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Thinking out loud.
Essays and field notes on AI, finance, health, screen culture, philosophy, travel, and the systems behind how people build and live.
330 Views and What Showing Up Actually Taught Me
A month of posting almost every day turned into 330 views, 19 countries, and one uncomfortable truth about why my past projects kept failing.
5.5.2026
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Alaçatı: The Aegean Secret That'll Cost You More Than You Think (And Is Still Worth It)
Alaçatı is one of the most beautiful corners of the Turkish Aegean — and one of the most expensive. I paid €1,300 in off-season. High season? Budget €2,000–2,500. Here's why I'd still go back.
4.5.2026
·28 views
I Hired Two AI Developers. One Is a Rocket. The Other One Checks the Wiring.
Managing Claude and Codex as a solo founder felt uncomfortably familiar — turns out scaling AI agents has the same team dynamics as scaling a real operations team.
3.5.2026
·17 views
You Don't Need to Code Like a Developer — You Need to Think Like a Product Owner
I didn't become a developer. I became the one-man product owner, scrum master, and stakeholder who finally had an AI team that could actually build what I was describing.
25.4.2026
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Vinted's Dirty Secret: When the Platform Protects Everyone Except You (And Especially Themselves From Taking Responsibility)
A fake Stone Island, a racist seller, and a support team that couldn't care less — here's what Vinted's trust problem actually looks like from the inside.
23.4.2026
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The Silence of Good People: Black Emancipation, European Assimilation, and Why Raising Your Voice Still Costs Something
Austria just cut funding to ZARA, one of the only organisations consistently documenting racism in the country — and the silence from good people is exactly the problem.
21.4.2026
·11 views
The Case for Buying Old Things
New stuff is optimized for purchase. Old stuff was optimized for use.
21.4.2026
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What Burnout Taught Me About Real Performance
I optimized myself into the ground. Here's what I rebuilt on the other side.
21.4.2026
·17 views
AI and the Logistics Layer Nobody Talks About
Every AI demo shows the glamorous output. Nobody shows the warehouse chaos underneath it.
21.4.2026
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Why I Can't Buy a Piece of OpenAI — And Why That's a Problem
VCX went from $40 to $550 in days on NYSE. I watched it from Vienna. I couldn't buy a single share — not because I don't understand the risks, but because MiFID II says no.
21.4.2026
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The Year I Stopped Recognising Myself — and What I Did About It
I looked in the mirror in 2025 and saw someone who had quietly given up on himself — and the worst part was I'd done it so gradually I almost didn't notice.
21.4.2026
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AI Tokens as Currency: Is Claude the New Bitcoin?
What if the next reserve currency isn't mined from a blockchain — it's burned every time someone asks an AI a question?
21.4.2026
·47 views
The 'Foreigners and Crime' Argument Is Designed to Fail You
When a chancellor says 'little pashas' out loud, the debate isn't really about crime — it's about who gets to be seen as human first.
21.4.2026
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I Sold 6 Things on Vinted in 5 Days. Here's What Actually Works (and What Annoys Me)
Trousers flew off the shelf. Shirts sat there judging me. A week on Vinted taught me more about secondhand culture than I expected.
21.4.2026
·23 views
Sunday Evening, 50 Minutes, and Why My Meditation Practice Is Nothing Like I Expected
I spent years thinking meditation meant emptying your mind — turns out that's not even the goal.
21.4.2026
·7 views
South Korea Just Made Mobile Data a Public Right. Is This What UBI Actually Looks Like?
South Korea is giving every citizen free mobile data — and it raises a question nobody in Western policy circles seems ready to answer.
21.4.2026
·11 views
The Intern Who Outworked the Veteran: Why Codex Fixed in 10 Minutes What Claude Couldn't in 2 Hours
I gave up on a bug, handed it to OpenAI's Codex almost as a joke — and watched the new kid solve it in 10 minutes with evidence, logic, and a slightly annoying smirk.
20.4.2026
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Perfieriencing: The Word I Made Up That Explains Everything
Four years of standing still taught me that life isn't about performing for others or collecting experiences — it's about doing both, on your own terms.
19.4.2026
·13 views
Claude Opus 4.7 Is Here. Mythos Is Not. Here's the Difference.
Anthropic just dropped Opus 4.7 — the most capable Claude yet — while quietly confirming that Mythos, its successor, was restricted over global cybersecurity concerns.
17.4.2026
·23 views
I Hit My Claude Limit on a Tuesday. Then I Met Gemini.
I ran out of Claude mid-week and decided to give Gemini Pro a real shot — what followed was like switching from a five-star hotel to a party hostel where the staff keeps pointing you to the map.
16.4.2026
·17 views
VCX Fell 80%. Now I Can Actually Buy It — Here's What I'm Thinking
The fund that went from $40 to $550 and made European investors feel left out is now sitting at $113 — and I found a way in through a Swiss bank.
14.4.2026
·13 views
I Asked an AI to Fix My Build. It Took Two Hours and Taught Me Something Uncomfortable.
A post-mortem on a two-hour AI debugging session that should have taken ten minutes — and what it says about how I work with these tools.
13.4.2026
·11 views
The Strait of Hormuz Is Technically 'Open' — The Market Believes It, The Ships Don't
A ceasefire agreement and a 95% drop in active transits are both true at the same time — and markets are only pricing in one of them.
13.4.2026
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Booking Holdings After the 25-for-1 Split: Genuine Opportunity or Just Cheaper-Looking Shares?
Booking Holdings just split 25-for-1 over Easter — and somehow the internet decided the stock dropped 95%.
8.4.2026
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The AI Short I Thought of Too Late (And Why It Still Makes Sense)
A conversation with Gemini made me realise the most obvious trade of the AI era was hiding in plain sight — and it's not Nvidia.
6.4.2026
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I Caught ChatGPT Mixing Cyrillic Into German Mid-Word. Here's What Actually Happened.
ChatGPT wrote a German word with Cyrillic characters embedded inside it — and then spent six attempts failing to correct it.
4.4.2026
·26 views