The Evolving Worker

Wealth = how long you could sustain your current lifestyle (same expenses) if your income stopped, today. I hope you’ll do the actual math yourself. Is it days ? Weeks ? Years ? This definition is more or less extracted from Olivier Seban’s book called Tout le monde mérite d’être... read→

Since I’ve been checking my GMail email from my iPhone, I met the two following situations: I read a mail from the iPhone then forget to reply as I intended to do, I have a quick look at an interesting email but have no time to read it in detail... read→

In Implementing Lean Software Development, Mary and Tom Poppendieck wrote: Because tacit knowledge is so difficult to communicate, handoffs always result in lost knowledge; the real question is how to minimize that waste. How to ensure we minimize that waste when we share knowledge inside a company ? One widely-used... read→

When people discover mind-mapping, they often want to know how to use it better, what can be done. They wonder if there a “right” way to achieve a specific task with it. I don’t believe there is a “right” way, but I do believe looking at how other people use... read→

Getting Real is a great book, advocating simplicity and pragmatism in web application development. In fact, the advices in this book also apply to most kinds of projects (a recommended reading). After re-reading it, I wanted to find some tool to achieve rapid prototyping and user interface design in a... read→

You may have already heard the maxim fail to plan, plan to fail. I believe this sentence is especially true when applied to our day at work, weither we’re self-employed or work for a company. Losing control of the day You’re hard at work, it’s 3pm and suddenly you hear... read→

Every now and then, I feel doubt. For instance today, I’ve been pondering a lot about a website I’m working on – it’s called lectures.fr (it’s a simple books-related site, I’ll tell you more when it is in a more advanced state). I’d really like to create something truely useful.... read→

I’m always looking for tools that make things easier in my day at work, like password managers, tools to find free space on your disk or such things. It’s almost obsessional, but I believe it’s a good thing. OmniGraffle is one of these tools – it’s a pretty neat charting... read→

Here’s a common story: Joe works as part of a team and trials what seems to be a useful tool (some mind-mapping software for instance). During the trial, Joe shares the discovery with the rest of the team – as he falls in love with the benefits provided by the... read→

Do you have a hard time waking up? After reading a couple of painful comments on a post entitled “how do you make sure you wake up?”, I realized that dawn simulators are not as widespread as I thought they were. Here is a presentation, in hope my readers will... read→

First I want to say thank you to you my readers, both for reading these articles and for sending me feedback through the website. This blog is 4 months old (I started it 5 days before my first son birth!) and I’ve been very happy to share ideas I find... read→

This post will tell you why I now use password managers and which tools I’ve settled with. I’m a strong believer in simplicity. Despite this, it took me quite a bunch of time before starting to use password managers. That was procrastination, definitely. After starting to handle my own servers... read→

Running out of hard-disk space can cause troubles ranging from minor slow down to irreversible data loss when an application hangs. In this article I present a couple of tools to cope with this situation and try to prevent it. First two tips worth sharing: don’t delete files (or buy... read→

I wrote a while back about common use cases for mind-mapping. In this article I present a less common use: mind-maps can be used to create data used by database driven web applications or any other software. Two years ago, one of my customers wanted to build an intranet to... read→