Writing
Two posts a week: product notes, startups and AI.
Who is Enes Demirel?About · 3 min read07.2026Enes Demirel's projects: from Düşün to the roadmapProjects · 4 min read07.2026My production system: tools, rhythm, measurementSystem · 5 min read07.2026How I built Düşün: an app that consults historyProduct · 6 min read07.2026Shipping products at 21: fear and speedStartup · 4 min read06.2026Building a one-person AI studioAI · 5 min read06.2026
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An anonymous analysis of the first 100 questionsDüşün · 07.2026Voice engineering: how does Atatürk sound like Atatürk?Düşün · 07.2026Why the typewriter effect? On product feelDüşün · 07.2026Düşün's privacy architecture: why I don't keep questionsDüşün · 07.2026How new figures get chosen: my criteriaDüşün · 07.2026Why do people consult history?Düşün · 07.2026Düşün's first month: numbers, errors, lessonsDüşün · 07.2026Card sharing: a feature as growth engineDüşün · 07.2026Düşün goes English: localization notesDüşün · 07.2026The Düşün roadmap: are voiced answers a dream?Düşün · 07.2026
QUEUED — ON THE PUBLISHING CALENDAR190 · 2/week
Lessons from History
Modern competition lessons from Sun Tzu17.08.2026
Translating Marcus Aurelius's morning routine20.08.2026
Mehmed's project management: ships over land24.08.2026
Einstein's 55-minute rule27.08.2026
Tesla's mental prototyping method31.08.2026
Rumi for founders: making peace with loss03.09.2026
Napoleon's doctrine of speed07.09.2026
Avicenna's learning system: a page a day10.09.2026
Steve Jobs's "no" list14.09.2026
Atatürk on crisis management17.09.2026
AI Practice
Rule one of working with AI: good questions21.09.2026
Dividing work with AI in a one-person studio24.09.2026
Trust in AI products: the invented-quote problem28.09.2026
Systems, not prompts01.10.2026
AI costs for small products05.10.2026
Picking models: speed or depth?08.10.2026
My quality-control line for AI content12.10.2026
AI ethics in personal projects: my red lines15.10.2026
My AI toolchain (2026)19.10.2026
Is there one skill to learn in the AI age?22.10.2026
Startup
The first 100 users, without ads26.10.2026
Testing a product idea in 48 hours29.10.2026
The anatomy of launch fear02.11.2026
The big advantage of small products05.11.2026
Quiet ways to collect feedback09.11.2026
Idea to launch: my 4-stage line12.11.2026
When does a side project become the main one?16.11.2026
Free or paid? Pricing the first product19.11.2026
Deciding to kill a product23.11.2026
Shipping solo in 2026: a realistic guide26.11.2026
E-commerce
E-commerce from zero: what works in 2026?30.11.2026
Picking products: trend or pain?03.12.2026
My first store: what I got wrong07.12.2026
Shipping, returns, support: the invisible work10.12.2026
A product page is also writing14.12.2026
Organic testing before ads17.12.2026
Brand or store?21.12.2026
E-commerce + AI: copy, images, support24.12.2026
Small catalog, deep focus28.12.2026
Case: one month's P&L31.12.2026
Personal Brand
Owning your name on Google, step by step04.01.2027
Why a personal site is still the most valuable asset07.01.2027
One identity across social media11.01.2027
Building my content calendar14.01.2027
Turning one post into five pieces18.01.2027
Short video vs writing21.01.2027
Writing under your own name25.01.2027
The SEO of a portrait photo28.01.2027
Why everyone needs a press kit01.02.2027
Measuring a personal brand04.02.2027
Systems
The morning block: protecting three deep hours08.02.2027
The weekly one-glance board11.02.2027
Procrastination isn't a knowledge gap15.02.2027
A truce with the phone18.02.2027
Energy management > time management22.02.2027
The definition of done25.02.2027
Vacations in a one-person business01.03.2027
My note system: idea to archive04.03.2027
The low-motivation protocol08.03.2027
Quarterly themes over annual plans11.03.2027
Engineering
In defense of simple architecture15.03.2027
From prototype to production18.03.2027
Wiring analytics from day one22.03.2027
Speed is a feature25.03.2027
Forms, errors, empty states29.03.2027
Starting with one file01.04.2027
Backups and disaster plans, solo edition05.04.2027
Domains, DNS, email: boring but critical08.04.2027
Turkish typography on the web12.04.2027
Readable code: a letter to tomorrow's me15.04.2027
Reports
My monthly report template19.04.2027
Month one SERP report22.04.2027
Düşün metrics: questions, cards, returns26.04.2027
Revenue report: what side projects earn29.04.2027
Failed experiments report03.05.2027
Site analytics: what gets read?06.05.2027
Month three SERP report10.05.2027
First ads report13.05.2027
The six-month review17.05.2027
The year-end balance sheet20.05.2027
Essays
The age of ideas: the full manifesto24.05.2027
21: on hurrying and waiting27.05.2027
Working alone isn't loneliness31.05.2027
Is honesty a strategy online?03.06.2027
From consumer to producer07.06.2027
A useful way to be jealous10.06.2027
Finishing is harder than starting14.06.2027
Work quietly, publish loudly17.06.2027
Luck is a byproduct of systems21.06.2027
A letter to five years from now24.06.2027
Council Portraits
Atatürk's reading list: a leader's library28.06.2027
We misread Rumi: not love — discipline01.07.2027
Who was Sun Tzu, really?05.07.2027
Why Marcus Aurelius never wrote for publication08.07.2027
