The engineer tiptoing in another world.

The engineer tiptoing in another world.

I am now trying another prospective which is better suiting me. why being confrontationnal when you can be working along. don t rely on what you think is a given, 2+2 might equal 5, who decided otherwise. a mix of words and meaning making it all easier for each one to understand each other. Yes, i wouldn t change my belief, i will never hinder the incentives pushing me forward, as one of the best engineers once said "Imagination is more important than knowledge" That's the swift move I would enjoy, not looking for the end results, but looking to the pattern, theme, current flow, actors in this flow, to drive up a process where uncertainty makes the sign equals  an ever more interesting challenge to reach.

As an engineer, I like uncertainty, that s driving me forward, the great pleasure of carrying something out, not being sure totally if it s gonna be a success,identifying where all that is going to and now the pleasure of dealing in another field on the day to day with the different uncertainties up coming. An engineer is good at reducing them, Heisenberg showed the way, it s just now to go one step more forward, That s what makes life interesting, risk and uncertainties, trying to minimize them all, definitely not possibly erasing them, and trying to get the light. Creativity is one torch of its own, it s lighting up my world and never i will take something for given, always challenge. Ok if not in a group, challenge it personnally, think behink, think of the rationales underlying it all, thinking of it in a bigger context, that s definitely one piece of interest. 


We are emotionnal, we are not rationnal for most of the thing we are doing, so yes rationality is good to set milestones, deadlines, objectives should still be set up realistically, with its part of emotions entering the loop.

Reality is this world I am moving forward to. At a time where the virtual is making it even more, we found a leeway and escape to define reality to find a comfort zone somewhere else. Nothing to blame, here we can set up our rules, our way forward and so on, but reality will always be the back scene underlying it all, these sights, these noises, these reactions, these beliefs, these smell, these touch, these tastes. That s all that making it more interesting, and makes that you are reacting with surprise, again and again. Surprises should never be spoilt. Part is good, part is bad. At the end, all these parts are life. Needless to say I like it

I don 't know why

Google style

http://www.businesspundit.com/google-ahead-of-the-curve-or-losing-its-way/

An interesting insights on why you should keep aware that the world around might not be moving as fast as your company does, and that getting to a slow steady state, doesn t mean you will be wiped out of the internet, or is it?

It s increasing the hyperactivity required in meeting customer growing demands, and getting everything from the customers answered fast. too strange and fast for a traditional, required, rational decision-making balancing pros and cons.

It does change our day to day behaviour, and given the success of the past, these Google customers might appear to get frustrated more and more easily, sustainable move? investing in rational piece of equipment and infrastructure, even if moving a lot technologically, might prove to provide a relief stage and deserved break for a software company like google evolving the more than quick IT sector, time to reflect a bit on what they ve been doing, and slow the pace reasonably and sustainably.

On the highway, the fastest is the one who goes over everybody else, it does still include the risk of stopping for good,

as accidents are far more difficult to handle in this set up. Here I am doing a metaphor on the speed of change so common in the IT that we don t see anymore the difference between what we've got to have, and what we can have but won t prove necessary. So get out of buzz and wave and keep it rationale if I dare conclude,or just focus in stayin the highly dynamic IT environment coming back to your roots of thinking and analysing and getting a system fully efficient and properly implemented and maintained like you know how to.

Tie Break

On a break

An MBA is unfortunately not like i was expecting it to be, like holidays where i could finally rest my thoughts from an hectic over the edge time, but going from subject to subject such as, and only for the first quarter:
- finance accounting (up to the mergers and all balance sheet income statement statement of retained earnings, statement of cash flow
- organisationnal behavior ( business case on how to identify a strategy, implement change, manage and be a leader, where the very interesting difference in english between may should can have to must is interesting)
- information system ( i understand far more with my SAP background, everything needs to be structured, and IS god is saving it all, well... )
- Marketing fundamentals (product price promotion place customer competition distribution channel and so on, the best definition was how to work on misery of people, i did believe that)
- economics ( the most hurting philosophy i understand, teaching us all the goodness of capitalism, see below my 10 principles of Mankiw interpretation...)
- Entrepreneurship management (in fact, i discovered the school is not well linked with major companies, apart from american ones, so for people not finding a job, the best is to create it)
- Quantitative analysis for business (I am a math geek like myself)
- Strategy, industry diversity, communication, and more and more business cases and i am  reading 200 pages a day on average... even during week end, sob.

and soon another trimester on cost accounting and all other bulls, market analysis and so on. don t want to look at it yet and spoil my surprise.

so in his break, BB helps clarified all that by keeping it quiet. the results will make me review my alphabet, yes american marks.

took time to think about challenges, one thing for sure this is not good for inspiration, but hey still a little bit of it, so whoever wanting to be part of a short movie, just raise your hands, and get the other one on the computer to contact BB´s PA, so here comes the eight challenge:

Two scenarii:

Tchout
C est un clown au chomage et doit aller a l ANPE. Les gens ne vont plus au cirque et il se retrouve sans emploi.

