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Ahmet Alphan Sabancı @ahmetasabanci.com · 05/10/2026

One of the side effects of being exposed to too much American internet and culture is that you end up finding yourself overthinking a lighter.

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Ahmet Alphan Sabancı @ahmetasabanci.com · 03/08/2026

Just came across a really long blog post which turned into my own version of this scene. What a way to start my week.

Mad Men “I don’t think about you at all.” scene.

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Ahmet Alphan Sabancı @ahmetasabanci.com · 24/07/2026

Şimdiden önlemimi alayım dedim.

Your muted words

"Siz de mi partiden sıkıldınız" in text & tags

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Ahmet Alphan Sabancı @ahmetasabanci.com · 02/07/2026

This is why I like having multiple news apps on my phone.

New York Times Breaking News notification: Employers added 57,000 jobs in June and the unemployment rate dipped to 4.2 percent, signs of a steady U.S. labor market.

Financial Times Breaking news notification: US economy falls short of expectations with 57,000 jobs added in June

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Ahmet Alphan Sabancı @ahmetasabanci.com · 30/06/2026

Thermochauvinism vs Adaptation | Weekstarter 27-2026 Weekstarter is here with the regular updates, links, and a quick note about why thermochauvinism is a term we should learn and think about.... ahmetasabanci.com/thermochauvinism-…

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Ahmet Alphan Sabancı @ahmetasabanci.com · 30/06/2026

NATO’nun kalıcı merkezi ilan edilince Türkiye:

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Ahmet Alphan Sabancı @ahmetasabanci.com · 30/06/2026

Well, I told y’all I’m quitting the discourse.

An AI compass calls me “the garage tinkerer”

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Ahmet Alphan Sabancı @ahmetasabanci.com · 29/06/2026

Bence Raptors başı çekmeli bu konuda.

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Ahmet Alphan Sabancı @ahmetasabanci.com · 25/06/2026

Sakarya’da kavşaklara kurulan güneş panelleriyle ilgili habere gelen bir yorum. Halkımız aslında tasarım istiyor, solarpunk istiyor ama kendisini ifade edemiyor.

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Ahmet Alphan Sabancı @ahmetasabanci.com · 22/06/2026

Reading Lists Can Wait | Weekstarter 26-2026 Weekstarter is here and this week, along with the regular news and updates, I talk about why we all should figure out the difference between our reading lists and to-do lists.... ahmetasabanci.com/reading-lists-can…

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Ahmet Alphan Sabancı @ahmetasabanci.com · 16/06/2026

Do You Want the Future? | Weekstarter 25-2026 A late Weekstarter with your usual updates, links, and some observations about the people who doesn't want the future and do their best to slow anyone who wants to build better… ahmetasabanci.com/do-you-want-the-f…

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Ahmet Alphan Sabancı @ahmetasabanci.com · 02/06/2026

Bring Your Own System | Weekstarter 23-2026 After a long unintended break, Weekstarter is back with your usual updates, cool things and why I need a personal system and set of routines, because that's what I've been thinking… ahmetasabanci.com/bring-your-own-sy…

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Ahmet Alphan Sabancı @ahmetasabanci.com · 21/05/2026

Picture of a country that loves to shoot itself on the foot. We already know they don’t care much about the democracy and stuff but this is going to end up wreaking havoc in the Turkish economy, which was barely resisting the Iran war.

Graph showing the BIST taking a nosedive after the courts remove the opposition leader of Turkey from the head of his party.

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Ahmet Alphan Sabancı @ahmetasabanci.com · 13/05/2026

Bende böyle gösteriyor. Bir şeyler saçmalıyorlar ama hayırlısı.

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Ahmet Alphan Sabancı @ahmetasabanci.com · 05/05/2026

A late Weekstarter but it has all the updates and notes for the week. And some notes about the anti-dystopia concept and why it's a concept everyone needs to learn. ahmetasabanci.com/the-need-for-anti…

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Ahmet Alphan Sabancı @ahmetasabanci.com · 20/04/2026

Weekstarter is here with the regular updates, some links and why we all need better quality filters for the media and information we're consuming. ahmetasabanci.com/quality-filters-w…

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Ahmet Alphan Sabancı @ahmetasabanci.com · 13/04/2026

Weekstarter is here with the usual updates, things I've found, and some notes about the problems anyone running a business of one, like me, should be prepared for. ahmetasabanci.com/business-of-one-p…

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Ahmet Alphan Sabancı @ahmetasabanci.com · 12/04/2026

Eskiden spam takipçiler en azından konuyla alakalı bir paylaşım yapınca gelirdi. Şimdiki nesil çok özensiz iş yapıyor.

