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01 · Language, Culture & Identity
On language, migration, cultural crossings, and the things that refuse to translate.
I was born in Brazil and went to school in Singapore, Malaysia, France and England before I ever worked in Japan. I think in three languages and am not fully at home in any of them. These essays are about that condition — not as a hardship, but as an instrument.
Languages of Thoughts and Exophony — 思考の言語とエクソフォニー
The earliest piece here, and still the origin document. Written before I had the vocabulary for what I was describing.
Tokyo, the Invisible City of History
In a European town, history speaks from the cobblestones. Tokyo does not do that. What greets you is glass and neon — and underneath it, almost nothing you can see.
02 · Literature, Philosophy & Human Life
On literature, philosophy, attention, mortality, and how to live.
I read Marcus Aurelius and Yoshida Kenkō the way other people check the weather. Since 2025 I have also been a philosophy student again, at the Open University. These essays are what comes of that.
Two Traditions, One Wisdom — And the Gap Between Them
What it means when two civilizations that never met arrive at the same answer.
When the Limits Come Into Focus, Life Finally Becomes Readable
Midlife is not the arrival of wisdom. It is the moment you can no longer look away from the structure.
Japan’s Greatest Essays Were Written Out of Boredom
Two Japanese writers solved the optimization problem seven centuries before the productivity industry invented it.
03 · Leadership, Judgment & AI
On judgment, organizations, leadership, and what remains human when machines can answer.
Leadership and organizational behaviour are part of my professional work. What interests me most is not the framework itself, but what a person still has to decide and remain responsible for.
When AI Writes Better Than We Do: What a 14th-Century Monk Taught Me About Thinking
The machine can produce the sentence. The question is what was supposed to happen in you while you wrote it.
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