Maybe it’s time to restart
I’ve hardly published anything in English on this blog. I have written a few pieces on the Japanese side of my website, but almost nothing in English.
I used to enjoy writing stupid stuff about my life, along with more serious things from my research. But over the past few years, I’ve wasted way too much time on Twitter, just tossing out whatever happened to cross my mind.
During this long New Year holiday in Japan, I ended up reworking a large part of my website. So much of it was outdated. Even many of the links still started with “http://” instead of “https://”, which pretty much shows how long I’d neglected these pages.
When I first started my own website about a quarter of a century ago, back when I was a student at MIT, simply having a webpage meant something. Now the internet feels like a massive clutter—not just of junk, but of fake stuff as well.
Maybe what we need is a space where we can slow down a bit, be mindful, and spend time reading things that are actually worth reading.
So, as a New Year’s resolution, I’m ditching the X app and getting back to this old-fashioned, but still solid, web-based space for writing.
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