Tom Mault

Writes about amateur triathlon and using technology to be more productive. Head of Consulting & Advisory @eviden Switzerland, Moved from 🇬🇧 to🇨🇭 in 2022

[Tom Mault @tmault]

Really want to get a sticker for my bicycle top tube:

"how many chances to be the best Tom?"

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Published it here in case you want to use codex with @home_assistant too! https://t.co/XvQKydp2SA

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/goal mode with codex is mindblowing. I just asked it to look at the great Claude Terminal app for Home Assistant and reimplement it but powered by Codex CLI. One-shotted, first time - boom it just works and now I can use Codex to talk and modify my Home Assistant setup

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@thekitze https://t.co/86roZIHLz1 from Switzerland might fit the bill!

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@SwiftOnSecurity construction physics has a great article on this, enjoy! https://t.co/PUKaBliWRc

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@vividvoid Been using the 8760 hours approach from Alex Vermeer for about a decade - very broad & comprehensive - first year takes longer as you set a guiding vision to aim towards that is reused in following years

https://t.co/p9Zdj7vixJ

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I used AI to prepare for https://t.co/1iV6W7Cotw Professional Scrum Master I, and I will never prepare for an exam again without it.

I had practical experience with scrum, cobbled together from experience delivering Agile projects.

Rather than sit down for an 8-hour e-learning course, I thought I'd start sitting some mock exams to see if there were particular parts of the syllabus I failed on.

1. I picked up a 500-question mock exam pack from https://t.co/3dzchf4Sbb

2. I uploaded the scrum PDF guide into ChatGPT. I prompted it to consicely answer my questions using the scrum guide and direct me to the specific page where the topic I queried was referenced.

I wrote a brief sentence in an Obsidian note explaining the specific topic or principle I did not understand for each question I answered incorrectly.

After three mock exams, I had an Obsidian note with about 30 lines of random principles in it, but I could feel I was starting to see more clearly how the roles, principles, and events in Scrum connect.

I guess it's like reverse engineering the content of the syllabus, which on the tin of it sounds ineffective, but it made me curiously engage with the scrum guide on my own, rather than mindlessly watching a long udemy course and hoping I came across new knowledge.

Then, I dumped the obsidian note into chatGPT and asked it to re-organise the notes based on the events, principles, and roles in Scrum.

Voila - I now had a cleanly organised documents with the specific gaps in knowledge I had (screenshotted). I even asked chatGPT to output it as a markdown formatted document so I could paste it back into Obsidian for future reference.

After a few more mock exam attempts, I started consistently passing them and then divided to sit the exam about 3 hours after sitting down to close my knowledge gaps.

This felt like a huge learning speed unlock - being laser-focused on what you don't know rather than regurgitating known content.

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Tiny tech updates that I am wildly hoping for this year: (1) further rollout of instant payments in Switzerland (you still have to wait for weekday banking hours here!) and (2) that @GarminFitness are able to update the Tacx Neo 2t to use the @GoZwift cog for wireless shifting

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@levelsio This is amazing! Thank you. Just made an iOS shortcut to toggle it all on / off in one tap or request to Siri. Just need to triple tap screen after turning it on.

Link here if anyone wants to copy it. Happy new year!

https://t.co/Gfo2GMvQQ8

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Obsidian plugins are just so continually delightful. A quick morning thought - ah, wouldn't it be useful to have a Kanban board within my notes, and ten seconds later, a community plugin that enables that is installed & working

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@troyhunt Totally agree, I can see why one of the Beatles perched up on Hamilton. Just visited for the day on holiday, stunning place! I wish more towns normalised golf cart life it’s a great way to get around

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Accidental member of the Crypto Confidential flight club - ripped through @nateliason's book on a 1.5 hour flight yesterday and eagerly finished it on the beach this morning. Thanks for sharing your story Nat!

[Nat Eliason @nateliason]

I love how often I see people finish Crypto Confidential on one flight.

It’s a perfect airplane book

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This little bash script can turn an @elgato keylight on & off when an app is using your webcam 😍 What a lovely quality of life improvement to stumble upon on a sunny Friday https://t.co/ncZZlDPezC

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@RMHildebrandt send

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Pixel Perfect is one of those 'why isn't this default in Mac OS experiences'

Ever used an iOS / iPad OS app on your Mac and thought it seemed tiny?

PixelPerfect fixes that

https://t.co/xYLxWfMYSq

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The quality of thinking, planning, and innovation in Switzerland never ceases to have me falling off my chair

THIS IS A MOVEABLE BRIDGE OVER THE MOTORWAY SO THE ROAD CAN BE RESURFACED AND PEOPLE CAN DRIVE STRAIGHT OVER IT

🇨🇭 Magic

https://t.co/N8Wff9SYIK

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As Ali put it in his newsletter; "In a group of 1000+ adults paying $2k for a course, you'd have been in the top 10% by just not quitting for 6 weeks"

What are you quitting at the moment?

With that, this tweet marks day 2 of the 30 day #typefully challenge

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What's the power of perseverance?

@AliAbdaal had more than 1,000 people pay over $2,000 to join the final live cohort of his Part-Time YouTuber academy.

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Part of the course requires submitting 6 videos, one each week over 6 weeks.

- Only 50% of participants submitted the first video.
- A mere 10%, just 100 out of 1000, submitted all 6 videos.