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Thoughts on software, entrepreneurship, and everything in between.
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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.
On self-sabotage, the etymology of sabotage, the Turkish distinction between umut and heves, and the people who punish you for hoping.
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.
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.