => micro.tibz.blog
Just setting up my Micro.Blog => micro.tibz.blog
Shanghainese Outings: After a busy beginning of the week, I’ve finally gone out this tonight, for drinks with friends. Last week, I caught up with my friend Lincha whom I’d met 6 years ago in San Francisco. She’s now in Shanghai and I got to meet up with her and her boyfriend Matt. We also met some …
Vlog 032: Exploring Shanghai: My first couple of days exploring Shanghai and stepping heavily outside of my comfort zone! youtu.be/Ubs3DseoZ…
Damn, More Life: If More Life is 1 a.m. in the hookah lounge, Damn. is 10 a.m. the (Sunday) morning after. [≠]
Arriving in Shanghai:
Arriving in Shanghai and discovering the city by night…
Vlog 031: Five Days in Dubai: Summing up five full days in the Middle East! www.youtube.com/watch
Dubai:
Stopping in the Middle East for a couple of days off, before heading over to Asia for a couple of months.
Up In The Air | A New Beginning: 13:45 — 25mn into my flight between Nice and Stockholm. In the air to reach the Swedish capital, before a connecting flight to the first destination of my trip, in Dubai. Shoe Dog As I’m writing this, I’ve just finished a book entitled "Shoe Dog" by Phil Knight. Knight is the …
💑: That feeling when you’ve got the best 💁🏻 in the 🌎 (I’m totally not biased, no idea what you’re talking about…)
March 2017
Vlog 030: What's in my Bag?: In which I share the things I’m gonna pack for the next 9 months on the road! youtu.be/Ml7PoXELv…
Facebook’s apps are adapting to Stories, because it’d rather be called a copy-cat than a has-been. [≠]
Vlog 029: I'll be gone for 9 months...: www.youtube.com/watch
The Times, on the French Presidential Debate:
The debate also included the three other main contenders — the Socialist Benoît Hamon, the Republicans’ François Fillon, and the far-left candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon — but it was the fight between Mr. Macron and Ms. Le Pen that riveted attention.
Here are my initial reactions from this …
Hungry and Looking for Work:
Amsterdam Weekend Getaway: Currently listening to: Drake’s freshly released "More Life" album/playlist/project. I’m waiting at the airport, on my way home after spending the weekend with S. I always have a great time in this city, but the real reason behind the trip was to see her again, and be able to …
Today, I’ve received my Passport back with my Chinese Visa approved! Making progress on preparing this trip every single day and I’m leaving in 21 days at the time of writing/publishing!
My Brother's Graduation: This week-end, I was in Lyon to celebrate my little brother’s graduation. We’re here with the family and actually went to a wonderful Michelin-star restaurant, which was booked last minute, with views overlooking the city. And it literally turned out to be the best restaurant I’ve ever been …
“Be more careful on Facebook”: Something I’ve been saying to a few close friends and family members: given the current American Government, I’m going to avoid traveling to the US because I feel that I’m just vocal enough to be rejected at the border. Here’s the short version of what I’m about to say: Immigrants …
"It’s Not The Foreigners Who Are Plotting Here": White America… Since January 2015, the FBI has also arrested more anti-immigrant American citizens plotting violent attacks on Muslims within the U.S. than it has refugees, or former refugees, from any banned country. [≠]
Privacy as a Feature: Consumer Reports will now include privacy as an important factor into how they rate new products. A great news in these troubled times. Simple and to the point: When consumers vote with their wallets and their clicks, we’ve seen that companies pay attention. We think companies will strive to out-do …
Vlog 028: A Weekend in Turin, Italy: A weekend in Italy with my best friend Elodie! youtu.be/M5oFZ-ia2…
alt-J — "3WW": alt-J is back! Announcing an album ("Relaxer") and a tour yesterday, they also took the time to release the first single, entitled “3WW” (three worn words). "I just want to love you in my own language" youtu.be/bDUUOt30T…
[Tibz Mix] Amazing Chill | Volume 03: London: A mix inspired by my recent trip to London. Some of those tracks are from British artists, some others were on repeat during my trip, and relate to the people I’ve met and shared good times with! #GoodVibesOnly [mixcloud www.mixcloud.com/tibz/amaz… width=100% height=400 light=1]
Vlog 027: London (Part 02): Summing up a full week in London. Part 02 includes a day trip to Brighton, Brunch, going on Dates, going to the cinema, and more! youtu.be/5L363SIQ1… Missed Part One? Watch it here.
Vlog 026: London (Part 01): Summing up a full week in London. Part 01 includes food, friends, Shoreditch, street art adventures, and a concert in Camden! youtu.be/hjIhgxmzN… Looking for Part Two? Watch it here!
February 2017
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A Weekend in Turin, Italy: [gallery …
"To fight climate change, institute three-day weekends": A reduction in working hours generally correlates with marked reductions in energy consumption [...] In fact, if Americans simply followed European levels of working hours, for example, they would see an estimated 20% reduction in energy use—and hence in carbon emissions. Make Capitalism & …
Amsterdam:
Tickets booked to Amsterdam next month with S.
London Day Seven: Don't Underestimate Tuesdays! (Part 2):
This is the second and final part of my “London Day Seven” post. Click here to read part one.
