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 se…