Early supporter of TEDx events
The TEDx initiative was launched the years when I was attending TEDGlobal so I attended then first three TEDx gatherings in Istanbul.
TBT, Intel interviews me about tech & Turkish culture
Thanks to Ken E Kaplan for interviewing me about how tech and Turkish culture come together!
I love supporting global women entrepreneurs, like Sydney Alfonso
Considering getting evicted due to Netflix's Original Series Sense8, TBT
What we mean when we say "Berkeley"
Much of what I and my Berkeley-native peers experienced growing up there was being duplicated in alternative communities everywhere, and also much of it was a product of the times. We didn't know that.
Berkeley is revealed in its "byzantine cultural complexity" by secular Jewish homegirl author of new book about going undercover in Jerry Falwell's evangelical church.
"If you’re from Berkeley...you know the muscle of the Berkeley Left is actually made up of a million fibers, often flexing at cross purposes — the Green Partiers, the Clintonites, the Obamaphiles, the Slow Foodists and Dumpster Divers, the Second and Third Wave feminists, the Marxists, anarchists, and Revolutionary Communists, the vaguely apathetic left-leaners, the merely apathetic."
"The first time I saw a bowl of table grapes I had a panic attack. ~ KOKO MULDER"
Connecting through social media with the diaspora of Berkeley kids, and comparing our upbringings. Read the New York Times article here.
TBT, Michael Margolis's Reinvention Summit
Seems everyone's looking for the root of meaning -- encapsulated in this storytelling tidbit from Michael Margolis' REINVENTION SUMMIT of 2010 -- including the first retweeter Tim O'Reilly of O'Reilly Media, called 'the smartest man in publishing' by Seth Godin.