Culture

Japanese culture

Aesthetics, seasons, and small customs — written to be read once and remembered.

Ma (間): the art of the pause

How negative space structures Japanese gardens, music, and conversation.

Finding beauty in the imperfect, the impermanent, and the unfinished.

How the 72 micro-seasons still shape food, festivals, and design in Japan.

What to know before your first hot-spring bath, without the tourist-trap anxiety.

Why a pottery-mending tradition changed how we write our own changelog.

Hospitality that anticipates a need before it's spoken — and what it means for support.

A lifelong commitment to one craft, refined in small increments — a slower model than most software careers reward.