My most recent experiences and insights

  • Training is a necessary stepping stone… until it becomes a liability

    No. I’m not going to be the one to say that training is not important. And I can’t say that it’s because I’m in IT, in technology, in innovation. Even if you are a snail farmer, you are going to have to recycle yourself, to discover new techniques, new markets, new clients, new ways of… Read more


  • Parliament fines itself

    ILUSO I always like to start with this word. It gives me a lot of clues. The O is green and the I is gold. Humm. TIBIO The first I and the O are already well placed and the T is golden. I already have 3 letters. NIETO Wow! 5 greens, in only 3 attempts.… Read more


  • Quoting between cables

    This morning I was sorting through the cables on my desk. Dozens of cables. Keyboard, mouse, speakers, mobile phone charger, headphone charger, cable to transfer from the mobile to the computer, webcam, lamp, monitor, router, power for everything, … Am I the only one who has this chaos? I moved the table forward so that… Read more


  • Turn over a new leaf

    Do you know what the most painful thing about freelancing is? Well, the second most painful. The most painful, without a doubt, is to spend a day every quarter compiling all the information for the tax authorities and end up paying a lot of money. As it is. But the second is the time management.… Read more


  • Experts vs Experiments

    It has been a long month, a very long month, without posting here.The reason, the excuse: I had to attend to a sick relative.Nooo. It wasn’t Covid.When I said I had a relative in hospital, the immediate question was Covid’s?Well, no. There are still other illnesses. The good news: we know what it is, how… Read more


  • Perfection is the enemy of good

    How much time can be spent on a diagnosis? How much effort should be put into creating a budget that you don’t know if it will be completed? A few weeks ago, I had a telephone conversation with my mechanic like this: “Listen. The car is leaking oil. There’s a puddle of oil in the… Read more