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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.