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- Why Is “Distracted Smartphone Use” Dangerous? The Point Is Not “Never Look,” but “Stop Before You Look”Using a smartphone while walking, moving, or working is dangerous not because smartphones are bad.
- Is an Expensive Restaurant 3x Tastier? What Higher Prices Really BuyShort version: an expensive restaurant isn't several times tastier just because it costs several times more.
- How Close Is South Korea to Fukuoka?Traveling through Kagoshima can create a strong feeling of reaching the edge of Japan.
- What is a truly composed man? A first-date story, audited“Being a composed man” is not a formal psychological diagnosis or personality type.
- Is the Dancing Rumpelstiltskin From an Old Movie? The VHS Tape That Never ExistedA little man tiptoes across a gloomy barn, dancing with the confidence of someone who has never once questioned a decision.
- Why Your Pay Won’t Rise: Japanese Workers Are in the “Cheap Labor Lane” TooThe number of foreign workers in Japan keeps growing.
- If AI makes everything, who buys it? Demand after cheap labor“Soon, if you cannot pay hundreds of dollars a month for generative AI, you will not be able to compete in business.”
- 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%.
- Why Do Mutual Crushes Never Turn Into a Relationship?A student initially spoke to another person without difficulty.
- How to Document Shifting Instructions and the “Show Initiative” Double BindThe "be proactive" double bind looks like this:
- I Went Shopping for a 1TB SSD and Came Home With a 4TB Hard DriveWhat I originally wanted was a 1TB external SSD to plug into my M2 Mac over USB.
- When a Rage-Rant Becomes a Search Query: People Who Investigate Every Weird Question With AI Are Weirdly Well-Suited to SEOWhen you build a system that can publish a lot of substantial articles, the first surprise is not traffic.
- 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.
- ChiikawaWhy does the running tree know everything? Chiikawa parallel worldChiikawa still looks like a story about tiny cute creatures. Write the Parallel World arc as a technical summary, however, and the genre abruptly changes.
