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Books for the Market, Books for a Life
The Ranking That Opened a Different Question A ranking of bestselling novels in Japan recently gave me an unexpected reason to think about reading.…
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The Brief Age of Everything
The Return of the Question of Meaning A curious criticism has emerged from within the technology industry. Some of the people who helped build…
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The Map That Turns Back on the Observer
The Human Desire for a Map Human disagreements rarely concern facts alone. People may receive the same information and reach opposing conclusions because they…
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Beyond Life’s Turmoil
The Place Where We Usually Live A difficult conversation can occupy an entire day. A careless remark may remain in the mind long after…
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Standing Outside Our Own Time
The Difficulty of Seeing the Age We Live In One of history’s quiet ironies is that people rarely understand the age in which they…
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The Return of the Knowledge Worker
The Strange Feeling That Something Has Already Changed The first signs were easy to overlook because they appeared through ordinary tasks rather than dramatic…
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When Knowledge Stops Living in Documents
I have come to imagine such a package as an AI feed cassette. The Moment I Stopped Thinking About Files For a long time,…
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When Characters Begin to Live
When Admiration Does Not Become Conviction For a long time, I wondered whether my inability to appreciate Hideaki Anno’s films revealed some weakness in…
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Clear Thought Before Rich Format
A Simple Request With Hidden Layers The realization often begins with a task that looks simple from the outside. A document needs to be…
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The World Made Audible
The First Question Was Smaller Than the Answer The question began in a practical place. How does one become more articulate? It sounds like…
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When Knowledge Forgets Mercy
Three Encounters with Knowledge Turned Cold I recently came across a Japanese business media article about reunions. Its argument was simple and provocative: people…
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Text as the Long Memory of Thought
When the Archive Is Already There The discussion around the “second brain” often begins with a reasonable concern. Modern intellectual life produces too many…