## Living in Paris, France In 2018, I moved to Paris, with my wife and my two daughters. We are very happy there. I'm studying the idea of living in a PĂ©niche in Paris. https://v1.manfred.life/paris ## Starting my new startup, Berty Shortly after having shutdown Wulo, I started a new project with the same team. Berty is a privacy application allowing everyone to communicate freely and keep their privacy, thanks to cryptography and peer-to-peer technology. https://v1.manfred.life/berty ## Co-founding a new blockchain Osmose Collective is a non-profit organization bringing new decentralized services for massive coop revolution. https://v1.manfred.life/osmose ## Coding everyday Coding everyday since Oct 12, 2014. https://v1.manfred.life/10years-github ## Doing consulting for startups, VCs, and multinational groups I regularly audit and assist all-sized organizations in growing, scaling-up and solving complex problems. https://v1.manfred.life/audit ## Working on a new version of Pathwar I'm currently creating the 5th version of Pathwar, an IT security & cryptography learning platform. This new version is a complete rewrite that focuses on: * simplifying the operational tasks, so I can let Pathwar up and running 365/365d, * simplifying external contributions to ease the creation of an open-source community. I plan to create partnerships with multiple IT schools, help them to have exclusive content, with the target of having Pathwar becoming a new or complementary security section in their program. https://v1.manfred.life/pathwar ## Learning new skills and reading books For years, I was too focus on multiple topics and didn't take the time to read books. I'm now regularly reading non-fictional books, actively taking notes, sharing my insights with my colleagues. I plan to write articles on this blog about my notes so it can help people get interested in some books, and more importantly, help myself to remember what I learned. I'm currently interested in cryptography, productivity, graph theory, blockchain, entrepreneurship, life-experiments, philosophy, music, and science. I'm in a "graph databases & vizualization systems" period. https://v1.manfred.life/reading ## Writing As for reading, I didn't write enough in the last years, and I'm now committed to writing regularly. Sometimes it can be a blog post, a tweet, a comment, or a personal note. https://v1.manfred.life/blog ## Embracing useless things Enjoying doing and discovering useless but smart things (a.k.a. Hacks). Most of my useless things are done with peers from https://ultre.me. https://v1.manfred.life/useless ## Maintaining my open-source projects I regularly add new features to the pieces of software I'm using every day. I improve the documentation of my projects to help more people discovering them. I fix or help to fix bugs and issues feedbacked by other contributors or users. https://v1.manfred.life/donate --- Last update: 2019-03-06