This quarter needed some recalibration. I want to share a few personal updates and talk about my work on Plamoon.

Personal updates

This year began slowly. Last year, I had decided to change the rhythm and slow down a bit.

During these past three months, a few family-related issues took some of my focus. My grandma passed away, and my father was diagnosed with cancer. We are dealing with it together.

Still, I can’t honestly say these were the reason for my change of rhythm. I keep saying I slowed down on purpose, but the truth is I have been in and out of mental cycles that range from a positive outlook to questioning my own existence.

If you have read other entries here, you know I took serious responsibility for my mental health over the past few years. So naturally, I managed to obsess over that too. I guess you can turn almost anything into a problem for yourself if you push it too far.

For example, I ended up turning journaling into a rumination instrument that amplified my last downturn. The need to understand and analyze everything became a trap. It wasn’t useless. It gave me good insights. But I stayed there too long.

So I recalibrated. In my case, it comes down to focus: not wasting energy on what doesn’t matter or what I can’t control.

This quote stayed with me while reading The Dispossessed:

Paradise is for those who make Paradise. – Shevek in The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

Most of the time, when you’re working hard at something meaningful, paradise feels more like a mirage than a destination. But as of now, I feel good. Productive.

Work on Plamoon

When I started rebuilding Plamoon, I had a strong sense of what I needed to do to prepare the product even before I could explain the bigger vision clearly.

Now that I am finally out of the messy middle and done with a major refactoring phase, the picture is becoming much clearer.

In simple terms, I want Plamoon to become an operating system for business logistics: a place to consolidate information, improve observability, reduce operational blind spots, and support automation across the path from purchase to delivery.

I want smaller, tech-savvy businesses to have access to software that would otherwise only be available through expensive consultancies and bundled solutions.

Serving smaller businesses also means keeping infrastructure costs low without compromising performance. It also led me to adopt a bring-your-own-keys model for integrated services.

With that in mind, I redesigned the architecture to be highly configurable, stable, and straightforward to maintain. I also rebuilt the internal data model with AI agentic workflows in mind. The UI has changed completely, and the product now feels far more pleasant and practical.

I’ll share more about this separately.

For now, I still have some grinding left to do, but the direction is clearer, the progress feels concrete, and the work has been genuinely satisfying.

Thank you for reading.