If you have enough stocked away and can survive the interim, maybe we don’t need all businesses to last through calamity, maybe it’s fine for these companies to fail. Of course it will be inconvenient, but inconvenience and the end of the world are two different things (which some people fail to realise). Recently someone …

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Mass consumption will always be a thing, but the categories of these things will get more and more niche as time goes on. It has to, it’s the only way they can survive with ever picky people. And that’s a good thing. It means we truly demand things that are valuable to us, and rather …

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I was doing a bit of video editing today. I posted a video to the Yamabushido YouTube the other day, but this time I’m making it for my own channel. I’ve never done this before, but it feels like when I learned how to make websites. After thinking about making videos for years now, for …

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I keep comparing this staying indoors to Yamabushi training. During training, we spend a lot of time indoors, mainly either sleeping or praying, although we do also spend extensive time outdoors. Anyway, besides that, there is one huge difference.

Delicious mistakes are what happen when you screw up a recipe and over compensate with sugar or mayonnaise or anything else to hide the mistake. That’s the good thing about learning new recipes, if you know how to fix them into something edible when you screw up, it doesn’t really matter! Well, that’s what happened …

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When in times of strife, when something big happens that means you can’t live a ‘normal’ life, start with doing what you can. Rather than worrying about not being able to do things that you would normally do, doing things you can helps take your mind away for a while until you can return back …

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Probably the simplest, but not easiest, way to practice patience would be to teach someone something that they don't think they can do. You have the added challenge of motivating them, which is no easy task. In fact, I would say that is my hardest task in being a teacher at a university in Japan. …

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