Hi, I'm Pablo, an engineer from Spain based in Luxembourg. On the side I build projects and write about how it goes. I'm very curious, so I keep consuming knowledge. There is a bit more about me, and you can reach out or connect.

Everything on Pablo's site and how it connects; the parts are listed after the graph. Pablo Valencia Barcelona Luxembourg Florida Amazon Mango Kubota UPV Formula Student ShortLoad Polymarket intel supply chain LLM agents markets engineering What I read What I listen to Literature History Science & engineering Money & markets Business & building Work & habits Trafalgar La colmena La familia de Pascual Duarte Comedia Odisea Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España The Box Skunk Works Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! When We Cease to Understand the World El inversor inteligente Poor Charlie's Almanack The Man Who Solved the Market The Trading Game Padre rico, padre pobre Titan What It Takes The Mom Test Built to Sell Show Your Work! Hábitos atómicos Deep Work Grit Kapital Podcast de itnig La Ingobernable Conferencias de la March

Work

  • Amazon , Since 2023 · Barcelona, then Luxembourg. The day job since 2024: outbound planning for Amazon's European non-sortable network, from Luxembourg. So far: Redesigned the daily outbound planning process: forecast accuracy up 167 basis points year on year, savings near €8M a year.
  • Mango , 2023 – 2024 · Barcelona. Configured the WMS for a new Mango warehouse and built its test automation.
  • Kubota , 2022 · Valencia. Planned production at Pulverizadores Fede, a Kubota company.

Study

  • UPV , Valencia. Mechanical engineer by training, at the Universitat Politècnica de València.
  • Formula Student , 2020 – 2022 · Valencia. Two years in the FSUPV team, third in the world in 2022: structures first, then Head of Dynamics.

Project

  • ShortLoad , Growing · 2026. A Florida marketplace for small concrete pours, one to four yards: an all-in price by ZIP, a bookable window, pay for what is poured. The thesis:
  • Polymarket intel , Prototype · 2026. Can prediction markets work as an early-warning system for supply chain risk? A methodology and an MVP that track Polymarket odds on tariffs, conflicts and port strikes against the Baltic Dry and Freightos indexes: cross-correlation, Granger tests, event studies.

Place

Idea

Theme

Book

  • Trafalgar , Benito Pérez Galdós. The first of the Episodios Nacionales: a boy from Cádiz aboard the Santísima Trinidad at the battle of 1805. One of my favourites.
  • La colmena , Camilo José Cela. Three days in the Madrid of 1943, through some three hundred characters who cross paths in a café.
  • La familia de Pascual Duarte , Camilo José Cela. A condemned peasant from Extremadura writes down his life and its violence. The novel that opened tremendismo.
  • Comedia , Dante Alighieri. Dante's journey through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise, guided first by Virgil and then by Beatrice.
  • Odisea , Homero. Odysseus's ten-year way home from Troy to Ithaca, and what he finds when he gets there.
  • Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España , Bernal Díaz del Castillo. A foot soldier's eyewitness account of Cortés's conquest of Mexico, written in old age to set the record straight. One of my favourites.
  • The Box , Marc Levinson. How the shipping container, and the fights over its standards, made global trade cheap.
  • Skunk Works , Ben R. Rich & Leo Janos. The inside story of Lockheed's secret division, from the U-2 and the SR-71 to the F-117 stealth fighter. One of my favourites.
  • Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! , Richard P. Feynman. Feynman's anecdotes: safecracking at Los Alamos, samba in Rio, and how a curious character does physics. One of my favourites.
  • When We Cease to Understand the World , Benjamín Labatut. Haber, Schwarzschild, Grothendieck, Heisenberg, Schrödinger: the moments where discovery and madness touch. Part fact, part fiction. One of my favourites.
  • El inversor inteligente , Benjamin Graham. Graham's case for value investing: margin of safety, Mr. Market, and the line between investing and speculating.
  • Poor Charlie's Almanack , Charles T. Munger. Munger's talks collected: mental models, the psychology of human misjudgment, and inverting every problem.
  • The Man Who Solved the Market , Gregory Zuckerman. Jim Simons and Renaissance Technologies: how mathematicians built the most profitable fund in history.
  • The Trading Game , Gary Stevenson. A Citibank trader from East London bets that the economy will not recover, wins, and walks away.
  • Padre rico, padre pobre , Robert T. Kiyosaki. Two fathers, two views of money: assets against liabilities, and why school never teaches the difference.
  • Titan , Ron Chernow. The life of John D. Rockefeller: Standard Oil, the trusts, and the philanthropy that followed.
  • What It Takes , Stephen A. Schwarzman. Schwarzman on building Blackstone, from a two-man M&A shop to the largest alternative asset manager.
  • The Mom Test , Rob Fitzpatrick. How to talk to customers about your idea without them lying to you: ask about their life, not your product.
  • Built to Sell , John Warrillow. A parable about turning a service business that depends on its owner into one that runs, and sells, without them.
  • Show Your Work! , Austin Kleon. Ten ways to share what you make while you make it, and let the work find its audience.
  • Hábitos atómicos , James Clear. Small changes, compounded: make a habit obvious, attractive, easy and satisfying.
  • Deep Work , Cal Newport. Long, undistracted focus as the rare skill of the knowledge economy, and how to protect it.
  • Grit , Angela Duckworth. Why sustained passion and perseverance predict achievement better than talent does.

Podcast

  • Kapital , Joan Tubau. Long conversations about money, work and how to think about both. In Spanish.
  • Podcast de itnig , itnig. Weekly conversations with founders, executives and investors on business cases and tech news.
  • La Ingobernable , microbio & Singular Solving. A podcast about Marca España: how Spain is run, and how it is seen.
  • Conferencias de la March , Fundación Juan March. The lectures given at the Fundación Juan March in Madrid and Palma, as audio.