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🔥 10 mars 2021, 1h du matin. Le datacenter OVH de Strasbourg prend feu. 3,6 millions de serveurs s'éteignent. Les données de milliers d'entreprises françaises partent en fumée. 🔹 Parmi les victimes : des cabinets d'avocats, des études notariales, des PME. Leurs sites, leurs emails, leurs dossiers - tout hébergé chez le leader français du cloud. Tout disparu en quelques heures. 🔹 Le pire ? Des clients avaient souscrit l'option payante de sauvegarde automatique. Ils pensaient leurs données protégées sur un site distant. En réalité, OVH stockait les sauvegardes dans le même bâtiment que les serveurs. Le feu a tout détruit - données ET sauvegardes. 🔹 Le tribunal de commerce de Lille a condamné OVH en janvier 2023 : manquement contractuel. Le mot du juge : la formulation "physiquement isolée" ne laissait aucune place au doute. Stocker les trois réplications au même endroit viole l'engagement contractuel. 🔸 Me Jocelyn Ziegler, du cabinet Ziegler & Associés, a coordonné un recours collectif de 170 entreprises. Préjudice estimé : plus de 10 millions d'euros. Certaines sociétés n'ont jamais récupéré leurs données. 🔸 Ironie finale : en appel, la Cour de Douai a réduit l'indemnisation de 100 000 € à... 1 800 €. Motif : le client n'avait pas vérifié les clauses détaillées du contrat de sauvegarde. Il aurait pu choisir une autre offre. 💡 La leçon : "sauvegarde incluse" ne veut rien dire sans trois vérifications - où sont stockées vos sauvegardes, sont-elles sur un site physiquement distinct, et avez-vous testé une restauration complète ? Si vous ne pouvez pas répondre, appelez votre prestataire aujourd'hui. Savez-vous où se trouvent physiquement les sauvegardes de votre cabinet en ce moment ? #cerclepraxis #cabinet #avocats #it #gestion #communication #sauvegarde #cloud #hébergement ========= ⚖️ Pendant plus de 20 ans, j'ai fait tourner le bureau de Varsovie d'un des plus grands cabinets d'avocats au monde. Une équipe de 30 personnes. ~2M$ de budget. IT, RH, marketing, projets - tout passait par moi. Aujourd'hui, j'aide les cabinets d'avocats français à se structurer - sans y passer 20 ans. 💬 J'ai créé le Cercle Praxis - une communauté pour les associés gérants et office managers qui font tourner leur cabinet au quotidien. Parce que ce métier ne devrait pas se faire seul. 👉 Rejoins le Cercle Praxis → REJOINS point CERCLEPRAXIS point FR 📷 Les photos X-Pan sont de moi.

🚀 En 2026, nous avons abandonné les réseaux sociaux pour créer de vrais sites web. Voici pourquoi c'est la meilleure décision. 🌐 Nous avons construit de véritables sites internet. Des sites avec des fichiers robots.txt, indexables par Google, où nous contrôlons totalement ce que les crawlers d'IA peuvent faire avec notre contenu. Cette indépendance n'a pas de prix. 👧 Ma fille Helena a lancé son propre blog. À son âge, elle comprend déjà ce que beaucoup d'adultes ignorent : on n'a pas besoin d'une plateforme sociale pour toucher les gens. Elle préfère donner une adresse web plutôt que dire "cherche-moi sur Instagram." ⚠️ Substack, Medium, X, Threads... toutes ces plateformes sont des intermédiaires. Une entreprise décide qui voit votre contenu. Un algorithme, construit par des réseaux de neurones, filtre votre travail. Je refuse qu'une société se place entre moi et mes lecteurs. 🔮 La révolution des LLMs change tout. Les sites personnels, gérés par de vraies personnes, sans médiation algorithmique, reviendront en force. Juste vous, votre contenu et le public. 🐢 Nos sites ne grandiront pas aussi vite qu'un profil X. Mais nous croyons en la valeur à long terme plutôt qu'en la croissance rapide. Ce sont deux choses très différentes. ⚙️ Techniquement, nous utilisons Ghost. Les URLs sont plates et propres : votredomaine.com/titre-article. Cette structure est facilement indexable par les LLMs et Google. ✊ Construisez votre propre coin d'internet. L'indépendance du web des débuts avec les outils d'aujourd'hui. Vous ne le regretterez pas. #usemorepaper #legalpraxis #technologie #IA #opinion #philosophie ========= ⚖️ Pendant plus de 20 ans, j'ai fait tourner le bureau de Varsovie d'un des plus grands cabinets d'avocats au monde. Une équipe de 30 personnes. ~2M$ de budget. IT, RH, marketing, projets - tout passait par moi. Aujourd'hui, j'aide les cabinets d'avocats français à se structurer - sans y passer 20 ans. 💬 J'ai créé le Cercle Praxis - une communauté pour les associés gérants et office managers qui font tourner leur cabinet au quotidien. Parce que ce métier ne devrait pas se faire seul. 👉 Rejoins le Cercle Praxis → CERCLEPRAXIS point FR 📷 Les photos sont de moi.

🔐 Début 2022, les pirates du groupe Lockbit ont annoncé la publication de documents du ministère de la Justice français. Sauf que ce n'était pas le ministère qu'ils avaient piraté. 🔹 C'était un cabinet d'avocats français. Un seul. Les hackers ont chiffré l'intégralité du système d'information du cabinet, puis exfiltré les données avant de les publier sur le darkweb. 🔹 Ce qui a fuité donne le vertige : contrats de travail des salariés du cabinet, photos d'identité, et surtout - un fichier texte en clair contenant des identifiants et mots de passe. Parmi eux, des accès à un compte bancaire professionnel et au RPVA - le réseau privé virtuel des avocats. 🔹 Un fichier texte. En clair. Avec les mots de passe du RPVA et de la banque. Stocké quelque part sur le serveur. 🔹 Et ce cabinet n'est pas un cas isolé. L'ANSSI a révélé dans son rapport de juin 2023 que le groupe Everest avait compromis au moins sept cabinets d'avocats français d'un seul coup - en passant par leur prestataire d'infogérance commun. Un seul prestataire piraté, sept cabinets à genoux. 🔸 Le rapport de l'ANSSI est clair : la surface d'attaque des cabinets ne cesse de s'étendre. Mais les petits cabinets n'ont souvent ni RSSI, ni politique de mots de passe, ni audit régulier. 💡 La leçon : si vos mots de passe sont dans un fichier texte sur le serveur, vous n'avez pas de sécurité. Utilisez un gestionnaire de mots de passe, activez la double authentification, et auditez votre prestataire IT - car sa faille est votre faille. Savez-vous exactement où sont stockés les identifiants critiques de votre cabinet aujourd'hui ? #cerclepraxis #cabinet #avocats #it #gestion #communication #cybersécurité #motsdepasse #infogérance ========= ⚖️ Pendant plus de 20 ans, j'ai fait tourner le bureau de Varsovie d'un des plus grands cabinets d'avocats au monde. Une équipe de 30 personnes. ~2M$ de budget. IT, RH, marketing, projets - tout passait par moi. Aujourd'hui, j'aide les cabinets d'avocats français à se structurer - sans y passer 20 ans. 💬 J'ai créé le Cercle Praxis - une communauté pour les associés gérants et office managers qui font tourner leur cabinet au quotidien. Parce que ce métier ne devrait pas se faire seul. 👉 Rejoins le Cercle Praxis → CERCLEPRAXIS point FR 📷 Les photos X-Pan sont de moi.

🚂 "Relire les échanges entre M. Schokking et le fraudeur, c'est comme regarder un train dérailler au ralenti." 🔹 C'est le juge Shane Kelford qui a prononcé cette phrase dans un tribunal de Perth, Ontario. L'affaire ? Un pirate informatique a détourné 7 000 dollars canadiens en s'infiltrant dans la messagerie d'un petit cabinet d'avocats. 🔹 Voici le scénario : Mark Schokking doit verser 7 000 $ au cabinet représentant St. Lawrence Testing, via un compte en fidéicommis à la Banque de Montréal. Avant le virement, un pirate prend le contrôle de la boîte mail de la parajuriste Debra Baker. 🔹 Le faux email, envoyé depuis l'adresse réelle du cabinet, demande de virer les fonds vers un compte à Medicine Hat, Alberta - à 3 500 km de l'Ontario. Au nom d'un parfait inconnu. Avec cette touche personnelle : "Ma belle-fille accouche en ce moment, je pars pour Toronto demain." 🔹 Schokking vire l'argent. Il disparaît. Le cabinet dit n'avoir rien reçu. Les deux parties sont innocentes, dit le juge. Mais l'une doit payer. Verdict : Schokking doit payer une deuxième fois. 🔸 Le juge a aussi lancé un appel au législateur canadien : les lois actuelles ne sont pas adaptées à la cyberfraude. Aucune règle claire n'existe pour attribuer la responsabilité quand un email professionnel est compromis. 💡 La leçon : pour tout virement lié à un dossier juridique, un seul réflexe - décrocher le téléphone et confirmer vocalement les coordonnées bancaires. Avez-vous une procédure de double vérification pour les virements dans votre cabinet ? #cerclepraxis #cabinet #avocats #it #gestion #communication #cyberfraude #virement #protectiondesdonnées ========= ⚖️ Pendant plus de 20 ans, j'ai fait tourner le bureau de Varsovie d'un des plus grands cabinets d'avocats au monde. Une équipe de 30 personnes. ~2M$ de budget. IT, RH, marketing, projets - tout passait par moi. Aujourd'hui, j'aide les cabinets d'avocats français à se structurer - sans y passer 20 ans. 💬 J'ai créé le Cercle Praxis - une communauté pour les associés gérants et office managers qui font tourner leur cabinet au quotidien. Parce que ce métier ne devrait pas se faire seul. 👉 Rejoins le Cercle Praxis → CERCLEPRAXIS point FR 📷 Les photos X-Pan sont de moi.

