Celebrating 3rd year, 7.935 readers, 66 countries

your ai & technology policy partner, 3 years in.

A sincere, quiet thank you to everyone who’s been here — reading, thinking, staying. This one comes from a personal place.

I’ve been writing for a long time.
Not in the “I always knew I wanted to be a writer” way—more in the “writing was how I actually express myself” way.

If we don’t count the diaries I kept in primary school, my semi-professional writing life started around the first year of high school. I was chief editor our school literature journal, later became the chief editor of Koç University Law Faculty’s journal for three years, wrote the legal blog pieces at the firm where I first practiced law, had a column regularly to policy and technology publications at Aposto and contributed to my mentor Ussal’s newsletter Global İşler from the very first edition, then became a columnist at CoinDesk.

All of this happened long before generative AI entered our everyday lives.
But I was already writing about these questions—the social, political, and ethical layers of technology—since my second year at university. I didn’t know it then, but I was slowly building a voice. Even my Harvard LL.M. acceptance essay in 2021 was about AI ethics, at a time when ChatGPT wasn’t yet public and “AI governance” wasn’t a crowded field. This didn’t start as a trend. It was just where my attention naturally stayed.

Three years ago this month, I started TechLetter.
At first, it was just a way to understand what I was reading—slowing things down, analyzing, questioning, leaving a trace of my own thinking

Since then, life hasn’t always cooperated. There were health problems, breaks, surgeries. Twice, I had to stop writing for months. Some weeks I was present, some weeks I disappeared. But I didn’t quit. I always return

Over time, TechLetter became more than a newsletter. It became a portfolio—something I can go back to and see what I read, how I thought, how I analyzed, and how my perspective and knowledge changed over time.

As people grew tired of reading, I shifted TechLetter to English to reach a more global audience and moved my reflective Turkish essays to Harvard Business Review. I still write across journals and platforms from time to time—but TechLetter is different. It’s mine.

Today, TechLetter is read in 66 countries by 7,935 people.
That number matters to me not because it’s large, but because it’s evidence of continuity. Of growth that wasn’t rushed. Of a voice that kept going.

So thank you—to everyone who reads, reflects, writes back, shares, critiques, or simply shows up.

Three years ago, I just wanted to understand.
Now I want to continue.

We’re still early.
There is more to say.