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Thoughts on software, entrepreneurship, and everything in between.
Thoughts on software, entrepreneurship, and everything in between.
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Send an EmailThoughts on building software, running a business, and everything in between.
Six years of writing software, and a quiet question at the end of them: the difference between quitting something and outgrowing it.
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.
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.
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.
On choosing to read computer science after six years of building software on my own, and why some doors still open only with credentials.
A short story I wrote in the eleventh grade, which won the Terakki Vakfı Okulları 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.