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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.
Notes on growing up, building in Istanbul, and life outside the work.
Meme pages on a first phone, a moderation bot built during lockdown, and the first time somebody asked me for a website I did not yet know how to make.
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.
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.
A poem I wrote at fourteen, the Turkish word for longing that is built out of the word for self, and the one line in it I would not be able to write now.