In the book Digital Minimalism, Cal Newport talks about how we can live a focused life in a noisy world, and he says, “Humans are not wired to be constantly wired.” I quoted the book, but I haven’t read it yet. I guess you thought, for a split second, that I read the book because I’m quoting it here. That itself is...
As of November 2023, I have a new ritual. We have a new dog, Leda, who accompanies us in our lives. I take her out for a walk every morning. That morning walk became one of the most peaceful moments in my life. Walks have a magical nature. They help me ponder things that I haven't found time for elsewhere. For a...
What most people are talking about when they talk about ‘transparency’ is what I would call structural transparency. This refers to what information is shared freely and openly across the organization and with whom. But, another critical part of transparency norms comes down to what I would call content-level...
...there is such a thing as good or bad transparency. Good transparency answers questions before they come up, brings people along, and encourages consistent and principled decision-making across the organization. Bad transparency distracts people, invites the wrong questions, treats information as currency,...
I've been reading Monocle since last summer, and I always love how different perspectives can find their place in the magazine. In March's issue (#171), Des Fitzgerald wrote a commentary about why parks and recreation areas are developed in the first place. He says: The aim of the city park was never the benign...
Every morning, I wake up around 5-5:30, even on weekends and holidays. Till 9:00, I don't have any routine differentiating working days or weekends. That means I don't have weekdays or weekend concepts in my mornings. When people hear me saying, "I don't see any day differently from the other. Days are in a...
When I read Rachel's post about analytics, I realized that I wasn't alone in this journey. After starting to blog regularly on Medium in 2015, I became obsessed with analytics—how many people read my text, where they come from, and how many pages they have read. Then, I moved to my own website, which made things...
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I always wonder how QR codes work and if I could understand myself. But I never even googled it (sometimes, it’s better to stay curious instead of directly reaching for information). While “walking” around the blogs and mastodon accounts, I came across a post that literally explains how to read a QR code without any...
I just added Decap CMS to my blog. It's straightforward and helps me to post more on the go. I don't need a computer and commit everything manually to git. Decap syncs everything to the repository of this blog (which is publicly available here). Then Netlify picks up the deployment and deploys the blog. The...
When I wrote about Request for Comments (RFC) documents a few years back, I hadn't tried Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) yet. Although both concepts have existed for years, their popularity has increased in recent years. I finally had a chance to try working with ADRs. When I did, I realized that many people...
Last week, I suddenly had to fly to my hometown in Turkey to attend my uncle's funeral. Although this wasn't the first funeral I attended, it was the first one that I helped with organizational work. This experience taught me so many tiny details I wasn't aware of or never realized that they happened in funerals. I...
