Hey, I haven’t written any blog post for 3 years so I forgot how to write blog post but I’ll try to put my ideas to correct locations.

First of all i learnt lots of things like other years. In 2021 I changed my job, home or roommate but the most important thing is I’m sure thoughts have changed and every year getting more maturing.

What did I do in 2021

Discovered more of Istanbul

I don’t like live in Istanbul because there is lots of traffic and lots of rude people live in Istanbul. Although these reasons drains my energy, it also gives me historical and cultural energy. Me and my gf like tasting new foods, and trying different coffees so we’re discovered lots of places and delicios wines :)

Concert

Actually I didn’t have a concert culture but I realized, this year I went to lots of concerts :)

Changed my Job

In the first months of 2021, I was working at Useinsider. I was happy to work there but then I realized that I don’t spend enough time with my loved ones and when I was working at Useinsider, I had no time for improve my English. Then I decided to change my job.

Then I’ve started working at PulpoAR. PulpoAR is a seed stage startup that is my biggest motivation. Because I want to start a business in the future. In PulpoAR, which I started at the beginning of April, Although my technical improvement has been slow, I’m learning lots of stuffs about startups, company, partnership, management, leaderships. Actually In a startup, your team and culture is more important than idea or etc. I see it live and I’m thinking prepare a blog post and youtube video for this topics. I’ve learning lots of technical stuffs and point of view since Cihangir abi started to consulting. Beyond learning a lot, I was also very happy to know him.

Moved

Emre, who is my brother, came to Istanbul for working as a Junior Backend Developer and then we moved a new house. Our house isn’t getting sunshine but it’s location is very fit for us :)

What I listen?

I realized that I listen more Turkish musics in 2021 maybe this is because I started working from home and I usually listen music when I coding, driving or in a bus etc. My meeting times increased so I listened less music in 2021 :(

Vacation

Sad to say I didn’t go on vacation. I went to Bodrum for two days with my GF. It was very nice but too short. I hope we’ll go on vacation for one week in 2022 (Capitalism liked this 👍)

Language Improving

Actually this topic is very sad for me because when I changed my job, my motivation was imroving my English. I started to lessons with Bilge, who is teacher at Preply, and we continued 3 months. Just then, my work position changed to head of technology until new investment period so I wasn’t have enough time for this. But Defne is very supportive for improving my English. We’ve started watching Friends and now we’re in 5. season In addition we’re doing speaking practice.

How are the projects going?

Although I think that the Web3 and Meta frenzy is hype right now and will slow down after a while, being ready for the next level is among my plans for 2022. We started a new project about Web3 and I’m looking forward to share more things :) Please wait until Feb 2022

Blog

Even though I have been following the industry and dealing with something since I was a kid, the lack of a regular blog reduced my motivation a little bit. I started a quick blog with Hugo and connected it to netlify, so I took the first step of my long-term blog plan :)

It is both very risky and very exciting to be changing every day every year, even if years pass with good or bad. I hope the ways we know right will lead us to sunny days,

Happy new year!