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All posts across life, business, investing, and AI.
life
A trip to Asia
Tashkent, Samarkand, Bukhara.
2026 · 6 min read
life
A year in place
A quieter year in Florida — less road, more work.
2025 · 4 min read
life
Coast and big cities
A year of travel — and Christina’s senior year in school.
2024 · 6 min read
life
The year we went to see the country
The most travel-packed year — and the most memorable. Alabama, Orlando, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Chicago, St. Augustine, Washington. And at the end of the year — Evolution AI.
2023 · 6 min read
life
Settling in
The first full year in the US — a first car, a first house, and trips around the country already as locals.
2022 · 4 min read
life
The trip we did not return from
We came for four or five months to rest after COVID. In summer we decided to try staying — and we stayed.
2021 · 4 min read
life
Ufa
The year the world closed — a short break in a neighboring region.
2020 · 3 min read
life
USA, Turkey, Hong Kong
Three trips in one year — the US with the kids, Turkey as a couple, Hong Kong solo.
2019 · 6 min read
life
USA and Turkey
Family travel between continents — CES 2018 and two weeks on the Mediterranean.
2018 · 4 min read
life
First America — and the first business there
HOBOT distribution in the US and the trip that started everything.
2017 · 5 min read
life
Tunisia
The first trip to Africa.
2016 · 3 min read
life
Maldives
Ten years together — an ocean warm as fresh milk.
2015 · 3 min read
life
Sun School
The third business in two years — a private kindergarten, Turkey with the family, Egypt with Natalia.
2014 · 4 min read
life
Tea and robots
The beginning — still at the bank. Tea shop, Home Robot, and the people around them.
2013 · 4 min read