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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.
Essays on literature, language, design and sound, and the things worth sitting with.
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 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.
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.
A masal I wrote in March 2025: a soup whose recipe is a secret, a witch who wants it, and a grandfather whose real gift was refusing to explain.
Nâzım Hikmet wrote it in prison in 1948, and the whole argument sits in the first line: living is not a thing you do with one hand.
The year I decided to read the religious texts properly rather than have opinions about them, and the three words at the end of 1 Corinthians 13 that I have not got past since.