Science has measured what happens. It has not yet asked why it has to be a forest. Researchers have documented […]

The diagram is not Japanese. Four overlapping circles. What you love. What you are good at. What the world needs.

Ford’s system was the most efficient production system in human history. It was also a system designed around the assumption

“Imperfect beauty” is the wrong translation. Kintsugi is the Japanese practice of repairing broken ceramics with lacquer and gold. A

It is not an aesthetic. That is the wrong category entirely. Wabi-sabi is described as “the beauty of imperfection, impermanence,

One leaf does not describe the forest. If you have read the three preceding notes and find yourself with a

“Bushido is found in dying” — the most misread sentence in Japanese history. The line comes from the Hagakure, an

The soil, not the tree. Note on Samurai I ended with a question: how does a person become capable of

Two filters. The same distance from the original. The most widely read book on Bushido in the Western world was

Kotodama is the word Western scholarship reached for when Japanese language did something that existing linguistic frameworks could not explain.