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- Sharks Don't Want to Eat You, But You Still Shouldn't Get CloseYou often hear people say this about sharks:
- Denied by Sovrn Commerce? It's Not the End, Just a Support TicketYou want to earn more from affiliate links, so you sign your site up with Sovrn Commerce.
- Retinol Serum Made Only My Nose Itch: Don't Hurt Your Face Trying to Beautify ItI put on a serum.
- When People at Work Get Irritable One by One, Blame the StructureAt work, there's sometimes one person who always seems to be in a bad mood.
- Why Do Cats Rub Their Cheeks on You and Love Head Pets? And Why Gentle Touch Calms Us TooIn cat videos, you sometimes see a cat take its owner's hand off its belly with a front paw and steer it up toward its head.
- Interview Question: Why an In-House Product Company?I'm interested in companies that build their own products.I want to work on an in-house product.
- Why Can't You Come Up with Ideas for Summer Projects, Book Reports, or Art Class?One morning, I woke up from a weird dream.
- Wild Last Boss: an easy overpowered hero and lore that goes beyond the universeHeads-up: this contains big spoilers from the late novel.
- Wolf Children: A Parents’ Love and a Child’s Inherited Burden Are Separate BillsI started watching Wolf Children, and about 20 minutes in I was already thinking some pretty heavy thoughts.
- Initial D THE ARCADEInitial D THE ARCADE: are you braking too much in corners?New players often brake early and hold it forever because walls are scary.
- The Company Behind Japan’s “PutiPuti” Bubble Wrap Just Renamed Itself PutiPuti Co., Ltd. — Who Was Kawakami Sangyo, and Why Did the Rebrand Explode Online?On October 1, 2026, Kawakami Sangyo, the company behind Japan’s trademarked PutiPuti® bubble cushioning, changed its corporate name to PutiPuti Co., Ltd.
- Asking ChatGPT because searching was annoying: 1,800 articles laterThe funniest part is the mismatch between the amount of material that exists and the amount of work it feels like I did.
- The second round of "I don't need an apology"Someone points out a mistake.
- I can't subtract 7 or hold seven digits, but life works fineYou can be bad at mental arithmetic and still function perfectly well in modern life.
- Why no styes despite staring at a phone all day? The eye-strain mythMicroscope at work. Phone during breaks. Manga or other close-up reading at home.
- Can You Commit to a Saturday One Month From Now?“How much overtime do you do?”
- The day Japan's tax office systems stalled: "just use paper"Imagine someone trying to complete a tax procedure quickly.
- When Travel Becomes a Giant Search Box: Stations, Roads, and SignsA person who would normally cross a station square in five minutes can suddenly spend half an hour wondering why the station sits at that exact point, why one…
- Buying ED medication cheaply on DMM: unit price vs total spendOpen the booking flow for ED treatment.
- Where Do “Amateur” Adult-Video Performers Keep Coming From? — Less Pickup Magic, More Tiny Labor MarketWatch several “amateur” titles and the same question appears.
- Same Sol, Twice the Fuel Economy? AI Agents Live or Die by the Harness — Understanding Codex, OpenCode, and MCP as a Wiring DiagramA developer posted on social media that after switching from Codex to OpenCode while still using the same GPT-5.6 Sol through ChatGPT authentication, they felt…
- Boiled chestnuts until the water vanished: do you restart the clock?Autumn cooking occasionally turns into an applied-physics exam.
- The misplaced-eel legal puzzleAnother customer's eel lands on your table.
- Minamioguni voucher and Kyushu recovery discount: can they stack?Travel-support campaigns can produce a very specific sequence of thoughts.
- Why does Hatcho miso need three tons of stones? A Kakukyu tourThe day in Okazaki was supposed to involve hunting for Tokai On Air-related stickers and manhole-card side quests.
- Why did black winged ants invade a closed room at dusk?Yesterday, the room was cleaned.
- Running senior-level engineering with an AI agent from my phoneA fairly large software change was delegated to an AI agent.
