This silver week I got the full week off, making a perfect opportunity to travel, right? Wrong! Three forces conspired to keep me in Tokyo…

This silver week I got the full week off, making a perfect opportunity to travel, right? Wrong! Three forces conspired to keep me in Tokyo…

We begin the week with a fetch quest: I ran around the office delivering a gift and later trying to track down a package, which it turned…

Reader, I have a new room-mate. A jumping spider. It is tiny, seems friendly and since I have no idea where it came from, I guess it just…

Last week I wrote that I had accounted for my newfound free time, and yet this week ended up rather busy. Partly I was studying and building…

New week, new me, and all that. Some new routines are settling, and the combination of not making plans and a few people returning from…

Reader, this week I am looking at the world through new eyes. Primed by some smaller conversations last weekend, a discussion about…

On Tuesday the cicadas reawoke, officially marking the start of summer. Both heat and humidity dials are set to “high”: And it’s easier to…

This was a good week for eating Okinawan food and for achieving several huge paperwork wins. I’ve unlocked a whole new world of being…

This week I’ve been thinking about career paths, about how to quantify and measure things and social capital. Oh and the humidity has been…

Big week. Got mostly good news. Made some principled decisions. Graduated to a retainer. For my first non-technical post on this blog, I…

As part of a recent language programme, I was asked to give a short speech in Japanese. I'm finding it quite challenging to learn, so this…

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To set the scene: Last weekend I lost my voice, and then on Monday I woke up feeling totally ill. Maybe it was change of seasons, maybe it…

Lots of small things on the docket this week, which made me think back to Rocks, Pebbles & Sand. I broke down all of my ongoing work and…

Another week, another special assignment. This one particularly interesting as it involves applying AI in a novel way. We do a lot of prep…

This week was golden week, coinciding with my birthday. Instead of a string of bank holidays and the string of ambitious (offline) travel…

This week a new section was born in my Slack. That’s what kind of week it was. Really enjoying project work. All the frameworks are now in…

Reader, this week I closed a chapter. It represented a lot of work and many side-quests, and now it is done I feel a bit hollow. Sometimes…

This week I spoke about AI a lot in four entirely separated contexts, and got to run an architecture session I’ve waited a few months for…

Like the sequence in every good heist movie, I’m doing the rounds and reassembling the brain trust. What’s the job? Stealing something…

Over the years I have noticed a trend in my blog: During late winter things feel a little wobbly. Alas, the time has come to admit it since…

Last week we got a cryptic text message in the falling snow. This week ran the full gamut from bitter cold to early spring. On the docket…

Another week, two trips to two different ward offices. But what you’re really here for: Me being excited about realising the full potential…

This week was very ... taxing. I did a lot of thinking, talking and diagramming this week but I know you’re not here for that. This week’s…

Reader, how are you celebrating Burns Night? With some help I assembled a passable haggis, neeps & tatties and a cheese board. Some wisdom…

I’m now a wallet phone case guy. Monday was Coming of Age day (a national holiday for those paying attention) and it was coincidentally also…

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Twelfth night burst into my apartment in the dead of the night and bundled my Christmas tree into a small box. Week 2 and I’m both still…

How did you ring in the new year? We walked around Kabukicho a lot before deciding it would be simpler to go to Aoyama for some sparkling…

Phew, we did it, we made it to another Christmas in Japan. Well done reader, I know it was hard, and I’m proud of you. This week was split…

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It’s December, I now have a Christmas tree and it’s freezing. Consequences of a week about furniture? This week I spent a lot of time at…

Well reader, how do you follow Nagoya? The answer, apparently, is by buying more furniture. I now use Kagi. Unlike many other products I…

This week marks a year since I left the FT, and my 51st week in Tokyo. Where is my head at a year after stepping away from journalism? I…