A JOURNAL SINCE 2005
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Named after the number of the house where I grew up in Chile. Personal stories, travel, product and AI, books, and a thank-you to every year since 2013.
Welcome to 5561CL
I went online back in 2005 to explore the exciting and ‘new’ world of blogs. What it started like a personal journal is now a full fletched website that I mainly use for professional purposes.
However, in 5561CL -the number of the house where I grew up in, back in Chile - I speak about more personal things, from my ‘thanks [insert year] series, to my travels around the world and certainly, some explorations around fintech, product management, real states or economics, all topics I’m very fond of.
With that being said, welcome to 5561CL a blog that contains personal stories dating back 2013, the year I moved to Milan to pursue my MBA
Los Balcanes parte 3 y final
Este 2026 cierro esta maravillosa área de Europa con Eslovenia, Montenegro y Serbia. En total, estuve casi 6 semanas por estos lados explorando lo que alguna vez fue Yugoslavia.
My Digital Twin
My Digital Twin building experience
Tunisia
This is my 2nd time in Africa - after Morocco - discovering a beautiful and unique part of the world to me. Hereby I will try to summarise my learnings, takeaways and discoveries in Tunisia.
My top 5 books for 2025
My traditional end of year list with my favourite books for the year about to end.
In no particular order, a blend of non-fiction and fiction as usual.
Building an AI Agent
Building a financial services AI agent using Replit.
Los Balcanes, parte 2
Tras visitar Macedonia del Norte, Kosovo y Albania en 2024, continúo con mi viaje por los fascinantes Balcanes, esta vez en Croacia y Bosnia y Herzegovina.
New Zealand y Fiji
Este viaje maravilloso lo planeamos con mucha antelación y de repente nos olvidamos de él. Cuando los hoteles, vuelos, autos y planes diarios estaban trazados el trabajo se comió el dia a dia hasta que derepente, era hora de hacer Check IN
Gracias 2024
Mi ya clásica reflexion sobre el ano que acaba de culminar. Desde 2013, con esta sana tradición.
My top 5 books for 2024
My traditional end of year list with my favourite books for the year about to end.
In no particular order, a blend of non-fiction and fiction as usual.
Product management resources
An always growing list with my best product management resources.
Los Balcanes, parte 1
He decidido comenzar a adentrarme en la fascinante historia de los balcanes. En este post relato mi viaje por Macedonia, Kosovo y Albania.
Life in the UK test Prep
It’s been almost 7 years in the UK and is time to make this relationship, official. I hereby share my study note for anyone prepping ‘Life in the UK’.
My first time in Africa: Morocco
Perhaps this has been one of the most unique trips I’ve taken in my life. I could only compare it to visiting Belarus, Singapore or Turkey but still, Morocco is an adventure on its own.
The largest Product Conference in the world: ProductCon
I think every conference is driven by an underlying topic. This year is the GenAI year. So I was a little bit sceptical of seeing all those deck images generated by Dall-e and prophetic titles describing how everything has changed because of AI. But no, it was not ‘that bad’.
Gracias 2023
Escribo este post tras estar 10 días desconectado. No quería dar pie atrás y perder la sana tradición de agradecer por los últimos 365 días del año.
My top 5 books of 2023
Is that time of the year again, what were my 2023 favourite books?
Payment schemes UK
Sharing my personal notes on the payment schemes in UK.
5 días en la Nápoles y la costa Amalfitana
La excusa fue un matrimonio en Amalfi. Nunca antes había tenido la posibilidad de viajar al sur de Italia y fue realmente espectacular.
Weekly Fintech Recommended Reads
1 fintech article recommended each week
9 ideas for banks in 2023
All of us working in this space know how quickly things can change - this is why I’ve decided to place the year for these thoughts.
From invisible banking to having ‘concierges’ to help on complex lending, the FS landscape has 5 core areas that people at McKinsey think are ripe for disruption.