"Wordplay, turns into gun play And gun play turns into pillow talk And pillow talk turns into sweet dreams Sweet dreams turns into coffee in the morning" youtu.be/5-7nzDmC9…
London Day Seven: Culture (Part 1):
Paterson: [gallery size=full ids=‘1621’ columns=1] Last month, I went to see Jim Jarmusch’s latest film, Paterson. Here’s what I wrote at the time: Paterson drives a bus, in Paterson, New Jersey. He writes poetry and lives a simple life, Seeing the world go by around him. However, a …
New Favourite song: Home by Tom Misch off of Beat Tape 2 soundcloud.com/tommisch/…
London Day Six: Monday:
Today was a beautiful day in London. As I’ve alluded to earlier in the day, the weather was very sunny, with a great blue sky — the first actual sights of the sky that I’ve seen since the beginning of the trip here, actually.
Tired;Alive: I have this tired look on my face, dark circles turning into black holes. Yet I’m walking fast, caffeinated, and above all energized by the energy of a city. Today has been a great day, but more on that in the next 12 hours.
London & "Process": Sunny afternoon walk in London, while listening to Sampha in the cold. soundcloud.com/samphamus… Is there a more London thing to do right now? I highly doubt it!
Incredibly beautiful day in London today!: …and by that, I mean I can actually see the sky for the first time since I’ve arrived on Wednesday.
London Day Four & Five: Friendly Brunches:
Over the weekend, I took some much deserved time to catch up with my friends living in England.
"Tyranny only works if people fear it.": “Tyranny only works if people fear it.” [≠]
2017 - summed up: [gallery ids=“1637,1638,1639,1640,1641,1642” size=“large”] Relevant: [≠]
Stoya, and fighting the good fight!: Somewhere in those 1,200 or so pages was the most effective answer I’ve found so far to BUT HOW: instead of subtracting bad things, add good things. Or: When bad things cannot be subtracted, protect the good things and turn to them as things to do thinking about and focusing on when you need a …
London Day Three: Visiting Shoreditch: Once I got up, the morning shower helped me kickstart the day: it began with a solid two hours-worth of focused work across my various client projects. I left the hotel just before noon, to go out for my daily adventure: in that case, exploring the infamous Shoreditch district! Imagine that: after …
[Tibz Mix] Love & Beats | Volume 04: 10 Days / 10 Nights:
Day Two in London: Birthday Edition: Feeling incredibly grateful to have spent the day with my friend Frit for my birthday! We really took our time in a freezing 2 degrees Celsius, to explore London’s South Bank! Sadly I ended the night alone in my hotel, first at he restaurant, then working on my laptop at the bar, and finally …
NYTimes: "Hey, Steve Harvey, Who Says I Might Not Steal Your Girl?": That’s why this Steve Harvey episode is so upsetting. He speaks openly about issues facing the black community, he is a man of God, and he has a huge platform to speak from. Unfortunately, he’s also the type of guy who orders Krug champagne for himself and Cook’s for every one else. For his own …
London Day One: Back in London: Oh how I’ve missed the U.K.: much more than I thought. Staying in Kensington tonight. Went to the popular and highly recommended Khan’s Restaurant, and ate a delicious Vegetarian Thalis before heading to the movies.
Vlog 025: YOU KNEW THIS WAS COMING: I’ve got a special request today: www.youtube.com/watch http://bit.ly/tibz26
I’ve started re-reading Jack Cheng’s These Days. This moment when the two protagonists first met kind of struck me: It was a prelude to a deeper embrace, a hug that said, pay attention, there’s something here. I’ve known some of this, recently. It’s funny the signs that …
Advertising 101: [≠]
Daring Fireball: Google's Sergey Brin and Sundar Pichai Speak at Trump Immigration Ban Rally: "It’s a problem that too many Silicon Valley CEOs “are from South Asia or from Asia”." It shouldn’t surprise anyone that the quote above comes from Pupeteer in Chief Stephen “Palpatine” Bannon. In 2017, that mindset has to go. No more tolerance for bigotry. [≠]
Music Monday - February 6th, 2017:
Three musical recommendations to start your Monday:
Vlog 024: Winter Trip Part V (Mai Chau, Hanoi, Phú Quốc): The Fifth and final part of the Family Trip to Vietnam — another walk in Mai Chau, a quick stop in Hanoi, and the final days on the island of Phú Quốc. youtu.be/kjOHe9D6s…
[Tibz Mix] Amazing Chill Vol 02: With all the negativity around, I thought it was time to get back to something creative… Like a new music mix for example. [mixcloud www.mixcloud.com/tibz/amaz… width=100% height=400 light=1]
[Movie Review] Moonlight: Moonlight isn't a story as much as it is a journey. The journey of a young boy, growing into a teenager and later into a man. The movie explores a topic not often depicted in films: black sensibility and sexuality – and even further: the day to day life of a man who finds himself attracted to …
"How Atlanta Became the New Cultural Capital of America": "It feels good every time The A gets a win—and right now, The A is winning." [≠]
Tibz26 - More information about the Charity Water campaign:
For the past 4 years, I’ve decided to celebrate my birthday in a different way. On February 9th 2017, I’m turning 26 and to celebrate the big milestone I’m organising a fundraiser for Charity Water and pledging my birthday to collect $2600 in donations!
Just had another case of “stepping away from the keyboard” to do something else instead of staying stuck for ages! Can’t recommend it enough: after an hour or so, I’m getting back inspired and refreshed, not to mention unstuck.
