Hello, friend 👋

Most of what I’ve learned about work didn’t come from insight.
It came from hesitation, overthinking, and getting things slightly wrong—then trying to understand why.

I write about work, technology, and everyday life as I experience them—usually from the middle of things, not the end. I’m not an expert. I’m just someone who keeps notes on what seems to matter, and tries to make sense of it before it passes.

Most of my work takes three forms.

Sometimes, I write ✍️

This is where I think in public—through essays, books, and small observations from daily life in Japan. Many of these begin as questions I can’t quite answer yet. Some stay as writing. Others turn into drawings—ways of seeing something more clearly by putting it on paper.

If you’re new, you might start with a few of the pieces that people tend to return to. They’re all about everyday situations, but they tend to open into something larger.

Other times, I’m working in tech 💻

Not as a commentator, but inside the systems themselves—building, fixing, and learning how things actually hold together. Japan has been a particularly clear place to observe this. It’s where questions of trust, communication, and responsibility show up in very concrete ways.

If you think about your career a lot, or how work shapes your life over time, you might find something useful there.

And sometimes, I speak 🗣️

Usually about things I’ve had to figure out the hard way—career decisions, uncertainty, working across cultures, or how to think more clearly when nothing feels settled yet. These talks are less about having answers, and more about offering structure—something others can use to make sense of their own situations.

Alongside this, I’ve been doing something smaller.

Once a week, I sit down and try to remember what actually happened—not what felt important at the time, but what stayed.

It usually takes about an hour to write, but about a minute to read.

I write it down before the week disappears into the next one.

If you’re curious, you can follow along.