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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, a company with four divisions, and a quiet question at eighteen: the difference between quitting something and outgrowing it.
Why I split a WhatsApp messaging gateway across a cloud front door and a Mac at home, and how the two halves stay in sync, stay secure, and confirm every send.
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 at eighteen while already running a company, and why some doors still open only with credentials.
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.
On running along the Bosphorus, staying active, and why physical health is non-negotiable regardless of workload.
How I built a voice-to-blog pipeline: speak into my phone, a two-stage speech and language model writes the post, and it ships itself.
How I think about product design, why typography matters more than colour, and what a hotel door in London taught me about interfaces.
What gets lost and found thinking in two languages at once: Turkish word order, the untranslatable gönül, and etymology as quiet correction.
How HMD Pay charges nothing for payment processing, and why the model that everyone said was impossible has been running for over three years.