I can’t tell whether I’m sick or allergic, but imma fight it!
January 2017
Vlog 023: Winter Trip Part IV (Mai Chau and cycling through rice fields): After Ha Long, we discovered the Mai Chau region, while being hosted by a local family. youtu.be/5TGBJWihJ…
January Update:
Hello there!
Tibz here, back with moar personal news, links, and the usual mixture of random thoughts
Vlog 022: Winter Trip Part III (Ha Long Bay): In the third part of the Winter Vlogs from Vietnam, we’re visiting the magnificent Ha Long Bay! youtu.be/tHdwKD6FM…
I’ve spent some time this morning looking at my dates, flights, and Airbnbs. Something will go wrong of course, but as it stands right now, I believe I’ve locked in all flights until December, and the first Airbnb for the beginning of my trip (between April & May). All I need to do …
Vlog 021: Winter Trip Part II (Hanoi/Sapa): In Part II of our big Winter Trip, we’ve traveled to Hanoi, discovered the beautiful chaos that is getting around this city, and later went to visit the Lào Cai region, up north, close to the Chinese border. www.youtube.com/watch
"Magic is from People!":
Every time I saw a movie or Disney movies or heard your voices or saw you, I was like 'oh, magic is from people.' We're the ones who kind of, in a weird way, tell a story or a lie to children so they do stuff that we never thought was possible,” he continued. “My dad used to tell me every day 'you …
#182: On independence, part 2: Independence doesn’t necessarily mean you have a frictionless channel between author and reader. Independence has its own systems, its own gatekeepers. Instead of working with agents or publicists, you’re working with the sales rep at the printer, or the approval process at Kickstarter, or InDesign …
"This world will leave it's mark on you.": Burn your fucking name in every moment you touch [gallery size=full ids=‘1270’ columns=1] —via my friend “Drunken Soberness” whom I’ve met digitally many years ago on Tumblr. Her Tumblr/blog has continuously been a source of inspiration and reflection to me.
Nocturnal Animals: Two weeks ago, I went to watch Tom Ford’s sophomore movie ‘Nocturnal Animals’ at my local arthouse theatre. It feels like 2016-2017 is a great time to go to the local cinema. Here’s what I wrote on my Letterboxd profile: The overall story isn't what's impressive here. It's the ambiance, …
Tibz26 - An introduction: Happy New Year dear blog readers! I don’t know about you, but it’s been incredibly busy, over here. Between the end of the year, a big family vacation (have you seen the latest vlogs? If not you should subscribe to my Youtube channel 😉), and new work projects, it’s been hard to find the time to …
Vlog 020: Winter Trip Part I (Cambodia): As you may know, I’ve taken a long winter holiday with my family this year —and took my GoPro with me. Over the coming weeks, I’ll share the vlogs, so let’s get started with the first video (out of 4 or 5 in total). You’ll notice that they’re all in French, but …
“The dog needs feeding though": It’s been great to catchup with my friend (and former Realmac colleague) Elliot over the past few weeks. Now, the man himself is back to blogging, and I was especially interested in sharing his thoughts about going independent and working for yourself: "Going independent isn’t a decision to be taken …
2017: It’s a new year. As I’ve mentioned on the past, last year was a terrible one in the world, and one filled with ups and downs on a personal level. I’m still globally worried for 2017 however on a personal level, I’m aiming to go bigger and better, starting with more …
December 2016
Winter 2016 - Day Seven: After a long night of sleep, and a quick breakfast, we went to visit a local market with Colored Hmongs minorities. We also went to the Vietnamese-Chinese border, before heading back to Lao Cai to grab the night train. As a quick aside, I’ve been listening to #RivieraDetente on the way to the …
Winter 2016 - Day Six: We’ve arrived in Lao Cai station at 5:30am. In this 8h+ night train ride, I’ve slept for approximately 1.5 of them. It’s gonna be interesting going for a 6h-long hike today. It was great to hear about these minorities and discover the local rural communities and rice fields! After …
Winter 2016 - Day Five: Exploring Hanoi As I’ve mentioned yesterday, I feel kind of at home/at peace in the ambiant chaos of Hanoi. I kinda wonder what Life in Saigon must be like now. It feels like the generation of millennials who grew up in Vietnam today, with the internet, is reminiscent of the French …
Wednesday, December 21, 2016 →
Winter 2016 - Day Four: Woke up after a great/long/restful night of sleep (11pm-9am). Went to the pool around 11-12 until 2pm and had lunch at the hotel. Then we departed to the local Siem Reap airport. As I’m writing this, we’re on our way to Hanoi for the rest of our trip. As we landed, I’ve realized …
Wednesday, December 21, 2016 →
Day Three: Visiting a floating village 30mn away from Siem Reap. For some obscure reason I went to bed at 10.30pm and woke up around 3:50-4am. Impossible to fall back asleep.
