The Origin Story
They told me to set a low bar for self-expectations when creating a blog {on, about, around} AI. So that's what I did.
Like falling into a classic procrastination trap, I spent months pondering what to write for this first post. As if this is anything but yet-another "a few musings by some guy" that at most a few people will read with 99% probability. Finally today I got over myself and the need to be perfectly important and importantly perfect, and sat down to finally publish the first post to Silicon Whispers.
I realized I need *some* origin story. A short one. One that will allow me to get over myself once more, as I will have to do every time I decide to press publish the next few months (hopefully).
My path so far:
Double majoring in Engineering in Istanbul
Last-semester pivot to study for PhD Economics rather than Engineering
Move from Istanbul to Barcelona
Tough discovery of "I'm not PhD material"
Disillusionment with "career options" most Spaniards take as given
Lottery ticket to Google Spain
Marriage with 2 kids somewhere in between
Move to Google NYC and getting to see "tech" from within
Moving back to Barcelona after amazingly rewarding yet even more tiring 10 years
Now off of Google, on to new adventures
Since I am giving myself this year as a runway to discover alternatives to a nine-to-five, and since the last purely creative and unpaid endeavor that really excited me was spending hours on end writing posts on eksisozluk.com in early 2000s, giving a chance to a "starting a substack / medium" looked like an imperative. The last hurdle of getting over myself, in other words, making myself unimportant enough to push down the vulnerability threshold, was overcome literally this morning, so here we go.
And so ends my attempt at the shortest possible 'origin story.' Welcome to Silicon Whispers, where prompts become musings and musings become prompts. Sidestepping all the is-this-too-much-capex brouhaha, I simply want to celebrate this tech through the eyes of an adult who found that '9-year-old discovering Lego' excitement. Achievement unlocked if I get you to copy paste some of this into your chatbot of choice,
Expect wordy prompts, thoughts on creating them, even the occasional long form conversation if I think I got something mildly interesting from the chatbot-du-jour. The pseudo intellectualism is purely mine and does not reflect my (by now non-existent) employer’s views.