Serdar Yegulalp's Blog, page 10

The Bad Stuff Falls Away

Maybe some things really do deserve to fall away. But if they do, it should be because people have the opportunity to have their own experiences with them.

Hidden Impacts

Things I would never once have credited with being an influence are now, on second glance, revealed as influences.

Beyond Reviews, What?

On moving away from talking about things as "reviews", and towards talking about them as lessons.

The Passion Of The Project

Long-gestating passion projects rarely survive contact with reality intact.

Don't Get Too Comfortable

I would rather write something that attempted to do something new and failed than stay comfortable.

Acceptance Is Triage

Kafka: "In a fight between you and the world, bet on the world." He was not being defeatist.

Time Travel Does Not Exist

No way to go back to grade school and hand in all those assignments I never finished.

The Source Beckons

I felt crippled for having spent so much time not being able to know what I really wanted, or how to get it, or what it meant to finally have it.

What To Keep And What To Ditch, 2024H2 Edition

Repopulating my book collection has brought me back in touch with many books I realized I cared more deeply about than I gave myself credit for, even when I did not agree with them. I still keep a copy of Crass's��A Series Of Shock Slogans over the desk even though my own anarchic/utopian phase is long gone, if only to remind me of the way such thinking grasps endlessly towards better things without always quite knowing how. Same goes with Theodore Roszak's��The Making Of A Counter Culture, wher...

That Guy In The Mirror Is A Tough Customer

If I'm entirely happy with something I've done, that only makes me wonder what opportunities I've missed for recognizing its faults and improving on them.