Jack Cheng: "Appreciating the hangover": The author of one of my favourite novels, on a recent, alcohol-infused trip to Japan: It was while I was traveling this summer that I first started to appreciate the hangover. There would be nights in Japan when DB and I would go out and, as one does, end up drinking a little too much. But we’d …
Winter 2016 - Day Two: After a long day yesterday, we went to bed at 10pm, woke up around 7am without problems. We spent the whole day visiting the temples in the Siem Reap area, including the infamous Angkor Wat temple! In the evening, we stayed in the touristic center of Siem Reap, explored the city and went to a bar …
Winter 2016 - Day One: Arriving in Saigon, and transited to Siem Reap, Cambodia [wpvideo 5A4tqu2E]
Goodbye 2016!: As we reach the end of the year, and before I leave to go on holidays tomorrow, there’s a song that I’ve been going back to. www.youtube.com/watch I’m not usually one for retrospects but this year has been eventful to say the least. Between the end of a long relationship, having …
Digital Digest - Andrea Saez:
For the first part of the Season Finale, I’m talking with my friend Andrea Saez, from ProdPad, about:
- Andrea’s international background,
- Working remotely and Coping with loneliness,
- Fancy sweatpants and much more!
In this second part, we talk about:
- Travelling to the Italian Red Lights Districts …
Vlog 019 - Moving out of my Flat: It’s official, my bags & boxes are packed : I’m moving out! youtu.be/G1_2kiC5A… Parisian Vlogs: Part I Part II Part III Podcast: Coming soon via: http://Digest.digital
Vlog 018: Concerts in Paris: Paris Part III Enjoy the final part of my parisian adventures, with two concerts: Phantogram live at Le Petit Bain John Carpenter live at Le Grand Rex! youtu.be/dFyn20hi8…
Let’s talk about The Weeknd:
I’ve been a fan of Abel Tesfaye, the Toronto-based artist known as The Weeknd, for the past 4 years or so. With the release of his new album Starboy, I thought I’d take the time to write an article about him, and make a counter point to what I’ve been hearing around me.
Vlog 017 - Ninjas in Paris: The second instalment of the Parisian Vlogs: youtu.be/IsVSxEEsS…
Trevor Noah's evolving Daily Show: Back in 2015, I wrote (in French) about how excited I was about Trevor Noah's Daily Show. I had seen enough episodes of the iconic Jon Steward show to know that it was something I liked, but not enough to be an unconditional fan angered at the new host. And I noticed that some of the people I …
NYTimes: A World of Trouble for Donald Trump:
Today, the entire editorial board at the NYTimes got together to discuss the global issues affected by a Trump presidency, in a very comprehensive manner.
November 2016
TibzLetter — Getting Worried… and Political!:
Every couple of weeks, I share personal updates to my subscribers over email. Here’s the latest issue of my “TibzLetter”.
After last week’s updates on updates on updates, I just wanted a very quick update with you wonderful people:
“Why Paris Needs You — & You Need Paris — Right Now”: From my friend Lindsey, an American friend who’s my go-to for new food/coffee/drinks places to go to in Paris. She’s a regular NYTimes contributor, and has written this piece for Refinery29. In it, she discusses why now more than ever is the best time to visit Paris, with a nod to last …
NYTimes: A Love Letter to Drinking in Bars: Ignore the health warnings, the sage advice, the calorie counters, the sleep addicts: Every great bar is a breath of paradise, and the best ones know, in their gleaming surfaces, what Proust meant when he said that the true paradises are the paradises we have lost. [≠]
Common x NPR's Tiny Desk (at the White House Library): I’ve had this as a draft for a couple of weeks, but considering certain recent events, I feel we could all use some good vibes right about now… youtu.be/2AChGszRG… via Common at Tiny Desk | Matt Mullenweg
Captain Fantastic Review | Movie - Empire: One of the best movies I’ve ever seen. There was simply so much heart in this film, and I feel like everyone absolutely should see it at some point! “It’s a fairly simple plot but Matt Ross’ debut film is so dense with metaphor that you can read it on any of a number of levels.” [Source]
9 Tips to disconnect and recharge for remote workers: Really grateful that I got to collaborate on this article with Remotive, the community of remote workers that I’ve been a part of for many months, now! This article is all about how remote workers disconnect or recharge their batteries when working remotely. Some great insights from 9 …
Wednesday, November 23, 2016 →
I just wanna see the light: [soundcloud url="api.soundcloud.com/tracks/29…" params=“auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=“100%” height=“450” iframe=“true” /]
Wednesday, November 23, 2016 →
Panic at the Disco x The Weeknd x Daft Punk - Starboy (Cover): youtu.be/we9BdAK2G…
Vlog 016: Walking in Paris: VLOG 016 IS OUT — the first part of my Parisian Trip! (Why the hell is there no Eiffel Tower emoji?!) youtu.be/xZUmm3lf4…
Love & Beats | Vol 03: “What I wish the DJ played last time I went to a club”: The third instalment of my “Love & Beats” series. This one is much longer, clocking in at 1:56:03, and filled with music that inspires me, ranging from chill downtempo, all the way to loud bass-heavy trap and future beats. [mixcloud www.mixcloud.com/tibz/love… width=100% height=400]
Aftermath: Along with a few (predominantly) American friends ranging from minorities to women, the first few days post-US election have been terrifying. From early reports of hate-crimes rising in the US to personal friends being insulted, there’s a lot of sad news coming from across the Atlantic. …
🇫🇷🇮🇹🇲🇨🚗💁🏻♂️💁🏼 Vlog 015 - Mission Accomplished!: Two weeks, I hosted my good friend Marisa, from California! Brace yourselves for Adventures across the French Riviera! youtube.com/watch
