It is undoubtedly the most anticipated cinema release of the summer. If the film barbie will be unveiled on July 19 in cinemas, a few lucky people have already had the opportunity to attend the world premiere which was held this Sunday, June 9 in Los Angeles. An event attended by Simu Liu, who plays one of the many Kens on screen alongside Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling.
For the occasion, the 34-year-old actor wore a light blue Versace suit set over a white shirt open to his torso, as well as a pair of weathered green shoes. The Marvel star accessorized everything with a piece that certainly caught our attention: a harness. If Simu Liu is a regular at the Italian luxury house, this is the first time that he has accompanied one of his suits with such an accessory, the trend of which dates back to 2019.
A 2019 trend
It is to Virgil Abloh that we owe this skyrocketing rise of harnesses in men’s fashion. During his first Louis Vuitton fashion show in June 2018 in Paris, the designer, who died of cancer at the end of 2021, presented a series of accessories to wear on the torso including various white, colored and patterned harnesses. It didn’t take more for the star system seizes this trend. Timothée Chalamet, then on the rise in Hollywood, appeared on the red carpet of the 76e Golden Globes ceremony in a black Louis Vuitton ensemble accompanied by a sequinned harness.
The Foundation is pleading to “increase the maximum amount of the fine” which is for the moment “not very dissuasive”, its director of studies, Manuel Domergue, indicated on franceinfo on Thursday.
“We see that there is a trend towards better respect for rent controls in Paris”, but this trend “is still fragile”, underlined Thursday October 5 on franceinfo Manuel Domergue, director of studies at the Abbé Pierre Foundation, the day of the publication of his third barometer on the subject, while rent control is progressing in Paris and in several large cities in France , according to the Abbé Pierre Foundation Barometer made public on Thursday. Thus in Paris, the share of rental advertisements which exceed the legal ceiling is decreasing. From 31% in 2022 and 35% in 2021, this rate fell to 28% in 2023.
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For Manuel Domergue, it is necessary “sanctions against owners who do not respect this law”because “This is not an option”. The Foundation campaigns for “Increase the maximum amount of the fine” which is currently not “not very dissuasive”.
franceinfo: Is the drop in rental advertisements which exceed the legal ceiling due to rent controls? Manuel Domergue: Yes. It’s still an interesting but still fragile trend. But we see that there is a trend towards better respect for rent controls in Paris, where it has been in place since 2019. We can therefore think that owners and tenants are starting to get used to, to understand this measure. In the first months, it is normal for there to be a little ignorance. And then the Paris town hall made efforts. It took over state jurisdiction to enforce rent controls. It has put in place easier procedures for tenants. And it contacted, quite proactively, the owners who do not respect this framework and began to impose fines on them, while the prefecture, the State before, did almost nothing. So it takes time. We have been talking about this rent control for a very long time, but it is starting to be put in place.
Does this happen in the same way elsewhere than in Paris? There has been a rather positive trend, particularly in Lille which implemented the framework around the same time as Paris. We also see cities like Bordeaux where things are improving, or like Lyon and Villeurbanne. There are other cities where it is a little early to have an evaluation. We may have to do it next year. Local stakeholders must also learn to understand this measure. And above all, we must inform and support tenants, because very few know how to fight against abusive rents. And there must be fines. There must be sanctions against owners who do not comply with this law. The law is not optional. The question of the amount of rent is not incidental.
“The average deductible that we have observed in France is 200 euros per month. This means that all tenants, if this law were respected by everyone, would earn 200 euros per month. it’s nothing. »
Manuel Domergue, director of studies at the Abbé Pierre Foundation
on franceinfo
What do you say to city tenants who are concerned and who, for some, are not aware that rent controls concern them? We tell them, go to the websites which explain the maximum rent level that the lessor must respect. And if you realize that this is not the case, try amicable mediation with the lessor. And then, if that is not enough, you must contact the town hall or the prefecture. There is a departmental conciliation commission. You must have your rights respected. You risk nothing. The landlord does not have the right to give you notice because you are contesting the rent. So you have to try your luck. Afterwards, everything should not be based on the action of tenants. We really need a lot more information and action to punish owners.
Are cities providing enough information and support to tenants on the subject? We see that the Paris town hall, but also Lille, and even Lyon, are making special efforts. Afterwards, it will take a little time because we are coming out of years of laxity where an owner had an interest in not respecting the law because there was almost no risk. We must make everyone understand that this law must be respected, otherwise sanctions will come. Perhaps we should also increase the maximum fine amount, (currently) to 5,000 euros. When we can exceed (the ceiling) by 2,000 to 3,000 euros per year, a potential and very rare sanction of 5,000 euros, it is not very dissuasive.
“All real estate players, CAFs, real estate agents, must also enforce this law among the people they support. »
Manuel Domergue, director of studies at the Abbé Pierre Foundation
One of the concepts about productivity that has gained popularity in recent years is that of the ‘second brain’, often referred to directly by its English name, ‘second brain’, even among speakers of other languages.
Its basis is not new, since it refers to the need to archive and classify all the knowledge accumulated, in this case by a person. It’s a practice that goes back as far as we want to go, only In the digital age, that knowledge skyrockets due to the number of sources to which we are exposed. Books, tweets, videos, personal notes, online articles, podcasts… It’s not that we know much more than before, but that we are exposed to content ubiquitously and permanently.
This amount of information, often difficult to manage and therefore susceptible to forgetting, or simply not being able to locate it when we want to return to it, is what has motivated the concept of the ‘second brain’.
From Memex to CODE
One of the key names in the history of the ‘second brain’ is Vannevar BushAmerican inventor born at the end of the 19th century, considered the father of the atomic bomb and ideologist, among other things, of Memex, a mechanical device for storing books and recordings, adding annotations in the margins, designed to find the content quickly.
