I have a neck pain that seems under control. Beware, posts could be affected by it.
This is not a proper quarterly review. It’s a month late and quite honestly, I did not want to write it. But who cares? I wrote something. This is about the impact of AI on my work and my perception of it.
This quarter needed some recalibration. I want to share a few personal updates and talk about my work on Plamoon.
Another three months have passed, 2026 is officially here, and I just turned 40. This post is a reflection on time, progress, and what I expect from the year ahead.
You probably heard of the Pareto principle stating: 20% of work drives 80% of the result. During the last three months I focused on what I thought was my last 20% of redesigning Plamoon. Turns out, the appearance of progress is deceptive especially when rebuilding a product that already exists for a decade.
This quarter I went heads-down into rebuilding my product from the inside out. I want to talk about how I managed to focus on the mission and avoid second-guessing myself.
This quarter began with a bet on sales and ended with a breakthrough in product. Things didn’t go as I’d hoped, but the vision is much clearer now.
I never wrote a public year review and I guess this is it. I now join the millions discussing their year as a symbolic attempt to find closure and recharge optimism for the coming year. I have to tell you, I had a good year.
I envisioned a software platform to turn telemetry data into actionable indicators to improve operational cost efficiency in large vehicle fleets. It could have been a billion-dollar company, but thankfully it did not completely fail.
I built a software testing platform called VirtualTestCenter during what I consider an intense but brief experience in the banking industry. It was supposed to be a SaaS tailored to technology providers integrating with payment gateways, acquirers, processors and banks. It failed as a business, but I’m still proud of what I created.