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Replying to @mijustin
As I travel around and visit startup communities in Japan, I ask “Who are making companies? What fields are they coming from? And, are they solving problems that they discovered in those fields?” 🤔
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Good post. I like this observation too:
“Most good opportunities are not obvious (especially to outsiders). It’s unlikely that you’ll spot an opportunity in a space you’re not familiar with.”
Domain knowledge. https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1312285480042414080
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Replying to @nobi and @mui_labo
I was just there on Wed hanging out with the guys! Nobi I haven’t seen you since about 2009 at the Apple Store in Nagoya. Small world!
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BA Baracus would drive this! ⛓💪 https://twitter.com/GeekyGearhead99/status/1312270798414123008
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Replying to @pjacksonmusic and @rob_kendrew
Suppose if Kono Taro gets his way there will be no more chocolate hanko 😢
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Replying to @wrightak
No, I voted for “cash”… but if you ever work with Indian devs that is how they pronounce it. (I would assume that is how French devs would too?)
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Replying to @pjacksonmusic and @rob_kendrew
I have never been… hence my imagination https://twitter.com/chadkoh/status/1298425039667093504?s=21
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Replying to @wrightak
You forgot “ca-shay”
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JK takes #Japan’s ultra-pragmatic foreign policy on a walk of shame through Asia. Remember the Arc of Freedom & Prosperity? There has been so much forgotten rhetoric… https://twitter.com/apjjf/status/1311054393442172929
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RT @UncannyJapan: This bread art by @ManamiSasaki3 is out of this world!
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RT @pauljamesharper: The Eurovision Song Contest just got serious.
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Replying to @Mutantfroginc and @Nevin_Thompson
I wish Canada WAS as perfect as Canadians imagine.
I do think that IdleNoMore and BLM (and even Occupy) made the needle move a little above the 49th parallel. But we are still a long way off. Lots of good Canadian voices on this topic for those that are curious. Can recommend.
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Replying to @Mutantfroginc and @Nevin_Thompson
Further, this too is true 👉 https://twitter.com/jessewente/status/1311143251039133696?s=21
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Replying to @craigmod
WHAT THE… ! I haven’t been up there in years… didn’t know this was a thing… smh
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Replying to @Mutantfroginc and @Nevin_Thompson
Or Canadians for that matter… look at the first chart in this old post of mine http://chadkohalyk.com/2016/10/13/off-white/
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Phew! Busy day today. Spent all afternoon with a startup doing natural wood touch interfaces, and the evening with an award-winning Kung fu documentary film-maker. As you do. 😅
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Replying to @paularcurtis
I think I know some fedora wearing, whip-weilding archeologists that would like to ride a dinosaur gallantly into THAT party!
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Replying to @navalang
Pretty low apparently. The infrastructure is quite good, with regards to number of charging stations across the country. But most people are buying hybrids. I am not sure why… suppose that’s the reason Nissan uses these kinds of marketing messages.
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Replying to @navalang
Its a big advertising angle here in Japan, the land of natural disasters. When a typhoon or earthquake hits and your house power goes out for 3 days, you have a massive energy source parked right there!
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Replying to @toranosukev
Mark Ravina’s book does a really nuanced job on Saigo. It was illuminating and very complex. I quite enjoyed it.
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Replying to @toranosukev
Way back a hundred years ago when I was young, I went to a wedding on Okinoerabujima. It was only about a hundred years later (ahem 2020) I learned there is Saigo prison stuff there! Regrets! 😫 But tbh back then I was focussed on Sengoku, so had no idea.
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Replying to @toranosukev
I have visited his statue in Kochi, saw where he was killed in Kyoto, and even took a photo with him in Nagasaki. But I never saw the TV show, and he only appears as a background character in most of the Meiji books I have read, so always wanted a proper treatment to understand.
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Replying to @paularcurtis and @TristanGrunow
Oh nothing specific, just know that I would enjoy hearing you two rap about this topic. 🙌
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Replying to @paularcurtis
Would love to attend, but am on the road in Kyoto with no decent internet. I am assuming there will be a recording I can enjoy later? /cc @TristanGrunow
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Replying to @toranosukev
What’s you recommended book-length treatment of Ryoma?
