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"L’addiction à cette constante nouveauté, couplée avec l’ubiquité d’une connexion mobile permanente, a rapidement fait disparaitre la moindre minute de vide, d’ennui, de rien. Depuis les toilettes à la récupération après un jogging dans le parc ou la file d’attente au supermarché, chaque minute qui était auparavant « intellectuellement gaspillée » peut désormais être remplie d’une quelconque nouveauté aléatoire. Ou, tout au moins, d’une quête de ce genre de nouveautés.

Malheureusement, les idées ne naissent que dans le terreau du rien, du vide, de l’ennui."

Many young people across Asia are cutting themselves off from society, locking themselves at home for months or years. Here’s why.

My friend Marius made me discover the writing of Ploum and I spent a day reading everything he wrote on this blog. Lots of interesting topics written about!

With this article, we focus on the simplicity that is sometimes missing, the trend of overengineering products even if it becomes detrimental. I would add another article to the list, the file-over-app philosophy by Steph Ango from Obsidian. It is more complex than just going for the simplest tools, it’s about listing your needs and focusing on the tool that answers them.

Developers, home buyers and Western bankers all ignored warning signs; ‘financial anomalies’ and ‘shenanigans’

Why information speed matters

Such an interesting video on life which goes beyond just a video game

Let me introduce you to WordStar 4.0, a popular word processor from the early 80s.
WordStar 4.0
As old as it seems, George R.R. Martin used it to write “A Song of Ice and Fire”.
Why would someone use such an old piece of software to write over 5,000 pages? I love how he puts it:
It does everything I want a word processing program to do and it doesn't do anything else.

A popular old essay about finding calm and rhythm online.

For the world’s greatest ultrarunner, mental toughness is just as important as physical strength. "It’s not always going to feel great, but that’s going to make us better."

According to his memoirs, Eugène-François Vidocq escaped from more than twenty prisons (sometimes dressed as a nun). Working on the other side of the law, he apprehended some 4000 criminals with a team of plainclothes agents. He founded the first criminal investigation bureau — staffed mainly with convicts — and, when he was later fired, the first private detective agency. He was one the fathers of modern criminology and had a rap sheet longer than his very tall tales. Who was Vidocq? Daisy Sainsbury investigates.

Devenu incontournable en solo comme en featuring, le producteur anglais Fred again.. est plus que jamais le prince électronique du moment.

If you are using Obsidian, you don't need to make it complex automatically, you can keep it simple

This video is so well made that it made me want to watch even more of Christopher Nolan’s movies.

A Behind the Scene of the famous Kaytranada Boiler room set

“MDZhB” has been broadcasting since 1982. No one knows why.

A lifetime after the Holocaust, a few of its perpetrators remain at large. German detectives are making a final push to hunt them down.