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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.
Essays on literature, language, design and sound, and the things worth sitting with.
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 the eleventh grade, which won the Terakki Vakfı Okulları 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.
Turkish separates hearing from listening with two different verbs, and the root of the second one means stillness.
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.