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Mehmet Karaman
Owlift Journal
Practical guides on workplace English and AI-powered writing — real examples, no fluff.
20 Articles · Updated Aug 12, 2026
Behind the Blog
Honestly, this whole thing started as a sticky note. I'd catch the same annoying email slip from three different people in a week, or watch a teammate waste an hour on something AI could've knocked out while they grabbed coffee. So I just started writing down the fixes.
I hate those generic listicles—they just take up space and say nothing. Here, I pick one actual problem, see if I can solve it cleanly, and stop there.
First bucket: communication. Real-world English, not the sanitized version they push in textbooks. Nobody talks like that. I go after the stuff spellcheck misses, like how to survive a passive-aggressive email thread without snapping, or flipping from formal to casual mid-conversation without it sounding stiff.
Second bucket: AI that actually helps. No futuristic hype, just the prompts and shortcuts that genuinely save me time. If it shaves five minutes off my day, I'll share it.
The list keeps growing. No schedule—I only post when I run into something worth fixing. And once you start looking, you realize these little friction points are everywhere.
Want your emails to read tighter? Want your software to stop fighting you? That's what this is for. And if there's something you keep tripping over that I haven't touched yet, tell me. Probably means I haven't hit it—or it's a real hassle—but I'll take a stab at it.