This device was never materialized by anyone, but its approach alone was already something more than innovative in the 1940s.
Bush wanted this device to emulate the way the brain links data by association, not just traditional indexes. It was a precursor to hypertext and inspired the later work of Tim Berners-Lee. One of his quotes, from the first half of the last century, perfectly defines the bases of a ‘second brain’:
Presumably, the man’s spirit should be elevated if he can better review his dark past and more fully and objectively analyze his current problems. He has built a civilization so complex that he needs to mechanize his records more thoroughly if he wants to take his experiment to its logical conclusion and not simply get stuck along the way by overloading his limited memory. His forays may be more pleasant if he can regain the privilege of forgetting the innumerable things he does not need to have at hand immediately, with some assurance that he can find them again if they turn out to be important.
And someone who includes this quote among his favorites is, possibly, the person who has best taken up Bush’s baton in the modern era, Tiago Fortewho published the book that has marked a before and after in this trend, ‘Create your second brain: A proven method to organize your digital life’.
In its pages, Forte develops the concept of the ‘second brain’ around creating a personalized information and knowledge management system, which acts as an external warehouse of the human brain. In it, ideas, information and knowledge are collected and organized. This idea is also often referred to more broadly as a PKM (‘Personal Knowledge Management’).
Its key components are summarized in the acronym CODE (Capture, Organize, Distill, Express’).
Capture: collect information from books, articles, podcasts, meeting notes, personal thoughts, videos, conversations, tweets, etc.
Organize: classify and structure that information in an accessible format that follows logic.
Distill: extract what is most relevant to our context and our goals, for example with a progressive summary: put in bold what is most notable, then highlight in yellow what is truly essential and finally write in our words what is the most important of that information for us and because.
Express: convert all that accumulated information into the source that will inspire and support us for our own creations. Text, music, videos, conferences, code… Whatever our activity consists of.
This system is designed to facilitate information management, but ultimately serves to enhance creativity and continuous learning.
That last thing is the key: it is not a system designed to pass the time, like an elegant hobby, organizing our history of knowledge. The idea is that this results in greater creativity, that you drink from many sources at the same time and that you know how to keep the essentials of each of them.
Forte, in addition to writing a book that has laid the foundations for the modern approach to this system, has used a simple, direct and attractive concept, in just two words, that has helped skyrocket its success and reception. Something similar to what James Clear achieved somewhat earlier with his wonderful book ‘Atomic Habits’.
This has also been contributed by the fact that he has not only limited himself to writing his book, but also publishes constant useful resources for those who want to start in this world, such as a complete introductory guide.
In addition to CODE, other acronyms are essential in this concept: PARA (Projects, Areas, Resources, File’.
Projects: short-term efforts, whether on a personal or professional level, that we undertake with an objective in mind.
Areas: long-term responsibilities that we will manage over time.
Resources: useful interests in the future.
Archive: elements from any of the previous categories that are already inactive.
Tool question
To create our second brain we need tools, and here those that lead are They allow you to enter information with great freedom regarding its format and its hierarchy.. Especially those that allow you to connect some pages (or canvases, or files, or whatever) with others.
One of them is Roam, a note-taking application specifically designed to organize knowledge, such as research, interconnecting files, which are as simple to manage as a text document.
Another tool like Notion has become especially popular among followers of this system, although Forte does not recommend it due to its “slow and cumbersome” search.
Notion allows each page to have unlimited subpages, connections between any of them, and above all, a completely free format, being able to host plain text, images, links, databases, small spreadsheets, etc.
A boom that has served to boost a whole legion of template sellers, among whom those who shine offer their own interpretation of what the foundations of a second brain should be.
Then there is Obsidian, again aimed at interconnecting notes, although not particularly easy to use for those who are not familiar with managing local vaults or writing in the Markdown language. Or Tana, or Mem, which integrates an AI-based experience. But Evernote, despite being in decline in recent years, is still so versatile and versatile that it continues to be the one that Forte himself uses.
Content storage
One of the first obstacles encountered by anyone who wants to implement a system like this, especially if they have done it hastily, ignoring previous theory, is what content fits into itwhere it comes from and whether it makes sense to add it or not.
The type of content is as broad as each person’s needs. Any ideas:
Books. We can add each book we have read, especially if it is non-fiction or if we consider that we can extract future learning and resources from it.
Articles and . If we have read something that could be useful to us in the future, storing it instead of entrusting it to our memory is a good idea.
Reading notes. It is as important to keep in mind what we have read as our notes on it, with the summaries or reflections that arise, especially how. Both for books and articles.
Tweets. Now ‘posts’. Sometimes we see one, or threads made up of several, that contain valuable information in small pills.
Personal records. Daily reflections on our goals (work, health and activity, personal development, etc.) to help us establish short and long-term objectives.
Artistic inspirations. Collections of images, phrases or concepts that inspire us for creative projects, such as writing, art, design, etc.
Project information. Such as breakdowns of its stages, necessary resources, market trends we cover, demographic data and our competitors, etc.
The ideal is not to adhere too much to the examples proposed by others, because only we will know what really interests us based on our life objectives: the sport we practice, the goals we have, our professional career, our cultural concerns, training needs, etc
The ‘second brain’ system sounds promising for anyone, although it also has some criticism, such as the information overload that implementing this system can entail, which in the long term could lead to paralysis by analysis, making decision-making difficult. That’s where how well we do the ‘D’ in CODE comes into play: distill.
There is also the learning curve that this system entails, which can be discouraging for those who are not previously accustomed to managing knowledge in a digital environment.
