ー 書くことは、存在を時間の中に残す技術 朝、紙に一文を書きました。 Random writing is important. とりとめなく書くことは大事だ。 最初は、ただのメモでした。 でも、書いているうちに、少し大き…
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Winning, losing, escaping, we are all rats all the way through.
On the race we run, the ones we think we’ve left, and what it means to finally stop
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How Nations Rise From Ruins
What Japan Teaches Us About Recovery
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Two Traditions, One Wisdom — And the Gap Between Them
On Stoicism, Bushido, and what Kenkō adds that neither quite captured
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Japan’s Greatest Essays Were Written Out of Boredom
On Kenkō, Hyakken, and the art of going nowhere
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AI は現代の唯一神なのか
AIは有用です。
処理が速く、手助けをしてくれる。そして、ひっそりと、孤独を和らげてくれる。
しかし、それはかつて人々が神に求めていたものと、果たしてどれほど違うのだろう？
中心ではなく、境界から世界を見る
「後から来た私たちの文明もまた、自らが死すべきものであることを知っている。」
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When the Limits Come Into Focus, Life Finally Becomes Readable
On narrowing options, transformed ambition, and the strange relief of knowing where you end.
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At the Queen’s Table
I have spent years teaching leadership inside institutions. Most leadership education carefully avoids the most important question: how do you remain yourself in the process?
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Who Rules Whom? Kenkō’s Answer to Power
I was walking along the Sumida River in Tokyo, thinking about a question that sits underneath almost every conflict I’ve ever read—myths, novels, corporate politics, even scripture.
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