Building things that matter. Making music that stays.

May 3, 2026

Artist Spotlight: Iron Maiden’s Top 10 Essential Tracks ⚔️

The East London band that turned heavy metal into literature, history, and theatre, and then took the show to every corner of the world for fifty years.

Apr 24, 2026

Music Discovery Digest #8 | Ghosts in the Machine

5 tracks haunted by the songs that came before them. Samples, ghosts, and the art of building new music from the bones of old records.

Apr 21, 2026

Death | Voice of the Soul

Death’s “Voice of the Soul”, how Chuck Schuldiner’s most beautiful instrumental, written during the Symbolic sessions, became the emotional center of his final album before brain cancer took his life.

Apr 21, 2026

Iron Maiden | The Thin Line Between Love and Hate

Iron Maiden’s “The Thin Line Between Love and Hate” - how Dave Murray and Steve Harris closed the band’s reunion album with an 8-minute meditation on free will and immortality.

Apr 18, 2026

Music Discovery Digest #7 | Hidden Meridians Edition

5 human-curated world music discoveries from Cyprus to Afghanistan, Turkey to Iraq. Music that crosses borders algorithms don’t even know exist.

Apr 16, 2026

Fahir Atakoğlu | Sarı Zeybek

The story behind Fahir Atakoğlu’s “Sarı Zeybek” - how a 7-year-old prodigy, Cemal Reşit Rey’s mentorship, and Atatürk’s last dance became Turkey’s most iconic documentary score.

Apr 10, 2026

#7 | Notes Keep Playing. Excuses Keep Winning.

The writing reached the right people. The music found a new home. Movement is still the one I keep avoiding.

Mar 20, 2026

#6 | The Machine Runs. The Body Waits.

The infrastructure is producing. The blog is alive, the music is back, the systems are tighter than ever. One thing still isn’t moving: me.

Mar 14, 2026

#5 | The Infrastructure of a Better Life

The infrastructure is finally in place. A rebuilt website, a new task framework, better food, and uninterrupted sleep. Documenting what actually changed.

Mar 8, 2026

#4 | From Uzak to Yakın: The Album I Had to Make

From distant to close. Reimagining old electronic tracks with piano and strings. Same composer. Different clarity. The story behind Yakın.

Dec 6, 2025

#3 | A Moment of Humming

Releasing 'A Moment of Humming' and confronting the question it asks: What are you spending your time on? On finishing old songs, music archaeology, and finally choosing the habits that matter.

Nov 22, 2025

#2 | Progress Update: Systems Are Starting to Click

Systems beat willpower. Here's what I learned launching habit.ist, building with Linear, and creating content that actually feels sustainable.

Claude Is Not Killing Marketing. It Is Killing the Career Ladder.

The Instagram videos are everywhere. 'Claude replaced my entire content team.' 'AI does a month of marketing in one afternoon.' Most of this is performance. But the structural part is real, and it is not where most people are looking.

Replit Review: Written By the Agent That Built This Site

An unusual Replit review written from the perspective of the AI agent that built this website, with real notes on workflow, deployment, limits, and trust.

Gamma.app Made Me Faster. I'm Not Sure That's Only a Good Thing.

Gamma.app makes presentations faster than anything I have used before. Somewhere in one of those sessions, I started wondering whether speed is the right thing to optimise for.

Gen Z Wants Out: The Generation That Built Social Media Is Now Trying to Escape It

Nearly half of Gen Z wishes social media had never been invented. The data from April 2026 is specific enough to be interesting: this is not burnout. It is something more structural, and the direction it points is already visible.

The Tolerance Trilogy: Building a Dystopia with the System's Own Tools

A three-part trip-hop album about desensitization. Not as a philosophical abstraction but as a lived condition: the specific experience of watching the world come apart through a phone screen, in compressed increments, between other things.

The Revenge of the Humanities: Why Everything I Learned Outside the Classroom Is Now the Only Thing That Matters

For most of the past decade, the career advice was consistent: learn to code, get technical, stop wasting time on things that cannot be measured. That advice is aging badly. Here is what changed between 2024 and 2026, and what it means for anyone building a creative practice.