Checked in at 亀井神社. Happy NewYear!!

Spent the day cooking, baking, and cleaning. The immediate fruits of my labor. 🥖🍞🥐

[Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/opinion/location-tracking-cell-phone.html)

I still think data is going to quickly move from being an asset to a liability. Especially as people become aware of just how easily your entire life can be reconstructed from a couple of datasets.

Checked in at Ootoya (大戸屋). I should have add Natto.

[Finland is a Capitalist Paradise](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/07/opinion/sunday/finland-socialism-capitalism.html)

> Finnish capitalists also realized that it would be in their own long-term interests to accept steep progressive tax hikes. The taxes would help pay for new government programs to keep workers healthy and productive — and this would build a more beneficial labor market.

This article true for me as well. Dealing with the US healthcare system as DINKs was stressful enough, couldn’t imagine doing it with kids.

Made some cream cheese kolaches for a taste of Texas. Shouldn’t have quartered the recipe. Will have to try again soon with deeper wells or less filling.

[How millions of French shoppers are rejecting cut-price capitalism](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/04/french-shoppers-rejecting-cut-price-capitalism-nicolas-chabanne)

I’ve said it before, I love the French.

Seeing this awakening of consumers is such a breath of fresh air. For an extra 5 bucks a year, your farmer isn’t going bust and is able to make a living. Totally worth it. No brainer.

> He pictures the brand’s archetypal target customer as “perhaps the couple in their mid-30s, working parents, young kids, highly conscious of the climate crisis, the need to eat healthily, of animal welfare, single-use plastics in packaging, the plight of the farmer … but maybe unable to afford full organic. Well, we’re the answer.”

Guilty on all counts. Great customer analysis.