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October 2025

Hey friends!

Super excited to get back to sending personal monthly newsletters! My company Side School is growing well, and I took more time this month to explore new ideas. I’m sharing them live on this Whatsapp channel, if you haven’t joined already. Here’s a recap:

  • I built an AI coach that observes your screen and guides you as you learn new topics (like prompting, Blender basics, Excel pivot tables, whatever!). This prototype is rough but already feels better than following Youtube or other types of tutorials (passive / no feedback). Let me know by chat if you want access. Click on the image to see the demo:

  • Updated my personal website, and it gathered around 80k impressions on X. I got introductions to dozens of fellow founders in SF from that, which was great. Everything was built with Framer and custom Typescript on Workshop. Click to open:

  • Third time I organize a public event and it feels like a career cheat code. Actually takes about 3h in total to set up (find place to host/ask network, set up Lu.ma page, write social media post to attract traffic, accept/refuse people on luma). But this is a low price to pay for being a nexus node in a talent network!

  • Best decision I made in 2025, by far, was taking meditation seriously. Just finished reading these books which i recommend if you want to explore this path with me.

  • Sending a picture of my room and asking ChatGPT to generate an improved version remains one of my favorite personal use case 😍 getting good new ideas

Would love to know what you think of this newsletter format. What do you think? See you next month!

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