From my good friend Andrew, who also happens to be amongst the smartest men in the room, on a regular basis: Make no mistake, this will have a profound impact on our future and our history. The deep, sinking anxiety that I've felt over the last 24 hours is something I never want to feel again, but …
“The fear that propelled Donald Trump requires no logic”: By Maajid Nawaz, whom I’ve seen give a talk at TEDx Brighton: Only a new commitment to the universality of human rights and human dignity can lift us out of this current quagmire. But that will require foot soldiers of peace who preach what we have in common rather than how we are different; …
An American Tragedy - The New Yorker: The election of Donald Trump to the Presidency is nothing less than a tragedy for the American republic, a tragedy for the Constitution, and a triumph for the forces, at home and abroad, of nativism, authoritarianism, misogyny, and racism. Trump is vulgarity unbounded, a knowledge-free …
Let's talk about Basic Universal Income.: The fact that the linked post’s title is about both Elon Musk and Basic Income is likely a big clickbait. In an interview with CNBC on Friday, Musk said that he believes the solution to taking care of human workers who are displaced by robots and software is creating a (presumably …
October 2016
Incoming Tranmission #7: Life in Transit: Hey everyone! It’s been nearly a week since my last edition of the Incoming Transmission Series. I was actually overdue to write about my latest news and projects, as well as finishing to upload my blogging archive, but I got swamped with work1 so I thought I’d send you a quick one from …
Incoming Transmission #6 - Vegipirate: My name is Eliott, I'm 25. I used to live in Paris, working as a consultant for a marketing agency (...) I've decided to do something else with this life, and create a new one for myself. A better life. Eliott (aka Vegipirate) is a really good friend. In fact, we go back to our late secondary …
[Quartz]:“No free work” is the wrong advice for creative people: Creative professionals are generally told not to work without a paycheck. But can strategically offering your services for free actually catapult your career? As always in the world of freelancing, career development, or even “growth hacks”, there are numerous advices you can read about online. …
Vlog 014 - Casual Work Week: Back to a more casual week, working across my flat and local coffeehouses. [youtube=youtube.com/watch
Hacked Cameras and DVRs Powered Today’s Massive Internet Outage: So… about Yesterday’s huge attack and DNS problem… “It’s remarkable that virtually an entire company’s product line has just been turned into a botnet that is now attacking the United States” [Source]
Virtual Immortality: Virtual Insanity Reanimating characters from TV shows [youtube=youtube.com/watch [via prosthetic knowledge — Virtual Immortality: Reanimating characters from…]
Incoming Transmission #5: A Podcast for Freelancers & Independent Workers out there:
For all freelancers out there, I wanted to highly recommend this podcast from the talented folks at Relay.fm/1
Incoming Transmission #4:
aka Charlie’s Angels
Hello everyone! Welcome back for Issue #4 of my daily series of posts. I’m pretty stoked that I’ve been able to write these small posts once a day.
“Europeans work about an hour less a day than Americans”: Americans continue to clock in far more hours than their European counterparts. Europeans worked 19% fewer hours than US citizens, which correlates to about an hour less each weekday, a new working paper shows. If you look through the post, you’ll notice that France has the second lowest …
Incoming Transmission #3: I found an interesting article yesterday: “Is Your Podcast Being Held Hostage By iTunes?” iTunes is notoriously finicky, and its team tends to take a Honey Badger approach to the concerns of indie podcast creators. You can file this under “OH HAI, This actually happened to me.” See, for about a …
“Hate speech on Twitter reportedly steered Disney away from buying the company”: The trolls who take a toll on their fellow Twitter users with alarming regularity have finally taken a toll on Twitter itself. Bloomberg reports that the Walt Disney Co. ditched a potential acquisition of the social-media platform, in part because it did not want the family-friendly Disney brand to …
U.S. journalist faces charges for covering a protest ↦: “Here’s a story about a prosecutor in North Dakota charging a journalist with ‘participating in a riot’ because he was unhappy with her coverage of that event.” An infamous quote from George Orwell comes to mind: “Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is …
Incoming Transmission #2: This post marks an attempt to publish more personal & regular articles. I’ve actually written this part yesterday, but thought I’d split my post in two smaller and more manageable bits. …Continued from Part 1 Throughout the day, I try to switch off of my client work to catch up on interesting …
Once More With Feelings, GoPro Edition: Having recently purchased a GoPro to help me with my Vlogs, I was waiting to use the exciting new Quik Desktop, the laptop-friendly version of a french-made iOS app to help streamline the entire editing process. Turns out it was already available, but needed to be found on the support pages of the …
#FML: I could have met Jack Bauer today!:
TL;DR: I could have met Jack Bauer today.
Incoming Transmission #1: This post marks an attempt to publish more personal & regular articles. Let’s see if I manage to write more frequently. It’s Monday here. Just like any other time during the week, I woke up, and started my day with coffee and catching up on a TV show. Most Mondays, it’s a broadcast …
Print’s not dead – it’s regenerating — One Man & His Blog:
It’s rare that I pick up a printed book or newspaper these days. But I’m buying more magazines than I ever have – they’re just better and more expensive.
TibzLetter - Ready for Halloween 2016?:
Every couple of weeks, I share personal updates to my subscribers over email. Here’s the latest issue of my “TibzLetter”.
Hey everyone!
It’s been about 3 weeks since my last newsletter. How’s it going?
