Idris Aksoy writes the Bulletin’s lead essays and cornerstone pieces. He came to writing about technology after a decade running operations at small distributed teams, and he is most interested in the question of which abstractions survive a platform shift and which get re-litigated. He treats Web4 as that kind of survival question.

Aksoy writes from Istanbul. His pieces tend to run long and to refuse a single news hook. He is the contributor most likely to argue with the rest of the masthead in print, and the Bulletin’s editorial principle of ‘say it plainly, then defend it for the rest of the piece’ is his line.