🖥️ "Ce qui se passe souvent quand on met en place des solutions informatiques rapidement, c'est qu'on tourne toujours les coins ronds pendant les tests." 🔹 Mai 2020, Québec. L'École du Barreau organise son tout premier examen final en ligne. 831 futurs avocats connectés en même temps. Le Barreau n'a jamais testé la plateforme à cette charge. 🔹 Résultat : les réponses disparaissent en temps réel. Des étudiants voient leurs textes s'effacer sous leurs yeux. Des modifications ne sont pas enregistrées. Certains perdent une question entière. D'autres, trois. D'autres encore, davantage. 🔹 L'expert informatique Simon Lavallée, mandaté pour analyser la panne, a découvert le problème : la plateforme de SVI eSolutions ne supportait tout simplement pas 831 utilisateurs simultanés. 🔸 La solution du Barreau ? Octroyer 4 points supplémentaires à tous les candidats. Pas de reprise. Pas d'audit public. Le Barreau n'a jamais officiellement admis le problème technique. Ni le Barreau, ni SVI eSolutions n'ont voulu commenter. 🔹 Une étudiante a échoué l'examen. Elle a dû mandater un expert à ses propres frais pour prouver que le système avait buggé. Un futur avocat qui doit plaider contre son propre ordre professionnel pour un problème de serveur. 💡 La leçon : tester un outil à 10 utilisateurs ne prouve rien pour 800. Avant tout déploiement critique - examen, migration de données, nouveau logiciel de gestion - faites un test de charge réel. Le coût d'un stress test est toujours inférieur au coût d'un crash en production. Avez-vous déjà subi un déploiement IT en cabinet qui n'avait pas été suffisamment testé ? #cerclepraxis #cabinet #avocats #it #gestion #communication #transformationdigitale #testdecharge #déploiement ========= ⚖️ Pendant plus de 20 ans, j'ai fait tourner le bureau de Varsovie d'un des plus grands cabinets d'avocats au monde. Une équipe de 30 personnes. ~2M$ de budget. IT, RH, marketing, projets - tout passait par moi. Aujourd'hui, j'aide les cabinets d'avocats français à se structurer - sans y passer 20 ans. 💬 J'ai créé le Cercle Praxis - une communauté pour les associés gérants et office managers qui font tourner leur cabinet au quotidien. Parce que ce métier ne devrait pas se faire seul. 👉 Rejoins le Cercle Praxis → CERCLEPRAXIS point FR 📷 Les photos X-Pan sont de moi.

📱 J'ai abandonné mon smartphone il y a 4 mois. Voici pourquoi le Minimal Phone a changé ma façon de vivre la technologie au quotidien. 🔍 Le Minimal Phone se situe entre un téléphone basique comme le Punkt MP02 et un smartphone classique. C'est exactement ce dont j'avais besoin : assez intelligent pour être utile, pas assez pour devenir addictif. ✨ Deux atouts majeurs me séduisent. D'abord, l'écran e-ink de qualité volontairement moyenne. Regarder des vidéos devient pénible, mais écouter des podcasts ou des conférences YouTube reste parfait. On peut installer Obsidian, des apps bancaires, l'authentification à deux facteurs. Tout fonctionne, mais lentement. ⌨️ Ensuite, le clavier physique QWERTY. En ancien utilisateur de BlackBerry, j'adore les touches physiques. J'ai installé le launcher BlackBerry et configuré chaque touche comme raccourci d'appel. Ma famille et mes contacts fréquents sont accessibles en une pression. 🎧 Bonus appréciable : la prise jack 3,5mm pour mes écouteurs filaires et l'éclairage frontal ambre non scintillant, idéal pour les yeux la nuit. 🔋 L'autonomie atteint cinq jours avec mon usage modéré, bien mieux que les trois jours du Punkt MP02. 👨‍👩‍👧 Point crucial pour moi : ce téléphone ne ressemble pas à un smartphone. Mes enfants voient que j'utilise un téléphone, pas un écran addictif. Dans notre famille, c'est la norme. 💡 Le Minimal Phone ne rend pas l'expérience agréable, il la rend fonctionnelle. Et c'est précisément son génie. #usemorepaper #cerclepraxis #technologie #IA #opinion #philosophie ========= ⚖️ Pendant plus de 20 ans, j'ai fait tourner le bureau de Varsovie d'un des plus grands cabinets d'avocats au monde. Une équipe de 30 personnes. ~2M$ de budget. IT, RH, marketing, projets - tout passait par moi. Aujourd'hui, j'aide les cabinets d'avocats français à se structurer - sans y passer 20 ans. 💬 J'ai créé le Cercle Praxis - une communauté pour les associés gérants et office managers qui font tourner leur cabinet au quotidien. Parce que ce métier ne devrait pas se faire seul. 👉 Rejoins le Cercle Praxis → CERCLEPRAXIS point FR 📷 Les photos X-Pan sont de moi.