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Just putting together my monthly newsletter, which is due out tomorrow. If you are not on the list, you can sign up below. It’s free, and there are usually some bad puns in it, so 😁👍
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Replying to @rolandkelts and @waseda_univ
Perfect thanks! Will definitely order and looking forward to learning more about where MB is going to position itself in the English-language discourse on Japanese topics. Lots of good work coming out, but not a lot of places that collect a broad overview.
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Well bless that man’s well-trimmed moustache! That’s my coach!
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I don’t think I count, but some of ya’ll might. Hit up my man below: https://twitter.com/jakeadelstein/status/1310486376769495040
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I am soooo Team #TedLasso 🙌
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Visiting the Scent Museum at Kunjyukan. Smelled and bought some nice incense here.
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Replying to @kekke828
高すぎない！？
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Replying to @rolandkelts and @waseda_univ
When is the first issue out and what is the fic/nonfic/poetry ratio and where can I buy it? (I have been pining for a Japan-focussed lit mag for a while!!)
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Replying to @laurie_ljg and @AlfieJapanorama
Looking at the Lumix GX7M3 right now with VERY bedroom eyes… compact but I can have a short and a longer walking around lense like my old 60D days… mmmm
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Replying to @nosword
Omg I just got your joke now.… 🤦♂️
👏 👏 👏
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Replying to @nosword
Despite the fact that most of the pieces they have on display are modern (Showa or later) it is kind of a dying art… maybe niche is a better word? But the intricacy and variety is stunning! Check their Instagram to see samples (we weren’t allowed to take pics).
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The report from yesterday’s trip to the Netsuke Museum. Below is my shot from the hall of this beautiful samurai yashiki. Notice the lack of posts and the suspended cieling? Better to be able to swing your sword in the event of an attack!
https://www.writersinkyoto.com/2020/09/netsuke-museum-event/
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Thinking a lot about this little book I read http://chadkohalyk.com/2020/09/27/whats-your-travel-philosophy/
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Replying to @chadkoh
Also, I really want a decent camera again 😩 Taking mine into Osaka next week for sensor cleaning, but really looking at getting something heftier. Micro 4/3rds maybe this time? Buy secondhand says @AlfieJapanorama
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Took a walk up the hill at night. Kyoto and Muko. Thing that most surprised me walking alone in the dark was I had no fear of snakes and spiders like I do back on the island! 🤓
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Replying to @sheepchase
Agree with above. No thank you!
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RT @konotaromp: Trying to get rid of “hanko “ or name stamp, or seal, from Government business. There are over 11,000 procedures which requ…
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Love how goes to the window and wanders back to pick it up. 26 years old! Total genius. 🙇♂️ 🙇♂️ 🙇♂️ https://twitter.com/dusttodigital/status/1309483341872271360
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Replying to @jppietrzak
Phew! So NOT my sworn enemy. Okay, we can continue talking then! What is his last name? I was a student in 99-00, but started working at the 広報課 from 2002, so I am pretty familiar with all the students from that era.
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Replying to @jppietrzak
Not Joel from Oklahoma?
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Replying to @jppietrzak
Ah! I see you spent a year at KyoDai, 2001-2002. I was on the One Year Program at Rits 99-00!
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Replying to @jppietrzak
I didn’t know you spent any time in the big K? Just visiting the mothership? Or did you live here at some point?
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Hanging around in my old Saiin neighbourhood at an authentic kissa (you can tell by the green velvet). Relaxing and writing up my experience today at the Netsuke Museum with the Writers in Kyoto group. Very informative. Check them out on insta https://www.instagram.com/netsuke_museum/
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RT @Curious_Kurz: Sign in Eckington
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Replying to @kellyahammond
Course, it was only a couple years ago when my grandmother asked my wife “So you are a Buddhist eh? What does that mean? It Buddha some sort of rock?” 🤦♂️
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