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Apolline Guillot

Apolline Guillot

is a journalist and philosopher of technology with degrees from France’s École Normale Supérieure in Lyon and HEC-Paris, where she specialised in innovation and media, before joining Philonomist’s editorial team.

Picture: © CP
78 contributions :
5 minutes
Training
The sensitisation illusion
Empiricism strikes back
5 minutes
7 minutes
Women/Men
“Organisations want to be more open without paying the price”
Interview with Manon Garcia
7 minutes
5 minutes
Politics
Ukraine’s other war
Black gold up for grabs
5 minutes
9 minutes
Technology
“Big Tech wants to privatise the future”
Interview with Asma Mhalla
9 minutes
6 minutes
Communication
“Conflicts offer precious opportunities for change”
The art of the office spat, according to Maxime Rovere
6 minutes
5 minutes
Technology
The end of the chip war?
When Sam Altman turns on capitalism
5 minutes
5 minutes
Professional / private
How working together changes relationships
Couples therapist Héloïse Galili explains
5 minutes
5 minutes
Artificial Intelligence
Say hello to artificial Socrates
Can ChatGPT know that it knows nothing?
5 minutes
5 minutes
Productivity
Does your boss get enough shut-eye?
Deconstructing the myth of the tireless leader
5 minutes
4 minutes
Trust
The Boeing fiasco, a crisis of trust?
A fistful of screws
4 minutes
8 minutes
Women/Men
“Men are adopting a feminist attitude to fit in”
Interview with sociologist Haude Rivoal
8 minutes
4 minutes
Artificial Intelligence
“There’s no such thing as artificial creativity”
Three questions for Luc de Brabandere
4 minutes
1 minute
Organization
Test. How do you manage your time?
From freestylers to timekeepers
1 minute
11 minutes
Advertising
“Brands shape our collective imagination”
Interview with Raphaël LLorca
11 minutes
5 minutes
Artificial Intelligence
The EU VS the machine
The impossible regulation of Gen AI
5 minutes
10 minutes
Environment
Can accountants help us go green?
Interview with Clément Feger and Alexandre Rambaud (2/2)
10 minutes
8 minutes
Organization
Accounting, a philosophical object?
Interview with Clément Feger and Alexandre Rambaud (1/2)
8 minutes
4 minutes
Health
The season of the sniffler
Quick, another box of tissues!
4 minutes
7 minutes
Productivity
“Procrastinators bother people because they escape their control”
Interview with Mathilde Ramadier
7 minutes
6 minutes
Management
“Let’s rekindle the desire to work together”
Ghislain Deslandes’s case for an “eroticisation” of management
6 minutes
5 minutes
Human Resources
Demotivated? How about a haka?
When HR turns to magic
5 minutes
8 minutes
Stress
“We consent to the toxic discourse which poisons us”
Interview with psychoanalyst Clotilde Leguil
8 minutes
5 minutes
Recruitment
Turned down over a coffee cup
Are recruiters’ hidden tests immoral?
5 minutes
1 minute
Digital
Quiz: what do you know about digital inclusion?
Where the web grows thin
1 minute
7 minutes
Bank
Cash is dying – long live digital currency!
The end of cash (2/2)
7 minutes
5 minutes
GAFA
Has Google fathomed the secret of freedom?
Philosophy of a well-deserved monopoly
5 minutes
8 minutes
Economy
Is cash doomed?
The end of bank notes (1/2)
8 minutes
1 minute
Communication
Test. How do you express recognition?
What you value and how you show it
1 minute
9 minutes
China
Is China facing a labour crisis?
Researcher Éric Sautedé explains
9 minutes
5 minutes
Communication
Back to work, already livid
Why do we get irritated over nothing?
5 minutes
6 minutes
Skills
More than just a hobby
Rediscover the joy of struggling
6 minutes
5 minutes
Women/Men
The voice of reason is a baritone
Why women are ashamed of their voices
5 minutes
1 minute
Environment
Test. What sort of an environmentalist are you?
Find out what’s hampering your commitment
1 minute
5 minutes
Collaboration
Of conversational rubber ducks
The virtues of thinking out loud
5 minutes
12 minutes
Women/Men
A guide to neoliberal feminism
When capitalism turns pink
12 minutes
8 minutes
Mobility
Does cycling really make us “softer”?
Go easy on the horn!