🎣 "En informatique, je suis d'une incompétence absolue. Ouvrir un mail, c'est pour moi un exploit." 🔹 C'est l'aveu de Me Jean-Marc Delas, ténor du barreau de Paris, après avoir cliqué sur un email piégé qui a mis en émoi toute la justice parisienne. 🔹 Me Delas reçoit un message imitant la réponse d'un correspondant habituel. Rien de suspect. Il ouvre la pièce jointe. Un malware s'installe. Son cabinet est paralysé pendant une journée et demie - plus d'accès aux contacts, aux dossiers, à rien. 🔹 Le même email a aussi touché des magistrats du parquet national financier, la juge Aude Buresi, et même le procureur de Paris Rémy Heitz. Ce dernier n'a pas cliqué. 🔹 Éric Le Quellenec, au conseil de l'ordre de Paris en charge du numérique, résume : "Il y a un vrai angélisme de la part des avocats. Dans les petits cabinets, on pense qu'avoir activé l'antivirus suffit." 🔹 L'ANSSI a confirmé : au moins 12 cabinets français compromis par rançongiciel depuis 2017. Chiffres "très probablement sous-évalués" selon l'agence. 💡 La leçon : un email piégé ne ressemble plus à un prince nigérien. Il ressemble à la réponse de votre correspondant habituel, avec les bonnes références de dossier. La première ligne de défense n'est pas l'antivirus - c'est une formation régulière de chaque membre du cabinet. Votre cabinet a-t-il déjà organisé une simulation de phishing pour tester les réflexes de l'équipe ? #cerclepraxis #cabinet #avocats #it #gestion #communication #cybersécurité #phishing #sécuriténumérique ========= ⚖️ Pendant plus de 20 ans, j'ai fait tourner le bureau de Varsovie d'un des plus grands cabinets d'avocats au monde. Une équipe de 30 personnes. ~2M$ de budget. IT, RH, marketing, projets - tout passait par moi. Aujourd'hui, j'aide les cabinets d'avocats français à se structurer - sans y passer 20 ans. 💬 J'ai créé le Cercle Praxis - une communauté pour les associés gérants et office managers qui font tourner leur cabinet au quotidien. Parce que ce métier ne devrait pas se faire seul. 👉 Rejoins le Cercle Praxis → CERCLEPRAXIS point FR 📷 Les photos X-Pan sont de moi.

🏢 Your office might be aging you faster than you think. Most modern workspaces aren't designed for human health - they're designed for efficiency and cost savings. And your body is paying the price. 🚗 It starts before you even arrive. That morning commute through rush-hour traffic isn't just annoying - it's flooding your system with cortisol. Cramped public transport, road rage, the constant pressure to be on time. You're showing up to work already physiologically compromised, and the damage compounds from there. ☀️ Here's what most people don't realize: those sealed office windows aren't just keeping out the weather. They're blocking up to 80% of the UV and infrared light your body needs to function properly. We evolved under the sun's full spectrum. Now we're trapped in filtered boxes, cut off from the natural light that powers our biology. 💡 Then there's the LED lighting revolution. Sure, it's "green" and helps landlords score sustainability points with investment banks. But these bulbs emit a narrow band of blue light that's missing the infrared and broader spectrum your mitochondria - your cells' energy factories - desperately need. Everyone in the building is affected, from entry-level to C-suite. 📱 Add your computer screen to the mix, and you're getting hit twice. Blue light from LEDs above, blue light from displays in front of you. Research shows this disrupts mitochondrial function, increases oxidative stress, and accelerates cellular aging. That afternoon brain fog? It's not a personal failing - it's your environment working against you. 🌫️ The air you're breathing isn't helping either. Recycled ventilation, sealed spaces, and indoor pollutants often create air quality worse than what's outside. 📖 Don't just trust me - verify the science. Barrett & Jeffery (2026) showed how broader-spectrum light improves vision by 25%. Shinhmar et al. (2025) documented how infrared light penetrates tissue and supports mitochondrial function. Tao et al. (2019) demonstrated blue light's damage to retinal mitochondria. The research is clear: our modern office environment is fundamentally mismatched with human needs. What's one change you can make this week? Even small steps - a lunchtime walk, a desk near a window, blue light blocking glasses - add up. Your mitochondria will thank you. #usemorepaper #OfficeWellness #BiohackingAtWork ========= 🔸 I spent 22 years running technology and operations at one of the world's largest law firms - managing teams, deploying systems, and keeping people glued to screens. Then I walked away. 🔸 Use More Paper is a show about the global analog revival - why millions of people are turning back to vinyl records, film cameras, paper notebooks, dumbphones, and cassette tapes. 🔸 It's not nostalgia. It's resistance. Against digital addiction, against tech feudalism, against a way of living that's making us sick, distracted, and owned. Visit USEMOREPAPER dot COM for more. 📷 The X-Pan photos are mine.

