There May Be Nobody There
I’ve encountered a new acronym that I immediately fell for. AI;DR. Now, it means artificial intelligence, did not read. Why does this sound good, though? People are protesting t...
Articles tagged with Philosophy
Philosophy posts on first principles, ethics, judgment, work, behavior, and frameworks for clear thinking without pretending certainty.
The Wind at Your Back
When I was preparing for the college entrance exam, I wanted to study computer science because I had watched The Matrix. Yeah, I know, it’s not a big story. The other thing I le...
Why Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Is a Masterpiece
I don’t know the last time I rated a movie 10 out of 10. I went to IMDb and found out it was in 2014. I’m more selective now when I watch movies, but that doesn’t change how goo...
Prisoner's Dilemma
On September 3, 1949, a weather plane was flying over Japan. It detected traces of radioactive isotopes. These elements decay quickly, which means they had been created recently...
Mevlana Candy
When I was a child, Rumi wasn’t a philosopher or a poet for me. He was candy. Every once in a while, a relative from Konya would visit and bring Mevlana şekeri. The rock sugar a...
Charlie Munger Quotes
I got to know more about Charlie Munger in the last 10 years. His name came up with Berkshire. I knew he had been in the industry, but I wasn’t really into investing. I apprecia...
Quotes from Mill
Bilkent had one strange advantage I did not appreciate at the time. They forced engineering students to take humanities seriously. At the time, I probably treated some of those...
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