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Thoughts on software, entrepreneurship, and everything in between.
Thoughts on software, entrepreneurship, and everything in between.
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Essays on ideas, language, 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 stranger's annotated library, a city that rebuilds itself, and what is left to own when our digital lives are only ever leased.
From cassettes to streaming, the medium stopped making impatience inconvenient. On the Jevons paradox, shrinking attention, and what we traded for speed.
What gets lost and found thinking in two languages at once: Turkish word order, the untranslatable gönül, and etymology as quiet correction.
Why does every brief demand AI? From the Asch conformity experiment to pitch-deck buzzwords, how the tech industry rewards imitation over independent thought.
On dissatisfaction, the Arabic-origin word hırs, and why ambition feeds on itself: the thing that drives you and the thing that exhausts you are the same thing.
On labels, assumptions, and the cost of fitting people into boxes, and why the urge to categorise others reveals more about us than about them.
Why 'why' is the one question we gradually stop asking, the confusion between sifting and pecking, and what it costs the teams that go quiet.
On alienation, the Turkish word yabancılaşma, and living between school and a company in two countries: the space between worlds is a gap, not a bridge.