Max Mortillaro

It's been a good half year since my last post, there are too many things to talk about, and so little time to structure my thoughts around those many topics.

Today I’m going to tell you about a journey that started when I was quite young — my quest for the best coffee.

This is a repost, original note was posted on LinkedIn on 29-Oct-25.

When we think about building resilient systems for our personal usage of technology and making sure that we are not becoming dependent on too many services and live under the illusion that we cannot live without this or that, it helps to proceed methodica…

For the past year and something, I've been on an inner journey, a personal quest to improve my life across multiple aspects such as health, relationships, skills, focus, etc.

Warning, retrospectively-looking, this is a rather scorn-loaded post, please read with a big spoon of salt.

I regularly crave to get entirely rid of my iPhone and move to one of those e-paper devices / minimalist phones.

This morning, I routinely fired up LinkedIn and came across an interesting post from former GigaOm colleague and industry peer Howard Holton, who is sharing a compilation of 50 most useful GPT prompts that he uses and curates on his GitHub page.

Preamble: This post was dictated to ChatGPT, and is an accurate reflection / transcription of my thoughts.

I recently came across a mention about FLUX.1-schnell on social media.

After more than two years, a currently 800-day streak in learning Chinese, and having learned enough to comfortably pass the Chinese HSK1 test (and preparing for HSK2 this autumn), I've decided to part ways with Duolingo.

I am a person that spends way too much time on LinkedIn due to a conjunction of circumstances: I left Facebook back in 2018, I never really returned to Twitter after deleting and re-creating my account there, and also because LinkedIn is a kind of hub whe…

This post is about personal online services we use in our everyday lives.

This morning (Monday, May 27th 2024) I came across a LinkedIn post celebrating an "uncontestable consecration for France" celebrating consecutive investments from Amazon and Microsoft.

An interesting aspect of human societies is the very large gamut of opinions, often irreconciliable.