
Some things don't survive the crossing. Weekly essays on leadership, language, and what you see when you've learned to think in more than one way. Published from Tokyo.
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King Wen of Zhou (周文王)
I teach both leadership and management.
One of the most effective ways I have found to deepen my students’ understanding of management is to begin with the origin of the Japanese word 経営 - keiei. Once they encounte...
At the Embassy of Ireland, Tokyo.
Last month, I attended an event at the Irish Embassy in Tokyo featuring Booker Prize-winning Irish novelist Paul Lynch, author of Prophet Song.
Paul Lynch, born in 1977, debuted as a novelist in 2013. T...
https://pixabay.com/photos/bust-head-sculpture-art-hellenic-5524961/
Most conversations about the future begin in the wrong place.
They begin with technology.
AI. Automation. Agents. Data. Platforms. The next interface. The next disrupt...
Rosa Rafael (@rosarafael)
Last week, I wrote about Jay-Z.
About the history he carries into every room he enters. About the decision — repeated, album after album — to make what he didn’t choose the engine of his work.
The same New Yor...
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/04/27/magazine/jayz-songwriter-rap-brooklyn-artist.html
The New York Times recently asked 250 music insiders and critics to name the thirty greatest living American songwriters.
The list included...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Writer based in Tokyo. Shaped by life across five continents, I pursue one question: what do you see when you've learned to think in more than one way? Weekly essays on leadership, philosophy, Japan, and the ideas that resist easy translation.
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