Easy 5km after work. Starting to cool down a bit in the evenings in Yokohama. So nice.🏃

Excited to read my new books from Stripe Press. Hard cover feels so nice. Typesetting an entire book in a sans-serifs less so. But either way 👍📚

Summer Mt. Fuji 🗻

Having a blog again, especially one weekly post is changing how I interact with the internet. It's making it fun again.

Like most I had a blog in the early 2000's and it slowly faded from use with the rise of FB, Twitter, and other social media. But by limiting myself to those platforms, I also limited how I could share.

There is no "save draft" of a tweet. And you can only fit so much nuance in 140 280 characters.

Now, with a blog, when I find something that looks like I'd want to share or I might want to share, I simply append the link to the latest The Week post. Then, either throughout the week, or in the 15 minutes before posting, I expand upon that link, maybe even add some context. Sharing has become more about than just sharing some random link or video. I have the space to show how it relates to me and make it personal, rather than just a simple retweet that gets lost in the stream.

I didn't realize it, but I was missing that space. My own cubby on the internet. No longer being locked into a format, time, or design decided by someone I don't know gives me a place I can call home.

No algorithms. No ads. Just me.