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• The Trap of Day Trading and the Case for Long-Term Investing — Money Management That Protects Your Soul

  The get-rich-quick mindset drains your growth energy. Here is how day trading conditions the brain, why long-term investing and compounding are stronger, and how to manage money while focusing on your craft and protectin

  2026-06-19 · 30 min read #investing#long-term#psychology#money#culture

• People Who Think Deeply and Care About Others Speak Well

  Speaking well is not the ability to talk fast and endlessly. It is the result of thinking one more time before speaking and genuinely caring about the listener. As a developer at LINE learning English and Japanese, I gat

  2026-06-19 · 27 min read #communication#empathy#listening#culture#soft-skills

• Learning by Teaching: Follow Lectures, Then Build Your Own

  A guide to turning the urge to teach into an engine for learning. It covers the protege effect, the path from following lectures to building your own things, the moment of discovering your own gaps through explanation, a

  2026-06-19 · 20 min read #culture#learning#protege-effect#teaching#self-improvement

• Honesty and Integrity — Lie About One Thing and You Cast Doubt on Ten

  A record of how a single small lie cracks the dam of trust, and why honesty is the most self-interested long-term strategy there is. It also covers how to share bad news early and how to balance transparency with self-pr

  2026-06-19 · 25 min read #honesty#integrity#trust#communication#culture

• Habits, Self-Control, and Execution: Start Small, Finish Strong

  A look at the science of habits (cue-routine-reward), the habit of breaking bad habits, the kind of execution that defeats procrastination, and the health foundations such as sleep and digital detox. It also covers the b

  2026-06-19 · 19 min read #culture#habits#discipline#execution#self-improvement

• Active Learning — Keeping 70 Percent by Writing and Teaching

  Knowledge you only read or listen to fades fast. Organizing your thoughts through writing and learning by teaching others stays with you far longer. Here is why, drawn from my own experience and real research, while stay

  2026-06-19 · 32 min read #culture#active-learning#writing#teaching#metacognition

• Enjoyment and Self-Restraint: The Classical Wisdom of Governing Yourself

  Enjoyment and self-restraint are not opposing values but a pair that completes each other. Using Plato Republic and Mill On Liberty as guides, this essay works through the balance of pleasure and self-control, sustainabl

  2026-06-19 · 34 min read #self-restraint#pleasure#philosophy#plato#mill

• Code at Home, Language While Walking — How to Use Time Twice

  The claim that you have no time is usually true. But when you match learning to the nature of a place and an activity, the scraps of time you used to throw away start compounding. This essay lays out a design where home

  2026-06-19 · 37 min read #culture#productivity#time-management#learning#habit

• Becoming an Attractive Person — Visual Sense and Consistency

  Starting by honestly admitting that people are drawn to what they see first, this essay covers how to manage your appearance and presence consistently, how to evaluate yourself through objectivity and metacognition, and

  2026-06-19 · 28 min read #culture#self-improvement#first-impression#consistency#self-care

• Your Appearance Is Your First Impression — The Quiet Discipline of Self-Care

  First impressions form in seconds. Tending to how you look is not vanity but a steady form of self-respect and consideration for others. Here is how I think about expression, dress, health, and energy without sliding int

  2026-06-19 · 29 min read #self-management#first-impression#health#habits#culture

• Deep Work — Designing Focus for People Who Make Things

  Focus is not an innate talent but a system you can design. From the cost of context switching to securing focus blocks, managing notifications and meetings, and the clash between maker and manager schedules — here are co

  2026-06-16 · 18 min read #deep-work#productivity#focus#culture#remote-work

• Getting Good at a Language — Turning Input Into Output

  If you listen and read constantly but your speaking and writing never improve, it is because your input never becomes output. This essay covers comprehensible input, the output hypothesis, shadowing and chunking, the fea

  2026-06-16 · 23 min read #culture#language-learning#english#habit#productivity

• Practical Ways to Build Creativity — Designing Habits and Environment

  Creativity is not an innate gift but a skill you can design for. This essay collects concrete, non-exaggerated methods that actually work: diversifying input, collecting ideas, combination and constraint exercises, diver

  2026-06-16 · 23 min read #culture#creativity#habits#productivity#learning

• Thinking Through Writing — Clarity Comes From the Page

  Writing is not a tool for recording finished thoughts; it is a tool for producing them. Through concrete methods and routines — design docs, memos, the Feynman technique, writing in public — this essay shows how the act

  2026-06-16 · 22 min read #culture#writing#thinking#productivity#learning

• The Art of the S-Tier Demo — For Developers Who Build but Never Show

  From why the PostHog How to demo essay struck a nerve, to the structure of an S-tier demo that opens with a 15-second hook, scenario scripting, demo-mode flags in code, and ten common failures with recovery lines. A prac

  2026-06-12 · 22 min read #demo#communication#career#presentation#developer-productivity

• The Craft of 1:1s and Feedback — A Practical Guide for Both ICs and Managers

  How to turn ritualistic 1:1s into a real growth tool. Covers agenda templates, a 20-question manager library, a comparison of SBI, COIN and Radical Candor, five difficult-feedback scripts, and safe upward feedback phrasi

  2026-06-12 · 18 min read #one-on-one#feedback#management#communication#culture

• Cut Meetings in Half — Designing Async Collaboration and Deep Work

  From calculating the true cost of meeting overload to a sync/async decision matrix, a written standup template, deep work block design, notification hygiene, and a 4-week transition plan. A concrete playbook for transpla

  2026-06-12 · 23 min read #async#deep-work#remote-work#productivity#meetings

• The Hands That Build Surveillance — Developer Ethics and Privacy Engineering

  From the Larry Ellison remark about constant recording, to the walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle, to mandatory age verification — the 2026 surveillance debate ultimately plays out in the hands of the

  2026-06-12 · 21 min read #privacy#ethics#surveillance#engineering#culture

• 2026 Developer Job Market Survival Guide — Resumes and Job Search Strategy in the Age of AI Screening

  How to survive the 2026 hiring market, where AI screening is universal and applications have exploded. Covers an impact-driven resume formula, ATS tactics, portfolio strategy, referral scripts, and salary negotiation, al

  2026-06-12 · 18 min read #career#resume#job-search#interview#networking

• The Developer Who Works in Writing — Design Docs, ADRs, and Persuasive Technical Writing

  Why writing is the senior engineer leverage skill, practical templates for design docs and ADRs, the craft of documents that survive review, bad-writing before/after fixes, and how to use AI for writing without losing yo

  2026-06-12 · 22 min read #technical-writing#design-docs#adr#documentation#career