Birce Sultan Karabey
What I Stand For
“If we have brains or courage, then we are blessed and called on not to frit these qualities away, standing agape at the ideas of others, winning pissing contests, improving the efficiencies of the neocorporate state, or immersing ourselves in obscuranta, but rather to prove the vigor of our talents against the strongest opponents of love we can find.” Julian Assange
“I don’t really think of myself as ‘conservative’. I agree with Dávila that ‘The reactionary does not become a conservative except in ages which maintain something worthy of being conserved.’ But if (also with Dávila) my aspiration is to be ‘a hunter of sacred shades on the eternal hills’, this means always looking for what is not Spreadsheet Man, the atomised homo economicus of infinite interchangeability, for whom the default is separateness, and whose weak ties can and must always be sacrificed on the altar of freedom.” Mary Harrington
Education
Columbia Business School
Master of Business Administration
2013 - 2015 New York, USA
Connecticut College
BA, Philosophy & International Relations
2006 - 2010 Connecticut, USA
Robert College
International Baccalaureate diploma
2001 - 2006 Istanbul, Turkey
Work
Credit Suisse
Investment Banker
2015 - 2020
Based in New York, London, and Frankfurt.
The Boston Consulting Group
Management Consultant
2010 - 2013
Projects in Istanbul, Rome, and London.
“…believing something is preferable to doing something because the former is about you and the latter is about everyone else… If you read this as laziness you have utterly missed the point. It's not laziness, because you're still working hard, but you are working purposelessly on purpose. The goal of your work is to be done the work, not to be better at work. For a great many people this leads to an unconscious, default hierarchy in the mind, I'm not an epidemiologist but you got it in you sometime between the ages of 5 and 10: <doing awesome> is better than <feeling terrible about yourself> is better than <the mental work of change> You should memorize this, it is running your life. ‘I'm constantly thinking about ways to improve myself.’ No, you're gunning the engine while you're up on blocks. Obsessing and ruminating is a skill at which we are all tremendously accomplished, and admittedly that feels like mental work because it's exhausting and unrewarding, but you can no more ruminate your way through a life crisis than a differential equation.” The Last Psychiatrist
What I Do
“It’s in my view now clear that humanity’s great task of the 21st century remains fundamentally the same as that left unfinished in the battles of the 20th: to reawaken and reassert the flame of the human spirt and reclaim its tradition of and natural right to self-governance. And then with that spirit, wielding the fire and sword of true human love and freedom, truth and right reason, to rise up in counter-revolution against the evil of its archenemy and tear the false order of managerialism and all its poisonous ideological spawn root and branch from the world forever.” N.S. Lyons
