I am not sure how you landed here, but I am certain another tab/window/notification is already inducing a lowkey rush to move on.

Now that you are here, though, here are a few things about me:

I am an engineer by training and have been a planning/procurement professional for 10+ years. I have mostly worked in manufacturing organizations, and apart from the email chase and paper-pushing that (sadly) takes up a considerable chunk of a modern knowledge worker's time*, I have found joy in my work, particularly in the bits that involve process/systems design and the occasional scripting challenge to automate a workflow.

I reside in Mersin, a coastal Mediterranean city known for...

• its port
• citrus farming
• its enduring appeal to Iraqi expatriates who can't seem to give up on their gas-guzzling white SUVs.

On a more personal note, I enjoy...

• reading (eclectically)
• listening to music (promiscuously)
• eating out (invariably making a special request for a tweak on a menu item as if to spite the wait staff and the poor cook who is reminded he would have been better off driving a dolmuş or working in construction laying bricks)

You must have noticed the sparsity of this page and the lack of links and images. I remember registering the domain in a land-grabbing hurry, and gradually built up a significant deal of content. But all of it went down the drain some time ago due to an overdue hosting bill... The moral of this, I guess, is that procrastination is a nasty habit. Perhaps also that you should *always* back up.

If you want to reach out...

• email me at canduman@gmail.com unless you are proposing to join forces to liberate a frozen fund in Nigeria.
• you may also call me (or forward stupid Whatsapp memes) on +905322373126 to discuss, among other things, whether tea consumption had anything to do with Britain being the first nation to industrialize, or what kind of world we would be living in if Trotsky had prevailed over Stalin.
• here is a link to my Linkedin profile which proves that I am a tax-paying, law-abiding, obsessively-profile-checking citizen/netizen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/canduman/

*It will be a while before he is acknowledged as one but Cal Newport is a prophet.