It’s been a while since I wrote a blog post about blogging. Don’t worry, I’m not going to start with apologizing for not blogging for a while. But the way things are developing over here, it’s safe to say that I’m finally returning to regular blogging and writing.

One of the main reasons for this is the fact that social media platforms, especially text-based ones, feel repetitive and not the best place for new discoveries or conversations anymore. While I won’t stop using them entirely, I’m spending less time there and more in my RSS reader and messaging apps like Slack and Signal.

Another key reason is the rapid changes in my work and career. This has prompted me to reassess how I allocate my time and energy online. Moving forward, I’m going to put more time and energy to on my own spaces and will be working with my garage door open. I’m nearing the public launch of PROJECT LUNAR GROWL, which will elevate the importance of my blog(s).

So, what are the main changes I’m talking about. It has several parts but mostly focuses on my websites and how I’m going to create things online from now on.

Since people are treating newsletters like blogs, I’ve decided to take the opposite route and added subscribe as a newsletter option to both this blog and Tuhaf Gelecek. I’ll be blogging here both in longer formats (like longer writings and regular update posts) and more shorter things at the same time but only the longer ones will be sent as a newsletter. If you want the whole experience, I highly recommend using an RSS reader. (I’ll auto post everything to social media platforms but it’s not a guaranteed way to catch them all.)If you were already a subscriber to my newsletters, there’s a good chance you’re already reading this in your inbox or a copy of this is waiting for you.And if you’re not, you can use the form at the home page or the button at the top to subscribe.Even though this blog/website is bilingual, my posts in here will be more English than Turkish. This is both because most of the regular readers here are from outside Turkey, and also most of my blogging and writing in Turkish will happen over at Tuhaf Gelecek. Which started as an experimental space for me to think and create about futures in Turkish and now it’s going to be one of the main parts of the PROJECT LUNAR GROWL.There still will be occasional Turkish posts here but those will be more personal in nature. If you prefer to read posts in only one language, you can use the menus at the header or get one language RSS feeds from these links: Turkish only, English only.I also started to keep an updated Now page, which has so many updates and unnecessary information about me. I’m aiming to keep it always up-to-date so it can be a good reference point for anyone who wants to know what I’m doing right now.Since all of this is funded out of my pocket and I can’t put a paywall/subscription type of thing —because Stripe doesn’t work in Turkey yet— my only option is Patreon. I’m planning to make as much of my work in these spaces accessible to everyone as possible but this doesn’t mean that I don’t need that support. So of you can spare extra couple dollars a month, that’d be amazing.(I’m also thinking about what can I do for the people who decides to support but I’m not really sure. What would you like to receive extra from me?)

To wrap up: don’t forget to subscribe if you want newsletters from me, put my RSS feed in your readers, I have a Patreon for you to support all of this, and there’s more on the way.

That’s all the news I have right now, I guess.