Before we begin, here’s some relaxing music for you to listen to, while you’re reading this: …
Although I haven’t made up my mind regarding whom I’ll be voting for in the next French Presidential Election, however, Emmanuel Macron is on top of my list at this point. He’s the only one that I’m not against, by default. So it’s pretty exciting to see him: Live on …
Looks like Wired’s November Issue is a MUST READ! [≠]
[Coming Soon] Back in Paris: Hey everyone, Just taking a quick moment on this beautiful monday morning to let you know that I'll be in Paris between November 2-10th. And I'd love to meet up with readers of the blog, as well as friends and just about anyone else, hence this announcement. My plan during the week is to work, go …
🌶🔥🍶: Just gonna leave this here for Friday… “How Sriracha is Made” — aka how the rooster sauce goes from chili plant to finished product [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6HloXUtX4k&w=1048&h=590] …and another one, because I’m posting this on my lunch break: [youtube …
Vlog 13: 2 days and a sweet treat...: youtube.com/watch As the fall settles in, here’s a short vlog, summing up two days, working and going out. Do you guys prefer shorter vlogs like this one?
Vlog 011-012: The GoPro Edition: With upcoming projects and travels coming soon, I’ve decided to invest in slightly better gear for my nomadic aspiration. TL;DR: I’ve bought the new GoPro Hero 5 Black to help me record memories on the go, without the need to always have my bulky (bulkier) camera with me in my bag. …
Music Love & Beats | Vol 2: “Letting Go”: I had some feelings. So I took the time to publish a mix about it. [mixcloud www.mixcloud.com/tibz/love… width=100% height=400 light=1] Tracklist: Halsey - Tokyo Narita (Freestyle) (ft. Lido) Childish Gambino x Stranger Things OST - Stranger Bonfire Vindata - Own Life (ft. Anderson .Paak) …
September 2016
Thursday, September 29, 2016 →
Vlog 010 - The End of the Summer: [youtube www.youtube.com/watch It took me a while to get this one out, and I’m still thinking about ways to improve the recording, editing, and publishing process — finding a faster/simpler workflow. Anyways, please enjoy “the end of the summer” ! It took me a while to get this one out, and …
August 2016
Vlog 009 - Hiking, and a Short Summer Trip to Paris: Summer on the French Riviera, Hiking, and a short trip to Paris… youtu.be/Hf8K3HBfD…
Vlog 008 - Living Well's The Best Revenge: I finally took the time to publish a new Vlog! youtu.be/w8TZENdv5… After the attack in Nice, it’s been really good to enjoy live, go out, and spend some quality time with friends! Thanks to all those wonderful friends that have been around during this period!
July 2016
Vlog 007: The Mountains in the Summer: Family Weekend Getaway in the Mountains youtu.be/_Z49bMpov…
Vlog 006: Summer Street Food Festival: This weekend summed up in 4 words: Friends, Festival, Food, Football! youtu.be/yHDDPUMyF… More videos and adventures on my Youtube Channel
Vlog 005: A visit to the Exotic Gardens of Eze: We went to Eze this past sunday. It’s a charming medieval village on the French Riviera. Its unique Exotic Gardens sit on top of the Mediterranean Sea. youtu.be/Zu7C98cEC…
June 2016
Vlog 004: Brexit Explained: My personal take on the big Brexit decision… I was heartbroken that day! youtu.be/96kNJLHtn…
Vlog 003: Summer Life on the French Riviera: Concerts, Friends, Work, Life and more! youtu.be/a880C4D4p…
Reflecting on my first year as a Freelancer: This past year has been a wild ride, to say the least. In May last year, I finished working for Realmac and started working as a contractor for a low-key B2B SaaS company. Officially, I’m working like an employee, working the whole week on behalf of this one of a kind small business. They’ve been …
Vlog 002: Rainy Weekend and Epic Coffee Fail: The second of my irregular vlogs brings the tale of a lazy rainy weekend, and some misadventures around town. youtu.be/pdsabNrGf…
Allez Les Bleus —Something is in the air!: About 18 years ago, something incredible happened in France. It was in between the months of June and July 1998. Our team won the FIFA World Cup. Two years later, during the Euro, France won again, being the time ever that a team would win both titles back to back. During this time, I was 7-9 then, …
Vlog 001: Scary Football: Officially the first video in a series of …I guess you could call it irregular Vlogs? youtu.be/gLPZWEa8m…
"The End of the Apple Man": Katie Notopoulos for BuzzFeed: "For women, safety while walking down the street is something we think about pretty much daily, most times we leave the house." What I found most impressive during the keynote, behind feature updates and announcements, was Apple’s true commitment to diversity. …
May 2016
Digital Digest | Eamonn Carey - Season 01 Episode 05:
A chat with Eamonn Carey, Entrepreneur in Residence at Techstars. We discuss startups, technology hubs around the world, VC funding, The Bubble™… And what the hell is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence anyway?!
