Pierre-Alban Waters

[Pierre-Alban Waters @pierrewaters]

Check out these fun, hands-on @KiwiCo projects for young scientists, artists & makers ages 0-16+. https://t.co/rKZ11Ivvvj

[Pierre-Alban Waters @pierrewaters]

@TimRuhr What do you think of these reform proposals collected in nice web / AI form: https://t.co/ztASk4RUoY . Pretty interesting!

[Pierre-Alban Waters @pierrewaters]

@acturugby @HugoSport_Ed @DavidReyrat @Huget14 @ClementMazella @SquidgeRugby ;)

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Friends, this holiday season, try to reach out to those who have little of no friends, no family, and no reason to cheer. They may be involuntarily stuck in a state of loneliness. They don't need your money; they don't need your gifts.
Maybe just a little bit of attention.

[Pierre-Alban Waters @pierrewaters]

@davidmacdougall hey ! I have an interview about junior rugby and its growth with YLE soon. Any tips?:)

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

22. Neitokainen is a body of water in Finland, which is shaped like Finland

[Pierre-Alban Waters @pierrewaters]

@Thephx8 Super ce petit thread - merci !! :)

[Juliane Fuchs 💛💙 @juliane_fuchs]

Vote for the renovation of the Tali rugby pitch in #omastadi! Our current training pitch is fairly hazardous, causing injuries ever season due to the hard and uneven ground. The pitch also doesn't have the full width of a rugby pitch, so no games.

https://t.co/jORSHyrI8c

[Tim @TimRuhr]

Anyway, I have a quarterly newsletter and the year's last one will drop at the end of December. It includes a recap of the year (elections, NATO, PISA), a piece of history trivia, anecdotes from Nurmi's new NATO book and more. Please consider subscribing. https://t.co/RKUCf1jSrv

[Pierre-Alban Waters @pierrewaters]

@MeilleurBosman J'aimerais que Thomas Lombard parle de petites histoires de vestiaire du Stade, récentes et anciennes! c'est ce qui manque en général, plus d'histoires derrière les scènes :)

[Virpi Flyg @VirpiFlyg]

A new study in Helsinki daycares, Finland: air purifiers led to a 30% reduction in children's illnesses.

Healthier children = healthier staff and parents = big savings.

Bonus: the sound of the air purifier made it easier to get the kids to nap.

https://t.co/kI5VMyDhb9

[Pierre-Alban Waters @pierrewaters]

@KassGrain @LOvaliste @FranceRugby @SquidgeRugby great idea here; basically, add Uruguay to any tier 1 team coming to tour to Argentina. France goes there next year.

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

How Helsinki and Oslo cut pedestrian deaths to zero. “After years of committed action, neither city recorded a single pedestrian fatality in 2019.” #VisionZero https://t.co/EgPQSx1XHu

[Pierre-Alban Waters @pierrewaters]

@sportricolore @FFEquitation @FRA_Equitation @Sports_gouv @HardcoreHistory France world champion of horse archery, beating Mongolia and Kazakhstan in Mongolia, with rented horses. Thought that piece of news would make you smile and give some thought for the hard times / soft times cycled theory ;)

[Ruben Mathisen @rubenbmathisen]

The graph below shows how well the richest Top 1% have done across different countries over the past 200 years.

Some interesting patterns explored in 🧵.
#dataviz

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

A striking graph from the World Inequality Report. Rich people evade a massive share of their tax dues, effectively stealing from the public. And the richer they are, the more they steal.

[Jason Fried @jasonfried]

Business is often seen as the art of acquisition. Acquiring talent, customers, revenue, profits, mindshare, marketshare. Building and growing requires consumption, addition, parlaying some of this into a lot of that.

But the smartest businesses — the ones that tend to stick around for the long haul — know that existence is also about avoidance.

Avoiding careening variable costs, avoiding getting involved with things that aren't core to your business, avoiding spending time on things that don't matter, avoiding bad investments, avoiding people who don't help you prosper, and even avoiding customers who aren't the right fit.

However, there's something even more fundamental to avoid. It would be easy to call it "complexity" but that's not quite it. Complexity can be necessary, and intricacy can be quite beautiful — just stare into a Moorish mosaic and you'll know it.

So complexity isn't the issue.

Overkill is the issue.

Avoiding overkill is the real cheat code. That's how you jump levels. It's how you make a lot more progress with a lot less effort.

Overkill is the dust that settles on the stuff that took a lot of energy to build or buy, but turned out not to be necessary. The over-engineered, over-designed, over-hired, over-litigated, the over-spent, over-promised, over-deliberated.

Overkill is the policy that was written but never enacted. The technology that was purchased that was never used. The seven steps that could be handled in two. The nine people in a meeting made for three. The business equivalent of the 12 bedroom house for a family of four. The cooks when you don't even have a kitchen.

Overkill is using five different products to run a single project. Overkill is an seven-stage interview process that exhausts everyone involved. Overkill is acting like a company 100x your size. Overkill is buying what they bought but that you don't need. Overkill is paying thousands for something worth hundreds. Overkill is hoping that losing more will turn into a win.

In our 24 years, there's nothing we've tried to avoid more at 37signals than overkill. In the things we do, in the way we work, in the things we buy, in the things we use. And, especially, in the products we make for our ourselves and our customers. Our products are built to do what they need to do, in the most straightforward, elegant way, and nothing more. So you can avoid overkill too.

Every day is an opportunity to find just right. To toss that policy that's in the way. To slim down the stack. To sharpen things up. To eliminate the work that doesn't need to be done. To polish the scratched glass so you can see through again.

Amass what you need, but ignore even more. Kill overkill.

https://t.co/9ZACBlGNAv

[Jordane Angelo Gengo @jordanegengo]

It's happening again in 6 days! @HiveHelsinki

[Jason Fried @jasonfried]

A company is essentially two things: a group of people and a collection of decisions. How those people make these decisions is the art of running a business.

We've put together 38 points that help guide our decision making. Here's the list:

https://t.co/8vvvHwR6ht