PhD thesis 📗 FINALLY submitted 🎓

Dear Jimmy, You made it - congratulations! You finally managed to make it through the last stretch and complete the writing of the PhD thesis. It's been challenging: you started last year in July 2025 while travelling between Spain and Morocco, then continued working on it once back in Dubai. Finally, after you decided to quit your well-paid job in the UAE, you decided to look for more than money: fulfillment and freedom. Thus came the idea to start working online while travelling as a digital nomad in Latin America. But also, to finally complete your PhD. You wrote this letter in Medellin - Colombia, after 5 months of travelling and working in your beloved LATAM. You've stopped the writing and wrapping up of the thesis because of other projects going on. But then in May 2026 you decided that the time to close this loop and carry this project toward the finish line has finally come. You allowed yourself to wait for a couple of more weeks in May, until you finally returned at the end of the month to your happy place: Brasil 🇧🇷. You decided to stay in Salvador de Bahia for one month, and by the end of June - namely today - finally hand in the PhD thesis in its final and completed version. What an amazing milestone you've reached - I'm proud of you and the journey you've been through. To reach this goal you have worked relentlessly every working day of the week. Before anything else, you dedicated your gold hour, the very first working hour of the day in the early morning, to proofread and correct your work. You've done this before everything else, prioritising it over other commitments. You committed to dedicating at least 7 hours every week, on average 1 hour/day, leveraging the days when you felt most motivated. Some days you were so tired of reading it, but you kept working hard while using beach walks or swims, drinking a cerveja in the afternoon or spoiling yourself with a coffee and dessert as rewards. Now you can finally dedicate yourself full-time to the other projects that excite you and that align with the direction you want to take as a freelancer: Zanichelli, teaching at GCAS, creating teaching courses in Statistics and Mathematics and eventually, on the fun and personal side, completing your degree in Philosophy. I'm even more proud of what you've achieved. You deserve everything you've earned and the life you've built because you were brave enough to choose it and pursue it. Ad astra! With love, Jimmy (Gianmarco)