8 minutes
4 minutes
Motivation
Can you be too enthusiastic at the office?
Whistle while you work… but not too much!
4 minutes
10 minutes
Artificial Intelligence
Will the words of machines change us?
Interview with philosopher and physicist Alexei Grinbaum
10 minutes
4 minutes
Technology
Eliza effect
Do you also talk to your coffee machine?
4 minutes
11 minutes
Artificial Intelligence
Why GPT-4 is a game changer
AI on the loose
11 minutes
10 minutes
Management
Can we still have character at work?
Interview with Frédéric Spinhirny
10 minutes
1 minute
Diversity
Test: what does diversity mean to you?
Calculative or idealistic?
1 minute
5 minutes
Neurosciences
All addicted to cognitive biases
The excuse of the century
5 minutes
11 minutes
Technology
Should I let an AI answer my emails?
Apolline Guillot’s transhumanist coming out
11 minutes
5 minutes
Work-life
Musturbation
The thrill of self-discipline
5 minutes
13 minutes
Innovation
“Let’s reconnect with the ideal of the Renaissance man”
Interview with Karine Safa
13 minutes
5 minutes
Stress
You think your job is “arduous”?
… so does everyone, apparently
5 minutes
1 minute
Communication
Test: how do you take your feedback?
Neat or with a spoonful of sugar?
1 minute
10 minutes
Brain
“We blame screens for all society’s ills”
Interview with Elena Pasquinelli
10 minutes
7 minutes
Creativity
Get (feed)back
Are compliments overrated?
7 minutes
6 minutes
Office life
Quiz: what kind of party animal are you?
Take the test!
6 minutes
6 minutes
Customer
Business gifts, a true sign of loyalty?
Why gift baskets are still going strong
6 minutes
5 minutes
Communication
TikTokers, beat them or join them?
To be, or not to be a has-been
5 minutes
1 minute
Training
Quiz: what kind of learner are you?
From role players to textbook worms…
1 minute
5 minutes
Bank
The BNP Paribas affair: the sign of a divided financial world
Tell me who’s boycotting you, I’ll tell you who you are
5 minutes
8 minutes
Innovation
Demystifying technology
We haven’t lost control yet
8 minutes
7 minutes
Digital
The digital divide isn’t always where we expect it
The young people who can’t copy paste
7 minutes
Matelly
14 minutes
Finance
“We run the risk of a general banking meltdown”
Interview with economic sanctions specialist Sylvie Matelly
14 minutes
8 minutes
Technology
A brave “in vitro” world
Céline Lafontaine denounces “the economy of promise”
8 minutes
1 minute
Cooperation
Test. How do you trust?
Discover the underpinnings of your faith in others
1 minute
7 minutes
Ambition
How do you get over “lost illusions”?
Lucien de Rubempré, a modern hero
7 minutes
7 minutes
Technology
The Phaeacians’ tech utopia: a warning for Silicon Valley? 
Hellenist Pierre Judet de la Combe explains
7 minutes
5 minutes
Office life
The brave new world of “nudges”
Exit confrontation, enter faceless prompts
5 minutes
5 minutes
Values
A matter of taste
Is it OK to talk politics at work?
5 minutes
5 minutes
Happiness
The philosophy of pubs
A pint of human connection, please!
5 minutes
9 minutes
Technology
Is “artificial creativity” a thing?
When algorithms try their hand at art
9 minutes
4 minutes
Risk
Size matters
Lessons from the “Ever Given”
4 minutes
4 minutes
Finance
Meme stock
When primates join forces 
4 minutes
4 minutes
Ethics
B Corp
For the good cause 
4 minutes
4 minutes
Autonomy
A Spring of rascals
A little transgression never hurt!
4 minutes
4 minutes
Politics
The new nanny state
Should tech giants be allowed to censor Trump supporters?
4 minutes
3 minutes
Skills
The Dunning-Kruger effect
How incompetence slips under the radar
3 minutes
3 minutes
Performance
Productivity porn
Look how big my schedule is!
3 minutes
3 minutes
Consumption
Revenge buying
Shopping for lost time
3 minutes
6 minutes
Cooperation
Team spirit, where art thou?
How to stay united in confinement
6 minutes
5 minutes
GAFA
Let’s make it clear, Google
Goodbye keywords, hello BERT
5 minutes
10 minutes
Brain
No to flexibility, yes to plasticity!
Interview with Catherine Malabou 
10 minutes
« Gig economy »
4 minutes
Work-life
Gig economy
Be your own boss (at a cost)
4 minutes