About Lack of Imagination

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” - Albert Einstein

This is Aycan Gulez, your host (LinkedIn | GitHub | YouTube | Mastodon). I’m the Izmir Lab Director at Efsora, a software and AI development company that partners with innovative enterprises and scaleups to deliver large, cutting-edge R&D projects. Previously, I served as CTO at Faradai, leading the development of Faradai’s carbon accounting and energy management software platforms, which are utilized by a number of mid- to large-sized companies to monitor and reduce their energy consumption.

Why the name “Lack of Imagination” you might ask. I’ve noticed that the more I think I know about a subject, the more confident I get, and the less likely I become to entertain alternative views. This, in my opinion, leads to a dangerous state of mind: a lack of imagination. So, I chose to name this site “Lack of Imagination” to remember that the world is big and there are so many things I don’t know, no matter how much I think I know.

I’m writing this blog to share my views about subjects on which I consider myself at least somewhat qualified to comment. Hopefully, some of the entries on this site will attract the attention of people who can contribute their own viewpoints.

I would like to thank Bilal Ceylan, Edward Hubbard, and Tugce Aker for their feedback and also the people behind the following tools and services powering this web site: