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I I’ve spent the past two months agonizing over what to do with my 2022 Toyota Tacoma.

Jun 11 • Ersin Akinci

Recent posts

Update: Deep in Scholarship Mode

Finding consciousness, AI souls, and an intellectual home

Apr 10 • Ersin Akinci

Rogue Philosopher-Builders

Why the tech industry's dissidents need a school of thought

Mar 19 • Ersin Akinci

The Unbroken Chain

On teachers, ideas, and a dissertation I found last night

Mar 16 • Ersin Akinci

Can a Fashion Designer Design a Nuclear Reactor?

On AI, information compression, and the skill that actually matters.

Mar 9 • Ersin Akinci

On becoming a human data cog

The first AI-native job for the rest of us?

Oct 1, 2025 • Ersin Akinci

What I lost when I lost history

Losing my faith when I quit the history PhD

Jul 21, 2025 • Ersin Akinci

Ersin's blog

Ersin's blog

Building empathetic tech startups in public. AI, startup fails, empathy, and cacti from a historian turned software engineer in Tucson.

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