Hello, and here’s our second edition of the weekly roundup

As you can tell from the featured image, the main topic of the week remains moving. The good news is that this past Sunday, we managed to move all our belongings out of the old apartment. And over the past four years we’ve lived there, we’ve accumulated quite a lot of stuff, which was quite a hassle

The bad news is that the apartment handover is, as usual, being handled with typical French flair and flair, because the agent in charge of all this - along with the agency - has simply stopped responding to messages. And the move-out and key handover are supposed to happen today, Monday. As I finish writing this article, we still have no idea when or at what time all this will take place

It's all well and good, but we really should hand over the keys and bring this whole thing to a logical conclusion

On the other hand, I’m not even sure if I should unpack some of my things, because I’ll have to pack them back up and head to Germany in early April

News for those of you living in Paris who love events: our startup will be at the ChangeNow exhibition at the Grand Palais in late March. Come by to chat about women’s health, research, and other topics. And based on last year’s experience, it’s a pretty interesting event—which, as usual, I didn’t get to see, because when you have a booth there, the only time you have to walk around and look is during the setup of the exhibition itself; after that, it’s all about standing there and talking

The latest update is that I’m gradually scaling back my involvement with certain startups, one of which has turned out to be extremely unprofitable for me in terms of time versus money. Going forward, I’ll likely remain only in an advisory role and focus on cybersecurity for other teams and my main job

Continuing on the topic of work, I’m currently preparing to launch a study on the psychological impact of metrics from various wearable devices on the actual well-being of the people who wear them. I want to understand whether owners of such devices can actually say, “Okay, I feel great today, so I’ll ignore the metrics,” or, on the contrary, “The metrics aren’t looking good, so I’m going to lie down for a bit.”

The idea for this survey had been floating around for quite a while, but I decided to actually go ahead with it after seeing the graph in the scale app on my phone. On it, my weight since last December has been skyrocketing. But the problem is that I’ve actually gained less than a kilogram overall. And looking at it without the details - it seems like I’m getting fat. But no, it just gives that impression

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