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New Post: Virtual events need a rebrand 🕊 As a marketer, I’ve been exploring the events space for a couple of years. I'm diving into what could happen next and why virtual event (already) need a refresh ✨ medium.com/northzone/virt…

Can we PLEASE get custom fonts in the Google suite? It’s 2026 and even Microsoft products have it… :)

@alexrkonrad And it doesn’t look like a French croissant 🥲

I’m sorry but this has gone too far

@daveg People will definitely pay to travel with their pets, that’s actually what they do when they can afford it. In the UK there are more pets than people now 🤣

@VincentTouati Not enough of a market that people will pay, so they go under.

OpenClaw question: Is there a way to automatically compact? I understand compaction is a gateway-level operation, not something an agent can invoke from inside a session - so I am struggling to find a workaround here. #OpenClaw

@anshnanda What’s your advice on setting this up on a virtual machine? Will probably give it a try this weekend!

🚨🚨🚨 DO NOT use a service that sets up Openclaw for you. I tried 5 popular services and pretty much all of them exposed the gateway, didn’t have pairing mode, and allowed the root directory to be discovered by the internet. Not good :/

@klarnaseb @Klarna Super interesting! Is there a recording available somewhere? Missed that and would love to catch up.

At @Klarna we have removed ~1,500 SaaS tools to give AI the cleanest possible context. Org size is ~47% smaller than 2022 (natural attrition), while output per employee is up ~3x. But as everything scales, relationships are still built through human interactions Excited to join Kevin Delaney (@delaney) at the @charterworks AI NYC Summit today to discuss real AI adoption and the lesson's we've learned along the way!

@DominiqueCAPaul You should be able to get Hubspot at less than 300€/month. Folk is a good alternative if you’re simply managing outbound/inbound (via email) and limited CX use cases.

I’ve been using Google Sheets to track outbound, which works well initially, but as I build repeated touchpoints with early prospects the “Notes” column is becoming unmanageably large. HubSpot is the obvious standard, but at ~900€/month it’s not feasible pre-funding. I’m evaluating Pipedrive now — affordable, simple, and feature-rich enough for an early-stage pipeline. Is there anything else I should seriously consider? What tools are you using?

@hkanji And to some extend, it's local. Which is why max 32GB RAM on the m5 is really silly.

The future of AI is small LLMs linked together in agentic networks, not large proprietary oligarchs’ GPTs running on billions of dollars of cloud infrastructure, which require power and litres/gallons of water to cool inefficient GPUs linkedin.com/posts/jdavies_…

@patamiel @dr_l_alexandre J’avais lu un livre qui s’appelait « school business » qui m’avait bien décoiffé. Mais la plus grande chance dans la vie, c’était de lire « stop stealing dreams » de Seth Godin lors de mes 17 ans. C’est grâce à lui que je n’ai pas fait d’études. Je ne regrette rien :)

C’est parti ! @dr_l_alexandre

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@clem_garin @le_Parisien Elle a bien versé la somme… « Une promesse qu’Anne-Elisabeth Blateau a honorée. Elle souligne : « Je m’y étais engagée ! ». La comédienne développe : « J’ai pioché dans mon cachet de l’émission. Je l’ai donné à mon association ». L’actrice défend l’association Ferus. »

😬 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐞-𝐄́𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐡 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐮 𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐞-𝐟𝐞̂𝐭𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐬 « 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢̂𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬 » Elle ne laissera pas un bon souvenir à Théo Fernandez et Christine Bravo. Interviewés par @le_Parisien, les candidats de la dernière saison #LesTraitres règlent le compte de la comédienne de #SDM déjà épinglée ces derniers mois pour divers débordements qui lui ont valu la venue de pompiers et gendarmes à son domicile. Les candidats condamnent l’attitude déloyale de AEB, qui aurait prétendu verser 2500€ à une association pour les duper, ce qu’elle n’aurait pas fait selon eux. Son attitude hors caméra aurait également posé bien des problèmes. « Une fois les caméras coupées, je me suis approché par deux fois d’Anne-Elisabeth pour lui faire un câlin et elle m’a repoussé devant tout le monde » (@TheoFernandez_) «  Elle était très, très vénère (énervée). Cela a gâché la fête » (@ChristineBravo7) L’animatrice de #FrouFrou étrille également l’attitude geignarde de son adversaire, qui les aurait tous exaspérés : « Anne-Elisabeth a chialé H24 pendant onze jours, dans le jeu et hors jeu. C’était délirant ! Marlène et moi avons même envisagé de lui trouver une structure pour l’aider » De véritables scènes de ménages !

@pelaseyed @klarnaseb Klarna get so much hate in Sweden because in Europe, media tend to focus on negative outcomes, especially when it comes to business. In the US, the ecosystem is more robust, as such media focus on understanding businesses. There’s no one to blame. It’s about culture.

