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What life path to choose?
This picture from Tim Urban lives rent-free in my head.
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Julien
How I make decisions
We usually take too much time making decisions.
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Julien
Keep a beginner mindset
In a recent interview with the excellent Lenny Rachitsky, Marc Benioff emphasizes the need to keep a beginner's mindset.
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Julien
The Model Y is the Model T of our time
The Ford Model T is known as the first mass-market vehicle.
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Julien

December 2024

On Video Games and Pricing Unit
As a kid raised in the 90s, I spent my early teenage years playing games like Super Mario World or Zelda. All the cool kids from this era begged their…
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Julien
Do not sell to enterprise
In the early days of your startup, you fantasize about becoming big and selling fat contracts to enterprise within a few weeks months years.
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Julien
Maintainability Over Performance
A common issue in software development is to use complicated system design (e.g., multiple levels of caching) or optimize the code (e.g., bypass…
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Julien
Favorite Book of 2024
This year, as I have done for the past 6 years, I read 12 books (even if my Goodreads profile says otherwise).
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Julien

October 2024

AI the next technology cycle?
I recently read Hardcore Software from Steven Sinosfky. The book explains in details the rise and fall of the PC era and, more precisely, the technology…
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Julien
SaaS Pricing
There is a guide about misconceptions of SaaS pricing in startup land.
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Julien
Make dreams come true
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
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Julien
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Your startup does not have to be in San Francisco
San Francisco is the Vatican of the startup religion.
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Julien
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