Evden eve nakliyat hesabı takip bildirimi.

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Ahmet Alphan Sabancı @ahmetasabanci.com · 02/04/2026

An unexpected follow-up to my blog post about the relationship between music and the cities from 2019. ahmetasabanci.com/burial-london-con…

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Ahmet Alphan Sabancı @ahmetasabanci.com · 31/03/2026

I'm resigning from the discourse. Weekstarter is here with your usual and unusual updates, recommendations, and some notes about why "The street finds its own uses" should be our approach to the technology. ahmetasabanci.com/here-for-the-musi…

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Ahmet Alphan Sabancı @ahmetasabanci.com · 23/03/2026

📬 Weekstarter is here with your usual updates, recommendations and why I call my approach to philosophy dirty and what that actually means. ahmetasabanci.com/dirty-philosophy-…

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Ahmet Alphan Sabancı @ahmetasabanci.com · 14/03/2026

Love Bam’s response to the people crying over his record and love this comment even more. www.reddit.com/r/nba/s/MfDC...

A comment from Reddit post: “We would love to blame the Wizards coach if any of us knew his name!”

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Ahmet Alphan Sabancı @ahmetasabanci.com · 13/03/2026

Tuhaf Gelecek Podcast odağına yapay zekâ ile kurduğumuz ilişkiyi ve bunun sebep olduğu sorunları koyduğu yeni bölümüyle yayında. Yine @agunzagun.com ile hem daldan dala atladığımız hem de derinlere daldığımız çok keyifli bir bölüm oldu. tuhafgelecek.com/podcast/yapa...

Tuhaf Gelecek Podcast logosunun ve bölüm başlığının yazdığı bir görsel.

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Ahmet Alphan Sabancı @ahmetasabanci.com · 11/03/2026

A sentence I never thought I would ever write: “Today I found Italian Brainrot sticker packs and immediately bought one.”

First page of the Italian Brainrot sticker pack with bunch of characters from that meme.

Second page of the Italian Brainrot sticker pack with bunch of characters from that meme.

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Ahmet Alphan Sabancı @ahmetasabanci.com · 10/03/2026

Starting a little late to this week with the usual updates, things I found interesting and a short note about how we end up in a global mess like this because some people insist on denying the reality. ahmetasabanci.com/we-live-in-a-syst…

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Ahmet Alphan Sabancı @ahmetasabanci.com · 06/03/2026

And not one but two new trends are ready to replace it, thanks to Turkish culinary innovators.

A chocolate bar called “Ordu Chocolate”.

A chocolate bar called “Istanbul Chocolate”.

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Ahmet Alphan Sabancı @ahmetasabanci.com · 04/03/2026

Let's talk about why the Citrini "scenario" falls short on being a proper and useful scenario and why you shouldn't try to market your predictions as scenarios — especially in times like these. ahmetasabanci.com/notes-on-that-202…

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Ahmet Alphan Sabancı @ahmetasabanci.com · 02/03/2026

Weekstarter is here with the usual updates from the studio and my notes about the "Cyberpunk Condition" concept I've been using for a while. ahmetasabanci.com/cyberpunk-conditi…

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Ahmet Alphan Sabancı @ahmetasabanci.com · 23/02/2026

A really short Weekstarter today with the usual updates and good things I wanted to share. ahmetasabanci.com/no-post-just-rest…

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Ahmet Alphan Sabancı @ahmetasabanci.com · 17/02/2026

Weekstarter is here with the usual updates, hand selected good stuff and a warning about myths and why you should never get too attached to them. ahmetasabanci.com/myths-as-a-tricky…

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Ahmet Alphan Sabancı @ahmetasabanci.com · 12/02/2026

5 yıl süren bir aranın ardından Tuhaf Gelecek podcast yeni formatıyla geri döndü. @agunzagun.com ile teknoloji, internet ve kültür alanındaki trendleri, dinamikleri ve sinyalleri ele alacağız ve bunların bizi bekleyen tuhaf gelecekleri nasıl şekillendirdiğini inceleyeceğiz. pod.link/1457191904

Tuhaf Gelecek podcast logosu ve ilk bölümün başlığının yer aldığı bir görsel.