📼 A father sealed 3 Rocky VHS tapes in a time capsule for his newborn son. 40 years later, they sold for $53,750. 🔸 Christmas Day, 1982. In East Amherst, New York, a baby named Bubba Kroeger was born. His father James decided to build him a time capsule - a steamer trunk packed with magazines, road maps, a Michael Jackson vinyl album, and three brand-new VHS tapes: Rocky, Rocky II, and Rocky III. He paid $60 each at an appliance store. He sealed the trunk and waited. 🔸 James chose those films because Rocky was "typical Americana - the success story of the underdog." He wanted his son to grow up and watch them. He never opened the tapes. He never opened the trunk. 🔹 For forty years, those VHS cassettes sat untouched while the world moved on. DVDs replaced them. Streaming buried them. VHS became "plastic trash." People threw their tapes in dumpsters by the millions. The format was declared dead more times than Rocky Balboa himself. 🔸 In 2022, Bubba turned 40. James cracked open the trunk. Inside were the only known factory-sealed original retail copies of the first Rocky film on VHS. Heritage Auctions in Dallas listed them. Rocky sold for $27,500. Rocky II for $12,500. Rocky III for $13,750. Total: $53,750 - for three tapes that cost $180. 🔸 James put the money toward his granddaughters' college fund. Then he hid the rest of the time capsule until Bubba's 50th birthday. 💡 The digital world moves fast and forgets faster. Streams vanish. Platforms shut down. Content disappears overnight. But a father who sealed something physical in a trunk and refused to open it created a 29,861% return on investment - and a family story no algorithm will ever match. #usemorepaper #analog #analogue #podcast #youtube #nostalgia #resistance #vhs #physicalmedia #retro ========= 🔸 I spent 22 years running technology and operations at one of the world's largest law firms - managing teams, deploying systems, and keeping people glued to screens. Then I walked away. 🔸 Use More Paper is a show about the global analog revival - why millions of people are turning back to vinyl records, film cameras, paper notebooks, dumbphones, and cassette tapes. 🔸 It's not nostalgia. It's resistance. Against digital addiction, against tech feudalism, against a way of living that's making us sick, distracted, and owned. 📷 The X-Pan photos are mine.

📝 He sketched a $44 billion company on a paper notepad. Then refused to use a laptop. 🔸 In 2005, Jack Dorsey sat down with a blue pen and a legal pad and drew a rough sketch of a platform called "Stat.us" - a box where users could type what they were doing, with fields for name, email, and phone number. That paper drawing became Twitter. He posted the first tweet on March 21, 2006. The platform grew to hundreds of millions of users and sold for $44 billion in 2022. 🔸 But here's the part nobody talks about. While running Twitter AND Square simultaneously - two publicly traded tech companies - Dorsey refused to open a laptop. He carried a Moleskine notebook everywhere, scribbling notes during face-to-face conversations with employees. He didn't even have a desk at Square. He walked five miles to work every day, themed each day of the week for different tasks, and planned everything on Sundays. 🔹 People called it reckless. Investors questioned whether he was stretched too thin. Fox Business named him one of the worst CEOs of 2016. He was fired from his own company once before - partly because he left work at 6 PM to attend drawing classes. 🔸 The drawing-class dropout became a billionaire twice over. Square went public in 2015, hit a $100 billion market cap by 2021, and Dorsey's net worth peaked at $16 billion. Today, Forbes estimates it at $5.9 billion. He has pledged over $1 billion to charity. All orchestrated by a man whose primary planning tools were a paper notebook, a pen, and a long walk. 💡 The man who built the platform where the world types 280 characters did his best thinking with zero characters on a screen - just ink on paper and feet on pavement. #usemorepaper #analog #analogue #podcast #youtube #nostalgia #resistance #deepwork #productivity #leadership ========= 🔸 I spent 22 years running technology and operations at one of the world's largest law firms - managing teams, deploying systems, and keeping people glued to screens. Then I walked away. 🔸 Use More Paper is a show about the global analog revival - why millions of people are turning back to vinyl records, film cameras, paper notebooks, dumbphones, and cassette tapes. 🔸 It's not nostalgia. It's resistance. Against digital addiction, against tech feudalism, against a way of living that's making us sick, distracted, and owned. 📷 The X-Pan photos are mine.

