Tech companies have long been held as a pinnacle of best human resources practices. It’s just not the truth. The book “Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead” is supposed to be a best seller, even when it already aims at transforming yourself…

After Take It Easy, it’s the second time in a few weeks that the French Courts recognize that the so-called “freelances” of the gig economy are indeed employees and that they should benefit from the protection of the French Code du Travail. This time, it’s the Paris Court of Appeal…

It won’t regulate itself — For a while, regulation was an ugly word when speaking about Big Tech. What for? Innovation was everything. And social justice was a sure result given the so-called Varian Rule from Google’s Chief Economist Hal Varian : “a simple way to forecast the future is to look at what rich…

What will be the consequences of big tech growing moral failures? — People don’t throw rocks on the Google buses anymore. Those were the good old times. On Tuesday, La Casemate, a fablab based in Grenoble was vandalized and burned because it was described as “a notoriously harmful institution by its diffusion of digital culture”. The public policy of supporting the digital…

Is this Silicon Valley’s Marie-Antoinette moment? — The New York Times just published an op-ed on how “Silicon Valley Can’t Destroy Democracy Without Our Help”. Its arguments are simple: “Twitter could work harder to fight hate speech”, but… “Facebook’s algorithms may encourage echo chambers”, but… “It has become popular to demonize Silicon Valley”, but… So it’s not…

My friend Francis Jutand was the first to introduce me to the idea of man-machine co-evolution. …

… and, good or bad, there might be more to come! — I have been studying this case since at least 2012 when I was nominated as General Secretary of the French National Digital Council. We even invited them to explain their point of view in front of the Council. It’s an important landmark decision as it’s the first time that : …

The ARCEP - the French Telecom Regulator - released its first “State Of The Internet” report, and it fears for Net Neutrality in Europe and elsewhere — I have been interviewed by the ARCEP, the French Telecom Regulator, on the impact of the increased balkanization of apps and devices on Net Neutrality, or to be more precise, on interoperability and interconnectivity for users. The problem is simple.

… or the truth behind titles such as “How to function on only 4 hours of sleep” — The religion of productivity has its limits and one dubious claim is that people should be proud to sleep less. It’s somehow supposed to demonstrate that they are more productive than most. Marissa Mayer likes to repeat that she sleeps 4 to 6 hours a day. …