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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.
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.
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.