The teachers of Mehmed the Conqueror12.07.2027
Tesla's solitude: genius or choice?15.07.2027
Einstein's patent office years: stagnation or incubation?19.07.2027
Jobs's journey to India: educating intuition22.07.2027
Napoleon's book chests: reading on campaign26.07.2027
Avicenna wrote while fleeing: producing under duress29.07.2027
Readers Ask
University or my own business? An honest analysis02.08.2027
Working while my peers have fun: is it worth it?05.08.2027
My family opposes entrepreneurship: how do I explain?09.08.2027
Where do I find my first customer?12.08.2027
How justified is the "they will steal my idea" fear?16.08.2027
Which programming language first?19.08.2027
Can I create content without showing my face?23.08.2027
At what age is it too late? (Spoiler: never)26.08.2027
Can you run two projects at once?30.08.2027
"My motivation dies in three days" — the cure is a system02.09.2027
Tool Reviews
Code assistants: a week of real use06.09.2027
Image tools for e-commerce: which one?09.09.2027
The note-app war: simplicity wins13.09.2027
Content calendar tools: is a spreadsheet enough?16.09.2027
Who does the free analytics tier serve?20.09.2027
Newsletter infrastructure: the right start23.09.2027
Speech to text: a transcription experiment27.09.2027
Automation platforms: a bridge for non-coders30.09.2027
The one-person studio's design kit04.10.2027
The cost of switching tools07.10.2027
Product & UX
The first 10 seconds: what users actually decide11.10.2027
Onboarding's invisible step: setting expectations14.10.2027
Empty states: the quiet hero of first impressions18.10.2027
Microcopy: button text sells the product21.10.2027
Dark patterns: short gain, long penalty25.10.2027
Notification design: between invitation and harassment28.10.2027
Pricing-page psychology: the three-box legend01.11.2027
Real speed vs perceived speed04.11.2027
Accessibility: why it matters even in small products08.11.2027
The feature graveyard: what deletion grows11.11.2027
Marketing Experiments
Headline A/B: same post, two fates15.11.2027
The posting-time myth: what data says18.11.2027
The first 1000 impressions: greeting the algorithm22.11.2027
The comment strategy: showing up in others’ audiences25.11.2027
Email list 0 to 100: where the first subscribers come from29.11.2027
Refreshing old posts: the republishing calendar02.12.2027
Micro collaborations: small audience, high trust06.12.2027
Free-tool marketing: does the Düşün model generalize?09.12.2027
SEO vs social: which fruits first?13.12.2027
Word of mouth: measuring the unmeasurable16.12.2027
Money & Independence
Budgeting at 21: a money system for makers20.12.2027
Accounting for first income: tax, invoices, order23.12.2027
The emergency fund: how many months are enough?27.12.2027
Income diversity: one source, one weakness30.12.2027
Live cheap, learn expensive: my spending philosophy03.01.2028
Pricing courage: valuing your own work06.01.2028
Being a maker in the subscription economy10.01.2028
Debt-free growth: advancing without funding13.01.2028
What's your hour worth? The time-money exchange17.01.2028
A money goal or a freedom goal?20.01.2028
Making from Turkey
The Turkish-content advantage24.01.2028
Global products from Turkey: payments and infrastructure27.01.2028
The local maker ecosystem31.01.2028
The bilingual strategy: depth in Turkish, reach in English03.02.2028
E-commerce dynamics in Turkey: shipping and trust07.02.2028
The power of local communities10.02.2028
The subtleties of Turkish SEO14.02.2028
Pricing amid currency swings17.02.2028
Supporting global customers from this timezone21.02.2028
Being from here: handicap or story?24.02.2028
Learning
Project-based learning vs course addiction28.02.2028
Making peace with the forgetting curve02.03.2028
The "what I learned today" journal06.03.2028
The hard-book protocol09.03.2028
Consuming technical content in a foreign language13.03.2028
Finding mentors: the etiquette of asking16.03.2028
Teaching while learning: the fastest reinforcement20.03.2028
Skill stacking: the T-shaped maker23.03.2028
The boredom threshold: depth's price27.03.2028
The information diet: few sources, much digestion30.03.2028
Digital Writing
The first-sentence workshop03.04.2028
Headline writing: honest but magnetic06.04.2028
The long road to short writing10.04.2028
Rhythm: making music with sentence length13.04.2028
Metaphor dosage: sparse, fresh, placed17.04.2028
Opening personal stories to the public20.04.2028
The parent test for technical topics24.04.2028
The skeleton: a template against blank-page fear27.04.2028
Self-editing: cooling the draft01.05.2028
Series architecture: structure that brings readers back04.05.2028
Healthy Making
A truce with the screen: eyes, wrists, neck08.05.2028
Not dying seated: a desk-side movement system11.05.2028
Sleep is a production tool15.05.2028
The caffeine strategy: friend or credit card?18.05.2028
Walking meetings: thinking in motion22.05.2028
The detox exaggeration: realistic break design25.05.2028
Burnout signals: my early-warning list29.05.2028
Ergonomics: cheap but correct setup01.06.2028
The introvert maker's socializing quota05.06.2028
The body board: three weekly health metrics08.06.2028
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