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Cahid Arda Öz

DX - Software Engineer at Upstash

Istanbul, Turkey

The Current - May 2026

A monthly public record of the links I save - what I read this month, with a line on each.

Accessions Monthly roundup of things I enjoyed reading.

I already keep a running list of links in Notion - things I read and want to come back to. Keeping it private costs me nothing, but sharing it as a public record might be useful to someone else, so here it is. I plan to post one of these every month.

The format is shamelessly borrowed from Scott Alexander, whose monthly links posts I look forward to every time.

This month

  • Morale - 12 Apr 2026. On morale as a resource you spend and have to replenish, not a mood you happen to be in.
  • The Dead Economy Theory
    • 1 May 2026. An essay arguing the economy looks alive on the surface while the parts that actually create value have quietly stalled.
  • Magnifica Humanitas
    • 15 May 2026. Encyclical letter of Pope Leo XIV - worth reading whatever your priors, for the framing of technology and human dignity.