I'm halfway through editing my second pronunciation video, and I can think of 100 different ways to improve it. I ought to scrap what I have right now and start over, because these improvements are so drastic they would require me to do so, but I want to make it an example. So, I'm going …

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You want to be useful, right? You want to help people, right? It’s why you go to school, to learn to be more useful, to build your skills, and use your skills to create better. Well, there’s a simple way you can get even better. Simple, but not easy. But with practice, it can be …

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I thought it might be possible to make a video a day, on top of my blog. Well, I got one video in yesterday (in Japanese on English pronunciation, you didn't miss much), and today I managed to film for the next video, but the editing just takes so much time! I need to get …

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It’s when you put your ideas out into the world that the true value comes. Only then can you really put them to the test, and only then can you gauge the reaction. The reaction not only from the audience, but from yourself too. Do you feel proud of what you made? Did you put …

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Nobody nominated me to write this blog. Well, besides me. I nominated myself, but I’m pretty sure all the YouTubers and other bloggers I see and read, and all the photos I see on Instagram, all the companies out there that felt a need to fill a need, I’m pretty sure no one nominated them. …

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In any creative endeavour, don’t worry about quality until you have a decent amount of experience under your belt. Go out of your way to be crap for a while. You’ll be crap either way, so why not embrace it? Focus on getting your work out, on shipping it, more than getting good quality. Quality …

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Japan seems to have a strange infatuation with everyone doing everything at the same time. In general, they don’t have students move up or stay on in a year level, and the reason I got when I asked was that they value the group being together right from the early years. That theory gets a …

You can do a better job of indoctrinating people if you let them learn at their own pace Read More »