“Sol tarafta Beyrut’un tepesinden aşağı doğru çekilmiş yeşil dostu bir şehir manzarası, sağ tarafta Forever Beirut isimli kitap görülüyor“

Lübnanlılar - Beyrut Notları 2 (Turkish)

Credits Daha önce yazdığım yazıda Beyrut’taki gözlemlerimi; şehri özetlemiştim. Şehirle kurduğumuz temas dışında insanlarla kurduğumuz temaslar zihnimizde kalıcı bir köşe haline geldi. Bu yazıda da insanları anlatacağım, ya da anlatmayı deneyeceğim. ...

October 5, 2024 · 4 min · 721 words · Mesut Yılmaz
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Beyrut Notları - Şehir (Turkish)

Kıymetli bir dostumun Beyrut’taki düğününe daveti en başta heyecan verici, diğer yandan da düşündürücüydü. Düğüne yaklaşan süreçte Lübnan’daki çatışmasızlık ortamının devamı ve uzun süredir yaşanmayan uçuş iptallerinden hareketle Beyrut’a gitme kararını aldık. İyi ki de gitmişiz, toplumsal konularla ilgili yıllarca anlatacağım pek çok örneğe tanık oldum. Beyrut’ta dikkatimi çeken maddeleri ve düşüncelerimi bu yazı ile toparlamak istedim. ...

September 29, 2024 · 6 min · 1207 words · Mesut Yılmaz
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Scoring the "Meaningfulness" and "Impact" of the Work: A Personal Guide for Evaluating Business Domains during Domain Change

✅ Click here to Get Downloadable Framework: Business Meaningfulness Evaluation v1 Now, is the time to evaluate a domain change. I’ve managed amazing products, primarily in the Assistive Technology domain. During my years in this domain, I’ve encountered the “impact” keyword (especially social impact) lots of times. I’ve developed an understanding and approach to these trending words, and I started to see sub-trends and their results. These terms are often used without representing any real understanding and have become nonsensical PR words. ...

May 19, 2024 · 5 min · 1014 words · Mesut Yılmaz
Two artworks related to the movie, from David Moyer, are shown next to each other. Left: A bulldozer collect people from the avenue. Right: there are 3 serial manufacturing lines; 2 lines for dead bodies, 1 line for soylents. And a hand is risen.

On Soylent Green Movie and Our Societal Hypotheses

Image Credit: David Moyer, Behance During high school, I was a fan of Soylent-based feeding. It saved me time to focus on my projects and experiments. As long as I could financially afford to supply Soylent, I continued to feed in that way. So, as a person fed by Soylent for years, watching a dystopia about a Soylent-based community was an interesting intersection. ...

January 28, 2024 · 6 min · 1099 words · Mesut Yılmaz
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2023’s Top Opispectives

When I noticed the power of converting opinions into a vision and then into action, I started to evaluate my routines under these 3 concepts. I invented a new word, #Opispective, to push myself to refine my opinions during the week into a vision. While everybody resolves the year of 2023 nowadays, i also wanted to join this resolution trend to share some of my top opispectives from 2023. ...

December 24, 2023 · 7 min · 1286 words · Mesut Yılmaz
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On My Excitement of Battlestar Galactica

⚠️ SPOILER ALERT Battlestar Galactica(2004) might be the most breathtaking series I’ve ever watched. I often describe myself as a “Gene Roddenberry and Star Trek lover.” I really would like to and enjoy watching how humanity can achieve more and live peacefully in science fiction. (especially while bombs are raining in the Middle East nowadays) This perspective loads a mission to science-fiction productions in my preferences. ...

October 11, 2023 · 5 min · 919 words · Mesut Yılmaz

"I’m a patent-deist" : A Bare Perspective on the Patent System’s Non-sense

1 — I’m a patent-deist. 2 — I think the patent system is no longer a mechanism for supporting IP owners, but a mechanism for making life difficult. ...

April 17, 2022 · 4 min · 668 words · Mesut Yılmaz