{"id":38,"date":"2026-01-03T16:03:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T07:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmatsuura.com\/bloge\/?p=38"},"modified":"2026-01-03T16:04:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T07:04:34","slug":"maybe-its-time-to-restart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmatsuura.com\/bloge\/2026\/01\/03\/maybe-its-time-to-restart\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe it&#8217;s time to restart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"848\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/mmatsuura.com\/bloge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Gemini_Generated_Image_ysinyxysinyxysin-848x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-39\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.8281343869864596;width:405px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmatsuura.com\/bloge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Gemini_Generated_Image_ysinyxysinyxysin-848x1024.png 848w, https:\/\/mmatsuura.com\/bloge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Gemini_Generated_Image_ysinyxysinyxysin-249x300.png 249w, https:\/\/mmatsuura.com\/bloge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Gemini_Generated_Image_ysinyxysinyxysin-768x927.png 768w, https:\/\/mmatsuura.com\/bloge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Gemini_Generated_Image_ysinyxysinyxysin.png 928w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 848px) 100vw, 848px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve hardly published anything in English on this blog. I <em>have<\/em> written a few pieces on the Japanese side of my website, but almost nothing in English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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\u2019ve wasted way too much time on Twitter, just tossing out whatever happened to cross my mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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 So much of it was outdated.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 \u201chttp:\/\/\u201d instead of \u201chttps:\/\/\u201d, which pretty much shows how long I\u2019d neglected these pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I first started my own website about a quarter of a century ago, back when I was a student at MIT, simply <em>having<\/em> a webpage meant something. Now the internet feels like a massive clutter\u2014not just of junk, but of fake stuff as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, as a New Year\u2019s resolution, I\u2019m ditching the X app and getting back to this old-fashioned, but still solid, web-based space for writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve 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\u2019ve wasted way too [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmatsuura.com\/bloge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmatsuura.com\/bloge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmatsuura.com\/bloge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmatsuura.com\/bloge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmatsuura.com\/bloge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmatsuura.com\/bloge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40,"href":"https:\/\/mmatsuura.com\/bloge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmatsuura.com\/bloge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmatsuura.com\/bloge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmatsuura.com\/bloge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}