Notes

Woke up in the middle of the night with this very clear recipe idea in my head: Splinter Rice Recipe (20 minutes, easy level) Mix a bowl of rice with a large quantity of splinters that will flavor the dish but that you absolutely, absolutely must not s...

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My mom lives in Morocco, so it's not easy to avoid flying. But here I am at the airport for work. And honestly, I could have organized things differently, but everything happened so fast. The success of an offer I put together kind of accelerated my life.

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When people used to ask me "what do you do?", I'd always say: "I make films." I never dared say "I'm a filmmaker" because that would've implied I made a living from it, which has never quite been the case.

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Something my son said yesterday while we were out walking: "Nobody wants problems. But some people have problems." What could I do but agree? It reminded me a bit of Chevalier and Laspalès' "some tried, they had problems" sketch.

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I'm blown away by the relevance of my posts 😎. For me, only. I realize two days after posting a video , or three days after adding a note right here, that the content in question answers exactly the question I'm asking myself right now. But like...

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This morning's rain made me realize that some seemingly superficial stress can run much deeper than expected.

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Books, recordings and apps that have been most important in my meditation practice and my understanding of Eastern philosophy.

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Meditation is about bringing your attention to the present moment. The arm. That tension in the neck. The bird singing. A thought arising. A sudden feeling of sadness. That shifts and disappears. The foot against the ground. The breath. The bird, again.

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I've discovered that I work like ChatGPT. And you probably do too. Meaning that my next action is essentially determined by whatever context elements I happen to have in my head at that moment. And, like ChatGPT, that context is minimal.

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Three people recognized me on the street in Paris because they follow me on Instagram . One the night before last, and two this afternoon. All very kind, each time. So what do I do, quit everything? 😅

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In professional rivalries, doing it before the other can become more important than doing exactly what you want.

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Verbal thought is just commentary. ( We've talked about it. ) It's not what chooses the action. No: it observes and comments. A bit like a babushka sitting all day at the foot of a building: "Did you see that? They chose to raise their right arm again.

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Personally, I've reached 12K followers on Instagram . I remember a time when I wanted to create discussion groups with friends: virtual salons where I could find conversation and company 24/7. It never worked out.

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Everything is so clear when I'm present. When I'm curious about the moment, when I inspect the colors, sounds, and sensations that come to me... The world is no longer mysterious. It's no longer frightening. Stories of success and failure seem far away.

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Hit ten thousand followers on Instagram . Does that officially make me an influencer? The best part: the messages and comments. It's helped me find a whole bunch of people who are interested in the same things I am.

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Yet another abandoned project (for now). Animated science fiction short film about the life of the first human on Mars... who happens to be a 7-year-old child. When technology became advanced enough to reach Mars, every government on the planet wondered..

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What you do now is what you'll do later. Preparation can become your entire life.

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I couldn't find the original source (even though I searched for at least 30 seconds), so I'm telling you from memory. It was a music critic who was talking about a new track: "Anyone eating alphabet soup would shit better lyrics to a better tune.

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In the "everyone knew except me" series, subsection "pretty song about birds but actually not," I give you Barbara's L'Aigle Noir, which is actually about the incest she experienced as a child. A friend mentioned it in passing, so I went to check.

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A music video I absolutely love shot by Camille Tardieu in a single take during this year's Off Courts festival: The musician is Édouard Pons (who composed the music for my film Migrul , also shot at Off Courts this year).

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When I wake up in the morning, I don't know. I have things to do (" what "), like everyone else, but I have no idea how I'm going to go about it. And I think that's the secret.

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I enjoyed the first podcast with Cory Doctorow so much that I listened to a second one : " Capitalism ruins everything ".

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One thing done right, sincerely, all the way through, pulls everything else along and can change the course of a day.

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I share the contents of my "Today" note that I read every morning as a way of communicating with myself.

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It happened to me for the first time the day before lockdown. I'd been meditating for two years and that morning, almost by accident, I stopped the voice in my head. No more inner chatter, no more constant judgment, no more anxious rumination. Silence.

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Cory Doctorow coined the term "Enshittification." On Adam Conover's podcast , I thought he'd give a brief overview, plug his book of the same name, crack a few jokes, and that would be it.

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Since the future is impossible to predict, every action should be guided by instinct and excitement rather than intellectual planning.

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I'm allergic to anything that isn't genuine. Ever since I was a kid, I can't stand ads. ("But some of them are good!" – that's not the point.) I also struggle with certain TV news programs, certain speeches, certain networks.

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A beautiful quote from Primo Levi about the relationship between the inner tension of arches and human resilience.

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After more than 1,600 episodes over 16 years, American comedian Marc Maron released the final episode of his podcast this week. His last guest: Barack Obama. I love Marc Maron, his humor, his conversations, and I'm going to be sad that he's stopping.

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