It’s the fourth day of 2026, time to review where I’ve been and where I want to go. Every year I do this. Take time to think about the last 12 months, recalibrate, check priorities, and pause. Most of the time it comes with some amount of “I’m completely lost” and a pinch of “…but […]

Preface: this post is just a personal note, not an implementation guide. I’ve been ringing the bell for Google Gateway for Advertisers for some time, excited about the possibility to address the ITP issue in iOS without much technical investment. That was until I was corrected by our tech team that, even though cookies are […]

After the last book, this book felt fairly easy to go through. Malcolm Gladwell is such a good story teller. I listened to the audio book, and it was enjoyable to hear. He even adds some nice guitar backgrounds for dramatic effects in or smoother transitions. The book talks about how the stories we consume […]

Finally, I finished listening to Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World. (Longer book than I was expecting). This book came recommended by a friend who I find has immense knowledge on economics – not only world related events, but personal strategies as well. The suggestion came after having talking about the gold […]

It’s a PASS! This week I successfully renewed my Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer certification. Yay for me, because this one is not easy. This professional certification requires a real closed-book test either at a designated place or at home, proctored (being watched over camera and screen monitoring). No asking GPT in the extra monitor, […]