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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 short story I wrote in secondary school, which won a school short story competition. Translated from Turkish.
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.