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The Okura Tokyo, Toranomon
The moon has been compounding its light for billions of years. Stellar portfolio management.
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The Okuma Tower, Waseda
The average human life is about 4,000 weeks. Most people don’t feel that until week 3,500.
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Capitol Hotel, Nagatacho
Heidegger said we are always already thrown. No landing pad. No instruction manual. Only the throw.
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Natsumezaka Coffee, Waseda
Governance is the art of making collective decisions for people who cannot agree on what is collective.
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Palace Hotel Tokyo, Marunouchi
Every writer knows the perfect sentence. It appears at 2am and is gone by morning.
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Palace Hotel Tokyo, Marunouchi
Before language, there was only color. Maybe that is why music feels like color, and color feels like a dream.
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Palace Hotel Tokyo, Marunouchi
Descartes said: I think, therefore I am. Zen says: stop thinking and see what remains.
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Shabu-Shabu Restaurant, Akasaka
The market is efficient, they said. Then they sold volatility insurance to both sides.
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Capitol Hotel, Nagatacho
Begin anyway.
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Cafe Shakey’s, Kasumigaoka
Language is technology. Writing is its most durable upgrade.