Amazing Chill Vol. 01: I’ve been meaning to do a bit more on the music front, so here’s a very special something I’ve cooked up overnight: a relaxing mix I’ve pulled out of some old Soundcloud favourites! [mixcloud www.mixcloud.com/tibz/tibz… width=100% height=300 light=1] Tracklist: …
Blogging in 2016: My friend Adam Tinworth (of One Man & His Blog fame) has launched a more personal blog, called Coffee and Complexity, powered by Ghost. As I had missed out on the launch of his new blog, I’ve decided to read the articles he had posted until now, including this one : “I do NOT miss this aspect of …
The Musical Internet time-sink: I want to talk about music today. Looking for 5 recommendations? Read on! TL;DR: Listen to the latest releases from these 5 talented artists: Bibi Bourelly Jon Bellion Kaytranada James Blake Skepta The long story of how I got sucked in to Spotify Recently, I’ve been listening to a lot more music, …
April 2016
No one kept Prince from a party.: Since the announcement of Prince’s passing, I’ve finally taken the time to educate myself and listen to his music, trying to learn from the different records he’s put out over the past 40 years. Prince was an artist who’s transcended music: he was moving across other arts, has influenced the world …
Digital Digest | Josh Long - Season 01 Episode 04:
My guest today is Josh Long, a designer by trade, but also a philosopher & entrepreneur in the real sense of the word.
Let's talk about money...: As someone who’s working a lot in Customer Support, I have a handful of industry-resources I’m pretty open to read and catch-up on trends, etc… In the latest email from We Support NYC, I came across this link, comparing average industry salaries. Before I dive in, keep in mind …
About the new Kindle Oasis: This new Kindle looks great! I’m part of the minority of people loving this new slim industrial design. But at $289/289€/£269 , this is way too expansive to upgrade from my 2015 Kindle Paperwhite. [youtube http://youtube.com/watch?v=wXD_y0MaxH8] [≠]
Why your late twenties feel so stressful: An insightful article from the Harvard Business Review: it’s always great to hear about these things and realise that “It’s not just Me”… hbr.org/video/emb… You may have to disable your ad-block since they use proprietary players or their videos… (0_o'). Oh, and if …
What do you do?: One of the most frequent yet hardest questions I’m asked these days is “What do you do?” Since the beginning of the year, I’ve been asked this question more times than I can count, and every time, have given a different answer. See, it’s very hard for me to answer this simple question. Am I a …
About Apple turning 40 years old: Apple won’t become boring with age. The company is just as exciting — and occasionally as unexpected — as they were 40 years ago. Of course, I owe Apple an unending debt: This is the company that made my life exciting, rewarding, and brought me to Silicon Valley. A great note worth your time, from …
About HBO's Girls: During this single episode — which really only spans a single night — Marnie grows more as a person and a character than she did in any of Girls' past seasons. HBO’s Girls has produced another great episode that goes in depth with one of its most quiet characters. As I’ve pointed out on …
Hillary and the Youth Vote: Young people aren't dreaming. They're thinking. And we should listen to them. An article worth reading. Maybe, just maybe, being naive and optimistic is a good thing. [≠]
March 2016
Digital Digest — Axelle Tessandier (Bonus Episode in French): [mixcloud www.mixcloud.com/tibz/axel… %C3%A0-ceux-qui-le-veulent-le-plus-bonus-episode/ width=100% height=400] Un épisode bonus avec Axelle Tessandier, tout en Français, et enregistré en Live à Paris, à la Gaieté Lyrique. À propos d’Axelle Retrouvez Axelle sur Twitter (@AxelleTess) ou sur …
Maddy spent International Women's Day surrounded by men.: Somehow it is possible if you brave it. So if you possibly can, please start your own thing. Seek support and build your confidence from friends and great organisations like She Says, Ada’s List, the Female Entrepreneurs Association and the British Institute of Women Entrepreneurs. In other words, …
Digital Digest - Episode 03: Paul Papadimitriou: Hello and Welcome to a new episode of the [Digital Digest](http://digest.digital) podcast! This is the third episode, and today, I'm chatting with Paul Papadimitriou, who goes by the title of Innovation Scout. We're going to chat about his childhood and international background, discuss around the …
Apple, the FBI and the Encryption debate...: While we believe the FBI’s intentions are good, it would be wrong for the government to force us to build a backdoor into our products. And ultimately, we fear that this demand would undermine the very freedoms and liberty our government is meant to protect. The Tech industry at large has sent …
John Oliver takes on Encryption: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver has turned into one of my favourite shows to watch on a weekly basis. Debunking insane policies of the US government, calling out corporate companies and lobbyists or putting Donald Trump in check. His latest segment is a mandatory watch on the Encryption debate …
H&M&Caitlyn: I’m not a fan of fast-fashion, however, one has to salute the latest collaboration between H&M and… Caitlyn Jenner! Not only does the collection look pretty good, it’s also a great way to help mentalities evolve for the better around the acceptance of the LGBT community. [≠]
Angel Haze interview: I think it’s lame that the industry is not a talent based thing, but about how well you sell yourself. It sucks. Marketing ends up ruining everything! Even Hip-Hop! [≠]
The true life and real sadness of being a Frank Ocean fan!: Being a Frank Ocean fan in 2016 is not about being frustrated; it’s about being a frustration meme. Have you expressed your annoyance that he hasn’t released anything new yet? If not, are you really a fan? Waiting for Frank Ocean has become the new listening to Frank Ocean. The true life and real …
February 2016
Wednesday, February 17, 2016 →
Digital Digest | Natalie Lloyd - Season 01 Episode 02: Natalie Lloyd is a digital strategist and a director at MOHARA, an agency based in Brighton, England. She’s also a close friend of mine. In this episode, we’re chatting about her background in commercial photography, working from New York to the South of France, running a TEDx event, and… …
