What do I want my legacy to be? 2/2

The last post was about my personal plan to answer this question. This post is about the question itself, which I believe is THE question that we should all ask ourselves whenever we lose a sense of direction in our lives. It is the evolved “What should I do with my...

What do I want my legacy to be? 1/2

This two-part post series is the reply to an overdue commitment for a contribution to Brazen Careerist’s blog series, and personally to Ryan Paugh. In this post, I will talk about my personal commitment to creating my legacy. In the second post, I will talk about why...

Liberating ourselves by segregating ourselves

Back in junior high school when I was unknowingly suffocating from living a double-layered monolithic life in a Japanese (layer 1) suburban (layer 2) area, I was thunderstruck during the sociology class by reading in the textbook about the mythical diverse culture...

Art is about seeing things in a different way

I used to define art only as a creative activity and as a counterpart to design. The following had for years been my definition of art and design: If you create something because you simply want to or have to, you are making a piece of art. If you have a purpose more...