lcordier

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Comment · 10 months ago

Learn a bit from GenX, booze up ;) Don't do it irresponsibly thou. Find your tolerance.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/aug/15/booze-gen-z-...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTKaM_bu9iY

Comment · 1 year ago

Shameless plug, https://louiscordier.com/the_3_book_of_louis/ I wrote it earlier this year and are tracking its adoption and spreading. It is hitting a plateau though, so now I am nudging it ;)

Comment · 2 years ago

How tech change in just 40 years. https://xkcd.com/1909/

I also use <username>.github.io and https://archive.org/ (offline at the moment)

Comment · 2 years ago

Shameless plug:

https://www.louiscordier.com/the_3_book_of_louis/

Comment · 2 years ago

"The new business road test" - John Mullins "Will it fly" - Pat Flynn

"Start marketing" - Rob Walling (https://robwalling.com/assets/ebook.pdf) I recommend the article on "Why Startup Founders Should Stop Reading Business Books" ;)

https://youtu.be/19WpIbBhxJU

(don't know where I got this...)

Ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions.

  Explanation:
  AWFUL IDEA           -1
  WEAK IDEA             1
  SO-SO IDEA            5
  GOOD IDEA            10
  GREAT IDEA           15
  BRILLIANT IDEA       20
  
  NO EXECUTION         $1
  WEAK EXECUTION       $1000
  SO-SO EXECUTION      $10,000
  GOOD EXECUTION       $100,000
  GREAT EXECUTION      $1,000,000
  BRILLIANT EXECUTION  $10,000,000

To make a business, you need to multiply the two.

The most brilliant idea, with no execution, is worth $20.

The most brilliant idea takes great execution to be worth $20,000,000.

That’s why I don’t want to hear people’s ideas.

I’m not interested until I see their execution.

Comment · 2 years ago

What you are looking for is Ikigai... I am not quickly finding a good article so these will have to do. ;)

0. https://becomingbetter.org/ikigai/

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikigai

Comment · 2 years ago

Here is my 2c. First try to avoid the languages with too many warts. Why do that to your brain?

0. https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

1. https://greenteapress.com/thinkpython2/thinkpython2.pdf

2. https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.0/

3. https://htmx.org/ (let the little framework handle JavaScript)

4. https://cssgridgarden.com/

5. https://flexboxfroggy.com/

This should give you nice overview to get started...

Comment · 2 years ago

Don't do what @BillGates push, sterilized mosquitoes. (sorry Bill) Rather accommodate and breed dragonflies instead. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kx2im0ceCc

Comment · 2 years ago

sxiv

Comment · 2 years ago

i3, vim, Obsidian ;)

Comment · 2 years ago

Why the down votes? I know my shit...

https://www.louiscordier.com/the_1_book_of_louis/

Comment · 2 years ago

Lots of theory, yes.

Comment · 2 years ago

IIRC we did a digital control system for an electric motor drive circuit but that was a different subject: electric machines.

Comment · 2 years ago

I failed control-systems in my third year. Was too focused on other more fun subjects. Maybe it is a fun issue?

Comment · 2 years ago

Flying is like the physical internet, a true miracle in human evolution, step in and in a few short hours you step out on the other side of the world. And yet the insane complaints about lack of comfort, especially in Y, blows my mind. Finally some sanity in a thread about 192Y easyJet A320s.

Quoting flyingturtle (Reply 20): I'm 1.7 m (5.57742782 feet), and I felt more squeezed in a German long-distance bus than in any LCC I've ever flown. The bus ride? Six hours.

I Elon, if you are reading these, I would pay R2 for a Tesla S, but wait it is a NFT. https://lcordier.github.io/blog/20231231

I have one customization request thou. We can discuss.