<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="3.10.0">Jekyll</generator><link href="https://diogocasado.com/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><link href="https://diogocasado.com/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /><updated>2026-01-05T20:41:07+00:00</updated><id>https://diogocasado.com/feed.xml</id><title type="html">My neck hurts, sometimes</title><subtitle>I have a neck pain that seems under control. Beware, posts could be affected by it.</subtitle><author><name>Diogo Casado</name><email>email@diogocasado.com</email></author><entry><title type="html">2025 Q4 Quarterly review and 2026</title><link href="https://diogocasado.com/recenseo/2025-Q4-quarterly-review-and-2026.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="2025 Q4 Quarterly review and 2026" /><published>2026-01-05T16:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-01-05T16:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://diogocasado.com/recenseo/2025-Q4-quarterly-review-and-2026</id><author><name>Diogo Casado</name><email>email@diogocasado.com</email></author><category term="recenseo" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[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.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">2025 Q3 Quarterly review</title><link href="https://diogocasado.com/recenseo/2025-Q3-quarterly-review.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="2025 Q3 Quarterly review" /><published>2025-10-13T02:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2025-10-13T02:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://diogocasado.com/recenseo/2025-Q3-quarterly-review</id><author><name>Diogo Casado</name><email>email@diogocasado.com</email></author><category term="recenseo" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[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.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">2025 Q2 Quarterly review</title><link href="https://diogocasado.com/recenseo/2025-Q2-quarterly-review.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="2025 Q2 Quarterly review" /><published>2025-07-06T18:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2025-07-06T18:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://diogocasado.com/recenseo/2025-Q2-quarterly-review</id><author><name>Diogo Casado</name><email>email@diogocasado.com</email></author><category term="recenseo" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[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.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">2025 Q1 Quarterly review</title><link href="https://diogocasado.com/recenseo/2025-Q1-quarterly-review.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="2025 Q1 Quarterly review" /><published>2025-04-08T12:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2025-04-08T12:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://diogocasado.com/recenseo/2025-Q1-quarterly-review</id><author><name>Diogo Casado</name><email>email@diogocasado.com</email></author><category term="recenseo" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[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.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">My 2024 year review</title><link href="https://diogocasado.com/recenseo/2024-year-review.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="My 2024 year review" /><published>2024-12-31T12:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2024-12-31T12:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://diogocasado.com/recenseo/2024-year-review</id><author><name>Diogo Casado</name><email>email@diogocasado.com</email></author><category term="recenseo" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[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.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">How I almost built a billion dollar business</title><link href="https://diogocasado.com/postmortem/plamoon.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="How I almost built a billion dollar business" /><published>2024-06-24T16:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2024-06-24T16:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://diogocasado.com/postmortem/plamoon</id><author><name>Diogo Casado</name><email>email@diogocasado.com</email></author><category term="postmortem" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[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.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">I tried improving QA in the payment industry</title><link href="https://diogocasado.com/postmortem/virtualtestcenter.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="I tried improving QA in the payment industry" /><published>2024-05-15T16:05:00+00:00</published><updated>2024-05-15T16:05:00+00:00</updated><id>https://diogocasado.com/postmortem/virtualtestcenter</id><author><name>Diogo Casado</name><email>email@diogocasado.com</email></author><category term="postmortem" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[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.]]></summary></entry></feed>