Snow at Ochanomizu (1880) - Kobayashi Kiyochika

Disassociating corporate habits

Recently, I have been fascinated by the idea of building a digital micro-business and I started making efforts in this direction in my free time. In the beginning, I was thinking of doing what I’ve been always doing for the last 15 years, and writing code to develop solutions to the problems I observed and collected with minimal effort. How hard could it be? I have been coding for many years, and I already had solid proof of being able to develop complex software that can deal with millions of users simultaneously....

December 9, 2024 · 6 min · Serhat M. Dündar
Halage En Hollande (1867) - Johan Barthold Jongkind

A recap of 2023

Looking back, 2023 wasn’t a bad year at all. There are many events that I’m happy about and that I want to log and many moments I want to remember. Habits As a smoker for 17 years who tried all possible quitting methods, such as nicotine gums, e-cigarettes/vapors, and varenicline medicines (chantix®/champix®, etc.), I finally stopped smoking. It’s hard to explain where I got the motivation from, but one day I decided not to smoke and I’ve not smoked since then....

January 8, 2023 · 4 min · Serhat M. Dündar