Welcome to my honest kitchen. With the recent magic mushroom craze, let’s focus on one of the regular, edible ones. Having only a limited time between meetings, although I am no iPad kid I occasionally fill my breaks with YouTube videos (and I know ultimately that’s what they want us…

Breaking my hiatus, hopefully, with overviews of several novels I have read since the end of 2020 until now. A little bit of a prelude to put this petite pilgrimage into perspective. During university I specialized in International Business with a focus on Japan, and had the opportunity to go…

Welcome to my honest kitchen. Craving a taste of the tropics in cake format? Look no further. For the sake of my time and sanity, please refer to the recipe below. I will add relevant storyline or commentary per international cooking blog guidelines later. Ingredients: 1 cup of coconut milk…

Back from my hiatus due to popular demand *crickets* this article will outline some tips I have come across this past year that I have incorporated into my wfh regimen. Many of our cities have opened up partially, but many corporate offices have remained closed. You may remember FAAMG stating…

Why can’t we be friends? Why can’t we be friends? Why can’t we be friends? As the title suggests, and case studies point to, business and IT have not been functioning well together in many organizations. Tech projects tend to be over budget, overdue, and completely missing the necessary scope…

Since I didn’t get around to doing a travel blog, as I was trying to enjoy my time living in one of the most popular travel destinations, in this piece I will reflect on some learnings that is suitable to those that will live in Japan for an extended period…

Welcome to my honest kitchen. 納豆。Pronounced nattō, a product hailing from Japan, is a handful of fermented soy beans — meant beans grown and raised as soy. The farmer takes great effort to cultivate the farm. Sorry about that last part, my sister hijacked my computer... …

Who and where will Canadians be in the next century? A bit of background I spent much of my childhood with my nose in textbooks. In high school I read much about the travels of the Europeans to the new world that is the Americas and the environmental destruction, genocides…

Working in an Agile environment? Think again. This past year I had the opportunity to work as a Certified (my certification here) ScrumMaster (Is “Master” still appropiate? View the most recent discussion here) with a software development team maintaining an e-commerce platform for one of my company’s customer base. There…