Don't Let AI Meeting Notes into the Knowledge Base

I don't think AI-generated meeting notes should go straight into a knowledge base without being checked, especially when…

2026-10-07

The Most Valuable Lesson in High School Math: Necessary and Sufficient Conditions

The most valuable lesson in high school math is not some complicated formula, but necessary and sufficient conditions. L…

2026-10-07

Practicing English with AI Through “Yes, and...”

I recently found a good way to practice English: playing a game with AI. The rules are simple. The AI starts with a ques…

2026-10-05

What’s the Difference Between “I’m Going to Do” and “I’m Going to Be Doing”?

Today I came across this line: just the way I'm going to be teaching my kids Roughly, the speaker meant: this is how I’l…

2026-10-03

Finding My Toyota

There are already plenty of mature coding agent products, each more fully featured than the last, but I still often use …

2026-09-28

Do I Need to Be a Hundred Times More Efficient?

Lately, I have been thinking about a question: if I do not have a software project that I am rapidly iterating on, do I …

2026-09-26

「苦手」: A Bit More Than I Can Handle

When I was learning Japanese, it was easy to remember 「苦手」(にがて, nigate) as “not good at.” If you're bad at math, you can…

2026-09-26

Why Does Outsourcing Feel So Normal in Japan?

I have noticed that I react to “outsourcing” in two very different ways. In China, when I hear that a company or a posit…

2026-09-26

An Average Depth of One Meter Can Still Drown You

A river is one meter deep on average. Can you safely walk across it? If you cannot swim and there is a three-meter-deep …

2026-09-25

Halfway Through Building an English-Learning Tool, I Decided to Use One That Already Existed

At first, I simply wanted to learn English. When I watched YouTube videos and could not make out a sentence, I wanted to…

2026-09-25

Stable Direction, Evolving Path

I woke up late that morning. My goal was clear: be at the entrance to Hall 8 of Tokyo Big Sight by 9:30 AM. Nothing else…

2026-09-24

What “Shitsurei” Taught Me

In a very quiet café, a staff member accidentally broke a cup while working and said, 「失礼しました」. 「失礼しました」 literally means…

2026-09-24