2 min readCareer
A Reflection on Jeffrey Pfeffer’s 7 Rules of Power
A personal response to Jeffrey Pfeffer’s rules of power—and the tension between pragmatic career advice and values like fairness and empathy.
Writing
Notes from building products and teams.
Product lessons, technical journeys, and reflections collected along the way.
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Freshening Up My Online Home
Why I rebuilt my personal site with Next.js, moved my writing away from Medium, and created a home I could control.
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Dergilik Journey Part 4 - Podcast Studion
How we launched Podcast Studion, integrated it with Dergilik, and adapted the platform to new moderation requirements.
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Dergilik Journey Part 3 - Search
How we replaced Dergilik’s aging search infrastructure and improved discovery with prefix, fuzzy, scoring, and full-text search.
5 min readProduct
Dergilik Journey Part 2 - Text to Speech
How Dergilik turned articles into audio and evolved a Turkish text-to-speech experience from MVP to a scalable product.
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Dergilik Journey Part 1
The first chapter of my Dergilik journey: building a data foundation, defining meaningful KPIs, and learning from edge cases.
2 min readCareer
The Story of the Red and Black Shoes
The story behind Muud’s rapid relaunch—and the morning an intense delivery schedule sent me to work in mismatched shoes.