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Ahmet Alphan Sabancı @ahmetasabanci.com · 02/02/2026

Another week, another Weekstarter. Along with your usual updates, I'm also talking about why we might be in the prequel of Accelerando and why you shouldn't start copying Manfred Macx's business model yet. ahmetasabanci.com/time-of-lobsters-…

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Ahmet Alphan Sabancı @ahmetasabanci.com · 24/01/2026

I made a simple website based on a joke in 2022 called Bright Futures Generator. Now I turned it into a futures provocation/inspiration tool. ahmetasabanci.com/bright-futures-ge…

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Ahmet Alphan Sabancı @ahmetasabanci.com · 19/01/2026

Starting this week with a discussion about change and how both itself and the fear of it is a constant in our lives. Plus your regular weekly updates from me. ahmetasabanci.com/change-makes-the-…

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Ahmet Alphan Sabancı @ahmetasabanci.com · 06/01/2026

First Weekstarter of the year is here! Along with the usual updates and some of the things I've found, I also talk about what my main professional lesson from 2025 was. ahmetasabanci.com/lessons-from-2025…

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Ahmet Alphan Sabancı @ahmetasabanci.com · 03/01/2026

From The Economist’s The World Ahead 2026. Apparently they were expecting Trump to be more strategic.

WHAT IF?
America has deployed ships and drones to the Caribbean, blowing up alleged drug traffickers and menacing President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela. What if Donald Trump ousts Mr Maduro? A traitorous crony, not American special forces, may be most likely to do the deed. That would change little for Venezuelans, but could mean juicy oil deals tor American firms.

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Ahmet Alphan Sabancı @ahmetasabanci.com · 30/12/2025

This might be the perfect example of why you don’t usually see philosophers participating in the online discourse.

Textbooks in philosophy often refer to the problem of other minds. At a superficial glance it can look as if there is agreement about what the problem is and how we might address it. But on closer inspection one finds there is little agreement either about the problem or the solution to it. Indeed, there is little agreement about whether there is a problem here at all. What seems clear is that there was a period in philosophy, roughly around the mid-twentieth century, when there was much discussion about other minds.

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Ahmet Alphan Sabancı @ahmetasabanci.com · 22/12/2025

This week starts with me rambling about why you should treat internet more like your sandbox instead of a trench in a battlefield. Plus the usual updates from me and some good things I found. ahmetasabanci.com/internet-is-my-sa…

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Ahmet Alphan Sabancı @ahmetasabanci.com · 15/12/2025

Starting this week with some notes about culture and elitism, late arrival of the winter, and giving you the usual updates about what I'm up to. ahmetasabanci.com/notes-on-culture-…

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Ahmet Alphan Sabancı @ahmetasabanci.com · 08/12/2025

Starting the week back from home again. This week starts with a talk about my habit of reading forecast and trend reports for the year ahead but also revisiting the ones for this year. Plus all the usual updates and my top 100… ahmetasabanci.com/season-of-forecas…

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Ahmet Alphan Sabancı @ahmetasabanci.com · 08/12/2025

Show me a picture on your phone which has your energy but isn’t a selfie.

An image of a crab-like undersea creature under water. Subtitle says: “This creature has adapted to the crushing pressure and oppressive darkness.”

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Ahmet Alphan Sabancı @ahmetasabanci.com · 01/12/2025

This week's Weekstarter comes from İzmir, where I'm in my second and final week for some work. It has all your usual updates, one of my favorite Soundgarden song, and more. ahmetasabanci.com/caring-too-much-w…

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Ahmet Alphan Sabancı @ahmetasabanci.com · 17/11/2025

After the last week's unexpected break Weekstarter is back again with the usual updates, recommendations and why we should be careful about focusing too much on hype and letting doom get away. ahmetasabanci.com/dont-take-the-bla…

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Ahmet Alphan Sabancı @ahmetasabanci.com · 04/11/2025

This week started busier than expected so Weekstarter comes a little late with me talking about the balance between travel mode and hermit mode, giving you the latest updates from my side and more. ahmetasabanci.com/balance-between-t…

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Ahmet Alphan Sabancı @ahmetasabanci.com · 30/10/2025

I don’t know how to feel about this.

Duolingo pop-up promoting the new update which allows you to show your language scores on LinkedIn.

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Ahmet Alphan Sabancı @ahmetasabanci.com · 27/10/2025

This week starts with a conversation about how doing something so long can make you feel stuck, usual updates, links, and a Alfa Mist song. ahmetasabanci.com/afraid-of-getting…

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