A very interesting article about dealing with problems at work.

It also reminded me about :
https://dilbert.com/strip/2016-03-30
https://dilbert.com/strip/2020-01-29

When we don't "feel like it", we're often procrastinating because we're afraid of performing poorly.
Remove this pressure and "just do it" : poor quality work will get you started and in good condition to make something good.

La vérité dans tout ça, c'est que les gens ne savent pas ce qu'ils veulent jusqu'à ce qu'on leur propose.

L'unique façon de vérifier que son idée est bonne, c'est vendre.

Les gens arrêtent de mentir quand on leur demande de l'argent.

Pour ça, la stratégie consiste à créer du contenu tout en donnant la possibilité d'acheter notre produit.

Il existe un terme populaire dans le monde des startups qui résume bien cette stratégie : "Fake it until make it".

Social media makes people performers to the world

So it could be that the reason depression and suicide are rising so quickly is that the number of people we’re trying to please is rising, combined with the exponential growth in the opportunities to either be cheered or ostracised.

A FAQ with lots of interesting + useful information (and links !)
Worth reading ;-)

There is a famous saying from Napolean Hill which says, “If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way”. I would actually argue the quote should be, “If you cannot do great things, do small things a great number of times”.


aim for continuous habits that bring you success as a byproduct, not as the end goal.


“The only way to become excellent is to be endlessly fascinated by doing the same thing over and over. You have to fall in love with boredom.” - Atomic Habits, James Clear
On your journey to greatness, you need to fall in love with the process which includes many local minima and maxima. Staying consistent and pushing through both of these continuously is what will truly differentiate you from those that are simply “good” and isolate you as one of the few that are “great’.


as you move towards “greatness”, you should have a better idea of what inputs actually deliver output.


The best things in life often aren’t miracles, but well-thought out approaches that are sustainable.


in order to achieve the things you want in life, you’ll need to establish a habit of progression.


James Clear, from Atomic Habits, mentions a study in which students in Jerrey Uelsmann’s University of Florida photography class were divided into two groups. The first group would be the “quantity” group, while the second would be the “quality” group. The former would be judged solely on the number of photographs they submitted, while the latter would be graded on the excellence of a single image.
The interesting outcome of the experiment was that the best photos were produced not by the quality group, but by the quantity group. Why? While the quality group spent their time speculating what perfection may have been, the quantity group took action in testing what was truly great.

Instead of speculating what may make you great, get out there and start DOING. Do not look for perfection or even greatness, but instead signs of “good” and start making tangible progress.


Remember, there is no “magic moment” when you become great, so if you are looking for your path towards greatness, stop looking for “greatness” and consider that your most probable path there is just to focus on what’s good.

"(...) the normalisation of deviance often results in an erosion of competency in which a culture of safety is slowly and gradually worn away."

"It is well known that jet pilots start with a bag of luck and start to fill a bag of experience (...) The trick is to fill the bag of experience before you empty the bag of luck."


==> "Normalisation of deviance" is what, in IT, we call "normal errors". They lead to BIG crashes too ;-)

A good reading that may be worth reading again in a while.

"Your greatness is not what you have, but what you give."