Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI

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I was a tiny bit disappointed by this one, mostly because I found it lacking a lot of foundations and tended to dwell to much on the fascination side of AI. The book also had small contradiction at the beginning, indicating how productivity is very hard to measure, while asserting at the same time that AI provokes a jump of 40 to 80% of productivity (which has since been disproved by many studies).

As insights of the experience of an university professor as well as a good vision of the needs for politics to take action on this technology it was good, but I found it very lacking in terms of the impacts of AI ecologically and very biased toward tech-optimism. Also, this is definitely not a playbook.

Today’s decisions about how AI reflects human values and enhances human potential will reverberate for generations. This is not a challenge that can be solved in a lab—it requires society to grapple with the technology shaping the human condition and what future we want to create. And that process needs to happen, soon

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3 months ago

The Death of UX and Product Management

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Despite the dramatic title, I found this book enlightening, seeing the turbulence several product positions (designer, PM, user research) are going through for the past years. This book does quite a great job at highlighting how our professions evolved, what damaged our work and undermined our positions but it also provides a clear path forward on what we need to do to evolve and adapt to those changes. While it won't help the fact that our scopes keep widening, it gives you clear indications on what you need to do in face of the coming changes.


We're about to see a wave of AI-accelerated mediocrity. Products generated quickly and thoughtlessly. Interfaces that look professional but don't work well. Features shipped at unprecedented speed that nobody wanted. Design decisions made by people who can prompt but can't evaluate.
The bar is going to drop. Not because AI is bad, but because the humans directing it won't be equipped for the job.

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3 months ago

The Ethical Slut: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships, and Other Freedoms in Sex and Love

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I was looking for to this reading but I ended up being a tiny bit disappointed. I think I was expecting more hands on experience, exercises, thought provoking bits and it ended up being quite bland. The experiences shared are interesting but stay a lot on the surface and, I would say, a bit too versed into a new-age thinking which took me a bit aback. Still there were interesting bit on how deeply sex negative is our society and it made me think a lot on the way I perceive sex.

If there were no such thing as sexually transmitted disease, if nobody got pregnant unless they wanted to, if all sex were consensual and pleasurable, how would the world feel about it then? How would you feel? If you look deep inside yourself, you may find bits and pieces of sex-negativism, often hiding behind judgmental words like promiscuous, hedonistic, decadent, and not productive

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3 months ago

Creative Intelligence

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A very interesting book on how to use AI as a way to think better and go beyond the simple prompt. Really like how the author describes ways to work with AI that would enhance our human capabilities and make us think better and not just as a tool to solve some problems quickly. I have a lot to unpack and test now and I'm really looking forward to test several of the ideas shown in the book (Subject Matter Amateur resonated a lot with me as a designer).

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3 months ago

Steadfast Self-Hosting

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I think this would have been way more interesting at the beginning of my self hosting journey. While I found several parts interesting, the fact that it works using a bundled system made it a bit less useful for me. Still some great insights and lessons if you want to start self hosting your services!

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4 months ago

No pasarán, endgame

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Quelle fin pour cette trilogie! Si le second tome m'avait un peu déçu, ce dernier opus de No Pasaran m'a totalement convaincu. Le rythme était halétant, les différentes histoires et protagonistes se rejoignant à pleine vitesse, j'ai été totalement pris par le récit et je n'ai pas pu m'arrêter de tourner les pages. C'est une fin fantastique pour un livre qui m'a tellement marqué dans ma jeunesse, qui vous emmène à travers l'histoire et notre violence humaine, je recommande totalement.

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4 months ago

Andreas, le retour

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Comme beaucoup de gamins de ma génération j'ai grandi avec No Pasaran que j'ai adoré. Pour la capacité du roman à ne pas condamner les jeux vidéos à une époque qui s'en donnait à coeur joie, mais à faire réfléchir sur la violence dont est capable l'homme et les atrocités de la guerre. J'ai découvert très récemment que ce roman qui m'avait marqué avait eu deux suites que je me suis empressé d'acheter. J'ai pris un certain plaisir à retrouver plusieurs des personnages et reprendre l'histoire où je l'avais laissé, cependant j'ai été un peu déçu de ce second volume, qui souffre des soucis classique des cadets de trilogie, n'offrant pas vraiment de fin ou de dénouement propre, se transformant en tremplin vers le volume final. Dur de juger ce "Andreas, le retour" dès lors car il m'a profondément laissé sur ma faim.

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4 months ago

Une nonnette au miel des petites choses: Chroniques

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Cela fait un petit temps que je lis le blog de Laurent, pour ses billets rayons de soleil et son regard doux sur les autres. Ca a été un plaisir de le lire à travers ces petites cartes postales remplies de douceurs et d'amour. Un sourire tendre m'a habité alors que je tournais ces pages, réchauffé par ces petits instants d'humanité. C'est un petit livre qui vous réchauffera le coeur et vous fera beaucoup de bien, je le recommande chaleureusement.

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4 months ago

Tous les silences ne font pas le même bruit

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Une lettre ouverte contre l'homophobie bien nécessaire, un appel aux hétérosexuels à ouvrir les yeux sur la société dans laquelle nous devons tous vivre et sur toutes ces traces constantes d'homophobie. J'ai ressenti la colère de Baptiste et je la partage, j'ai donc trouvé cet ouvrage terriblement nécessaire. En espérant qu'un jour proche il ne le soit plus...

C'est ne pas avoir droit aux mêmes amourettes innocentes que les hétéros, mentir à tout le monde, et avoir envie de mourir, car l'homophobie est un ressort comique qui fait rire vos familles.
Ta seule première histoire?
C'est ne pas pouvoir répondre à ceux qui t'expliquent « qu'on ne peut pas savoir, à 12 ans, qu'on est homosexuel», car être homosexuel, pour eux, c'est « sucer des queues», pas écrire des petits mots à un garçon ou rêver de l'embrasser sur la joue. L'innocence de ces jeux d'enfants-là est réservée aux amourettes entre garçons et filles.
Et cette hypersexualisation des gays, c'est déjà de l'homophobie...

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4 months ago