"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."

A popular old essay about finding calm and rhythm online.

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.

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

Kowloon City, a town I knew nothing about before and which I was blown away by. An enclave of China with its own rules, inside Hong Kong, where so many things happened before the city disappeared.

How Craig Mod modified my digital tools to reconnect with time on a six-week, 620-mile trip on foot across the country.

This website is about sharing my favorite articles, videos, resources that I find interesting online, in a curated way. The goal is to follow the POSSE principle of Indie Web, Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere. This is an addition to my newsletter Full-Time Curious that I publish every 2 months and where I share less content.

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.

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

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."

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

A Behind the Scene of the famous Kaytranada Boiler room set

The $80 Lego Ideas Polaroid OneStep is a 516-piece recreation of the classic 1977 OneStep SX-70 instant camera. Here’s The Verge’s exclusive peek at how it went from fan creation to final product.

America’s biggest bookstore chain is being reinvented. To understand the strategy for its 596 stores, look at the most famous one.

Lessons on values, thinking big, innovating inside the box, customer-centricity, genius content marketing, and the timeless way of building.

Follow people's guest appearances on podcasts instead of just following a podcast

Open-source tool made by the French National Education minister to blur people's faces for privacy

The text discusses the contrast between complex CMS-based websites and simple static HTML sites.

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

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

Why information speed matters

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.

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

A great video of Jim Carrey's career, and how he became who he is

“It’s like the boys have gone extinct,” say women in Kukes. They’ve all left for London, chasing dreams of fast cars and easy money sold on social media

Throwing the whole world into a single room together doesn't work.

“Getting screamed at and insulted by people who disagree with you doesn’t take you out of your filter bubble — it makes you retreat back inside your bubble and reject the ideas of whoever is screaming at you.“ Noah Smith