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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.
Notes on growing up, building in Istanbul, and life outside the work.
Six years of writing software, and a quiet question at the end of them: the difference between quitting something and outgrowing it.
A line I have been leaving in source files since I was eleven, what it gave me when I had nothing else, and the one thing it let me get badly wrong.
On choosing to read computer science after six years of building software on my own, and why some doors still open only with credentials.
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.
Turkish builds the word for rest out of the word for listening. Ten kilometres along the Bosphorus is the only reliable way I have found to test whether that is true.
Thoughts on being taken seriously before you look the part, and why age is a worse predictor of capability than people assume.
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 coding culture in Turkey, being bilingual in a global industry, and what it means to build for a global market from the Bosphorus.
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.
On balancing university entrance exam preparation with building and maintaining software on my own, and why the two are not as incompatible as they sound.
On alienation, the Turkish word yabancılaşma, and living between school and the work of building software: the space between worlds is a gap, not a bridge.