Serdar Yegulalp's Blog, page 13

Above All, The Incorruptible

If your highest goal in life is to find something that cannot be abused, you will never find it.

Lives Like Empty Rooms

Experience matters, to be sure, but powers of observation are at least as important to hone.

On Not Being Good Enough

I always want to do better than before, and I don't always know how, because it's not always clear to me how, or what, to learn from my mistakes and shortcomings.

Scribbler's Revenge

It would have been great if I had a proper typewriter, back when a typewriter was the most I could realistically hope for. Instead, as luck would have it, I got a computer.

From Nothing

What are we left with when we clear away everything we take for granted? Ourselves, and each other.

Round Two: Fight!

The other night I finished -- well, not quite, but almost -- the first full draft of��Charisma.

The Spirit Of The Advice, Not The Letter

One thing I find myself struggling with often is how to give advice on how to expand one's tastes or experiences without sounding like I want that advice taken literally.

Book Lover's Progress

After the launch of my YouTube channel, I made a list of material, mostly books, that seemed likely candidates for talking about. I've since realized just about everything I tagged is material I'm using as research for a current or future project. Nice coincidence.

The Paralyzed Man, Pt. 2

In my last post I talked about how the cloud of depression that suffocated me for years started lifting when I put together a good plan for how to be creative. I should point out this was not a panacea, but merely the first step. I still had to learn what to do next and why.

The Paralyzed Man

I've talked before about the period of depression I experienced from roughly 2001 through 2006 or so, and a hallmark of how bad that period of time was for me is how little of it I remember in any significant detail. It was all one big doleful blur.