@klarnaseb Why does Klarna get so much hate in Sweden? What’s you take on that? I mean Klarna is one of very few Swedish success cases

Inside Klarna, our management team was totally aligned... “After the IPO, we won’t obsess over the share price. Let’s just focus on execution” Yeah, right!😂 Cut to:every single day “Wait, why is it up 5%?” “Why down 3%?!” Until one day we saw this chart and went… aaaahhhh

@awilkinson This booked changed my life (even though Stop Stealing Dreams from Seth Godin was a real turning point) and have an entire business OS based on it. After all, it’s all about people.

I want you to hate me. I want you to read my tweets and seethe. To think, "God, he's just THE WORST," as you hate-scroll. Or mutter "fucking tool" when I say something obnoxious on a podcast, white-knuckling the steering wheel. Not all of you. Just some. Maybe 2-3%—that's the sweet spot. Ten years ago, this would have struck me as insane. I would have wanted the opposite. Because in 2013 I read a quote that changed my life: "It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it." This is a famous line by Warren Buffett—someone many of us have modelled our lives after. This advice, while valuable in moderation, became toxic when I took it to the extreme. Why? Because it's impossible. After reading it, I became obsessed with how I came across to others. I thought that everyone—online and off—had to walk away from every interaction liking me. One negative article, one misstatement, one failed commitment, and I'd be toast. I had to do exactly what I said and follow through. My behaviour had to be consistent and predictable. After all, that's how a reputation is built. Brick by boring brick. Until one day, you die, honourable and forgotten forever. This idea crystallized one afternoon at a pub with my dad. He had recently retired from architecture, so took him out for a celebratory drink and asked what he wanted to do next. "You've always wanted to build your own buildings," I said, taking a sip of my beer. "Why not become a real estate developer? With all your contacts, you could get up and running in no time." "Andrew," he replied, leaning back in his chair. "Once people put you in a mental box, they punish you for leaving it. In their minds, I’m in the 'architect' box. If I suddenly called them up and pitched a real estate development, it would hurt me more than starting fresh. Everyone hates it when you change boxes." My stomach dropped—I knew he was right. I'd felt it a million times, though I hadn't quite put my finger on why. Nothing made me cringe harder than the restaurateur friend pitching me on his tech startup. Or my yoga instructor getting their real estate license and trying to sell me a house. Or my lawyer announcing they're becoming a psychotherapist. I’m ashamed to admit it, but my gut reaction was always: “Stay in your lane.” Which is particularly hypocritical given how often I want to flip flop through everything myself: hobbies, businesses, communities, opinions—you name it. I hate in others what I secretly hate about myself. We're all desperate to put one another in these boxes. I often get labeled "investor" or "entrepreneur". But even within that, there are sub-boxes. Tech investor, not real estate. Software businesses, not physical products. Bootstrapped, not venture. Crypto skeptic vs. crypto bull. Each label becomes another bar on the cage. And we love punishing people for leaving it… David Solomon runs Goldman Sachs, but when word got out that he DJs on weekends? The financial press went apoplectic (I can't imagine they would have said the same if he was golfing). Jonah Hill starts surfing? Instant meme fodder. Kim Kardashian passes the bar to fight for prison reform? A vanity project. Michael Jordan wants to play baseball? Abject betrayal. We're all prison guards, basically. Making sure everyone stays in their assigned cells. Why? Because our brains are prediction machines. They get upset when people behave in a manner that doesn't meet their predictions. Thus, step out of your box, and people (and their brains) won't like it. This happens to me often. There are people who know me based on my public business persona. They know me as a Buffett wannabe, building a holding company using value investing principles. This is true. But I also love learning by jumping into random new projects that don’t fit this mold. My portfolio includes all sorts of businesses that would give Warren Buffett hives. I’ve lost my shirt starting restaurants. Acquired failing newspapers. Invested in companies with a 1 in 100 chance of working. Tiny continues to buy wonderful businesses at fair prices (the Warren Buffett playbook), but the rest of my life doesn’t fit neatly into that “value investor” box. I am both a disciplined value investor and a creator of chaotic startups across dozens of industries. These two things aren’t supposed to coexist. It's not just me. I recently polled a group of close friends and asked them what they would do for work if they couldn't do their current job. One response struck me in particular: A friend runs a huge industrial holding company, but he told me that if nobody was watching, he'd sell it and start his own restaurant. And better yet, he wouldn't just be the owner. He'd be the chef, sweating it out behind an oven in the back. His true, authentic passion is cooking, but he feels like he could never step out of the life and reputation he'd established for himself to follow his passion. What would people say? That he'd lost his mind, left his successful business in a completely different industry, and gone off to start…a restaurant? Imagine the gossip and judgement he'd face. You might think charitably of yourself. That you'd hear that he'd started a