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on new beginnings
Shortly after I posted a blog about getting fired, Ashlee Vance called me. I'd read Ashlee's Elon Musk biography in 2022. I was covering the Twitter acquisition and needed to understand Elon's whole deal, so I'd read the PDF on my phone
on san francisco
I first moved to San Francisco in 2021. The city had emptied out due to the pandemic, and rent was unbelievably cheap. I hauled my belongings up three flights of stairs to a walk-up in Lower Haight. I had four roommates. Two worked in tech. Six months in, we discovered
on nostalgia
When I was about ten years old, I was living in San Diego. As a half-Turkish kid in such a sunny city, my skin was ten shades darker than usual and my hair was bright blonde. I was what my family affectionately dubbed a "towhead." I've
week three stuff and things
I really love an earnest party. Some events I've been to lately make me want to kill myself. Kidding, therapist and anyone else reading! These last few weeks, I haven’t done much besides getting dragged out of my studio apartment to some Bay Area gathering. In the