✨ Highlights of the last couple of months

• I ran a 10K race in Rennes with 3 friends, which was a great moment
• I went and walked in the nice forest of Liffré, a town near Rennes
• I tried a new nice restaurant in Rennes, Gousse
• I mixed for the first time publicly for a running race in Rennes, with a friend, which made me want even more to play again and record my sets
• I went to Paris to see my colleagues at the office. It had been 3 months since my last visit at the office
• I ended the month by spending a few days back home with my family

📚 What I liked consuming the last month

Let’s dive now into what I consumed the last month and especially liked

Articles

Finding calm in chaos - Marty from Poolsuite

I couldn’t agree more with this blogpost. If you haven’t done it yet, you should talk control of your phone and stop having your screen time dictate your life

“While there’s a lot of chaos we can’t control, I found that my life got 10x better when I decided to pacify the chaos I can” “Don’t look at your phone in the morning. Wake up, go for a shower, read a book, have your breakfast. Instead of your mood being set by whatever you see on your phone the minute you wake up (…) - you naturally just come into your own mood.”

“Think about how many pieces of information we’re having to process every hour compared to our ancestors. If you want your brain to work better, and feel more at ease, try to reduce the amount of data you’re being fed in any given hour. Maybe watching 35 emotionally charged TikToks across 30 topics before breakfast isn’t the best fuel for your mind.”

A Phone that Does not Ring

A sad but beautiful story about how being present with your loved ones is really important, even more when they are not longer there with you.

Why Don’t We Take Nuclear Weapons Seriously? - Rivka Galchen

This article about nuclear weapons made me learn about a lot, especially the Fisher Protocol.

“Like the rotation of military personnel who today trade off carrying the “nuclear football”—the briefcase that contains the nuclear launch codes—the person with the implanted capsule would be near the President constantly. In Fisher’s scenario, a Navy officer named George does the job. “The volunteer would carry with him a big, heavy butcher knife,” Fisher writes. “If ever the President wanted to fire nuclear weapons, the only way he could do so would be for him first, with his own hands, to kill one human being. The President says, ‘George, I’m sorry, but tens of millions must die.’ ” That there would be blood on the White House carpet is essential.”

Valentin Hansen: Creating an Infinite Sound

An interesting experience of music and artificial intelligence

Why I gave the world wide web away for free - Tim Berners-Lee

The inventor of the web on what the web has sadly become

L’anesthésie du cozycore : chronique d’une génération qui s’engourdit - Arnaud Pessey

An interesting deep dive on the phenomena of cozycore, and why young people don’t want to leave their homes.

Kilian Jornet: ‘All the bad things about running are there to reap something good’

Killian Jornet is a well-known trailer, and this interview is an old one from him and what running is for him.

Une petite histoire de listes - Arthur Perret

Always interesting to see how other peoples are building their websites. I don’t want to change my workflow but I am interested in learning more about pandoc

Why taste matters more - Carl Barenbrug

“Taste gives you vision. It’s the lens through which you decide what matters, and just as importantly, what doesn’t. […] Taste, though, is scarce. It can’t be automated, shortcut, or outsourced. It’s cultivated over years of looking, editing, comparing, curating. It’s what lets you create not just a good design, but a point of view. […] In a world where AI can replicate knowledge and experience can be hired, taste is what actually sets you apart.”

TBM 385: We Have To Simplify!

Sadly so true … How companies want to simplify but don’t do the right things

Substack et les journalistes français : des liaisons dangereuses ?

You should leave Substack and own your content. I switched to Buttondown and don’t regret it!

Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House

AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright

2 examples of why you should carefully choose the tech products you choose.

How I turned a Gaming Mini-PC into my first home server. - Kevin Wammer

I’ve been thinking of creating a home server for a couple of days and am currently reading about it. Current software I am thinking of running is Jellyfin, PiHole, Tailscale and probably some more so I am taking ideas for this blogpost by Kevin Wammer

What Made Blogging Different?

