Deviant Abstraction

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I have rewritten my resume since a lot of recruiters find it unclear. I hope it is better now and I welcome your feedback.

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My contract with SmApper is soon over. I am therefore looking for a job. I have therefore updated my resume.

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Thanks Cecile.
Update Everybody know this since three months… Well I live in the countryside.

According to Joseph, one of my close friends, we are transitioning from history to “post-history”. Prehistory to history was marked by invention of writing. Post-history by keeping everything online.

We are in this time because everything someone makes/write is digital. It can be kept for a cost approaching zero. Future historians will have more than a glimpse of this time: they will be able to experience this time.

Digging a little bit more, this is not yet true: currently most of the dataset are deleted but the time where everything will be archived is not far away. We can see it coming thanks to a few archiving websites.

Another example: phone operators keep the content of all your SMS. Right now, only the police can access them (in Europe) but historians will be able to… And you too !

I don’t know how new is this idea but I find this idea fascinating.

Voici mon mémoire de probatoire CNAM et les transparents de la présentation associée.

Mémoire (thesis) et transparents et notes d’exposé.

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(Via OnStartup)

This application shows you similar Flickr pictures than your sketch. I hope they add soon a “similar picture” feature.

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1. Sometimes the best management is no management at all — first do no harm!
2. Indifference is as important as passion.
3. In organizational life, you can have influence over others or you can have freedom from others, but you can’t have both at the same time.
4. Saying smart things and giving smart answers are important. Learning to listen to others and to ask smart questions is more important.
5. Learn how to fight as if you are right and listen as if you are wrong: It helps you develop strong opinions that are weakly held.
6. You get what you expect from people. This is especially true when it comes to selfish behavior; unvarnished self-interest is a learned social norm, not an unwavering feature of human behavior.
7. Getting a little power can turn you into an insensitive self-centered jerk.
8. Avoid pompous jerks whenever possible. They not only can make you feel bad about yourself, chances are that you will eventually start acting like them.
9. The best test of a person’s character is how he or she treats those with less power.
10. The best single question for testing an organization’s character is: What happens when people make mistakes?
11. The best people and organizations have the attitude of wisdom: The courage to act on what they know right now and the humility to change course when they find better evidence.
12. The quest for management magic and breakthrough ideas is overrated; being a master of the obvious is underrated.
13. Err on the side of optimism and positive energy in all things.
14. It is good to ask yourself, do I have enough? Do you really need more money, power, prestige, or stuff?
15. Jim Maloney is right: Work is an overrated activity.

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