Training
Five sessions a week, an iron-only programme built around the squat, deadlift, and press. Strength as a tax on time, not a sport. The discipline transfers.
Pulse
On the hoursthat aren't code.
Four operating-adjacent disciplines that keep the work calm. None of them are software, all of them feed the same posture toward time, attention, and consistency that the engineering depends on.
The motorcycle
Naked sport on the Adana coast roads. The first hour after rain is the cleanest signal a screen will not give back. Helmets clear what monitors do not.
Reading
Long-arc texts — Kleppmann, Hennessy & Patterson, distributed-systems papers a generation old. The books that change which problem you ship, not which framework you reach for.
