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The Permission to Enjoy Being Alive
When Exercise Begins to Feel Like Punishment Exercise is supposed to make us feel more alive. The heart works harder, blood circulates, breathing deepens, and parts of the body that have remained…
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The Thinker, the Translator, and the Audience
A Small Name for a Larger Question Living outside Japan, I sometimes encounter a new Japanese expression after the conversation around it is already well underway. By the time it reaches me,…
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The Intelligence That Cannot Move a Text Box
Two Experiences of the Same Intelligence I recently found myself moving between two very different experiences of artificial intelligence. In one, I was having an extended conversation about ideas. We moved across…
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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.