The Monday Read
Best July ever I am loving the perfect temperatures so far this July. Long may they continue! We have a new feature for you in today’s Monday Read: new threads from the Forum and interesting ones from other sites. You’ll find them after the usual links and before the reading list. Here are this week’s […]
The Monday Read
Rain, rain, go away… Dogen posted a joke the other day: “During Japanβs rainy season Godzilla returns to the ocean because it makes him feel less wet”. Makes sense to me! If I wanted cool, dark, gloomy weather I would have stayed in the UK π Here are this week’s links Nice post on the […]
The Monday Read
Digital Detox edition As I wrote in last week’s post, I have started trying to detox myself digitally. So far so good! I’ll probably be writing about it in the future, but one possible drawback is less material for these Monday Reads… I guess we’ll deal with that problem when it arrives, if ever π […]
The Monday Read
Summer is coming This week is week ten at my university, so we are 2/3 of the way through the semester. We are approaching the downhill part π We are also almost half-way through 2019. Hopefully you are working on your financial plan and happy with your progress. Remember to keep an eye out for […]
The Monday Read
The Rainy Season is here. Apparently. Still pretty nice in Sendai though π Here are this week’s links: This essay on Why Nerds are Unpopular was interesting, although I think the US is particularly anti-intellectual in schools. I thought being a politician in Japan was more lucrative -there goes my post-retirement side gig! Local elections […]
The Monday Read
Rainy season is coming Life is good. I hope your life is good too. Here are this week’s links: Are you being too productive at work? The Productivity Pitfall. See if any of these appeal: 24 Weird Ways People Make Money Online Invest it, of course! What Should You Do With A Windfall? This is […]
The Monday Read
May disease edition May disease (οΌζη ) is a sense of malaise that hits children and adults in May. Presumably the excitement of new colleagues, classmates, and situations in April has worn off, the Golden Week holidays have been and gone, and life seems a lot less fun now that we have three months until any […]
The Monday Read
Summer in the air It’s getting warm (and humid!) up here in Sendai. Get the feeling this is going to be a long, hot summer. Might be a good time to review our top ten tips to cope with summer heat here in Japan π Here are this week’s links If we’re going to subsidise […]
The Monday Read
Road to Damascus edition This week’s Monday Read comes to you from Tallinn Airport, where I am killing time (seizing the moment?) before flying back home via HEL (sinki) and Nagoya. I spent the last six days at a jiu-jitsu training camp, and my mind was blown by meeting a guy called Priit Mihkelson. His […]
The Monday Read
Tallinn edition Well, I am in Tallinn this week. First time here, quite liking it so far. Here are this week’s links: Customer service in Japan is pretty good until you go off-script: The Dark Side of Japanβs Customer Service Pretty inspiring: Two Years Of FIRE: Sometimes, You Just Have To Leap 48% of men??? […]