Japan

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In the former USSR, the 4 percent of land that remained privately owned accounted for almost one-quarter of total agricultural output.

Francis Fukuyama • The Origins of Political Order

During this Thailand walk, our nightly conversation topics were:

How do you stay motivated?

What do you escape or resist?

What does home mean to you?

Shocking solutions to public problems.

Tell us about a failure.

Frameworks to make big decisions.

What is your health regime?

How do you use lists?

What do you believe that your heroes do

Derek Sivers • walk and talk | Derek Sivers

Japanese Woodblock Print Search - Ukiyo-e Search

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So the first one is this Japanese novelist, Junichiro Tanizaki’s 1933 essay, “In Praise of Shadows.” And this is a very small book, or a very long essay, in which Tanizaki kind of muses on his own taste, and why he designed his house in a certain way, and why he chooses food in a certain way or installs lamps in a certain way. And the point at... See more