Il derive dans les rues de la ville, s’arrete devant les magazins, discute avec les mannequins, s epoustouflent devant les couleurs de leur vetement. Il decouvre la culture, le monde extrieur, les gens circulent autour de lui en marche rapide. Donc oui il rencontre qqs peu d autres personnes habillees en clown sur sa route et d autre habille bizarrement normalement, une tete bien serieuse.

A un moment,  il se balade dans un jardin enfin il danse il court il volage il se roule meme sur le gazon. Sa tete va dans tous les sens. Splendides couleurs, bleu vert orange tout foisonne, la on entend une sirene retentir et un monsieur en uniforme l appeler. Il s´arrete pour lui poser une question on lui demande ses papiers, on lui demande ceux de ses parents, apres 3 semaines celui de son arriere grand mere. Ca finit ou on le voit en costume cravate a la fin. L'écran se partage en deux, ce qu'on aimerait etre et ce qu'on est.
It´s a jobless clow, got to check at the job center, people don't go often to the circus, and crisis is hitting badly.
He is wandering through the street, people in fast forward mode. Yes he does meet some other dressed as clown but most of them are oddly wearing some classical outfit with a very serious face.
Then, as he is walkingn through a garden, euh yes he dances, runs, flies, rolling himself on the grass. His head is going everywhere. Fantastic colours, blue, green, orange, everything is blossoming. Suddenly, we can hear a siren and one person asking him some papers, asking him the one of his parents. after 3 weeks wandering between the police station and his tent, they finally ask the official paper of his grandma. He doesn´t know her. So here it finishes, he is dressed smartly with a tie.
At the end, the screen is split in two: what we would like to be and what we are.

Chapter
Un corto, primer capitulo que se abre como un libro, un primer capitulo, 3 minutos sobre no se el fantastico libro de illusiones, un otro sobre dentro del scriptorium, no una copia de este assunto, una vista dando una interpretacion que se puede ver sobre la camera
One short movie, first chapter opened as a book. Three minutes to travel through god knows what, like the fantastic book of illusions (Thanks to Paul Auster), another chapter on the insied of the scriptorium, where the fiction is leading the spectator to see how the author evolves with persons coming from his writing.
Well I won t be Ryan Mc Ginness, but what a fantastic colourful logo job he is doing. stop by.

note to yourself

Pearl Jam

Monsieur le président, je vous écris une lette

que vous lirez peut-etre
si vous avez le temps.

"How words can express anything." it looks quite frenglish till this essay.

One year ago, exactly at the same time as today, i did compute an essay to enter univeristy asking me a question I wasn't too interested into first, and where I gave yes at least two days of full thinking through, and so here it is. You may find this interesting, I believe he won't answer this question:

If you had the opportunity, what would you ask the president or leader of your country, and why?

My question would be simple and straight-forward:

And after, What are you going to do after your presidency?

As entering the political area, I would ask an open and simple question that will show naturally his very own personnality: his view once achieved, what will he do and what will be the position of France in the international environment. He is a young president who will be retire at a young age. Will he stop and retire simply from the political scene? Given he has been carrying out various successful and some unsuccessful projects, his view on that will be very interesting for other people when answering a question directly linked for manangers and leaders: Once achieving your set objective, what are you doing?

As a successful leader, all his career has been focused on winning the presidential elections. It s setting up the view and handling he has in international relationship, and the situation of France on the very long term. Mayor of Neuilly-Sur-Seing, president of Hauts-de-Seine county, spokeperson of the government, minister of budget, minister of communication, minister of internal affairs, minister of economy and finances under socialist and republican presidency, this lawyer from an hungarian family finally achieve his objective and became in 2007 president of France.

Now, now that he is in the position he was driven to complete all his life, he will be retired at a young age. so what does he see next? He became a leader owning a vision developping his political and personnal drive. His whole career and furthermore during his presidency, he has been pro-active on all sectors not leaving any folders unattended. For example: Alignment to US policy, and the OTAN, Reaching balance by reducing health care, agreement with Russia on petrol while crisis in Georgia, Immigration policy, Position within the European Union. His answer will support the view he has on the strentgh in time of the projects he implemented.

