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Discover authentic technical spaces beyond mainstream platforms - from Gopher and Gemini protocols to invitation-only communities, amateur radio networks, and mathematical archives that prioritize substance over scale.
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When I was first involved with then-emergent DeFi scene in the summer of 2020 aka DeFi Summer, I was one of those kids in a Japanese grammar class who didn't know it was even better to learn Kana first. You had the Anki, cheap Steam games, free nerd material all over the place. However, the art of dashboard making, data analysis etc. were totally alien to me as a speculative archivist with a qualitative background in American and comparative literature. In the heat of the now, I kept graduati...
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Obscure Digital Corners: A Complete Guide to Underground Technical Communities and Alternative Inter…
Discover authentic technical spaces beyond mainstream platforms - from Gopher and Gemini protocols to invitation-only communities, amateur radio networks, and mathematical archives that prioritize substance over scale.
SP100 CapEx Dashboard
When I was first involved with then-emergent DeFi scene in the summer of 2020 aka DeFi Summer, I was one of those kids in a Japanese grammar class who didn't know it was even better to learn Kana first. You had the Anki, cheap Steam games, free nerd material all over the place. However, the art of dashboard making, data analysis etc. were totally alien to me as a speculative archivist with a qualitative background in American and comparative literature. In the heat of the now, I kept graduati...
Reading "Sufficient Decentralization for Social Networks" by Srinivasan
Now that people are flocking to #Farcaster protocol, that is a sufficiently decentralized protocol upon which users have control over their own data w...
On open finance, emergent markets, and kulturwissenschaft
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A reflection on age, employability, and building products in the age of technological acceleration from biotech to LLMs.
The consensus is that there are certain human ages where one’s market share of ideas shrink. Broadly speaking, this seems to be the truth. However, building products in the age of technological acceleration from biotech to LLMs and their future is almost akin to observing the gravitational waves for the first time for some of us who can navigate the contextual layer at ease.
You might be building a simple payments rail solution bucket for a possible agentic market, or a CNC machines for niché Martian terraforming enterprises, and you could be the same guy doing it. It’s all about vision, and legacy sense of belonging in the species’ culture so exuberantly that you want us to transcend the limits of the known universe, and boundaries of a given wetware full of vestigial and almost non-replaceable parts.
Some of your mutuals or friends might find your endeavors anti-human whereas another clique might deem you as blasphemous, and governance mechanisms of the Everyman and other critters might come to stop you accentuating the balance of the known universe, or some pasture out in the wild that could have been blooming with ancient flora and fauna, right now, on the spot.
Here, many men, and women accordingly, come to depress themselves with the idea that, once they’ve past the age of 30, they are unemployable at the future-making companies of today. From software to hardware, we encounter the same mindset.
However, I perceive such mindset as a side effect of brainrot, a weakling remix of capitalism proper by either the mindless, or the trickster.
Published on December 26, 2025 by Gökhan Turhan
A reflection on age, employability, and building products in the age of technological acceleration from biotech to LLMs.
The consensus is that there are certain human ages where one’s market share of ideas shrink. Broadly speaking, this seems to be the truth. However, building products in the age of technological acceleration from biotech to LLMs and their future is almost akin to observing the gravitational waves for the first time for some of us who can navigate the contextual layer at ease.
You might be building a simple payments rail solution bucket for a possible agentic market, or a CNC machines for niché Martian terraforming enterprises, and you could be the same guy doing it. It’s all about vision, and legacy sense of belonging in the species’ culture so exuberantly that you want us to transcend the limits of the known universe, and boundaries of a given wetware full of vestigial and almost non-replaceable parts.
Some of your mutuals or friends might find your endeavors anti-human whereas another clique might deem you as blasphemous, and governance mechanisms of the Everyman and other critters might come to stop you accentuating the balance of the known universe, or some pasture out in the wild that could have been blooming with ancient flora and fauna, right now, on the spot.
Here, many men, and women accordingly, come to depress themselves with the idea that, once they’ve past the age of 30, they are unemployable at the future-making companies of today. From software to hardware, we encounter the same mindset.
However, I perceive such mindset as a side effect of brainrot, a weakling remix of capitalism proper by either the mindless, or the trickster.
Published on December 26, 2025 by Gökhan Turhan
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