Here is a post written by a Vietnamese philosopher I deeply respect. I’ve been struggling to write a review of the Tao Te Ching for a long time and have written a few timid comments here, luckily his post perfectly sums up what I think about the Tao Te Ching. Personally, I read the Tao Te Ching from the Pléiade Collection published by Gallimard (Fnac link, Amazon link), but I think there are certainly other editions that are cheaper. Reading the Tao Te Ching will open the doors to the I Ching. Tao Te Ching: The Summit of Human Wisdom, by Dang Than If you want to avoid all the…

Reaching Excellence (Amazon, Fnac) is a book I read very regularly (I’ve talked about it before). Whenever I want to boost myself to work on a project or acquire a skill, I read a few excerpts and it reminds me that I need to go further, to motivate myself fully, and that 10,000 hours of practice await me. From the outset, Robert Greene presents mastery as the result of a long process of learning, practice, creativity, and self-knowledge. Mastery is neither a mysterious gift nor a privilege reserved for geniuses. It results from an accessible process: choosing a field aligned with your inclinations, studying it extensively, practicing with discipline, experimenting,…

At the end of last year, my employer offered me the chance to prepare for the Blue Team Level 1 (BTL1) certification run by the company Centri. It’s not necessarily the one I would have picked on my own, but you should never turn down the opportunity to add a new certification to your CV 🙂 To give you an idea of my level, I made a career switch to become a SOC analyst and I had 18 months of experience in a SOC when I took this certification. Here’s my feedback. What is the BTL1? The BTL1 is a certification aimed at junior blue team analysts, covering six domains:…

Happiness is doing something for fun, spending hours on it, without getting paid 😀 Of course, if it paid, that would be even better, but if you enjoy an activity so much you could spend all day on it without pay, for me, that’s THE happiness. The Dream of the Red Chamber Lately, I’ve had almost unlimited AI use to translate whatever I want. I really liked the novel The Dream of the Red Chamber and as I told you last month, I reread the novel, and I thought maybe I should get into Redology to better understand the book. I sent tons of analyses/books/videos on the subject to the…

It’s been two months that I’ve been vibe-coding, first with Claude Code and then with Codex CLI. Lately, I had a bunch of tokens to spare and few projects, so I took the plunge, just for fun, into creating a tool that lets you listen to documents as audio and annotate them at the same time (a mix of Audible and Kindle). In the end, it turned out to be really useful: my parents, whose eyesight has faded quite a bit, really need it to have AI read books aloud to them. I decided to make the Windows software version (a simple .exe) so they could install it on their…