Finished Before They Are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie 📚
Can’t stop this series! But don’t want it to end, so going to take a break before I read the final volume.
This was absolutely delightful ncase.me/crowds/
Ikijima’s population has dropped by 140 and is just below 24K now. There are only 2727 children on the island.
#ikijima #壱岐島
It’s my birthday. So I watched End of Evangelion and started reading Non-things by Byung-Chul Han 📚
Yeah, middle age is a breeze 😬
Elaborate handmade birthday card presented to me at dinner 🎂
Daughter 1: I wrote it all in Old English. 😇
Daughter 2: Why? So he could understand it? 😈
🔥 🔥 🔥 💀
My last day as a 45 year old had a spectacular sunset. My 12 year old took this photo 📸 🌆 👌
View from the Cybozu Osaka office. We are here and ready for our workshop tonight
Sitting in a crowded Umeda café reviewing my slides for tonight’s workshop on The Culture Map. If you are free this evening, why not come down to the awesome Cybozu office and hang out with us:
Myaku Myaku train in the early evening 📸 🚋 🦠
#Osaka #大阪
It could be better for everybody — a review of Limitarianism in just 335 words
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
📚 Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth by Ingrid Robeyns is an ethical framework advocating for limiting excess wealth and redistributing to the benefit of wider society. The book builds its case by historically analyzing the rise of inequality over the past 50 years through global neoliberal policy; the social problems that inequality cause or exacerbate; how taking a Limitarian stance could improve things for everyone including the wealthy; and what needs to be done to get there.
Nice review of a beautiful looking book: The Uyghurs: Kashgar before the Catastrophe
Photos are from 1998. Compare with the NYT photo essay from 2019 I linked in a post with some of my photos from 2004. What a place. 😔
Finally finished processing and uploading my Taiwan photos to Flickr. I ended up picking 307 out of 1800 and organizing them into a number of albums. Link below, but I will to write a trip report soon with context.
Fun NBN interview with Richard Jaffe about his book Seeking Sakyamuni, a book I adore. 📚🎙
Interview: newbooksnetwork.com/seeking-s… My chapter notes: www.goodreads.com/review/sh…
Also good to hear @ssiddiqui83’s voice again!
#Buddhism #Japan #history #books #podcast
Started the second volume of The First Law series Before They Are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie 📚
When I arrived at Osaka Castle Park Station I was wondering why there were so many people walking around? 🤔 Was it a concert at Osaka Dome? 👩🎤 NOPE! It was the 2024 Craft Gyoza Fest! 🥟🥟🥟 #Osaka #Japan #餃子
Perfect blue sky at Osaka Castle 📸🏯
Listened to the latest ep of CBC Spark on the negative impacts of a culture of productivity, which is a good ep and all, but ends with the shocking announcement that CBC is cancelling Spark after 17 years! 😱
Old school beats from Meth 👐 and look at who tops the list as enemies of music being defeated in this new Droog claymation video: The Algorithm ⚙️ 🎶
Stopped at School Bus before the kids get home for a little writing on the patio in the sun ☕️
Under the tracks 📸
#Osaka #Japan #streetPhotography