- Where does an AI trading edge come from? More experimentsIf you want to build an AI trading system, the obvious idea is simple: predict the next price.
- Why career advice grows out of casual talk: small self-disclosureA casual conversation once shifted after one person mentioned, only briefly, that they were also looking at future work options.
- Don't hand one person the remote control to your lifeSome people turn personal preferences into universal rules: “normal people do this,” “family should do this,” “that’s just how work is.”
- Do AI agents make people unnecessary? Designing a media systemImagine sending a few lines from your phone while you are out—“What is this?”—and having the system behind the scenes research the topic, write an article…
- "That has to be AI": why hybrid ads mix generated worlds and peopleYou are watching a commercial.
- Give flies a social network and reinforcement learning arrives firstFlies have been wired into DOOM-like experiments, connected to game screens, and now—apparently—given social media.
- Why can hands shake when thyroid tests are normal?A health check included thyroid testing. Thyroid-stimulating hormone, free T3 and free T4 all came back within that laboratory’s reference ranges.
- Why Do We Keep Checking for a Reset? When Generative AI Pulls Future Work Forward Into “Infinite Work”“What day does Tibo actually take off?”
- Too much from one breakup: I dumped it all into AINormally, one long relationship ending might become one breakup essay.
- Love on RetrialFor about a year and a half, this was a genuinely happy relationship.
- 40 Human Pageviews a Month, 281,000 Machine Requests — The Reality of Posts, Traffic, and Revenue While Waiting for Ad ApprovalA small site's analytics showed roughly 5,780 unique visitors and 281,000 requests at the zone level over 30 days.
- One ¥500,000-class eight-day trip, or dozens of great meals? — The Kirby-style travel theory for the YouTube eraThat leads to a rude but useful question: “If I mainly want to see the scenery, isn’t YouTube enough?”
- Shadowverse: Worlds BeyondYou Can't Punch the Pirate Flag, So Stop the Crew: Complete Set 9 Aggro Nightmare vs Pirate Royal GuideAgainst Pirate Royal, the clean plan is to stop the followers that create Flags, then send the rest of your damage to the enemy leader.
- Shadowverse: Worlds BeyondSet 9 Aggro Nightmare and the budget deck factory for Shadowverse WBThe plan was simple: build Set 9 Aggro Nightmare and queue ranked. Instead, the first boss was inventory control.
- Why do some people look ridiculously young? Jawlines, UV, retinolSome people are in their forties and still get read as thirty-something.
- Are qualifications under 20% pass rate hard? Real estate licensesThe 2025 pass rate for Japan’s Real Estate Transaction Agent examination was 18.7%. The pass rate for the Administrative Scrivener examination was 14.54%.
- Treating the real world like a game made me fast at searchingThis did not begin with a carefully planned research project.
- When Experienced Employees Become BottlenecksThis is not about blaming experienced employees.
- When Instructions Are Vague but the Employee Gets BlamedSome people are told that they “do not listen to what others say.”
- Responsibility keeps coming, even without a role or recognitionWork is exhausting not only because there is too much to do.
- Why am I the only one criticized? A stretchy-ruler evaluation systemSometimes at work, you notice something strange.
- Why a motivation statement from the company's view worksA strong motivation statement is not always the one with the most beautiful wording.
- When the 7 Habits Priority Matrix Does Not Work at WorkMany workplaces talk about priorities.
- Don't stop urgent work and then vanish into a meetingThere are moments at work that feel especially frustrating.
- Why BeReal-style data leaks will happen again at workIf even large companies cannot identify people who might take BeReal photos inside the workplace and leak internal information, what is the point of conducting…
- Use Intuition for Gacha, Logic for the Rest: Where Each WorksWhen you draw a fortune slip, roll a gacha, or choose a random ticket, you may sometimes feel that one option is “glowing.”
- You Are Not at Work to Be Praised — But a Silent Workplace Can Make You Feel WorthlessAre we at work to be praised?
- Passive Does Not Always Mean UnmotivatedDelegating work to new employees is not just about giving instructions. By noticing what they are good at, praising them specifically, and letting them own a sm