ALP

I want to understand what’s changing. And build what should exist next.

I’m interested in the intersection of creativity, technology and business — and what becomes possible when the boundaries between them begin to disappear.

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I’m a builder by instinct.

I started with software.

Over time, I became increasingly interested in the systems around it: people, businesses, ideas, organisations, technology, and how they influence one another.

My work eventually moved from building software to building teams, businesses and capabilities. But the instinct remained the same.

Understand how something works. Imagine how it could work differently. Then try to build it.

03 Intentions

  1. Stay close to making.

    The more senior you become, the easier it is to spend your life discussing things other people will build.

    I don’t want that.

    I want to remain close enough to technology, creativity and craft to turn an idea into something real.

  2. Understand change before reacting to it.

    Technology rarely changes only technology. It changes behaviour. Then expectations. Then industries. Then institutions.

    I want to understand those shifts early — not to predict the future perfectly, but to have some agency in shaping what comes next.

  3. Make technology useful.

    I’m interested in technology, but not technology for its own sake.

    The important question is: what does this make possible that wasn’t possible before?

    AI is making intelligence and creation increasingly abundant. I want to understand what we should do with that abundance.

  4. Rethink how creative businesses work.

    Many creative organisations were designed for the economics and technologies of another era. Those assumptions are changing.

    The distance between an idea and its execution is shrinking. Capabilities that were once scarce are becoming widely available.

    I want to explore what a creative organisation should become when intelligence is abundant, production is accelerated, and disciplines increasingly overlap.

  5. Stay curious across disciplines.

    Software.Artificial intelligence.Science.Music.Astronomy.Design.Economics.History.Games.Electronics.

    I don’t see these as unrelated interests. Every field gives you another model for understanding the others.

    Curiosity compounds.

  6. Prepare for a very different future.

    I believe the next few decades will bring profound change. Artificial intelligence will change how we think about work and intelligence. Scientific discovery will accelerate. The relationship between humans and machines will become increasingly complex.

    I want to understand that future — as someone building businesses, as someone making things, and as a father preparing a child to live in a world we cannot fully predict.

    What should we be learning today if tomorrow will be radically different?

  7. Make room for unnecessary things.

    Not everything needs a business case.

    Build an arcade machine. Make music nobody asked for. Write some code because you wondered if something was possible. Learn how an old machine works. Take something apart. Build it again. Follow a question much further than necessary.

    Some of the most valuable things we do begin with no obvious value at all.

04 Questions

Questions I keep coming back to.

  • What happens when intelligence becomes abundant?
  • What becomes valuable when execution becomes cheap?
  • What does creativity mean when machines can create?
  • How should companies organise around AI?
  • What skills will matter twenty years from now?
  • What should children learn when knowledge is instantly available?
  • How much of what we consider uniquely human will remain uniquely human?
  • Does technology make us more capable — or simply more dependent?
  • What should we preserve as everything accelerates?
  • What becomes possible when one person can build what once required an entire organisation?

05 Principles

A few things I believe.

  • Curiosity beats certainty.

    Certainty closes doors. Curiosity opens them.

  • Build to understand.

    Thinking is useful. Making something reveals what thinking alone cannot.

  • Learn across boundaries.

    Interesting ideas often exist between disciplines.

  • Technology is leverage.

    The important question is not what technology can do. It is what people can do differently because it exists.

  • Complexity should earn its place.

    Simple is not always easy. But unnecessary complexity is usually a failure of understanding.

  • Stay capable of changing your mind.

    Strong opinions are useful. Permanent opinions are dangerous.

  • The future should be participated in.

    Predicting what happens next is less interesting than helping shape it.

06 Now

Right now.

Thinking about

  • How AI changes organisations rather than simply individual tasks.
  • The consequences of increasingly abundant intelligence.
  • What education should look like for children growing up with AI.

Learning

  • Shader programming and real-time graphics.
  • The economics of AI-native organisations.
  • Something in astronomy I still don’t properly understand.

Making

  • Small experiments across software, AI, physical objects and music.
  • This website — which will probably be changed again.

Reading / Watching / Listening

  • Notes on intelligence, abundance and what comes next.
  • Long conversations more than short takes.

07 About

Context, if you need it.

I’m Alp.

I studied software engineering and started my career in technology. My career gradually moved through digital products, project leadership, agency management and business leadership.

Today I work at the intersection of business, creativity and technology.

I live in Istanbul. I build things. I ask too many questions.

I am usually learning something that has very little to do with what I am supposed to be doing.

I don’t have a five-year plan.

I have a direction.

  • Stay curious.
  • Keep building.
  • Understand what’s changing.
  • Work with people I can learn from.
  • Make useful things.
  • Make some useless things.
  • Question assumptions.
  • Change my mind when the evidence changes.
  • Prepare my son for a world neither of us can fully imagine.
  • And remain curious enough to be surprised by what comes next.