Personnally, that is a question that I am answering for myself everyday. It supports my drive in daily actions and keeps my motivation high in performing in my own chosen way and chose the relevant and balanced actions forward.

To conclude, his view of future will link with the view he has on France geopolitical future and how he is seeing France after his presidency being handed over to other movements and other people. This will develop to the transition at the end of the presidency and hopefully how he is planning to ensure his main projects are carried over.

we are all the same, we are all different

"we are all the same, we are all different"

I first started to have this thought thinking eh what the hell, yes we've got our differences, yes we do value them, yes it should be bringing it alltogether even better. Differences are what make us think differently.

So I was thinking of my 7th challenge and how to go down the streets and bring this message. so first the thought was to do that topless, getting out all these modern outfit that makes us different for no reasons. and then I rationalise a little bit, and thought ok, you've got to think, search, believe.

Dave Matthews first introduced me to this idea some times ago through this wonderful song, and today I fell on this one from a group in their free hugs campaign.

So yes, to value our difference, to value our common belonging, I want to organise one day in Madrid the 10th of April. Ok, there no special orginality as it has been already done before, but I believe it's nice and full of sense to get through this milestone at one stage of my life. meet the unknowns because it will bring you joy and more strength.

Seriously, on the background, I ve got to say that before typing "we are all the same", and then "we are all different" through youtube, I wouldn't have fell onto this great recap of the monty python through the life of Brian.

we are all different and that makes it even better, because it could be quite scary to see the world through the scope of 1984 or Brave new world, books written decades ago, and that makes even more their sense now. so what do you think? if you are in Madrid, just join.

And yes it's part of the 30 challenges I will accomplish before turning 30 in 10 months, that gave me an idea to introspect the brain of
big bang itself.


Update 2012: more hardcopies from Henri Moufettal here
MBA the Magic Bible of Arts, reviewed and formatted. http://www.lulu.com/product/couverture-souple/mba-the-magic-bible-of-arts/18814696
And another ones in English on the stage:
Play the brackets on stage, reviewed and formatted http://www.lulu.com/product/couverture-souple/play-the-brackets-on-stage/18814451
And the last one in French, L'autre rivage, revu en couleurs, http://www.lulu.com/product/couverture-souple/lautre-rivage/18811927

Conte enfantin

Conte enfantin last update:28/08/09

- Dis Papa, pourquoi tu souris?
- Parce que je suis heureux, je n aime pas pleurer et on peut s emmerder de tant de problemes
 - Oui mais pourquoi tu souris?
 - tout simplement parce que je sais le faire et j ai ete triste trop longtemps
- Dis Papa, pourquoi tu souris tout le temps?
- Pourquoi pas? pourquoi tu poses toujours des questions?
- Oui, mais pourquoi. Y a des choses tristes qui arrivent.
- Certes, ca aurait pu etre beaucoup plus grave
- Mais ce sourire, il est pas vrai si tu penses au grave?
- Ca harmonise mes aigus. Fiston, tu deviens un peu trop philosophe dis donc, oui ce sourire est moi, je ne me mens jamais.
- Papa, qu est ce que tu racontes la? j'y comprends rien.
 - Il n'y a rien a comprendre. souris et tu comprendras, Allez viens on va manger une glace sur la route du congelo
- Dis Papa, pourquoi tu me racontes tout ca? - Parce que j ai une seule envie, garder le sourire avec toi.
- Ah.
- D ailleurs tu as demande a l institutrice si je pouvais assister a une de vos journees de cours?
- Oui, elle a dit non. Elle trouve ca bizarre. Elle veut te voir maintenant.
 - D'accord
- Dis Papa, tu n auras pas de problemes?
 - Non jamais, je profite aussi des impasses pour faire le mur.
- dis Papa, tu viens jouer avec moi
 - Oui, tout de suite fiston, on joue a quoi? - Aux policiers et aux voleurs.
- Dis papa, prends moi dans tes bras. Il s agrippe
- dis Papa, pourquoi tu ecris avec tes doigts et non pas un stylo?
 - Je ne sais pas jouer de piano, donc je joue avec les mots
 - Papa, t es bizarre La version courte aurait ete
- Dis papa, pourquoi tu souris tout le temps?
- Parce que je pleure trop la nuit. Respecte le sourire comme nulle autre chose.
- Oui Papa, mais quand tu ne seras plus la?
 - Je serai bien la, je serai dans ton sourire Fiston.