“Le blogging c’était l’époque où on écrivait pour des humains, pas pour des algorithmes, où les discussions se faisaient en citant des liens et pas en crachant des réactions sous un post, et où les trolls devaient au moins se donner la peine d’héberger leur propre merde 🤘”

Bring … Back … Blogging

Quelles applications libres utiliser sur Windows ? - Framasoft

If you also think that Windows is garbage, but can’t leave, you should check out this free software applications available on Windows.

A cartoonist’s review of AI art - The Oatmeal

An artist POV and opinion on AI art. A really interesting take on how AI art is impacting our society.

Dual Boot Diaries - Curtis McHale

I haven’t yet seen people around me switch to Linux but some are talking about switching to Linux at some point in the future, which isn’t surprising when we see what Microsoft and Apple are doing. In my case, I have been also thinking about it. My old MacBook Pro has been my Linux experiment, currently running Fedora. My current MacBook Pro is an Intel one and Tahoe (Which I don’t want to update to) will be the latest macOS version possible so I will probably try a dualboot at some point.

Books

• The Age of Missing Information - Bill McKibben

An interesting book format which I read last month. The author, Bill McKibben watched 24 hours of TV across all 93 cable channels in Fairfax, Virginia, then spent a day alone on a mountain to compare the overload of television with the knowledge gained from direct experience in nature. It was sometimes hard to follow since most pop culture references were unknown to me, but the analysis he does was interesting

• Le Quatrième homme - Lisa Gardner

• Au premier regard - Lisa Gardner

  It has been a while since I read some Lisa Gardner so I got 2 books from her I did not read yet. Au premier regard was a great one.

Videos

Mixtapes Went To The Moon & Sent Me Back in Time (Mixtape Ep 3) - Digging the Greats

Such a cool series from Digging the Greats on the comeback of cassettes tapes. You should watch the entire series. I only remember one cassette tape from my childhood, and it was the French History told by Panoramix 😅 His previous series on the iPod comeback was also really good!

La guerre la plus secrète au monde - TRY

A video that taught me a lot about the silent space war going on above our heads.

La place controversée des DJs dans l’industrie musicale (Conclusion job #8)

An interesting take on the DJing scene. Having taken a break after mixing as a hobby, I’ve seen the importance of everything around music, sometimes to the detriment of what’s important when you’re DJing, the music and making people dance. It’s an aspect that’s got me thinking a lot about how I want to get back to making music my number 1 priority.

Why does Netflix lie in its sports documentaries? - Sami Terki

The downside of Netflix sports documentaries.

My Pace – Life of Goro | Escaping City Rules for Outdoor Life in Hokkaido

A video on how a Japanese man left the corporate treadmill in Tokyo and moved closer to nature and have been really happy since.

Faut-il réapprendre à écouter de la musique ? | Tracks | ARTE

Should we quit streaming platforms, that what some people are wondering or doing. This ARTE video is a nice one on the topic.

How ICE Spies On American Citizens | Incognito Mode | WIRED

I really appreciate Wired videos in their Incognito Mode and this one is an interesting one, especially if you don’t know anything about the ICE. If you want to go deeper on the topic, I recommend that you follow 404media coverage (and any articles they do btw)

La traque de l’homme le plus cruel d’Internet - Simon Puech

Ils rêvent de contrôler le climat - Avant l’orage

Technology isn’t fun anymore - Drew Gooden

Another video on the topic of enshittification.

Putin’s Secret Sons - fern

I did not know that Putin had sons, but this video went deeper than that, explaining how he hides a lot of things from the world.

Music

Zimmer90 - Interior (Full Album)

I did not know Zimmer90 before, but loved the vibe from this video, and liked their album.

Websites

Messenger

An indie calm and beautiful video game where you are a messenger boy wandering in a city, delivering things. Playable on the website directly

👀 What I’m up to next month

• I am going to London this month for a few days with my girlfriend
• I am finishing some really great books
• I am celebrating 2 years with my girlfriend

And that’s it for this October 2025 issue of Full-Time Curious.

• Thanks for reading and see you in a month!

Alexandre Full-Time Curious Website