Gökhan Turhan
I care most about getting to abundant energy and real industrial scale fast - the boring-except-it-isn't stuff: power, manufacturing, compute, and the global problems that don't get solved without that base. I think governance should compete: let patchwork jurisdictions try different rules and reward outcomes, not paperwork theater.
Fintech and payments are where I actually work - custody, tokenization, DeFi mechanics, market structure - and the mess around shipping it: partners, distribution, institutional story. I'm comfortable owning "ship + sell": priorities like a PM, outreach like BD, technical writing and ecosystem comms like DevRel (positioning, docs, launches).
I also make conceptual art. It keeps me honest about naming, framing, and compression when the product is basically "a complicated system nobody wants to misunderstand."
Essays
- 21st Century Civilization: Week 10 — Technology, Strategy, and Survival Feb 2026
- 21st Century Civilization: Week 8 — Industry and Money Jan 2026
- On Context Layer Products re Consumer vs Enterprise Jan 2026
- Generational Activation—of and through plaintext based aggressive-acc cutness Jan 2026
- Claude's Machinic Memeware Jan 2026