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Sometimes, I feel like our brains work like a dark forest — each idea a path that walks between memories. Thinking over an over an idea is like walking over and over the same path, until that path is so well threaded and familiar that you follow it without even thinking — familiarity. When you […]
1. It’s Kakenhi season. For many researchers in Japan, this means writing out their best research plans, hoping to get some much desired funding from JSPS. For me, it means painful weeks when I fight every procrastinating fiber on my body to extract those 5-6 pages explaining why my project is worthy to a trio […]
Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe as it was leaving the Solar System. In the photograph, Earth’s apparent size is less than a pixel; the planet appears as a tiny dot against the vastness of space, among bands of sunlight reflected […]
A little bit late, but here are my reflections on the new year. 2019 was a weird year. Last year I promised myself I would cut down on side projects, and ooh boy that didn’t work out — I did cut some of my projects off, but it felt like fighting a hydra: One down, […]
Today was my first day of work in the year, and to “celebrate”, I spend 12 hours at the university (_ _);… I used my new digital paper device to keep track of my activities during the day: about 6 hours reading and following up on e-mails, writing forms, and preparing documents. About 2 hours […]