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  • The Tools Between Thought and Words

    A Writer Who Never Left His Word Processor There is something wonderfully anachronistic about imagining Seigo Matsuoka at work in the 2020s. Around him was a sophisticated intellectual and publishing organization. His…

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    The Tools Between Thought and Words
  • The Thought Within Every Practice

    When the Formula Comes Before the Question Many students first encounter mathematics as a sequence of instructions. Memorize the formula, identify the type of problem, perform the correct operations, and arrive at…

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    The Thought Within Every Practice
  • The Right to Understand

    The Documents That Refused to Speak Most people have encountered a document that appears to be written in English but does not seem addressed to any recognizable human reader. It may be…

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    The Right to Understand

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Tom Yonashiro is a writer with a background in philosophy, religion, technology, and cybersecurity marketing. He writes to translate life’s complexities into meaning.