Continuing the discussion from maiki scratched 2025:
This is where @maiki microblogs, a digital scratchpad. 
You (yes you) are encouraged to interact, argue, correct, emojify, or whatever, any message in this thread. It is for discussion, otherwise I would have kept it to myself. 
Be bold! We will split off conversations as they become interesting. 
So many challenges, a couple of actual crisis situations, happened this week… I think it came full cycle and I’m encountering euphoria once again.
The last day has been an intense day of international flights and crowded trains of polite people. It followed an intense week of unscheduled oral surgery, car accidents, and school applications… 
Waking up this morning, rested and in Tokyo, I feel the intensity of those activities fade and open myself up to whatever I may find in this liminal spacetime. 
For years I would occasionally use spellcheck on my posts to be published. Now I use an LLM agent to read my text.
I use terminology that is beyond LLM capabilities at this point. Yet, I still have this experience when I request an LLM to proofread my posts, and everything returns okay.
Boom. You agree with me, LLM. I crushed it. The secret: I’ve always felt this way publishing, even while littering my literature with misspellings and typographic errors. My kid is unforgiving of such defencices in my speech and writing, yet the rest of ya’ll get the gist.
Perhaps the most flattering self-realization/delusion: upon using Tokyo public transit with others, I begin to see the ineffenicies of the existing train lines.
I’m going to start using multi-modal transportation to understand more about hot it works; that means I’m taking buses for part of the journey.
Today is a turning point.
It is 17:30, Tuesday, Feb 3. Departing Tokyo. In many respects, the longest day of my life.
I was reading New Testament household code - Wikipedia when I realized, “oh, that’s how ‘Paul’s church’ survives!”
A lesson to us all.
The key is know when to seek the wisdom of an artificial system or people.
Follow-up: it’s people. It may be artificial systems, but you should try people, first.
Inbox 338 to inbox 17. 
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Do people who make plans for after their own death then obsess about them, or is it a “set and forget” situation?
Someone once asked me, “Who are you supposed to be?”
I replied, “Whoa?! Who are any of us supposed to be, amirite? Huh, I’m gonna think on that!”
They were dressed in costume for a Halloween party. I was dressed as usual.
The story in which I win and get everything I want.
A compelling narrative.
maiki, go wild! Don’t be your culture, use what you learned from not your culture as homage to the larger scene behind the curtain.
