Markets
While its neighbors are fighting stagnation, tourism traps, or demographic collapse, Vietnam is quietly becoming the factory—and the code—of the future. Inspiration: My recent trip to Vietnam, seeing young developers coding in cafes while Thai streets were packed with tourists. Walking through Ho Chi Minh City feels different
Artificial Intelligence
Apple Intelligence is good at privacy, but bad at thinking. To save the iPhone upgrade cycle, Apple just outsourced its brain to Google. (This post, like many others, was originally posted in 2025, before I migrated this site from WordPress to Ghost infrastructure). Inspiration: Realizing that “Siri” is still dumb
Affinity
Canva just made professional design free. Adobe is buying SEO tools to survive. The king is dead. Inspiration: The growth of Figma in the recent years. How easy it was to transition from Photoshop to Affinity. The acquisition of SEMRush. For decades, Adobe wasn’t just a software company. It
Artificial Intelligence
We finally have a tool that can simulate the planet faster than the planet can change. This isn't just a weather forecast; it's a survival engine. Inspiration: Watching the Google WeatherNext 2 announcement and realizing it was tagged “Climate Change” for a reason. We usually talk
Artificial Intelligence
The cookie is dead. Long live the conversation. Why the next generation of ads won't just know what you clicked—they'll know who you are. Inspiration: Realizing that AI assistant knows more about your son’s development milestones than his pediatrician does. For the last 20
Artificial Intelligence
You can buy Nvidia H100s, but you can't buy a culture of innovation. The "Giga-Projects" are beautiful, expensive distractions from the real work. Inspiration: The news that NEOM is being scaled back (after burning billions) and the realization that “Humain” is a venture capital firm disguised
Markets
The OS war isn't over; it just changed battlefields. Valve is doing what Microsoft refused to do: building a console that is actually a PC. Inspiration: The realization that my “gaming PC” is just a glorified console that forces me to deal with Windows updates. We thought it
Prediction Markets
The stock market is boring. The new casino is pricing "Truth," and it's about to eat the world. Inspiration: Watching the Polymarket chart during the election and realizing it was more accurate (and addictive) than CNN. While everyone was busy watching Nvidia stock charts, a quiet
Artificial Intelligence
The resume is dead. The future of hiring is your AI agent talking to their AI agent while you sleep. Inspiration: Seeing brilliant friends stuck in mediocre jobs simply because they are bad at “self-marketing,” and realizing that the best candidates are rarely the ones actively applying. The current recruiting
Personal
Stop treating AI like a search engine. Start treating it like a mirror that remembers everything you forget. Inspiration: The moment I asked my AI to roast my life choices, and it gave better advice than my therapist. For years, my relationship with AI was transactional. “Hi, I’m Barbaros.
Anduril
It’s not just about better drones or smarter software. It’s about rewriting the operating system of war to solve a problem that broke the US military in Vietnam and Afghanistan. Inspiration: The speeches of Sarah Paine and Palmer Luckey, and the timeless strategies of Sun Tzu and Miyamoto
Leadership
She doesn't have a Twitter account. She doesn't have a podcast. But she is about to become the most important voice on your feed. Inspiration: My track record of spotting figures like Prof G, Alex Hormozi, and Palmer Luckey before they hit the mainstream. I have