Like many Western and Westernized (or, perhaps more accurately, American and Americanized) people around the world of my generation, I grew up steeped in the ideas of Sigmund Freud. A part of me would like to take this opportunity to slide down my pants and take an intellectual dump on the man, but that would…
The Myth of Invincible (Asian) Languages
by khatzumoto
This entry is part 7 of 18 in the series The Art of War of LearningInvincible opponents only exist in our nightmares. They are the stuff of imagination. No real opponent is invincible. And so that means that for any opponent to defeat you, not only must they do significant things right, but you must…
Don’t Beat Yourself Up: It Doesn’t Matter
by khatzumoto
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” Winston “The Slightly Better of Two Very Bad Options” Churchill It doesn’t matter, said Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson to Wyclef Jean that one time in that one song in the rapidly fading twilight of the 20th century. Don’t beat…
How to Find Japanese Audiobooks Online
by khatzumoto
Easy Buy them from Audible Japan or Audiobook.jp [Audible (オーディブル)：本は、聴こう。｜ボイスブック・オーディオブック配信・サービス｜Audible.co.jp] goo.gl/1G7oKE [忙しいあなたも、耳は意外とヒマしてる – audiobook.jp] audiobook.jp/ BTW, I strongly recommend audiobook.jp over Audible if only because Audible Japan is still maturing as a service. Audible is just growing pains galore and many dumb, byzantine rules — like that you have to not only have Japanese plastic…
What Being In A Forever War Means For You
by khatzumoto
This entry is part 6 of 18 in the series The Art of War of LearningYou have to fight right now. But you don’t have to win right now. Not right this second. You don’t have to become the god emperor of Japanese right this moment. There’s no way of tidying your room so well…
Watching Books and Reading TV: Entropy Bombs in Action
by khatzumoto
So, we’ve talked about this before, but it’s one of those things that’s always worth bringing up again, if for no other reason than my own explanations rarely make sense to even me, their author, months and years later. YouTube is TV now. YouTube is the TV of our age. Let’s stop pretending it isn’t:…