About

When I was a teenager I decided that life is too short to be spent on boring things. Time is the most valuable asset we have, and the way we enjoy it says more about real success than any title on a résumé. Aristotle wrote that happiness is the final goal of any human life — if we spend our time well, we are already moving in the right direction.

I am still in that search, personally and professionally. I have changed the country I live in, traveled as far as Antarctica, and built a path through logistics, digital transformation, startups, and larger technology companies (including time at Amazon). Along the way I have studied economics, technology, and modern forecasting techniques — the threads that still run through the posts on this site.

I am happy to write and reply in English, Spanish, Russian, or Ukrainian. You can find me on LinkedIn and X.

This website

I built my first website back in 2002 with the only user-friendly option available then — GeoCities. I still have the URL: http://www.geocities.com/uribarialex/1.html — though the site itself was not preserved, and I never found it archived elsewhere. Since then I have tried free hostings with site builders, WordPress, static generators like Publii, more complex CLI-based static setups, and WordPress again. I was never fully satisfied with the result (except, perhaps, with GeoCities…).

So I decided it was time to build something of my own. Why not a minimalist CMS that covers the basics — ideally serving content with a unique HTML file — and use my personal site as the test ground? When the CMS reaches MVP, I plan to publish a GitHub repository with the source so others can use it and contribute.

A personal note

This is a strictly personal website. All opinions here are the author’s alone. The site exists for leisure and learning; nothing on it should be taken as professional advice or official commentary. Have fun, enjoy the read, and take everything with an enormous grain of salt.