There are a few days in Ireland where it’s sunny but not windy. This Sunday was one of them. I decided to go to the Wicklow mountains without setting a destination. I first arrived at Guinness lake, spent some time around. I found a hiking trail and saw people trying to reach a summit and I followed. Of course, I […]
Throughout the years I have worked on many software projects. In most of them, the code header included the authorʼs name. At first, it seemed natural to have the authorʼs name. In time I realized having a code author in the header is irrelevant, discouraging, and often negative. That realization changed how I think about authorship in teams. Practically speaking, […]
Itʼs been a while and I havenʼt posted anything new on my blog. Life, work, and priorities often got in the way, but the urge to write never really went away. Itʼs time to get back to writing. Not because I have to, but because I miss the process of thinking through words that quiet dialogue between thought and page. […]
You probably saw many cliché stuff about risking everything. Not risking is the biggest risk and all. While there is a truth to that, risk needs to be an appetite. Remember what happened with the 2008 global financial crisis. Some took risks. Miscalculated. Misrepresented. Misaligned. So forth. Where did we end up? Entire markets froze. Liquidity vanished overnight. Companies collapsed […]
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was a soldier, reformer, author, president, and founding father of Turkey. He has some amazing quotes. I compiled some of them for myself and anyone interested. Peace at home, peace in the world. Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women. If one day my words contradict science, choose science. When we say […]