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Julien Reszka

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105 from 14 Feb 2010 to 5 Nov 2026
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2026 72

  1. How to Live in Clown World Without Becoming a Clown
  2. Why Both Partners Should Understand How the Economy Works
  3. Why Returning to Baseline After Depression Is So Hard
  4. How to Help Someone Who Used to Be Fun
  5. Making Relationships Work Requires Privacy
  6. How to Help a Workaholic Who Won't Listen
  7. Relationship Therapy Influencers Are a Scam
  8. You Are Losing Weight. Why Are You So Angry?
  9. You Quit What Drained You. Why Do You Feel Worse?
  10. Blocking Your Ex Doesn't End the Conversation
  11. AI Is Your Startup's Cannon. Don't Build a Taller Wall.
  12. You Don't Need to Write Separate Speeches for Men and Women
  13. You're Likely Working Too Much
  14. Singapore's Neuron Rack Costs More to Rent Than It Saves
  15. It's Not Time to Build
  16. Who Can Afford a Bad Reputation?
  17. You Underestimate How Much People Want to Hear From You
  18. If I Could Only Do One Exercise, It Would Be Squats
  19. Why and How I Skip Lunch
  20. Job Ads Tell You What Employers Want, Not What You Want.
  21. Your 200-View Tutorial Might Work Better Than You Think
  22. Success Is a Clean Cut.
  23. Failure Takes Years to Admit.
  24. Your Estimate Isn't Off Because of Optimism or Inexperience
  25. Your Contacts All Know Each Other. That's the Problem.
  26. An Airport Sat Empty for $1.1 Million a Day
  27. You're Not Ready to Compete with Self Disruptive Companies
  28. Your Key to Success Isn't More Luck or Hard Work
  29. The Lost Art of Preparing Your Own Meals
  30. Rent and Pensions Eat Half of Your Disposable Income
  31. We Got Better at Keeping You Alive. Not at Keeping Healthy.
  32. Your Pension Depends on Kids You Did Not Have
  33. Pensions Buy Fewer Babies. Cutting Them Costs Votes.
  34. Ruling Is a Skill. Voting for It Is a Joke.
  35. Difficult Conversations Don't Need to Be Messy
  36. Bend Under Pressure, Not Under Nonsense
  37. The More Power You Hold, the More You Owe
  38. Stop Pasting Files Into Agent Prompts
  39. RSS Is Back. AI Agents Are Reading It.
  40. Structure Is What Makes an Interview Actually Work
  41. Your Exit Route Determines Your Strategy
  42. They're Required to Tell You How to Beat Them
  43. Know When to Stop, Pivot, or Double Down
  44. Stop, Start, Continue Is a Brainstorm, Not a Retrospective
  45. Refactoring Is Procrastination in a Lab Coat
  46. Solve a Problem People Admit They Have
  47. Your Product Should Make the Buyer Look Good
  48. Build the Referral Into the Product
  49. If You Can't Describe It, No One Will Share It
  50. Your Product Should Be Safe to Recommend
  51. Sticky Products Feel Personal
  52. The Cheapest Feature Is the One You Don't Build
  53. Anxiety Is Making You Dumber
  54. Your Sleep Schedule Is a Policy Document
  55. Less Work, More Worry
  56. The Better the Autopilot, the Worse the Pilot
  57. Automation Takes the Easy Jobs and Leaves You the Hard Ones
  58. You Were Already Dependent. Automation Makes It Reliable.
  59. The Future of Work Is Getting Out of the Way
  60. Robots Create More Jobs Than They Kill
  61. Google Has No Idea If Your Page Is Good
  62. I Quit Posting on Instagram for My Mental Health
  63. Build With What's Already There
  64. Napkin Sketches Beat Gantt Charts
  65. Demand Forecasts: The Best You Can Do Is Guess
  66. Build for What Won't Change
  67. Delete It Before You Optimize It
  68. What Actually Works for Dating in 2026
  69. WebMCP Is the New Mobile-First
  70. The Only Policy Tool That Cannot Be Gamed
  71. France Needs 45 Years to Grow Its Way Out
  72. Government Size Has No Sweet Spot

2024 2

  1. The Web Is Not a Safe Harbor From Platform Control
  2. Who Decided Europe Needed Replacing?

2023 1

  1. The Math Sales Gurus Won't Show You

2022 1

  1. Your Risk Register Is Asking the Wrong Question

2021 2

  1. AI Will Soon Generate Video as Easily as Images
  2. When Everyone Around You Goes Mad, Stay Normal

2020 1

  1. Mixture-of-Experts Routing Was Called a Stupid Idea

2019 4

  1. 5 Minutes to Fill. 2 Hours to Charge. EVs Have a Problem.
  2. The Wright Brothers Didn't Learn by Crashing
  3. Love Score Was Banned for Reading SMS Metadata On-Device
  4. Video Won the Web. Most Sites Haven't Noticed Yet.

2018 2

  1. I Decided Not to Join YCombinator
  2. I Joined Startup School to Build the Trusted Map of Events

2017 4

  1. Intelligence as a Nine-Node Cycle of Interpretation
  2. Information Has Six Imperfections and None Can Be Eliminated
  3. The Three Sovereignties of Interpretive Power
  4. Grounding Is a Governance Problem, Not a Data Problem

2016 1

  1. I Got Into 42 Paris

2015 3

  1. Translating a Book Is the Best Way to Learn It
  2. Is Mass Immigration a Moral Obligation? V4 says No
  3. The Shift to Mobile Created My First Freelance Opportunity

2014 5

  1. The GAN Paper Turned Me Toward Generative Design
  2. Love Score Charted My Contacts on Balance and Passion
  3. The Upcoming War in Eastern Europe
  4. I Bought Bitcoin at the Inauguration of La Maison du Bitcoin
  5. I Am Going to Study Geopolitics of Central Europe

2013 2

  1. The 3D Printshow at the Louvre Felt Like the Future
  2. I Joined Penninghen to Study Design and Art Direction

2012 3

  1. A Free Tool Called Fluidui Made Me a UI Designer
  2. Felt Like Ezio in Florence
  3. The Revolution Will Be Tweeted

2011 1

  1. War in Libya. What's in It for Us?

2010 1

  1. Wait. Leonardo Da Vinci Was Real?