Wednesday, July 30, 2014

What being home means.

Take one. The wind.
Take two. Long way down dreams with the best crew.
Take three. Catching up a million years in sixty minutes.
Take four. Bumping into adventurers.
Take five. Saying goodbye over and over.


Saturday, July 19, 2014

Ayse Arman Roportajim

Karşınızda Silikon Vadisi sakinlerinden Ayşegül İldeniz
Nefes kesen bir kadın. Yaptığı şeyleri sayarken takip edebilmek, hızına yetişebilmek bile zor. O hiperaktif değilse, hiç kimse değildir!




Sunday, July 13, 2014

Expedition into the wilderness ---of self and others


How I dealt with ‘years of myself’ in the Gobi desert

I am just back from a week in the Mongolian steppes and Gobi desert. With 12 countrymen, twelve motorbikes, and a Kazakh woman. Being a chronic solo traveller, this expedition had presented huge risks with thirteen people whom I knew almost none, had no idea on their experience of travel or life for that matter. I been immersed into creating a completely new business past eight  months in a new continent with a new team, probably eating up every ounce of risk taking, creativity, persistence, ambition and perseverance that existed in my veins. I been flooded with an adrenaline rush since November last year, getting up to a new day every day where every second every move every player had to be contemplated and executed from scratch. So how did this physical strenuous activity in mongolia that involved people I didn’t know and extreme conditions fit to that state of mind?