This is probably the lowest I've been since a few years. Can't find freelance work, was super close of getting a good job in a startup in Switzerland, I failed B2B sales, and I don't know how I'll pay rent this month. Worst of all: my second baby is coming next month. I did tons of outreach that I should have started earlier. But it'll likely won't bring any result for at least a month. So yeah, if you're looking for a senior developer with 10+ years of experience (18 in total, 13 as a pro), tons of skills, Laravel + ecosystem expert, LLMs expert, design expertise, business expertise, etc. Feel free to reach out.

📝 He never opened a single social media account. Then sold 2 million books about why. 🔸 In 2004, when every ambitious young academic was rushing to build an online presence, a 22-year-old MIT computer science student made a decision. Cal Newport calculated that maintaining social media would cost him at least 30 minutes a day - time he could spend writing or researching. He chose the research. He has never joined Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or any platform. Not once. Not even to lurk. 🔹 Editors told him it was career suicide. When he pitched his first book, publishers asked about his follower count as a proxy for sales. He had nothing to show. No audience. No platform. No brand. Just a paper notebook, a blog, and an obsession with focused work. 🔸 Newport kept his head down, wrote in longhand notebooks, drafted ideas on paper before typing them, and published peer-reviewed research at Georgetown University. In 2016, he released Deep Work - a book arguing that undistracted analog focus is the most valuable skill in a digital economy. It never hit a bestseller list on launch week. Then something happened. 🔸 People started recommending it to each other. Not through algorithms - through conversations. Deep Work alone has sold nearly 2 million copies. His eight books have collectively sold over 2 million copies total, been translated into 40+ languages, and include multiple New York Times bestsellers. He is now a contributing writer for The New Yorker. 🔹 He still has zero social media followers. Zero. His students and readers became his marketing department - not because he asked, but because the work was undeniable. 💡 The world's loudest platforms reward people who shout. But the world's best opportunities still go to people who think. A paper notebook doesn't have a follower count - but it has something better: your undivided attention. #usemorepaper #analog #analogue #podcast #youtube #nostalgia #resistance #deepwork #productivity #focus ========= 🔸 I spent 22 years running technology and operations at one of the world's largest law firms - managing teams, deploying systems, and keeping people glued to screens. Then I walked away. 🔸 Use More Paper is a show about the global analog revival - why millions of people are turning back to vinyl records, film cameras, paper notebooks, dumbphones, and cassette tapes. 🔸 It's not nostalgia. It's resistance. Against digital addiction, against tech feudalism, against a way of living that's making us sick, distracted, and owned. 📷 The X-Pan photos are mine.

📝 He typed 5 million words on a $50 pawnshop typewriter. Then Christie's sold it for $254,500. 🔸 In the early 1960s, a broke young writer walked into a Knoxville, Tennessee pawnshop and bought a light blue Olivetti Lettera 32 for $50. His name was Cormac McCarthy. He never bought a computer. Not once. For nearly 50 years, every word he wrote came from that one machine. 🔸 Blood Meridian. All the Pretty Horses - National Book Award. No Country for Old Men - turned into an Oscar-winning Coen Brothers film. The Road - Pulitzer Prize. Five million words. One typewriter. Zero software updates. 🔹 His only maintenance? Blowing dust out of the keys with a gas station air hose. No servicing. No repairs. No cleaning. No tech support. Just a man, a machine, and what critics called the greatest American fiction of the postwar era. 🔸 In 2009, Christie's auction house estimated the typewriter at $15,000 to $20,000. It sold for $254,500 - more than ten times the estimate. McCarthy donated every cent to the Santa Fe Institute for scientific research. 🔸 His friend then bought him a replacement. Same model. Same Olivetti Lettera 32. Total cost: $11 plus $19.95 shipping. McCarthy didn't blink. He loaded a fresh ribbon and kept writing. 🔹 The rare-book dealer who handled the sale put it perfectly: "It's as if Mount Rushmore was carved with a Swiss Army knife." 💡 A great tool doesn't need Wi-Fi. The best writing technology hasn't changed in a century - keys, ink, and someone with something real to say. #usemorepaper #analog #analogue #podcast #youtube #nostalgia #resistance #typewriter #writing #creativity ========= 🔸 I spent 22 years running technology and operations at one of the world's largest law firms - managing teams, deploying systems, and keeping people glued to screens. Then I walked away. 🔸 Use More Paper is a show about the global analog revival - why millions of people are turning back to vinyl records, film cameras, paper notebooks, dumbphones, and cassette tapes. 🔸 It's not nostalgia. It's resistance. Against digital addiction, against tech feudalism, against a way of living that's making us sick, distracted, and owned. 📷 The X-Pan photos are mine.

