Erik Pillon — Luxembourg
I think like a physicist, but I code like a mathematician.
At work I figure out how much an insurer needs to put aside for claims that haven't happened yet, which is a very good excuse to think about probability all day. The rest of the time I build small tools, read a lot, write about books and the history of science, and train for races that are longer than they need to be.
it all follows whatever I'm into at the time, which is a polite way of saying there's too much
Where my money actually is
A webapp for keeping track of my spending, my investments and where my money actually sits — built mostly so I'd stop kidding myself about it. Sign up, or just play around with a made-up portfolio.
A second brain that survives contact with paper
Half paper notebook, half app. A place to catch ideas and find them again later, because they never turn up when I'm ready for them. Still very much a building site.
Your friendly neighbourhood quizmaster
I write and host pub quizzes around Luxembourg. The site is the archive of every question I've set, plus where the next quiz nights get announced.
How science actually happened
The people, the dates and the discoveries that shaped science, told as stories rather than as a syllabus. Published on Substack.
Twenty scribbled questions, one evening with the telemetry, and the one I got wrong
I watched the Azerbaijan qualifying with a notebook, then spent the evening checking what I thought I'd seen against the timing data. The track gained 1.6 seconds — almost none of it on the straight.
How Great Athletes Think, Train, and Thrive
Jim Afremow, 2013
A sports-psychology handbook read from the wrong side of an Ironman build: 250 pages that could have been 80, but the 80 are good.
Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim, 2018
What 23,000 survey responses actually say about high-performing engineering teams — and why the answer turns out to be culture rather than tooling.
not everything lives here — the newsletter and the dashboards have their own homes
Last book I took notes on: The Champion’s Mind · Jim Afremow