Ahmet Özdemir
He emailed me in 2024 after finding my “meta-considerate” article, and asked about other applications of this idea.
Lifelong seeker of Mental Models.
We walked down to a really nice park called Moda Parkı Sahası, past a tennis court and basketball court with hundreds of little tables and chairs set up overlooking the water, bike path, and steep-slope park.
We were the first ones there.
This neighborhood (Moda) is 100% liberal.
He smoked a lot but doesn’t carry a lighter, so had to keep asking people for a light.
Scattered but thoughtful guy.
Total extrovert.
Friends with famous musicians, but not a musician.
His uncle - mom’s brother - died yesterday and today is the wake.
He invited me but it’s this afternoon.
We talked alot about the uncle:
He was a long-haired liberal musician then suddenly snapped into hardcore right-wing religious conservative and married a very religious woman.
Ahmet lost touch with him, hadn’t talked in years, but now wishes he had.
He asked me why I want to live everywhere and I said it brings out different sides of our persona, like if I was born in Texas maybe I’d go to rodeos and it’s only circumstance that I don’t, so the seed of that is inside me and I want to bring them all to the surface.
BOSS-AI, his new company, spent like $30,000 USD in AI credits building this thing.
The app asks you lots of questions.
He’s meeting a bunch of business owners now.