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Why the Personal Blog Still Matters
For many, the personal blog now feels like an artifact from another era, something quaint that belongs to the slower internet of the early 2000s. People write on platforms now. They post on LinkedIn, share threads on X, and record their voices on short videos. The idea of sitting quietly to write in one’s own…
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The Terakoya Spirit in the Age of AI
Long before schools were standardized and education became a matter of national policy, Japan had the Terakoya. The word traces back to terako (children who once studied at temples) and ya, meaning a place or establishment. In other words, Terakoya were places where temple children learned. In their earliest form, many of these small, community-based…
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