Dans cet article, je souhaitais partager avec vous mon parcours d’apprentissage de langues, et des conseils concrets et réalistes à ceux qui voudraient se lancer dans l’apprentissage d’une ou plusieurs langues à l’âge adulte. À l’heure actuelle je parle 4 langues à un niveau conversationnel : le français (ma langue maternelle), l’anglais, le russe et …
Il parait que Warren Buffett lit 500 pages par jour. Et que De Gaulle a lu 15 000 livres dans sa vie. Vue comme ça, la recette du succès est toute tracée : lisez plus, et vous apprendrez plus, et vous réussirez. On ne peut qu’être d’accord, de nos jours, avec un discours qui encourage …
Lire plus ne suffit pas : ce qui compte, c’est d’appliquer Read More »
I’m a learning geek, and for a long time I tried to optimize the way I learned languages down to the second. This is the story of my mistake. I studied and put into practice every relevant concept that comes from cognitive science: spaced repetition, comprehensible input, continuous feedback, active recall… and all with some …
Learning Languages: The Blind Spot of Optimization Read More »
A few weeks ago, I officially launched Notewell, a platform that helps language teachers create personalized course materials for their students. This site is far from my first side project as a developer; yet it’s the first project I’ve managed to monetize. This (small) success made me put my finger on what I’d been missing …
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Since Claude Code came out, I’ve built a bunch of small personal projects in just a few days. But with code generation no longer being an issue, two problems remained: • checking that the AI hasn’t done something stupid• being able to deploy each project really fast without spending hours re-coding a CI/CD pipeline or …
My standardized stack for coding and deploying my projects with Claude Code Read More »
Doing a digital detox when you work in tech is a bit like going on a diet when you’re a pastry chef: hard, but essential.For a long time I tried to cut back on social media and other media without much success; but for the past few months I’ve finally felt like I’ve turned a …
Digital detox when you work in tech: 4 approaches that worked for me Read More »
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 …