James Gunn on Hollywood and the success of the “Deadpool” movie: So, over the next few months, if you pay attention to the trades, you'll see Hollywood misunderstanding the lesson they should be learning with Deadpool. They'll be green lighting films "like Deadpool" - but, by that, they won't mean "good and original" but "a raunchy superhero film" or "it breaks …
January 2016
Digital Digest | Geet Khosla - Season 01 Episode 01: In the first episode of the new Digital Digest podcast, I’m chatting with my friend Geet Khosla about growing in India, being part of the family business at age 12, launching & selling your company, working with family, and much more… [mixcloud www.mixcloud.com/tibz/digi… …
The Search for the Killer Bot: Outside of games, we spend the vast majority of our time in apps built by Facebook and Google. The future for indie devs on mobile is uncertain at this point in time! ≠
“My year as a filthy casual Destiny player”: The Taken King works surprisingly well as a single-player game — especially if you have a few friends playing once or twice a week who don’t mind running quests again and keeping their mouths shut about what happens next. I didn’t rush to figure out how I absolutely agree: my PSN Friends are either …
Introducing: the All-New Digital Digest Podcast: Hello and welcome to the Digital Digest podcast version 2.0. Back in 2015, I wanted to experiment with audio and with podcasts. I started recording podcasts on my own time, focusing on the tech news cycle. Very soon I was spending a few hours per week recording and editing up to 23 episodes on a …
December 2015
“Apps that get acquired don’t last.”: Mailbox, the app that single-handedly revolutionized emails & productivity apps on mobile, is being shut down by its parent, Dropbox. They’re also shutting down Carousel, the excellent but under-used photo management app. Carousel’s core focus around photos will stay inherent to Dropbox, …
October 2015
How to make customers happy (using your support team): In the past, I’ve written about how Customer Support should be a part of your Marketing effort. Customer support can make or break small businesses, and has a powerful impact on the outcome, successful or not, experienced by younger companies: every praise matters, and any customer with a high …
June 2015
Renewing my Kindle: I’ve bought my first Kindle back in 2011, during my internship in San Francisco. I knew I wanted to get back into reading and the advances of eInk as well as the convenience of being to carry hundreds of books in such a small device made it incredibly attractive for me. I’ve been really happy with …
April 2015
Let's talk about Sunstone: A few months ago, I was browsing Reddit and Tumblr when I saw a comic book kept popping up repeatedly: “Sunstone”. The name somehow stayed in the back of my mind (as someone for whom English is not my native language, I had never heard of the word sunstone before.) Until last week, when Comixology …
The Bernie Mic Drop: How’s that for “New York values”, Senator Cruz? I haven’t yet had time to look at what happened during the latest democratic debate, but this video put a smile on my face. A great way to start the weekend. …
February 2015
Love & Beats: Over the weekend, I’ve worked on my first mix. Enjoy! [mixcloud www.mixcloud.com/tibz/love… width=100% height=400 light=1]
Tribute to the Cat: [soundcloud url="api.soundcloud.com/tracks/11…" params=“auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=“100%” height=“450” iframe=“true” /]
November 2013
Wednesday, November 13, 2013 →
Customer Support is Marketing: In this post, I’d like to discuss some simple ways to improve the way you can support your users. Although we are a software company, these tips will apply to any domain where you have to deal with clients and customers on a regular basis. In a world where a single individual can reach just …
October 2011
Steve Jobs: restrospective and acknowledgements: Today Mr Steven Paul Jobs died at the age of 56. While the circumstances of his death should only be important to his friends and family and not to the journalists relaying the information, there are a lot of things to be said about this incredible man. There are no words to describe the impact Mr …
September 2011
Wednesday, September 28, 2011 →
About enjoying life out of your domain of expertise: It’s 11pm in San Francisco, close to 25 Celsius degrees, I’m wearing a t-shirt, coming back from dinner with a great friend. If you were still doubting how happy a Frenchman in California can be, I can guarantee that you’ll be convinced by the end of this post. I came to San …
Thursday, September 22, 2011 →
In case you were wondering how awesome San Francisco is!: [vimeo 29298709]
Waking Up: I am living a dream. I’ve said it and repeated it, online and in real life. When some kids grow up hoping to become an astronaut, my teenage years were looking at one day working in Tech. As the years went by, I am extremely proud to say that, with a lot of motivations, luck, and efforts, …
August 2011
About Happiness and Toilet Paper: Once upon a time, there was a kid who was interested in Movie making. He was open minded and fun, for all the world could tell, and just like anyone else, he had a dream. Today, I’m here to tell you about this kid and his dream. Whit Scott is a talented individual that I discovered at the time when …
July 2011
A Personal Epiphany: This week, I had an epiphany. I was walking down the street. It was a sunny tuesday of July, in the beautiful city by the bay. I was on my way to grab the second bus to go to work, and then it struck me. Market street continuing until it reached the sea, surrounded by Skycrapers filled with …
Going Abroad and The Pursuit Of Happiness: It’s been very interesting to live in this house… There are so many different people with different cultures and background that we could nearly make our own United Nations and debates… And having lived there for over two weeks now, I realize a few things about travelling and the …
February 2011
Wednesday, February 16, 2011 →
How to score an internship when you're a student: So in case you haven’t heard, these days, I’ve applied to two different companies in the Social Media industry to get an internship next year. The first one? <a title=“Seesmic” href=“http://seesmic.com”>Seesmic</a>, a company that created a really good …