restaurant and think, "good for him." But let's be real: you'd likely delight in the gossip and think "stay in your lane," just like everyone else. Deep inside, you might even subconsciously hate him for it, or want him to fail. Because he did the thing you're too scared to do yourself. He'd have escaped the same prison you're in. Against the rules. Not fair! So instead, he continues to do what we all do: shrug and continue to live in society’s reputational cage. I'm sure way too many of you are nodding along. Most of us do this to one degree or another. I've lived in a cage like this for decades. This applies to many things. Legal degrees. Bad marriages. Letting down your parents. Moving away from the city you swore you'd never leave. The industry you've spent 20 years building credibility in. Each, a promise or commitment made by a different person—the person you were before you changed in whatever way it is you've changed. A sort of reputational quicksand, each step out harder than the last. For me, this obsession with maintaining reputation—playing by these inflexible rules—was a recipe for misery. If I continued playing the game, I had three equally terrible options: Terrible Option 1: Hide and say nothing. Fly under the radar. Be a cipher. (Impossible, for an extreme extrovert like me.) Terrible Option 2: Become a caricature of myself. A personal brand instead of a person. Avoid doing anything controversial. Terrible Option 3: Live a double life. Perform one thing and do another in secret. The world wouldn't catch on and give me the corresponding social beating, but I also wouldn't get to share my passion with others. For a long time, I chose Terrible Option 3. I toned down the things I mentioned publicly and didn’t talk about many of my projects because they didn’t fit the template. It felt inauthentic. Like, with every passing day, a little piece of me was dissolving. I realized it had gone too far when I found myself deleting a tweet for the fourth time. Not because it was wrong or offensive, but because someone, somewhere, might misinterpret it. I was slowly drifting towards becoming what I'd always mocked. A corporate politician. A beige person. Human vanilla extract. Then, in January, I came across a book called The Courage to Be Disliked. I needed this book. So much that I actually felt personally attacked by it. The core message is that seeking recognition from others is a trap. We bend ourselves into pretzels trying to meet everyone's expectations, but it's impossible. You literally cannot make everyone happy. And trying to do so means living someone else's life, not your own. The book argues that having the courage to be disliked is the only path to freedom. Not by being an asshole, just accepting that living authentically means some people won't like you. Reading it felt like someone finally handed me the keys to my own cell. It gave me permission to start breaking the rules. I was done with the likability game. I was going to have the courage to be disliked. Hated, even. To live authentically, I would do what I wanted to do, and talk about what I wanted to talk about, so long as it didn't hurt anyone else in an unfair way. Change my mind. Be unpredictable. Jump around. Say the thing. That became my 2025 resolution. Now, to be clear, we're talking about a very specific type of reputation. What the public at large thinks about you. Should you maintain a reputation as a fair and ethical partner, whether it's romantic, social, or business? Absolutely. But should you obsess over what the world would think, as Mr. Buffett puts it, imagining every action appearing on the front page of The New York Times? In most situations, absolutely not. I stopped playing for universal approval. I chose the courage to be disliked. That means I’ll say things some people won’t like, and I’m okay with that. Disappointing people is the price of an authentic life. So here's my dare: Let someone down today. Say the thing that's been rotting in your chest. Start small. Post your anime fan fiction. Tell your gym bros you love Pilates. Then, go bigger. End the relationship everyone thinks is perfect but is actually miserable. Admit what you thought was your dream job is a nightmare. Tell your business partner you want out. Stop pretending you enjoy the thing that's slowly killing you. Watch what happens: 90% won't notice or care. 8% will respect you more. 2% will hate you. And you'll feel free for the first time in years. Because here's what I learned: The cage only exists if you believe in the bars. I'd rather have 2% hate the real me than 100% applaud a performance. PS: Thanks to all you hate-scrollers. I couldn’t do it without you.

Image generation is getting there.

@RobinRivaton Vous êtes les bienvenus à Londres... :-) On est à deux heures. Apres les resultats ne sont pas BANANA non plus!

@VincentTouati On va devoir attendre... Joie d'habiter au tiers monde numérique

Ça arrive quand en France ? Marre d'être sur Imagen et ne pas avoir les dernières fonctionnalités

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@hkanji @Zoom Zoom is barely usable these days. It’s obvious it’s a legacy product by now.

Does anyone understand the new @Zoom features/UI? Confusing. What is this AI companion BS? Where does it store stuff? Does it store stuff? Why can’t Zoom do the basics well (support 4k, better noise cancellation) instead of becoming bloated with an unusable frontend?

@awilkinson @ReadwiseReader @readwise This workflow exists: Readwise API + n8n (then goes straight into Obisidian, or whatever knowledge system you might be using)

Free idea for @ReadwiseReader / @readwise: Option to generate a NotebookLM style podcast summary of all of the articles I’ve added to Read Later over the last week.