📱 What's happening in our schools? Walk into any classroom today and you'll see hallways filled with teenagers shuffling silently, eyes glued to screens. Lunch tables where friends sit together but interact with everyone except each other. 🧠 The data is clear: heavy smartphone and social media use is destroying adolescent mental health. We've watched anxiety and depression rates skyrocket since smartphones became ubiquitous. The US Surgeon General didn't mince words - calling it a "profound risk of harm" to our kids' well-being. That's why schools across the country are implementing bell-to-bell phone bans, and frankly, it's about time. 📊 The research, while still emerging, is overwhelmingly positive. A study of 477 schools found that phone bans led to fewer psychological consultations, reduced bullying, and improved academic performance - especially for girls in mathematics. Even better? The biggest gains came from students in low socioeconomic backgrounds. 🎯 Phones don't just distract when we're using them - they distract by merely existing nearby. Research shows that having a phone in your desk versus another room reduces cognitive capacity, even when it's not being touched. 💬 The social cost is equally devastating. Kids aren't developing the conversational skills they need. They're missing out on both deep friendships and casual acquaintances - what sociologists call strong-tie and weak-tie relationships. These connections shape our sense of belonging and safety in the world. ❤️ Surveys show about half of teens wish social media was never invented. They know they're spending too much time on their phones. They want to disconnect but can't because everyone else is online. They feel trapped. 🏫 I've seen both worlds - schools that allow phones and those that don't. The difference is night and day. In phone-free schools, kids play cards, draw, teach each other chess, actually talk to one another. In phone-permissive schools? Silent scrolling before class even starts. 💪 Phone-free policies cost virtually nothing to implement and give teachers back their time, students back their attention, and our kids a fighting chance at real human connection. ========= 🔸 For 22 years, I built and led the operations of the largest international office of the leading French-origin law firm → No. 1 in Chambers and Legal 500 in France, 500 lawyers, 10 offices worldwide. Administration, IT, teams of 30+ people, budgets, coordination with headquarters and other jurisdictions: I know the operational reality of major international law firms from the inside. 🔸 Today, I put this experience at the service of firms that want to professionalise their operations without reinventing the wheel. 🔸 📷 The X-Pan photos are mine.

🤖 This is how Jack Dorsey handled firing 40% of his company yesterday. A lesson for all the law firm partners - and a warning sign for you. "we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company. today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are being asked to leave or entering into consultation. i'll be straight about what's happening, why, and what it means for everyone. [...] we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. [...] but something has changed. we're already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that's accelerating rapidly. i had two options: cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out, or be honest about where we are and act on it now. i chose the latter. repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust that customers and shareholders place in our ability to lead. i'd rather take a hard, clear action now and build from a position we believe in than manage a slow reduction of people toward the same outcome. a smaller company also gives us the space to grow our business the right way, on our own terms, instead of constantly reacting to market pressures. a decision at this scale carries risk. but so does standing still. [...] i accept that we may have gotten some of them wrong, and we've built in flexibility to account for that, and do the right thing for our customers. we're not going to just disappear people from slack and email and pretend they were never here. communication channels will stay open through thursday evening (pacific) so everyone can say goodbye properly, and share whatever you wish. i'll also be hosting a live video session to thank everyone at 3:35pm pacific. i know doing it this way might feel awkward. i'd rather it feel awkward and human than efficient and cold. to those of you leaving…i’m grateful for you, and i’m sorry to put you through this. you built what this company is today. that's a fact that i'll honor forever. this decision is not a reflection of what you contributed. you will be a great contributor to any organization going forward. to those staying…i made this decision, and i'll own it. what i'm asking of you is to build with me. we're going to build this company with intelligence at the core of everything we do. how we work, how we create, how we serve our customers. our customers will feel this shift too, and we're going to help them navigate it: towards a future where they can build their own features directly, composed of our capabilities and served through our interfaces. that's what i'm focused on now. expect a note from me tomorrow. #usemorepaper #digitalminimalism #ai

@fortelabs You're bragging. That's why this post will not change lives. Bragging never does.

I’m cashing out all of the productivity gains from AI by working less, and it’s really starting to change my life I rarely work past noon, because there’s simply nothing left to do. I do wake up earlier though because I’m so excited to get to work I’m exercising more than I ever have in my life. Every afternoon either weightlifting, running, hiking, or paddle before the kids get home I get a massage every week, and sauna twice a week, spending hours there with friends each time. The level of self care I’m doing is ridiculous. I’m almost too relaxed My wife and I have a date night every week, our marriage is better than ever, and we decided to have a third kid, a son due in June I have so much free time I’m starting to have to make up projects. I’m helping my friend start a nonprofit to promote local innovation and sustainability in our small Mexican town. Using Claude code to do all the writing, planning, and build a website for it I’m spending more time talking to friends and family on FaceTime than ever in my adult life. I’m helping my parents and siblings with their work, heath, finances, and random problems, often using AI Our social life is more active than even my teens or twenties, with at least 2-3 parties, dinners, or other gatherings each week. Everywhere I go in town I see people I know We travel more often than ever, and take more vacation time than ever, though vacations are not as fun as the normal routine The business is more profitable than ever, with a smaller team and less overhead. I’m able to pay my team better than I ever have. In no way is the business suffering I say all this not to brag, but to show that there is another option for what to do with all the time and effort that AI frees up: you can pull back and live a more chill, social, connected life like humans were meant to This is all due to AI, not because I got any smarter, wiser, or more productive. AI opens up new paths, but it’s still up to you to decide which one to take

