Today, I just wanted to share my current language-learning plans. I have the chance to take a few months with little or no work, and therefore focus on my personal growth.I’ve decided to dedicate the next 2-3 months to language learning, with fluency in Italian as my top priority. For the record, if you haven’t …
You don’t know what’s the real impact of something before you ditch it.That’s what I did with AI chatbots: they are great, but recently I felt the need to go on an “AI diet” for a while. I’m not an LLM expert, but as anyone using it for pretty serious stuff (work, coding, personal life), …
When tackling a new project or life challenge, many of us rely solely on motivation to achieve our goals and hope that the initial thrill will sustain until the end. But motivation is an unreliable companion. Counting on it alone is why so many New Year’s resolutions fail, so many projects abort, and so many …
In the last years, I’ve tried countless methods to be more productive and achieve my goals with more probability, with successes and failures. When I think about it, there is only one winning combination that works for me : The goal of these habits is less to be efficient than to remind you what your …
In the past years I’ve read widely and run a lot of experiments on how to learn effectively. And it seems to me that most struggles boil down to one thing : not having the right feedback loop for what you’re trying to learn. So the first task when you want to learn something new …
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I don’t know which jobs AI is going to replace, but I know one thing for sure : people who don’t know how to learn will be replaced much faster than people who do. When you think about it, the ability to learn is nothing more than the power to adapt to new circumstances. So, …
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Here are the things I’ve learned over the last 7 years to thrive as a professional:
It’s been a while since I shared anything here. In the past few years, I’ve been deep in tech and management, working in a computer vision startup and then as a freelancer, while also learning multiple languages (I mean spoken languages) and moving to a new country. I’d like to use this space to share …
Lab Note #2 – learn History everyday with Herodotus – v 1.0.2 is live TL;DR 1️⃣ Herodotus v1.0.2 is live : historical mistakes fixed, UI refreshed, in‑app feedback added.2️⃣ Insight : a standalone web tool (Fluent Forever Vocab Builder) is handier than an Anki add‑on for rapid vocab‑card creation.3️⃣ Next : dog‑food Herodotus every day and build a faster quiz‑authoring tool.🔗 Try it …
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Lab Note #1 TL;DR 1️⃣ Repaired “Fluent Forever Vocab Builder” → web app now fetches audio + Bing images in 1 click.2️⃣ Insight : an Anki add-on would help non-tech users, so I prototyped one with Bolt.new — AI wrote 80 % of the code; I only fixed API calls.3️⃣ Next : ship a tested …
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