Entrepreneurship
An idea doesn't become a business because it's good, but when it removes more cost than it adds for each actor who has to say yes. A materialist approach to building a business.
Letting Go in Our Relationship to Production
On what we can inhabit in our effort, and what must remain exposed to reality when we produce for others.
9 min read
A personal note on what drives my work, how I like to build, and the concrete forms through which my values can take shape.
Letting Go in Our Relationship with Others
On self-assertion, other people’s judgment, and what we cannot control in how we are received.
12 min read
AI Makes It Absurd to Keep Engineers Away from Reality
When the cost of producing code falls, value shifts toward understanding the real problem.
Can Startups Share Value More Fairly Without Scaring Investors?
A proposal for investor-compatible startup ownership that recognizes both financial capital and the time spent building the company.
Letting Go Does Not Mean Stopping Acting
A practical definition of letting go: act on the conditions, then accept the uncertainty of adaptation.
9 min read
Why modern inequality is also about the ability to protect one’s time, attention, and environment.
Do Humans Change, or Do They Adapt?
A simple thesis: human beings do not directly remake themselves; they are transformed mainly through adaptation to their conditions of life.
What sport can teach us about effort, recovery, and intellectual work.
A proposal for a startup structure that remains legible to investors while sharing created value more fairly based on the time and energy invested.
On maturation, attention, and what speed cannot replace.
How I Write the Articles Published Here
An honest explanation of my working method for writing the articles published on Le secrétaire de Fernand.