@yungkingmito Well, people choose the way they let others program them :))

Avoiding seafood because of heavy metals is like trying to avoid breathing because of pollution in the air

📷 A man fell into a frozen lake during a Polar Bear Plunge. The seizure that caused it revealed brain cancer. Film photography became his weapon. 🔹 In early 2019, David Aureden had a seizure and fell into a hole cut in ice-locked Skaneateles Lake in upstate New York. Surgeons opened his skull and removed a malignant brain tumor. He survived. But the surgery took roughly 30% of his left-side vision. Colors looked muddier. Everything darker. 🔹 Then came chemo brain. Exhaustion, confusion, depression. He couldn't drive. Couldn't multitask. Couldn't find his wallet on the desk right in front of him. Some days he couldn't get off the couch. 🔹 Digital cameras became useless. Menus were impenetrable. Screens were treacherous with reduced vision. A friend lent him a Nikon D200. It sat in a box for months. 🔸 But his old film cameras - a Leica M3, a Nikon FA - had no menus. No screens. Just mechanical dials he could set by touch. So he loaded Ektachrome into the Nikon and started shooting again. 🔸 Film gave him something digital never could: anticipation. He'd save rolls for months, send them to the lab, then wait. The surprise of undeveloped film gave him something to look forward to. And in the State of Cancer, things to look forward to keep you alive. 🔸 He called it "life-affirming defiance." Film is tangible. You can hold a strip of negatives. You can't hold an SD card the same way. Film is permanence. And permanence matters when your time is no longer infinite. 💡 The tools that slow us down are the ones that keep us going. #usemorepaper #analog #analogue #podcast #youtube #nostalgia #resistance #filmphotography #cancersurvivor #mentalhealth ========= 🔸 I spent 22 years running technology and operations at one of the world's largest law firms - managing teams, deploying systems, and keeping people glued to screens. Then I walked away. 🔸 Use More Paper is a show about the global analog revival - why millions of people are turning back to vinyl records, film cameras, paper notebooks, dumbphones, and cassette tapes. 🔸 It's not nostalgia. It's resistance. Against digital addiction, against tech feudalism, against a way of living that's making us sick, distracted, and owned. 📷 The X-Pan photos are mine.

📵 A couple couldn't stop scrolling. One couch. Two glowing screens. Zero talk. 18 months later, they make $70,000 a month selling dumbphones. 🔹 In 2022, Will Stults and Daisy Krigbaum hit a wall. They were sitting side by side, doom-scrolling for hours, not talking. They tried Apple's Screen Time tool. Too easy to disable. They admitted to each other: we have a problem. 🔸 So they ditched their iPhones, bought dumbphones - and discovered the process was a nightmare. Options were scattered. Info was hard to find. Compatibility was confusing. The people who knew the most about dumbphones spent the least time online (seems logical!). 🔸 They saw a gap. In late 2022, they launched Dumbwireless from their dining room in East LA - a one-stop shop for the world's best non-smartphones. Nokias, Light Phones, Punkt devices, SIM cards, accessories. Everything packed by hand with handwritten notes. 🔹 Will had failed before. A clothing brand that went under. A coffee shop in the back of a Hollywood comedy club. "A doomed enterprise," Daisy called it. Nobody expected this one to work either. 🔸 It worked. By March 2023, they were doing $5,000 a month. By early 2024, $70,000 a month. The New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, and CBS came calling. Their dining room became a warehouse stacked with 500 boxed phones. 🔸 They built a business helping people escape their screens - by rejecting the very technology Silicon Valley spent billions making addictive. 💡 The biggest business opportunity is hiding inside the thing everybody's complaining about but nobody's solving. #usemorepaper #analog #analogue #podcast #youtube #nostalgia #resistance #dumbphone #digitalminimalism #entrepreneurship ========= 🔸 I spent 22 years running technology and operations at one of the world's largest law firms - managing teams, deploying systems, and keeping people glued to screens. Then I walked away. 🔸 Use More Paper is a show about the global analog revival - why millions of people are turning back to vinyl records, film cameras, paper notebooks, dumbphones, and cassette tapes. 🔸 It's not nostalgia. It's resistance. Against digital addiction, against tech feudalism, against a way of living that's making us sick, distracted, and owned. 📷 The X-Pan photos are mine.

For context, their safeguards are 1) no using their AI for fully autonomous weapons and 2) no using their AI for mass surveillance on US citizens.