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Writing on founding companies and building software, with essays, poems and stories alongside.
Writing on founding companies and building software, with essays, poems and stories alongside.
Writing on founding companies and building software, with essays, poems and stories alongside.
Building the product is the easy part, which is an unwelcome thing to hear if you have spent six years getting good at the easy part.
Meme pages on a first phone, a moderation bot built during lockdown, and the first time somebody asked me for a website I did not yet know how to make.
A quatrain about not insisting on a hundred, built on three Turkish words that sound almost identical, and attributed to a man who could not have written it.
A line I have been leaving in source files since I was eleven, what it gave me when I had nothing else, and the one thing it let me get badly wrong.
Physics meant something exact by emergence. Machine learning borrowed the word and kept only the drama. The difference is worth knowing before you use it.
Business courses teach through case studies, and case studies almost always end in a decision to expand. I learned the other decision somewhere else.
Why I split a WhatsApp messaging gateway into a public front door and an unreachable engine room, how the two halves confirm every send, and why the engine room left my desk.
A newspaper printed AI-invented books and nobody noticed for two days. On committees, the meaning of normal, and how quiet indifference scales into culture.
On self-sabotage, the etymology of sabotage, the Turkish distinction between umut and heves, and the people who punish you for hoping.
A short story I wrote in secondary school, which won a school short story competition. Translated from Turkish.
A stranger's annotated library, a city that rebuilds itself, and what is left to own when our digital lives are only ever leased.
From cassettes to streaming, the medium stopped making impatience inconvenient. On the Jevons paradox, shrinking attention, and what we traded for speed.