Author Archives: giiray

yazarken üretmek, üretirken yazmak

bazı yaptığımız şeylerin neden sınırı oluyor? Dediler ki bugün, “mühendislik okuduktan sonra başka bir iş yapan kişileri, mühendislik pozisyonlarına almıyorlar. çünkü o kişiler okulda öğrendikleri zaten küçük mühendislik kabiliyetlerini kaybetmişlerdir. Hamlamış, paslanmış, tamamen işten uzaklaşmışlardır. O insanlardan bir daha mühendis olmaz”. Bu bakış açısına göre, mühendislik kaybedilebilecek bir yeti. Kaybedildi mi bir daha geri dönüşüContinue reading “yazarken üretmek, üretirken yazmak”

Bridging the Vision Gap

What Could Technologists Benefit From Learning? Let’s say they’re working on mobile warning systems: they really know how to build the tech, but do they know what makes a good early response strategy? This might be the weak point of our organisations: tech managers and engineers don’t study the social situation to which their productsContinue reading “Bridging the Vision Gap”

Alert as Needed

In mass-emergency communications, I champion an approach I call “Alert as Needed”. The world has had numerous experiences with using modern communication systems in mass-emergency situations. The role these systems play, in a well-rounded emergency response, is unparalleled. It is as important for governments to have the ability to warn and guide their people enContinue reading “Alert as Needed”

Freeform Riffing About “Leadership as Hospitality”

I read Leadership as Hospitality when @Malcolm_Ocean mentioned it to me in a reply Tweet. I wrote some thoughts about it. They don’t really constitute a blog post! But I am putting them on here, so that it’s easily readible. You see, them Tweets have a word limit. There were a two things I riffedContinue reading “Freeform Riffing About “Leadership as Hospitality””

am i betraying myself or am i moving on?

engineering i made all those graphs myself. we built that together. with three other amazing people—my friends—and a professor, one of the people i love most in my life. thinking about creating value when i said i was quitting engineering to go into journalism, a senior journalist where i was interning, attacked my decision, veryContinue reading “am i betraying myself or am i moving on?”

Global and Connected Bards

I want to create a network of people and a system of thought, that will allow the stories of the peoples of the world to be exchanged and introduced to each other again. Humans are a story telling species. News are stories. We tell each other stories of harmful events that happened in the past,Continue reading “Global and Connected Bards”

Ancestral Recall

Humans tell stories Humans tell stories of their ancestors and of ages long gone. Stories of the ancient past are so powerful, that nationalism used them to craft nation identities, with which they could bring the people together and lead them. Ancient Danish Kings claimed divine ancestry through stories, reinforcing their positions as rulers byContinue reading “Ancestral Recall”

thinking in dominoes

initiate big change: as smaller blocks tip the bigger ones over, creating an avalanche effect that increases in intensity, which eventually creates big change; sending shockwaves throughout the world and throughout centuries… there is no knowing how big the end block is going to be; you might even tip over reality… Hello! This was inspiredContinue reading “thinking in dominoes”